What Burns said [in] 1782 holds good in 1915. Take his tip / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex. – Historic Print
![What Burns said [in] 1782 holds good in 1915. Take his tip / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex., London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/12/121f4b536a86-L.webp)
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What Burns said [in] 1782 holds good in 1915. Take his tip / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex.
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The verse on this 1915 poster comes from Robert Burns, the Scottish poet who died in 1796. Recruiters recast it so the speaker announces that he is twenty-three, five feet nine, and will go and be a soldier. The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, a London body formed in 1915 to encourage enlistment, added the line "Take his tip," turning the old verse into a direct appeal to men of fighting age. The color lithograph was printed by David Allen & Sons of Harrow, a leading British poster firm, and it shows how wartime recruiters borrowed familiar literature to make enlisting feel personal and ordinary.
| Created / published | London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 77 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Caption: O! why the deuce should I repine / And be an ill foreboder? / I'm twenty three, and five feet nine, / I'll go and be a sodger [i.e., soldier]. W.6987. 12M - 7/15. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Burns, Robert,--1759-1796. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain--1910-1920. Poetry--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,142 × 5,163 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 392_What_Burns_said_in_1782_1915 |
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