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EPHEMERA

Title

'We're both needed to serve the guns!'

Object Name

Poster

Maker

Chorley and Pickersgill Limited (Primary maker)

Date Made

18/1914
18/1914

Place Made

Leeds and London

Description

First World War recruitment poster; 'We're both needed to serve the guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the munitions!'; published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London; poster no.85c. Picture of a soldier and civilian factory worker shaking hands, focused on possible resentment by soldiers of 'slackers' at home and instilling fresh patriotic energy into munitions.

Materials

paper

Place Collected

Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast
Belfast

Date Collected

1973
1973

Catalogue Number

BELUM.O457.1973

Copyright

National Museums NI