On Eternal Patrol - USS S-4 (SS-109) (original) (raw)

The following men were lost while serving on USS S-4 (SS-109). Please note that one man was killed in an automobile accident more than two years before the sinking of the vessel and the loss of forty men.

Click on a man's name to go to his personal memorial page on this site. Photographs and personal information are needed as indicated in the column at right.

| | Name | Photo | | | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | 1 | Bruce Mason Anderson* | Yes | | 2 | Clarence Ferdinand Bethke | Yes | | 3 | Walter Bishop | Yes | | 4 | Earl Welsh Boone | Yes | | 5 | Henry Handy Brown | Yes | | 6 | Charles Frederick Burrell | Yes | | 7 | Charles Beresford Calcott | Yes | | 8 | William Franklin Callaway | Yes | | 9 | Elmer Lyfford Cash | Needed | | 10 | Russell Archibald Crabb | Yes | | 11 | William Dempsey | Needed | | 12 | Robert William Diefenbach | Yes | | 13 | John Joseph Fennell | Yes | | 14 | Graham Newell Fitch | Yes | | 15 | Charles A. Ford | Yes | | 16 | Daniel Michael Galvin | Yes | | 17 | Donald Fred Goering | Yes | | 18 | Peder Haaland | Yes | | 19 | Dewey Victor Haney | Yes | | 20 | Buster Harris | Yes | | 21 | Aaron A. Hodges | Yes | | 22 | Arthur Frederick Hodges | Yes | | 23 | Roy Kehlor Jones | Yes | | 24 | Paul Richard Kempfer | Yes | | 25 | J. H. Long | Yes | | 26 | Joseph Alfred McGinley | Yes | | 27 | Fred Henry O'Shields | Yes | | 28 | George Pelnar | Yes | | 29 | John Joseph Powers | Yes | | 30 | Rudolph James Rose | Yes | | 31 | Alfred Eugene Seaton | Yes | | 32 | Roger Leslie Short | Yes | | 33 | Frank Snizek | Yes | | 34 | Joseph William Sternman | Yes | | 35 | Joseph Leighton Stevens | Yes | | 36 | Carl Bernard Strange | Yes | | 37 | Mariano Tedar | Needed | | 38 | Carl Harold Thompson | Needed | | 39 | Walter Ross Tolson | Yes | | 40 | Donald Weller | Yes | | 41 | James Johnson White | Yes |

*Died in an accident in 1925.

Please note: George Pelnar was previously listed as George Pelham on this page.

S-44 crew member Roger Lancaster-Braley was on shore leave at the time of the accident.

USS S-4 Memorial

USS S-4 Memorial, Provincetown, Massachusetts

Photo courtesy of Carol Flanagan, niece of John Joseph Fennell

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