Gheorghe Pănculescu
Romanian general (1903–2007)
Gheorghe Pănculescu (not to be confused with Gheorghe Pănculescu, the Romanian engineer) was a Romanian general who fought both the First World War and the second World War.
Place of birth: March 26,1903,Warsaw, Poland
Place of death: January 7,2007,Vlădești commune, Vâlcea county
He was the last Romanian veteran of the First World War and one of the last World War I veterans in the world. Panculescu was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. In 1918, at the age of 15, he enlisted as a minor in the Romanian army, and served in the First World War. Panculescu remained in the army after the war and in World War II he reached the rank of general. He died on January 7, 2007, at the age of 103.
