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Walter Page Hubbs Sr. (1871–after 1953) was a Camden, NJ police officer appointed in 1902 and dismissed in 1905 when Republicans returned to power. He later worked as a car repairer at the Pavonia railroad yards, living at 201 North 27th Street.
Twelve soldiers from Camden County, NJ died when the troop transport HMT Rohna was struck by a German guided glider bomb and sank off the coast of North Africa on November 26, 1943 — one of the greatest maritime disasters of World War II.
The War Department's June 13, 1944 casualty list named fifteen South Jersey men killed and two missing, among them Corporal Stephen V. Koscianski of 966 Bulson Street, Camden — one of twelve on the list who had been lost with the troopship HMT Rohna in the Mediterranean seven months earlier.