Young men of Britain! The Germans said you were not in earnest. We knew you'd come - and give them the lie!" Play the greater game and join the football battalion / designed and printed by Johnson – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Young men of Britain! The Germans said you were not in earnest. We knew you'd come - and give them the lie!" Play the greater game and join the football battalion / designed and printed by Johnson. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Young men of Britain! The Germans said you were not in earnest. We knew you'd come - and give them the lie!" Play the greater game and join the football battalion / designed and printed by Johnson
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This poster stands apart from other recruiting appeals for its direct address to sportsmen, urging young men to "play the greater game" by joining the football battalion. The Footballers' Battalion, raised in London in late 1914 as part of Britain's volunteer Kitchener army, drew on the enthusiasm of the football world, and the taunt that the Germans thought Britain "not in earnest" answers doubts that the volunteers would ever come forward. This color lithograph, designed and printed by Johnson, shows how recruiters tied patriotism to familiar sporting pride.
| Created / published | 2003675290 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 3g11296_YoungmenofBritainTheGermanssai.tif |
| Genre | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 101 x 75 cm. |
| Notes | POS - WWI - Gt Brit, no. 252 (C size) [P&P] |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 4,031 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1774_Young_men_of_Britain_Th_1915 |
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