Hawkins, Walter S.
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

Date of Enlistment: May 22, 1917
Military Camps to which went:
* Pelham Bay - Armed Guard Barracks.
Units to which belonged:
* U.S.S. Rochester
* U.S.S. Housatonic
Date of trip overseas: Dec. 26, 1917 - April 28, 1918
Service there:
* First trip convoying cruiser
* 2nd trip minelayer in North Sea
Date of return: December 30, 1918
Date of demobilization: April 23, 1919
Honors received: --

 

 

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/

Rochester (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/r8/rochester-i.htm

Housatonic (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h8/housatonic-ii.htm