"The Call to Duty, Join the Army, For Home and Country" Vintage WWI Poster

"Join the Army at Once & Help to Stop an Air Raid" Vintage British WWI Poster, 1915 This vintage British recruitment poster, published in 1915, calls on men to join the Army. In full, the text reads, “It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb / Join the Army at once & help stop an air raid / God save the king.” On the poster, a silhouette of London lies beneath a spotlighted German Zeppelin looming above. This recruitment poster is displayed in a custom-built archival frame. WWI was the first time British civilians were in the direct line of fire in the modern era, creating the idea of the "homefront.’" Traditionally concerned with its coastal borders, Britain was highly unprepared for a sudden and prolonged German air raid. Throughout 1915 and 1916, successive German Zeppelin attacks ravaged several cities, but most notably London. These attacks continued until 1918, but newer aircrafts were used. The Germans hoped to enrage the British people so that they would demand their government made peace. However, their plan backfired when the United Kingdom cried for German defeat...

Presented is a vintage U.S. Army recruitment poster, dating to World War I. The poster depicts an Army officer conferring with a soldier. They stand next to an artillery battery, manned by two soldiers. Their fort looks over a cliff, with water and clouds completing the background. The text "Men Wanted for the Army" is printed in bold red letters at the top of the poster. The bottom margin of the poster includes a cartouche where the name of the recruiting station can be filled in. The color lithograph was illustrated by Michael P...

This is very scarce WWI recruiting poster for the Army Air Service. The poster dramatically features a two-man open cockpit biplane with American and French markings flying against a red sky background. In the foreground, two uniformed spotters look on. The poster reads "Join the Air Service...

This vintage recruitment poster from World War I was issued to encourage onlookers to join the U.S. Navy. The poster was issued by the Morgan Litho. Co. out of Cleveland in 1916. The...

Presented is a vintage WWII U.S. Army poster of a P-39 Airacobra fighter plane. The poster was published by the Recruiting Publicity Bureau in 1943. The p...

This is a 1952 vintage golf travel poster, entitled Come to Britain for Golf by Rowland Hilder. The lithographic poster was published by the T...

Original antique World War One US Air Force recruitment poster - Join the Air Service Learn Earn - featuring great artwork depicting various aircr...

Original vintage British Army recruitment poster - Join the Regular Army - featuring a soldier in military uniform dropping through the sky with ...

Original vintage World War Two military recruitment propaganda poster - Join the Modern Army Join an Irish Regiment - featuring a soldier in uniform delivering papers on his motorcycle with two men reading the messages in front of a troop by an open top military truck with the bold blue and red title text above and list of regiments - 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars Irish Guards...

Original vintage military recruitment poster - Join a Scottish Regiment "Scotland for ever" The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) Scots Guards The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) The Royal Scots Fusiliers The King's Own Scottish Borderers The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles...

Original vintage military recruitment poster featuring an illustration of a tank with the text on three banner flags above reading - A man'...

Original vintage British Army military recruitment poster - Join the Regular Army - featuring a smiling man in a red and white football kit kicki...