Campbellsport News, November 13, 1919

RETURNS FROM OVERSEAS

   Corp. Albert Kraemer, a former town Ashford boy, returned to his home in Fond du Lac Friday night after fourteen months service overseas as a prisoner of war escort.
   Corporal Kraemer left for Camp Grant in May of 1918. Later he was sent on an exposition trip to Canada, and then ordered to New York. He left for France in September of 1918 and returned to the states October 31. The young man landed in England, where he was sick from influenza and pneumonia for two months. He left England in November for France and arrived there on Armistice day. He remained in FRance many months and spent about two weeks in Germany.
   When he arrived in England six hundred men on board the transport, on which he sailed, were removed from the ship suffering from influenza. Corp. Kraemer went overseas a s a scout and shortly after his arrival on foreign soil was made a prisoner of war escort. He was discharged from service at Camp Dix, N. J. He is the son of Nicholas Kraemer, 19 Carpenter street, Fond du Lac, and a brother of A. J. Kraemer of this city and P. A. Kraemer of town Ashford.
   Corp. Kraemer returned to this country upon a very rough sea, and it took the transport on which he sailed seventeen days to make the trip.