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

USS S-4 (SS-109)

S-4 after sinking and recovery

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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