Lucy Kemp-Welsh Forward 1915.

History

This famous Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster shows a British cavalry officer pointing his 1908 pattern cavalry sword at the enemy while charging forward at a full gallop. At this time (1914) he was also armed with a full sized Lee-Enfield rifle through it’s not shown here. Cavalrymen were dressed in khaki and wore  service dress…

Bernard Partridge: Take Up the Sword of Justice 1915.

History

This poster was printed for the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (PRC) in 1915. All told, the PRC produced nearly 200 recruiting posters for the government before Britain was forced to draft soldiers such was the need for replacement troops caused by the large number of casualties that deadlocked and seemingly endless trench warfare had already created.…