Get into khaki. Your comrades at Gallipoli are calling you. This is not the time for football and tennis matches. It is serious. Show that you realise this by enlisting at once – Vintage Wall Art
![Get into khaki. Your comrades at Gallipoli are calling you. This is not the time for football and tennis matches. It is serious. Show that you realise this by enlisting at once, [S.l. : s.n., 1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8a/8a079ae3649b-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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Get into khaki. Your comrades at Gallipoli are calling you. This is not the time for football and tennis matches. It is serious. Show that you realise this by enlisting at once comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Get into khaki. Your comrades at Gallipoli are calling you. This is not the time for football and tennis matches. It is serious. Show that you realise this by enlisting at once
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Relying on words alone, this 1915 recruiting poster makes its case without any picture. It speaks directly to the reader, saying that his comrades are already fighting at Gallipoli and that football and tennis no longer suit the moment. The Dardanelles campaign, which began in April 1915, had by then become a costly struggle, and appeals like this one drew on the sense that men at home were being called to account. Its sharp contrast between sport and sacrifice shows the pressure placed on young British men to enlist in the war's early years.
| Created / published | [S.l. : s.n., 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 102 x 63 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster is text only. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,993 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1384_Get_into_khaki_Your_com_1915 |
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