Remember Belgium: Enlist to-day

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Accession Number ARTV00843
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 49.2 x 37.6 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description chromolithograph on paper
Maker Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
Unknown
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
Henry Jenkinson Ltd.
Date made 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

British First World War recruitment poster issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. It features a full length portrait of a British infantryman standing on a hill, holding his rifle. A Belgium village burns in the distance (centre left) and a Belgium mother and child are fleeing from the destruction in the background right. The title text printed in red is positioned at the top and a subtitle in white at the bottom. Both the text and image are framed by with a black border. The poster urges the viewer to remember Germany's invasion of Belgium and atrocities committed against civilians and prisoners of war at that time and enlist.