2LT Carl P. Apelt
1892 – 1964
USAR
WWI
Carl Paul Apelt was born November 29, 1892 in Chicago.
On July 12, 1917, Apelt married Lenore “Nora” Grashorn in Waukegan; they raised one child.
He enlisted on November 12, 1917, and served in the Army Air Service in World War I at the Headquarters Detachment, Air Service Flying School in Michigan. [The Army Air Service was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1918 and 1926 and a forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.] Apelt was honorably discharged on December 7, 1918, with the rank of Second Lieutenant.
By profession, Apelt was a traveling salesman before he became a Vice President for Peter Hand Brewery Company from 1936 to 1954. He retired from Gary White Sales and Service Company in 1957.
He was an active member of the Quiet Birdmen, an organization founded in 1921 by a group of World War I aviators. He also belonged to Edgewater Masonic Lodge in Chicago, and the Barrington Lions Club.
2LT Carl Apelt died on January 25, 1964, at Hines VA Medical Center, and is buried in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.