. Lansdowne school and the world war. Chauncey Venard Roelofs enlisted December 12, spent about one month at the Wissahickon Training Camp,after which he was transferred to the U. S. N. Section Base atCape May, N. J. and made Storekeeper 1st Class U. S. N. R. are kept sub-chaser engine parts. During the submarinescare along the Atlantic coast, he was on board the U. S. S. Itasca,which acted as a tender to a submarine chaser flotilla. He is stillin service, but hopes to be a civilian by August 15, 1919. 120. William J. Rochford, Q. M. First Class, enlisted in theU. S. Naval Reser
. Lansdowne school and the world war. Chauncey Venard Roelofs enlisted December 12, spent about one month at the Wissahickon Training Camp,after which he was transferred to the U. S. N. Section Base atCape May, N. J. and made Storekeeper 1st Class U. S. N. R. are kept sub-chaser engine parts. During the submarinescare along the Atlantic coast, he was on board the U. S. S. Itasca,which acted as a tender to a submarine chaser flotilla. He is stillin service, but hopes to be a civilian by August 15, 1919. 120. William J. Rochford, Q. M. First Class, enlisted in theU. S. Naval Reserve Force, November 7, 1917, and was releasedfrom active service on April 5, 1919. He served three monthson shore duty and fourteen months at sea, stationed two monthsat Cape May, N. J.; two weeks at Philadelphia, and two weeksat Bay Ridge Barracks, Brooklyn. He served on the U. S. , a converted yacht, for ten months, doing convoy dutyand submarine control. He saw action with U-boats during theirraids on the Atlantic coast during the summer of 1918. LaterSailor Rochford was transferred to the U. S. S. E. L. DohenyIII, which carried oil from Texas and Mexico to Italy, Austriaand other ports on the Mediterranean Sea. After four monthson the Doheny he was transferred to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Hereturned home uninjured. 121
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