Don't falter. Go and meet the Hun menace

One of a number of Win the War League posters issued in New South Wales. Australia is depicted as a young boy - a favourite device of Australian press cartoonists in the first two decades of the 20th century. Based on cartoonist Hop Livingstone's 'Little Boy of Manly', who appeared in the pages of The Bulletin, the young boy symbolised Australia's comparative youth to Europe and other western powers. This recruiting poster uses the potential nightmare of a German invasion to encourage Australian men to enlist. The spectral face of a German (possibly the Kaiser), hovers above the ruins of a European city. Wreathed in the smoke from the burning buildings, the face looks towards a map of Australia. The young boy, positioned on the map, is recoiling in horror from the German head. The Win the War League was more commonly associated with an affiliate of the New South Wales Recruiting Committee called the Sportsman's Recruiting Committee. The League's total branch membership was 250,000.