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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · The Allies, 1914–1918
Surely You Will Fight for Your King and Country
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, 1915
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A recruiting poster the British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee issued in 1915, artist unrecorded, from the copy recorded by Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand.
Why it matters
The Committee made it to bring young men into the armed forces in the second year of the war, and it set the common wartime phrase, fight for King and Country, as a picture puzzle.
What to notice
King George's portrait stands for the word king, and a red outline map of the United Kingdom for the word country.
A slogan, read as a rebus.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, 1915
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02: Public domain (PD-Layout, PD-New Zealand, PD-New Zealand/en).
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