'The latest despatch "Send More Men!" from the Sportsman's Battalions', 1915 (c)
Chromolithograph recruiting poster, after Norman Keene, published by P C Burton and Company Limited, 1915 (c).
A motorcycle despatch rider, with bandaged head, stands by his Douglas motorbike and points towards a burning village. By 1915 the number of new recruits was falling. Stories of the horrors soldiers were facing discouraged men from enlisting. Recruiters and propagandists therefore made a last effort to avoid instituting conscription.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1977-06-81-24
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1977-06-81-24
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