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Description: | Concept: recruiting, military personnel, uniform, caricature, press / media, politicians Description: whole: the image occupies the majority. The title is separate and positioned in the lower centre, in red. The text is partially integrated and positioned in the upper right, along the top edge and the bottom edge, in black. All held within a red border and set against a brown background. image: a cartoon of 'Mr Punch' dressed as a Recruiting-Sergeant. He shouts, holding his cap in his raised right hand and a swagger stick under his left arm. He stands before a wall on which is billeted a recruitment poster signed by Lord Kitchener. text: 'PUNCH,' SEPTEMBER 2, 1914. WANTED 500,000 MEN FOR THE ARMY RECRUITING OFFICE KITCHENER L RAVEN HILL TO ARMS! RECRUITING-SERGEANT PUNCH. 'NOW, MY LADS, YOUR COUNTRY WANTS YOU. WHO'S FOR THE FRONT?' Object: poster, cane, cap | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Hill, Leonard Raven Publisher/Sponsor: Punch Associated Person: Kitchener, Horatio (Field Marshal Earl) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2708... | Go to resource |
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