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The United States Department of Justice Registration Card of Alien Female Anna Geiselmann of New York City. Issued July 8, 1918.[page]Photograph of Anna Geiselmann signed on the left side by her, and on the right by Sgt. Peter J. Pfeifferleft thumb print of registered personNOTE. — The issuance of this registration card does not relieve the registrant from full compliance with any and all laws and regulations now existing or hereafter made concerning the conduct of such alien females.[Note: following pages blank other than as noted below.][Page]Indorsements[Page]Indorsements Continued[Inside and outside back cover]Blank
The green harp flag of Ireland, evidently both with and without the bust of a woman, was the flag of the short-lived Confederation of Kilkenny (1642-1649), and an unofficial flag of Ireland thereafter.
Cavalry commander Manfred von Richthofen visits his wounded son, the more famous Manfred von Richthofen, wounded by gunner second Lieutenant A.E. Woodbridge on July 6, 1917 in a fight with an FE2b of 20 Squadron.
1917 original pen and ink drawing of a sentry in the dunes of the Belgian coast viewing a ship on the horizon. Possibly by W Wenber, Leading Seaman.
A map of the Belgian battlefield from Bruges to Ostend and the Belgian coast to Blankenburg. German forces took Ostend on October 17, 1914. Bruges was an important German submarine base with canals connecting it to the North Sea ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge, ports the British attacked the night of April 22–23, 1918 in an attempt to block the canals. Zeebrugge is just off the map to the right.
"United States of America Department of JusticeRegistration Card of Alien Female(Under Proclamation of the President, dated April 19, 1918.)The Registration Card Must Be Carried on the Person(Penalty)Anyone required to register shall not, after the date fixed for her registration and the issuance to her of a registration card, be found within the limits of the United States, its territories or possessions, without having her registration card on her person, under liability, among other penalties, to arrest and detention for the period of the war." ((1), more)
". . . the largest and most representative meeting ever held in Tralee and the most united in its determination to fulfil the object for which it was called, was the assembly in the square last night. The outstanding feature of the meeting was the attendance and cooperation of people who were hitherto diametrically opposed to each other in national principles, Sinn Fiéners, Redmondites, pro-British etc." ((2), more)
"Heeresbericht vom 24. April 1918Rittmeister Freiherr von Richthofen ist von der Verfolgung eines Gegners über dem Schlachtfelde an der Somme nicht zurückgekehrt. Nach englischem Bericht ist er gefallen.Army report of 24 April 1918Captain Freiherr von Richthofen has not returned from the pursuit of an enemy on the battlefield on the Somme. According to English report he has fallen." ((3), more)
"There was a moment immediately [after the wind change dispersed the smoke screen] when it seemed to those on the ships as if the dim coast and the hidden harbor exploded into light. A star shell soared aloft, then a score of star shells; the wavering beams of the searchlights swung round and settled to a glare; the wildfire of gun flashes leaped against the sky; strings of luminous green beads shot aloft, hung and sank; and the darkness of the night was supplanted by the nightmare daylight of battle fires. Guns and machine guns along the Mole and batteries ashore awoke to life, and it was in a gale of shelling that Vindictive laid her nose against the thirty-foot high concrete side of the Mole, let go an anchor, and signed to Daffodil to shove her stern in. Iris went ahead and endeavored to get alongside likewise." ((4), more)
"I regret that the effort to block Ostend did not succeed. The Brilliant, Commander A. R. Godsal, with the Sirius, Lieutenant-Commander H. N. M. Hardy, in her wake, did not sight the buoy [marking the channel into Ostend harbour] in its charted position at midnight, as was expected. When the Ostend piers should have been seen, breakers were observed on the Brilliant's starboard bow, and although her helm was put to starboard, she grounded. The Sirius immediately put her helm hard over and her engines full astern, but being already badly damaged by gunfire, she did not answer her helm and collided with the Brilliant's port quarter. Both being then fast ashore, one with her port engine immovable, the other in a sinking condition, they were blown up where they were stranded." ((5), more)
(1) A proclamation by President Woodrow Wilson on April 19, 1918 followed an Act of Congress of three days earlier to extend existing law to cover women aged 14 and over as well as men. The law applied to 'all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of Germany or Austria Hungary of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized.' [brocku.ca/MeadProject/USA/EnemyAlien4_1918.html, April 15, 2018]
The United States Department of Justice Registration Card of Alien Female Anna Geiselmann of New York City by United States Department of Justice, Cover and inside front cover, publisher: United States Department of Justice, publication date: 1918
(2) Excerpt from The Kerryman for April 20, 1918. The execution of many of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland had united Irish opposition to British rule as the Rising itself did not. The passage two years later of a Conscription Bill that extended to all of Ireland and not only the northern province of Ulster, introduced in the House of Commons by Prime Minister Lloyd George on April 9, 1918, brought together Irish across the political spectrum. The bill followed Operation Michael, which had driven the British from over 700 square miles of territory, and was introduced the same day that Operation Georgette began. Tralee is the county town of the county of Kerry in southwest Ireland.
A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–1923 by Diarmaid Ferriter, page 174, copyright © Diarmaid Ferriter, 2015, publisher: The Overlook Press
(3) Manfred von Richthofen, greatest ace of World War One, was killed on April 21, 1918, his plane, a Fokker Dr.I, landing behind British lines.
Der rote Kampflieger by Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, page 239, copyright © 1933 by Ullstein A.G., Berlin, publisher: Im Verlag Ullstein, publication date: 1933
(4) Excerpt from a British Admiralty statement on the April 22–23, 1918 raid on Ostend and Zeebrugge, ports on the North Sea connected to the German submarine base at Bruges (Brugge) by canals. Under the command of Roger Keyes, the British raided the two coastal cities to block the canals, sinking aging warships across them. The flotilla had already set out twice before, but had been turned back by weather conditions. But on the 22nd, eight monitors, six old cruisers, eight light cruisers, fifty-two destroyers, sixty-two motor launches, twenty-four coastal motorboats, two submarines, two Mersey River ferryboats, and one picket boat, bearing nearly one thousand men, made their way, the coastal motorboats laying and maintaining the smokescreen. At 11:56 PM the wind shift exposed the fleet to the batteries on shore and on the two-mile long breakwater, the Mole. The Vindictive was the primary landing craft, and was held in place against the Mole for much of the operation by Daffodil, one of the ferries.
The Great Events of the Great War in Seven Volumes by Charles F. Horne, Vol. VI, 1918, p. 134, copyright © 1920 by The National Alumnia, publisher: The National Alumni, publication date: 1920
(5) Excerpt from the report of Roger Keyes on the attempt to block the canal from Ostend to Bruges, Belgium, the night of April 22–23, 1918. The North Sea ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge were connected to the German submarine base at Bruges by canals. The British raid on the two ports was an attempt to block the canals, sinking aging warships across them. The operation had some success at Zeebrugge, maneuvering blockships into the canal. At Ostend it was unsuccessful, in part because the Germans had moved a buoy on which the raiders were relying.
Naval Battles of the First World War by Geoffrey Bennett, page 276, copyright © Geoffrey Bennett 1968, 1974, publisher: Pan Books, publication date: 1983
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