wonderful photo!!!

Cool shot!!

Oh the Shame. By today's standards, the wording/psychology is poor - using a negative in "for not enlisting" is a shutdown to the viewer. But this poster was made before motivational research kicked in. Great display as an artifact.

We had a book of these in my department at school!

Super shot Bill, history there!

You did a great job of getting this through the glass. Excellent photograph!

Outstanding clean capture of this old print. How very patriotic. I do believe that here and now, this would have no effect on the young men and women. Doesn't have the same impact as it did then. However, the image and memory it brings in this shot does.

Great capture - interesting recruitment poster.

PROPAGANDA :) Sweet found Bill

Awesome capture Bill...love your tidbits of information as well... Most enjoyable experience viewing your uploads...!!!!

Don't think that these would be used today, it would be passed by with a "I don't think so"!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful :)

Good use of an angles d POV to keep the glare down on this fine example of a patriotic British recruiting poster of The Great War, Bill. Enlistments went well in the UK for the first year of the war. Lord Derby's formation of the famous "Pals" battalions of men from the same town, factory, sport society, etc was a very popular recuiting devise. As enlistments declined, British women would walk up to a fit young men who looked as if they should be in the military and blithely hand the fellow the white feather of cowardice. In January of 1916 Parliament passed the first Conscription Act for England, Scotland and Wales. Ireland was left out due to the unsettled politics of "Home Rule" and the Republican Easter Week Rebellion of 1916. However around 400,000 Irishmen of all political and religious stripes served in the British Forces during the First World War.

Beautiful image!!!

fantastic shot!

excellent POV to avoid reflections! Fine piece of propaganda!

Phew, I thought you were seriously asking!..... all kidding aside. Great shot!

Great shot, and very interesting too!

Wow, that really lays the guilt scene on any able bodied Brit of that era. Stellar capture, tightly cropped, and brings the patriotic message home in brute force. In retrospect, a good reason not to enlist was mustard and phosgene gas, artillery and machine gun fire, disease and filth in the trenches, and terrible losses from "going over the top," during an often stagnant conflict.

excellent poster and shot.I was in Wichita

Great shot of this old poster!!

these uploads bring out the best responses...and I agree with tara about the glass: I didn't even notice there was glass. This museum must be one of a very few: I know of few dedicated to WWI, and I'm glad it exists & that you bring us bits of it. You also caught a wonderful dark lighting, like we are looking into history. Thanks to buffalo1 for the history, very good stuff; and I appreciate Harry's remark too, about the horrors of this war; I know that all wars have horrors, but no one was prepared for what this wrought; and the irony of the recruitment was that it was war that was unnecessary; modern studies conclude that Europe was almost aching for some conflict, since they'd had little in a while; and it could've been avoided; and those stagnant conflicts harry speaks of were just horrific...I'm glad this museum exists, and if I ever get to KC I'll definitely have to see it. A fine upload, I never tire of these. And photographed about as well as it could be given the prohibitive nature of museum light, glass, limiting angles etc. Thanks for this.

It makes me wonder why so many young men 'skipped' out.

Another fine and prophetic poster. (Hope that word is right?) Duh! You do post this sort of thing SO well! Impressed to say the least! Rob.