Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?

Place Europe: United Kingdom
Accession Number ARTV00093
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 75.5 x 51 cm; image: 73 x 48 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description chromolithograph on paper
Maker Lumley, Savile
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
Johnson, Riddle and Company
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts a father sitting in an armchair with a look of concern across his face. His son plays with toys soldiers below him on the carpet; while his daughter sits on his knee, pointing to a page in her book, with a questioning look she glances at her father. Arguably the most remembered British First World War recruiting poster. It was recorded as a favourite with many soldiers, who displayed it, complete with appropriate answers, on the walls of their dugouts. Australia had its equivalent - Harry J Weston's poster incorporated a woman before a tattered Australian flag 'Were YOU there then?'

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