Looking Back at "News of the Men In Service"
Over the balance of this year, the Post Messenger Recorder will be running News of Men In Service, which ran on the front page, column 6 of each week’s New Glarus Post, compiled by Kim Tschudy
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Memorial Services Sunday for Pfc. Edwin Gammeter
On Sunday afternoon, July 29, at three o’clock p.m., memorial services will be conducted for Pfc. Edwin Gammeter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Gammeter, Primrose Township, at Zwingli Evangelical and Reformed Church at Mt. Vernon by Rev. Walter G. Clausing.
Pfc. Gammeter was drowned when the boat in which he was crossing the Mulde River in central Europe, on April 30, 1945, tipped over. He was a rifleman in the 60th regiment of the 9th Division in the First Army.
Enlisting in March 1941, Pfc. Gammeter was in the Aleutians for two years and...
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