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Description: | Concept: military personnel, uniform, cartography, emblems Description: whole: the main image occupies the majority, with a series of smaller images positioned around the edge of the poster. The title and main text are separate and positioned in the upper right, in red, black and blue, set against a yellow background and held within a cartouche with a decorative scrolled border. Further text is integrated and placed over the majority, in black and in white. image: a map of the United Kingdom, annotated with notes and images illustrating various regional regiments of the British Army. The smaller images are depictions of the regimental badges of regiments of the British Army. text: A Map OF THE BRITISH ARMY WITH BATTLE HONOURS and MILITARY ACHIEVEMENTS described: ENGLISH COUNTY REGIMENTS displayed in their SHIRES: Those of SCOTLAND, IRELAND AND WALES in their own COUNTRIES AND REGIMENTAL BADGES of all other units and corps circumscribed AS A BORDER The Whole forming a complete Record with whose Aid the reader may more easily SALUTE THE SOLDIER in full Appreciation and Understanding This poster, first issued in 1944, is now re-issued in response to a general appreciative demand for copies. RE-ISSUED IN THE YEAR 1952 Issued in the year 1944 by the National Savings Committee in London: the Scottish Savings Committee in Edinburgh and the Ulster Savings Committee in Belfast and Printed at The Baynard Press, London, S.W. 9 HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, LONDON. H.M.F.P. 66 CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED [map has various text describing each regiment's Battle Honours] Object: map, badge | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Printer: The Baynard Press, London, SW9 Publisher/Sponsor: National Savings Committee; Scottish Savings Committee; Ulster Savings Committee; HMSO | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5179... | Go to resource |
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