Your country wants you and 300,000 more men like you. Don't wait but join now / printed by C.W. Faulkner & Co., Ltd., London, E. – Historic Reproduction
![Your country wants you and 300,000 more men like you. Don't wait but join now / printed by C.W. Faulkner & Co., Ltd., London, E., London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e1/e13219024414-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: Your country wants you and 300,000 more men like you. Don't wait but join now / printed by C.W. Faulkner & Co., Ltd., London, E., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Your country wants you and 300,000 more men like you. Don't wait but join now / printed by C.W. Faulkner & Co., Ltd., London, E.
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This text-only poster skips the illustrations that made many wartime recruiting bills famous and speaks to the reader directly: "Your country wants you and 300,000 more men like you. Don't wait but join now." The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee issued it in London in 1915, when Britain still relied on volunteers and had not yet adopted conscription, which came in 1916. The bold, plain wording reflects the urgency of that period, when the army needed large numbers of new men. The printer, C.W. Faulkner & Co., was a London firm, and the poster's number, 102, places it in a larger series.
| Created / published | London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 99 x 61 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. Poster is text only. Poster no. 102. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,992 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1778_Your_country_wants_you_1915 |
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