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Description: | Concept: military personnel, weapons, uniform, military vehicles, artillery, recruiting, emblems, motor vehicles, medals / orders / decorations, architecture, inter-war Description: whole: The poster is double-sided. Side 1: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, with the title separate and positioned along the top edge, in white, held within a blue inset. The text is separate and placed in the lower quarter, in yellow, set against a blue background. Side 2: the main image occupies the majority, with two smaller images positioned in the top left corner and top right corner. The title is integrated and placed in the upper half, in red outlined blue, and in bark blue outlined light blue. The text is integrated and located across the bottom edge, in yellow and in black. image 1: a full-length depiction of a British diver on a wreck of a sunken ship. He attaches ropes to a field gun to prepare it to be lifted to the surface. image 2: full-length depictions of soldiers from each of the five Guards battalions: Grenadier Guards, Scots Guards, Welsh Guards, Irish Guards and Coldstream Guards. They were ceremonial uniform and stand in front of Windsor Castle. The badges of the five battalions are positioned across the bottom edge. The smaller images are of a British Army staff car and jeep. text 1: recovered and now - A VITAL JOB FOR C.R.D. text 2: JOIN THE BRIGADE OF GUARDS C.H.PATRICK 1937. HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE [Translation: 'Shamed be he that thinks evil of it'] GRENADIER GUARDS. MEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT [Translation: 'No one assails me with impunity'] SCOTS GUARDS. CYMRU AM BYTH [Translation: 'Wales forever'] WELSH GUARDS QUIS SEPARABIT MDCCLXXXIII [Translation: 'Who can separate us? 1783'] IRISH GUARDS. HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE [Translation: 'Shamed be he that thinks evil of it'] COLDSTREAM GUARDS. PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY HAYCOCK PRESS, LONDON. 51-2594 Object: artillery piece, diving suit, car, castle, badge | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown (recto) & Patrick, C H (verso) Printer: Haycock Press, London Publisher/Sponsor: Publicity Department, Central Ordnance Depot (recto); HMSO (verso); Brigade of Guards, British Army (verso) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=3383... | Go to resource |
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