Did you do anything to beat Germany last year? Enlist at once – Historic Print
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Description
This rare historic image captures Did you do anything to beat Germany last year? Enlist at once in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Did you do anything to beat Germany last year? Enlist at once
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The poster is built around three direct questions: whether British freedom is worth defending, whether the viewer is helping to defend it, and, if not, why not. Printed in Toronto in 1915 for the Central Recruiting Committee of No. 2 Military Division, it belongs to the voluntary recruiting drive that built up Canada's expeditionary forces before conscription was introduced in 1917. Canada entered the war automatically when Britain declared war in August 1914, and posters like this one appealed to men's sense of duty and to a shared imperial cause. Its pointed, accusing tone shows how recruiters tried to make staying at home feel like a personal decision.
| Created / published | 1915 |
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| Original scan | 5,587 × 6,935 px · prints to 19 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1400_Have_you_asked_yourself_1915 |
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