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