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Emil F. Kraning - Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Army Rank: Major (1918).

Assigned Unit: 107^th Engineer Train, 32^nd Red Arrow Division

   Company F, 2^nd Wisconsin NG: July 11, 1893 – July 13, 1917

   3^rd Battalion, 6^th WI National Guard: July 14, 1917 – Aug. 1917

   32^nd Division, 107^th Supply Train: Aug. 1917 – July 1, 1918

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Enlisted: July 11, 1893 Wisconsin;

Promoted:

Army Discharge: Sept. 20, 1918

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – July 1918

Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

Features: Five feet, 10 ½” tall, gray eyes, brown hair

In France 1918, sick with trench fever and rheumatism, sent home.

Spanish American War, Mexican Border War, and WWI Veteran

Surname was Kroening, he changed his name to Kraning before 1908.

IMMIGRATION: Oct. 27, 1881

PORT OF EMBARKATION: Bremen    SHIP: SS Weser

Wife’s Name: Marie M. Damaske

   (b: 1875 in Germany) (April 11, 1922 in Oshkosh, WI)

  Married: Nov. 17, 1894 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Fathers Name: William Kroening (b: OCT 1830 Germany)

Mothers Name: Johanna Froehlich b: JUL 1838 in Germany

Brother: Herman Kraning

Sister’s: Augusta, Minnie, and Louise Kraning

Civilian Occupation: Wood Worker

Born: Sept. 7, 1874 Pommern, Germany

Died: Sept. 30, 1931 Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Cemetery: Peace Lutheran Cemetery, Oshkosh, WI  

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