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Description: | Concept: military personnel, weapons, artillery, recruiting, emblems Description: whole: The poster is double-sided. Side 1: the image occupies the majority. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in white and in black, set against an orange background. Side 2: the image occupies the whole, with the title integrated and positioned in the lower half, in blue and white. The text is integrated and located in the lower quarter, in red, brown and blue. The emblem of the Territorial Army is placed in the lower centre. image 1: a full-length depiction of a Royal Army Ordnance Corps soldier, seen in silhouette, repairing a machine gun which is held in a vice on a workbench. His shadow is thrown onto the wall behind, where it takes the shape of a soldier running into battle with a machine gun. image 2: a stylised depiction of a Royal Army Ordnance Corps soldier repairing an artillery gun. He holds a spanner in his right hand as he leans over the barrel of the gun. text 1: IT ALL DEPENDS ON ME Produced by PUBLICITY DEPT CENTRAL ORDNANCE DEPOT, GREENFORD. text 2: Pat Keely '39 THE GUNS DEPEND ON YOU RAOC TA ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS TERRITORIAL ARMY T.A. POSTER NO.23 Printed for H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE by WM HOBBS AND SONS, LTD. MAIDSTONE. 51-4170 Object: artillery piece, machine gun, spanner, vice | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown (recto) & Keely, Pat (verso) Printer: William Hobbs and Sons Ltd, Maidstone Publisher/Sponsor: Publicity Department, Central Ordnance Depot (recto); HMSO (verso); Royal Army Ordnance Corps (verso); Territorial Army (verso) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=3383... | Go to resource |
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