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Titel: Äldre inlägg (arkiv) till 2007-03-30
Skrivet av: Eva Dahlberg skrivet 2006-01-19, 22:22
Bente, det finns artiklar om de olika utskrivningsperioderna på Ancestrys Learning Center.
Som tillägg till Mats information så står det att det fanns tre givna datum för registrering 5 juni 1917, 5 juni 1918 och 12 september 1918.
Third Registration. The registration on 12 Sept 1918, was for men aged eighteen to twenty-one and thirty-one to forty-five-men born between 11 Sept 1872 and 12 Sept 1900.
Lite mer står här: In 1917 and 1918, approximately 24 million men born between 1873 and 1900 completed draft registration cards. Those who are not familiar with draft procedures often confuse this civilian registration with induction into the military. In reality, a minority of those civilian men who registered were ever called up for military service.
The draft was essential in raising the large numbers of men needed. Voluntary enlistment had not produced the needed number. Establishment of a draft was controversial in both the U.S. and Britain. President Wilson proposed the American draft and characterized it as necessary to make shirkers play their part in the war. This argument won over key swing votes in Congress.
Aliens residing in the United States were required to register for the draft although they were not subject to induction into the American military. In some frontier locations, such as Alaska, aliens formed the majority of registrants.
Men already on active duty in the military were excluded from draft registration. Because some men who completed draft cards later voluntarily enlisted, it is difficult to determine exactly how many active duty military men never completed a draft card, but the number would be between 300,000 and 600,000. Registration of eligible men has been determined to be close to 100%, which means that about 98% of adult men under age 46 living in the U.S. in 1917-18 completed registration cards.
----- Enligt samma källa var det 14 miljoner som registrerades den 12 september 1918 - och de hann säkert knappt skeppas över till Europa.