Remember the 'Lusitania' It Is Your Duty to Take Up the Sword of Justice to Avenge This Devil's Work

British atrocity propaganda poster, using the sinking of the British civilian ship, the Lusitania, by German torpedoes in 1915 as an inducement to enlist. The Lusitania became a notorious war crime, and was frequently referred to in Allied recruiting campaigns. The title, printed in red ink, occupies the upper part of the poster. Beneath the title, printed in black ink, is this message: 'THE JURY'S VERDICT SAYS: "We find that the said deceased died from their prolonged immersion and exhaustion in the sea eight miles south=south=west of the Old Head of Kinsale on Friday, May 7th, 1915, owing to the sinking of the R.M.S. 'Lusitania' by a torpedo fired without warning from a German submarine. That this appalling crime was contrary to international law and the conventions of all civilised nations, and we therefore charge the officers of the said submarine and the Emperor and Government of Germany, under whose orders they acted, with the crime of wilful and wholesale murder before the tribunal of the civilised world.'