This Bible saved a life...Make that Life worth living buy Peace Bonds

Australian First World War poster promoting the sale of Peace Bonds. It features the image of a bullet damaged bible and recounts the story of its owner recently returned to Australia ,a member of the A.I.F, who fought at Lagnicourt and became a Prisoner of War. While a POW a German soldier shot him in the chest and he was saved by his Bible in his left coat pocket. The image is on the left with the story in a white rectangle in the upper right. Both are set against a maroon background with the title and text positioned above and below. The bullet damaged Bible is a graphic symbol of the dangers and sacrifices of Australian soldiers and urges the viewer to repay this sacrifice by buying Peace Bonds. Another series of Australian Peace Bond posters uses portraits of well known War heroes and heroines such as Albert Jacka, VC and nurse Edith Cavell.

Most countries involved in the war realised that they would need more funds to resource their campaigns, so many developed war loan programs. These programs encouraged the population to purchase government war bonds which would be repaid with interest, and assist the war effort. These loan subscriptions have been estimated to have covered 60 percent or more of the cost of the war in Germany. War loan posters were produced in great volume during the First World War. Posters often combined patriotism with notions of responsibility to inspire the populace to financially back the war. Following the war, 'Peace Loan' campaigns were launched to recoup the cost of the war and fund soldier pensions. Peace loans functioned along the same lines of the war loans, in that people 'lent' the government money in return for interest.