Fight for king & empire. Our brave soldiers need your help / H.T. & Co. – Historic Print
![Fight for king & empire. Our brave soldiers need your help / H.T. & Co., London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1914] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/83/83e346a2226c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Fight for king & empire. Our brave soldiers need your help / H.T. & Co., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Fight for king & empire. Our brave soldiers need your help / H.T. & Co.
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Few recruiting posters from 1914 relied on words alone, but this one does, and its only decoration is a small armorial device bearing the arms of King George V. Issued in London by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee and marked as the tenth in its series, it asked men to fight for king and empire at a time when Lord Kitchener was calling for hundreds of thousands of volunteers. The plain type and direct plea reflect the urgency of those first months of the war, when enlistment rather than conscription was still the main route into the army.
| Created / published | London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1914] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 26 x 78 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster is text only, with small armorial device of King George V. Poster no. 10. No. 4823-14. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--England--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,048 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1361_Fight_for_king_empire_1914 |
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