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Description: | Concept: action, recruiting, aerial view, emblems, military training, uniform, animals, military personnel, weapons, aircraft, landscape Description: whole: the image is positioned in the upper four-fifths, with a smaller image located in the lower right. The title is integrated and placed in the centre and lower right, in red, white, blue and grey. The text is separate and located in the lower fifth, in red and in black. All set against a white background. image: a three-quarter length depiction of a member of the Parachute Regiment holding a machine gun. Behind him is an aerial view of the countryside, with parachutes and aircraft filling the sky. The smaller image depicts, in blue silhouette, the symbol of the British Airborne Forces - the Greek warrior, Bellerophon, astride a winged Pegasus. text: AIRBORNE FORCES A. GAMES. THE AIRBORNE FORCES OF THE BRITISH ARMY CONSIST OF PARACHUTE TROOPS AND GLIDER-BORNE TROOPS OF ALL ARMS OF THE SERVICE. Officers and men in any Regiment or Corps (exept R.A.C.), who are medically fit, may apply for transfer to a parachute or glider-borne unit of the Airborne Forces. Additional pay is granted to [additional text strip] the Airborne Forces at the rate of 2/- per day for parachute troops, and 1/- per day for glider-borne troops. A limited number of officers and other ranks are urgently required for training as glider-pilots. Applications for transfer or further information should be made to unit headquarters. Conditions of service are laid down in the following A.C.Is. - 1677 of 1941, 275 and 1490 of 1942. Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Henry Hildesley Ltd. London. 51/2892 P. R. 73. Object: helmet, machine gun, parachute, aircraft, spear | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Games, Abram Printer: Henry Hildesley Ltd, London Publisher/Sponsor: Airborne Forces; HMSO | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2623... | Go to resource |
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