Keep on Saving: Salute the Soldier

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Accession Number ARTV03411
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 76 cm x 51 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description offset lithograph on paper
Maker Elgar, R W
National Savings Committee, London and Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh
Ulster Savings Committee, Belfast
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

This British Second World War poster depicts two Allied soldiers marching in the foreground, with a crowd of civilian onlookers with titles along the top and bottom edges. This is one of a series of posters by Harold Pym designed to boost morale on the home front and pay tribute to soldiers engaging in front line action.The Salute the Soldier campaign (1944) was national in its scope and aimed to raise money to fund equipement for the armed forces using National Savings contributions. Every town, city and village had targets to aim for.