WW1 Propaganda Posters: Know your place & Woodys

 I have seen a fair few of similar theme posters in both WW1 & WW2. At least this one  has a nifty catchphrase. How much did your average Joe Bloggs know about anything remotely interesting to the enemy?

The Canadians had alot of posters recruiting people to help out, I found very few however asking for front line soldiers to be recruited. They were generally like the one above, asking for workers to cut wood, send eggs to Europe, save war bonds etc. How many Canadian soldiers participated in the great war?

WW1 Propaganda Posters (Part2)

 Having now found a large collection of WW1 posters from around the world its time to start placing them up on the blog. Funny one the first, anti-conscription from Aussie. Maybe they knew what Gallipoli would be like?

 Very nice one above, they did like to use stereotypes back in the day! Joan of Arc used to buy war saving stamps.

This must have been a local Irish hero, slaying 10 Germans for the cause and others can be like him too. Did Michael O'Leary do the rounds at recruitment fairs for years to come? or did they send him back to the Somme?

Strange WW1 Propaganda Posters

 

WW1 1916 Poster from London UK. For me this is a really strange poster, maybe nearly a 100 years later we see things differently now but the option to die away from home by a bullet it meant to encourage people to enlist into the War? Stopping air raids is a fine message to leave with people though!

Another WW1 poster, aimed at the troops either at home or away. Stay away from "Good time" girls, yes indeedy you have more important things to be doing.

WW1 Propaganda Posters

 Lots of interesting WW1 propaganda posters on the net to look at. Many asking for men to come forward and join the forces to fight evil! But many asked for us to do all sorts of things, buy government bonds, contribute scrap metal, grow your own food, the list goes on and on.