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Britain needs you at once
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Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd.
Recruiting poster produced by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, depicting Saint George mounted on a white charger killing a dragon.ARTV01139
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Buy war bonds now
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Maker: Dangerfield Printing Co Ltd
poster depicting soldiers, carrying rifles with fixed bayonets, going into action, text encourages purchase of war bondsARTV00975
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[Cargo for Blighty]
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts nurses at work aboard a hospital barge on a canal. The barges were manned by British Army Medical Corps orderlies and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service nurses (QAIMNS, QAs). ...ART02919
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Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?
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Maker: Lumley, Savile Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Johnson, Riddle & Co. Ltd.
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...ARTV00433
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Don't stand looking at it. Take it to the salvage dump
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Maker: Davidson, Charles Lamb British Army Roberts & Leete
British First World War poster depicting a caricature of a heavily laden soldier standing near an old wooden cart wheel, that lies on the ground near him. The accompanying text encourages taking salva...ARTV00113
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Don't stand looking at this
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Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
British First World War recruitment poster depicts silhouetted soldiers going into action - the text calls for viewers to help them, rather than be content to merely look at the poster. The brown silh...ARTV07427
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El Burj
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Maker: Lambert, George
A landscape with dead trees, Turkish soldiers and dead animals. El Burj stands on a hill and fighting took place there during the bitter Judean winter, from 29 November to 1 December 1917, with the Au...ART11391.041
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Evacuation of wounded horses in the battle line
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
A Royal Army Veterinary Corps horse ambulance Mark II, being drawn by two horses, is loaded with two horses wearing rugs. The the second horse is reluctant to enter the ambulance and is being pushed b...ART03313
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Feed the guns with war bonds.
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Maker: Stanley, Sidney Walter G.P. Ltd.
poster depicting soldier with rifle and fixed bayonet in action at the Front, encouraging purchase of war bondsARTV00938
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'Gotha', Scottish camp, Reninghelst
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts searchlights around group of buildings at Reninghelst, 4 miles (6 1/2 Kilometres approx) south west of, searchlights focused on German aircraft on bombing raid on moonlight night; Third Battle...ART02889
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Halt!
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Maker: Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Clerkenwell Press Ltd.
recruiting poster, text only, produced for the British Parliamentary Recruiting CommitteeARTV04895
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Les petits marchands du front (Little pedlars at the front)
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Maker: Laboureur, Jean-Emile
A girl, accompanied by two younger children, is selling merchandise at the front line. Two British soldiers look at the wares in the girl's basket. There is a landscape with a tobacconist's shop, hous...ART92099
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Making sailors: the look-out
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Maker: Brangwyn, Frank Ministry of Information
Depicts a sailor, dressed in an oil-skin foul weather coat, looking out over the guns onto the sea. This work is number 23 from the series of 66 lithographs,'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideal...ART91703
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Put Strength In The Final Blow: Buy War Bonds
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Maker: Brangwyn, Frank The Avenue Press Ltd.
A First World War British Army poster appealing for people to buy war bonds. It depicts a British soldier attacking and bayonetting a German soldier, while a massed attack goes on in the background. ...ARTV07420
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Rally round the flag...
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Maker: Collett Publicity Department, Central London Recruiting Depot Unknown
Early British First World War recruitment poster issued by the War Office. It is an appeal to the viewers patriotism. The image takes up the whole and is a depiction of a British infantryman holding h...ARTV05143
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Red Cross barges
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts hospital barges on a canal, which were manned by British Army Medical Corps orderlies and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service nurses (QAIMNS, QAs). The converted barges, which ...ART02898
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River Clyde at Cape Helles
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Maker: Lambert, George
Part of the plan for the landing at Gallipoli was that a collier, 'River Clyde', should be run aground at V Beach on the southern tip of the peninsular with 2000 men of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, wh...ART02850
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Saving the guns at Robecq
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Batteries of 12th Australian Field Artillery Brigade withdrawing at the gallop in face of approaching German troops at Calonne; German offensive March-April 1918, Battle of the Lys, Western Front.ART03332
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Sketch for intended Light Horse memorial, Canberra
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a pedestal which supports a monument of four figures: a seated Sikh, a British soldier on horseback, a light horseman with a pipe on horseback and leaning forward on the horse, and a camelier ...ART19327
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The dance of Death 1914-1918 Death marches
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Maker: Smith, Percy
No. 2 from a portfolio of 7 etchings titled 'The dance of Death', features Death as a tangible image hovering ominously over the battlefield. The concept of dance of Death imagery began as a medieval...ART50277