Harding, John survey sheet - handwritten     Date of Enlistment: April 14, 1917 Military Camps to which went: * Pelham Bay Training Station * U.S.S. Edithia, Nov. '17-May '18 Units to which belonged: * League Island Navy Yard, Phila[delphia] May '18-June '18 Date of trip overseas: June 29,1918 Service there: * U.S.N[aval]. Aviation, Paulliac, France * Northern Bombing Squadron, [Nortlier?], France and Belgium (Naval Aviation) * U.S.N. Aviation, Brest, France * U.S.N. Aviation, Eastleigh, Eng. { U.S. Transport Pretoria Date of return: April 19, 1919 Date of demobilization: May 6, 1919 Honors received: * Rated Coxswain, March 10, 1918 * Rated Boatswain's Mate, 2nd Class, Jan. 1st, 1919     NOTES Local Historian Discusses Park's World War I Naval Base (Friends of Pelham Bay Park) http://www.pelhambaypark.org/2012/01/local-historian-discusses-park%E2%80%99s-world-war-i-naval-base/ Edithia (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships) http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e2/edithia.htm Naval Base Philadelphia - Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, League Island, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA (Library of Congress. Historic American Buildings Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey) http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3416/ United States Marine Aviation, World War I (USAWWI) http://www.usaww1.com/United-States-Marine-Aviation.php4 U.S. Naval Air Stations in World War I (Google) https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?geocode=&g=UTF8&t=h&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115658726523943724797.000464923280f5e983b6b Pretoria (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships) http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p11/pretoria.htm Genealogy and Ancestry of Warren G. Harding, 29th President (Genealogy of Presidents Blogspot) -- possbile contemporary and relative of the 2 Patchogue Hardings http://genealogyofpresidents.blogspot.com/2010/12/genealogy-and-ancestry-of-warren-g.html