Shuhmacher, Walter N.
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

Date of Enlistment: April 5, 1918
Military Camps to which went:
* Navy Yard at League Island, Phil[adelphia]., Pa.
* then to U.S.S. Canonicus
Units to which belonged:
* U.S. Mine Force, Squadron # 1
Date of trip overseas: May 11, 1918
Service there:
* Laying the barrage of mines from Norway to Scotland
* After the Armistice was signed transpating [transporting] troop[s] back hime.
Date of return: January 3, 1919 / From Scotland
Date of demobilization: August 4, 1919
Honors received: --

 

 

NOTES
Canonicus [II] (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c2/canonicus-ii.htm

North Sea Mine Barrage (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Mine_Barrage

The Northern Barrage Mine Force, United States Atlantic Fleet: The North
Sea 1918, ed. by All Hands. Annapolis, Md.: U.S. Naval Institute,
1919. (Internet Archive)
http://archive.org/stream/northernbarragem00annarich#page/n4/mode/1up