Come lads: Give us a spell

This Australian recruiting poster depicts a dishevelled soldier, one arm in a sling, the other supporting another more seriously wounded soldier on his back. The background is simplistic, with a roughly sketched cliff-top evocative of Gallipoli's rough terrain. In 1915, the Victorian State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee organised a poster competition open to all members of the public. Among more than 280 submissions, Annie Campbell's design won a prize of 5 pounds. It was printed in January 1916 and distributed within Victoria.

The first repatriated wounded soldiers arrived in Melbourne on 18 July 1915. Their disembarkation attracted widespread public interest as those that could walk marched from the ship, some carrying their comrades. Press media at the time would have featured photographs from which Campbell would have derived her inspiration for her poster design.