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138. Anon: Come Into the Ranks.
Civilians admire an impressive column of recruits marching smartly under the Union Jack. Most recruits didn't know what to expect. During the 19th century they had been used mainly as police forces in exotic places.
39x25 NML $385.
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Early recruiting poster reminds viewers that British is fighting not only for the freedom of Europe but to defend...mothers, wives and sisters from the horrors of war. We must crush this idea of “Germany over all”
30x20 NM $385.
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Text notes ‘the only way to bring the war to a speedy... end and to punish the Germans for their barbarous treatment of...civilian populations is to carry the fight into the enemy’s country.” Ironically, not invading Germany led to the later claim that the army had been ‘stabbed in the back’ by politicians.
17x14 ML $250.
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A detailed map of Great Britain shows areas of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England where well known regiments were raised. These include the standing Regular Army as well as Territorial Forces. The highest rates of enlistment in the British Army came from the middle class.
30x20 NML $450.
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Trio from the Black Watch Regiment are shown smiling merrily as they march in perfect step. Battalions of the Black Watch found themselves engaged in heavy action quickly. Among their challenges in 1915 were the battles for the German salient at Neuve Chappelle, the Battle of Loos.
30x20 NML $675.
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Trio from the Black Watch Regiment are shown smiling merrily as they march in perfect step. Battalions of the Black Watch found themselves engaged in heavy action quickly. Among their challenges in 1915 were the battles for the German salient at Neuve Chappelle, the Battle of Loos.
30x20 NML $675.
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Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster features a cameo portrait of a smiling British recruit. By 1915 the British were hard-pressed to replace the British Expedition-ary Force that was largely decimated. The appeals failed to attract enough recruits. The draft was enacted in 1916.
30x20 NML $145.
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A cross section of society, farmers, sporting types carrying golf clubs, men in top hats and bowlers, gradually melds into a cohesive army that becomes a seemingly endless marching line of British volunteers. There was great enthusiasm for the war in 1914, but it quickly soured as casualty rates soared. The British suffered 722,000 KIA.
Hard to find. Aulich 94. 20x30 ML $485.
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Poster designed by General Baden-Powell, hero of Mafeking, a Boer War victory, and founder of the Boy Scouts. A cross section of society is shown engaged in war work except for the dapper slacker standing idly by. Shaming ‘slackers’ was a key ingredient of wartime policy. Darracott & Loftus 13.
30x20 NML $950.
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A shell burst causes a team of horses to rear in their traces. Horses were also war victims, often suffering terribly at the front. Before motorized transport took over, a typical infantry division needed five thousand horses to move munitions, artillery and supplies. Provisioning horses put a strain on logistics.
Rickards 87. 30x20 NML $450.
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Fun loving Tommies are shown hailing potential recruits from a crowded troop train. 'Going over' with friends, in a unit from your county, was a widely- used early recruiting ploy in both Britain and America. The plan backfired when whole villages lost most of their young men.
Rawls 33. Scarce. 30x20 NML $825.
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As his family watches, a young soldier is pictured trooping off to war. Both sides expected a short war and were, at first, enthusiastic at the prospect of war. Women's Suffrage groups sought to demonstrate their patriotism in a time of crises by supporting recruiting drives.
Aulich 102, Rawls 32, Stanley 51. 20x30 NML $1250.
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The last great pictorial poster with a rousing theme. With his sword extended and his mount at full gallop, a cavalryman gets the viewer's attention by dint of sheer energy and powerful movement. The cavalry was the most traditional and romantic arm of the British service. Tanks were easier to care for than horses; cavalry was doomed.
30x20 NML $3500.
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Despite a published German warning that travelers sailing in the war zone on British ships did so at their own risk, the sinking of the Lusitania by a u-boat in 1915 caused worldwide outrage. No single event did more to mobilize American public opinion against Germany than the liner’s sinking.
Rare. 40x25 NML $1350.
World War I: British Anti-German Leagues |
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Appeal for funds for POWs illustrated by an inversion of the biblical dictum “I was thirsty and ye gave me drink.” A gleeful German Red Cross nurse and bizarre guard, torments wounded POWs by pouring milk on the ground.
Very rare. 30x20 NML $1850. SOLD
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Beefy German soldier carrying a torch morphs into a businessman carrying a pipe. Artist layers on outrages from a Hun bayoneting a baby, a soldier shooting a nurse, the sinking of the Lusitania and other horrendous atrocities demonstrating bad behavior.
Very rare. Darra- cott 69. 30x20 NML $750. SOLD
World War I: British Navy Relief |
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Before government welfare programs, the fate of families of war dead was a particularly sad one. Poster by celebrated Royal Acamedician for Navy Relief Society seeks aid for Britain's widows and orphans.
Rawls 79. 41x28 ANML $1250.
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Navy League solicits funds on the anniversary of the Battle of Jutland fought in 1916, the largest clash between steel battleships of the war. Neither side prevailed, although both claimed victory. The German Imperial Navy never risked sending its High Seas Fleet into battle again.
Rare – new to us. 30x20 ML $450. SOLD