We're both needed to serve the guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the munitions! / printed by Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds and London. – Antique Print
![We're both needed to serve the guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the munitions! / printed by Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds and London., London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f6/f69ff9ffd8a7-L.webp)
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This vintage poster of We're both needed to serve the guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the munitions! / printed by Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds and London. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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We're both needed to serve the guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the munitions! / printed by Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds and London.
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The title pairs a call to serve the guns with a call to fill the ranks and pile up munitions, treating the soldier and the factory worker as equally needed. The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee issued it in 1915, the year the British army faced a serious shortage of shells on the Western Front, which made munitions work as urgent a concern as enlistment. Chorley & Pickersgill, a printer with offices in Leeds and London, produced the color lithograph, which is numbered 85c in the series. The number suggests the committee issued many variations, each aimed at a different audience.
| Created / published | London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 50 x 74 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster no. 85c. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. War work--Great Britain--1910-1920. Laborers--Great Britain--1910-1920. Soldiers--British--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,174 × 4,148 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1155_Were_both_needed_to_ser_1915 |
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