A photograph of Claude E. Schroder who was born August 23, 1900 in St. John, Kansas. He was 17 when he enlisted in the U. S. Army and served in the 137th Infantry Headquarter Company during World War I. Schroder trained at Camp Daphne in Oklahoma and fought in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. He was in France when the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918 and returned to the United States in April 1919. Schroder came home to St. John, Kansas where he married and had six children.