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From: "Anderson" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] When required to register for draft?
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 09:18:47 -0800
References: <001601c52165$33dcd090$d912f204@anderson> <008501c5218a$a2c6d3f0$e0deb818@W13497.ecpm.com>


Thank you, Janice. That explains it. The date is written 9/10/18, and I
got the day and month confused. Should evidently be September 10, 1918,
that the man -- actor George F. (later "Gabby") Hayes -- registered.

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janice" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: [WW1] When required to register for draft?


> Hi Anderson/Listers,
>
> Seems two selective service laws operated as manhood conscription. The
> first of these took men between the ages of 21 & 31 years inclusive. 5
> June 1917, was fixed as registration day. The total # enrolled was
> 9,586,508. The first selective army drawn from the # was 625,000 men.
>
> The second selective service legislation embraced all citizens between the
> ages of 18 & 45 inclusive, not included in the first draft. Over
> 13,000,000 enrolled on 12 September 1918. The grand total of registrants
> in both drafts was 23,456,021. Youths who had not completed their 19th
> year were set apart in a group to be called last, & men between 36 & 45
> years were also put in a deferred class.
>
> The government's plan was to have approximately 5,000,000 men under arms
> before the summer of 1919. The German armistice on 11th November, 1918
> found 4,000,000 men actually under arms & an assisnment of 250,000 made to
> the training camps.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Janice
> USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anderson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 4:24 AM
> Subject: [WW1] When required to register for draft?
>
>
>>I have a copy of the draft registration card of a man, age 33, married, no
>>children, native born citizen of the US, reportedly a continuous
>>inhabitant of this country, who registered for the draft on 9 Oct 1918.
>>
>> Didn't the law require registration earlier than that? Or were married
>> men not required to register during the earlier part of U.S. involvement
>> in WWI?
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
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