Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jean Grelaud (October 26, 1898 February 25, 2007) was, at age 108, one of the last three "poilus" or official French veterans of the First World War. He died at the age of 108 years and 122 days.Mobilized on March 10, 1917, he participated as a soldier a month later in the Second Battle of the Aisne on the Western Front. In July 1918, he had been captured by the German army during the Second Battle of the Marne, but he escaped, although he only came back to France on November 21, 1918, so after the Armistice. He was demobilised in 1920.