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1675.
whole: the upper image is positioned across the top and the lower image is positioned across the bottom, both held within
blue borders. The title is separate and positioned below the upper image, in red outlined blue, with the text below, in blue, and in red
outlined blue. All set against a green background with a white triangular shape linking the two images. A narrow blue border frames the
design.
image: in the upper image, a mother and her three children sit at a dining table drinking tea and eating bread. The motto 'For King And
Country' is framed on the wall above the woman's head. The father's chair at the head of the table is unoccupied. A lamp on the table
shines a triangular shaft of light down the length of the poster, connecting the upper image to the lower image, in which British
infantrymen fire rifles and machine guns from a trench.
text: SINGLE MEN
Hundreds of Thousands of married men have left their homes to fight for KING AND COUNTRY
SHOW YOUR APPRECIATION BY FOLLOWING THEIR NOBLE EXAMPLE
PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, LONDON. POSTER No. 120.
PRINTED BY THE ABBEY PRESS 32 AND 34 GT. PETER ST. WESTMINSTER, S.W. W 8655. 20M - 8/15.
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No.120.
W.8655. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Recruitment Campaign 1914-1916 civilian personnel Costume and fashion children UK trench / defences Royalty British Home Front 1914-1918 eating / drinking Weapons women / womens work Action British Army 1914-1918 Military Personnel Family Home Front Uniforms PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE recruiting First World War WW1 British Home Front | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | The Abbey Press, 32 and 34 Great Peter Street, London SW1 | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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