Newton, William E.
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

Date of Enlistment: June 12, 1918
Military Camps to which went:
* Pelham Bay Naval Training Station
* Peekskill Rifle Range
Units to which belonged:
* 3rd Regiment
* 7th Regiment
* 9th Regiment
* also aboard U.S.S. Northern Pacific
Date of trip overseas: Never went overseas
Service there:
* had Spanish Influenza and Pneumonia would not let me go
* was on the U.S.S. Northern Pacific after she ran aground
Date of return: --
Date of demobilization: May 15, 1919
Honors received: Honorable Release and a Bonus of $60.00

 

 

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/

Carl Hapeman at a Rifle Range [Camp Smith rifle range. Peekskill, NY] (New
York State Archives) -- the Camp was shared by the Navy and NY National
Guard
http://iarchives.nysed.gov/Gallery/galleryDetail.jsp?id=3122&ss=WWI

Northern Pacific (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/n6/northern_pacific.htm

Influenza of 1918 (Spanish Flu) and the U.S. Navy (U.S. Navy Department.
Library)
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/influenza_main.htm

Influenza: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1919
-- Miscellaneous Reports (U.S. Navy Department. Library)
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/influenza_secnavpta.htm