PVT Hugo F. Albrecht
1895 – 1966
USAR
WWI
Hugo Frank Albrecht was born in Chicago on May 22, 1895 to Martin and Hedwig Dettmann Albrecht.
In World War I, Albrecht served in the U.S. Army as a Cook from April 30, 1918 to December 20, 1919. On September 2, 1918, he left San Francisco with the 13th Infantry Siberian Replacement Troops bound for Vladivostok; he returned from Russia with the 17th Infantry Siberian Casual Company in November 1919, and was honorably discharged as a Private.
The “forgotten” AEF Siberian mission was “a war few Americans knew about then or now. Orchestrated behind closed doors, inspired by panic, and plagued by futility, America's military intervention in Siberia during the First World War continued long after the Armistice sent the doughboys in France home.” For details on the AEF Expedition in Siberia, see: http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/siberia.htm
On January 17, 1920, Albrecht married Gertrude Reichenbach in Chicago; they had no children.
He was a lifelong retail butcher by trade in Chicago, and later, in Barrington. Additionally, he was a Freemason, and a member of Barrington’s American Legion Post 158.
PVT Hugo Albrecht passed away June 3, 1966 at his Barrington home, and is buried with his wife in Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.