Saturday, October 3, 2015

Military Posters Calendar for October 2015: Your Country's Call from World War I

From the Smithsonian Military Poster Calendar of 2015.

The poster shows a soldier standing in the front pointing toward an idyllic countryside scene featuring flowered cottages, a road, hills and farm animals.  The words:  "YOUR COUNTRY'S CALL" above the picture.  And "Isn't This worth fighting for?  ENLIST NOW" below it.

This was put out by the British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee in 1915.

"British recruitment posters began appearing in cities and towns throughout the United Kingdom as early as 1915 on almost any available surface.  One newspaper stated that 'All London is placarded-- the walls of buildings, billboards, even the base of Trafalgar Monument.'"

--Cooter

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