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Description: | Concept: recruiting, portrait / personification, cityscape, emblems, flag / banner / standard, women / womens work, royalty Description: whole: the image occupies the upper third, with the title integrated, in blue. The text is separate and positioned in the lower two-thirds, in red gothic script, and in black. A small image is positioned lower left. All set against a white background and held within a red border. image: a full-length depiction of Britannia, wearing white robes and a helmet, and leaning on a round shield decorated with a Union Flag design. She stands under a classical archway, surmounted by the Royal Arms of George V, and gestures with her right hand towards a view of London: a bend in the River Thames, with the Palace of Westminster visible in the background. The small image is of the seal of the Territorial Force Association of the County of London. text: TERRITORIAL FORCE DIEU ET MON DROIT [Translation: 'God and my right'] COUNTY OF LONDON ERNEST IBBETSON 11 Men of London, In August last, on behalf of the Association of the County, I appealed to you to give thirty thousand Territorials, in a few days, to the King. Your response was immediate and twofold. It enabled Lord Kitchener to send, as he told Parliament, the 2nd London Division, as well as many other London Battalions, to fight the King's enemies abroad. On Easter Sunday I saw your magnificent London Division at the Front. Sir John French warmly praised their soldierly bearing, and they rival the best troops in France. They had already sustained losses and they urges me to ask you to keep them supplied with drafts. In their name I appeal to you. You have volunteered freely for every arm of the service. Continue to do so. But remember always that the London Territorial Regiments are second to none in achievement. The Kensingtons, the Westminsters, the Victorias, and other names inscribed for ever on the battle roll of England. Our Territorials have the first claim upon Londoners. I promise that every man who joins a London Regiment shall be walking out in uniform within 12 hours, and within a few weeks he may be called upon to stand alongside his gallant and splendid fellow citizens in Flanders, who have never yielded an inch of ground before German menace or attack, and, please God, never will. ESCHER, President, Territorial Force Association of the County of London. April, 1915. TERRITORIAL FORCE ASSOCIATION OF THE COUNTY OF LONDON 1907 HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Object: shield, sword, helmet, bridge | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Ibbetson, Ernest Printer: Harrison and Sons Ltd Publisher/Sponsor: Territorial Force Association of the County of London Associated Person: Kitchener, Horatio (Field Marshal Earl) Associated Person: French, John D P (Field Marshal Sir) Associated Person: Britannia Associated Person: George V, King | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2666... | Go to resource |
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