{"id":872,"date":"2013-08-28T21:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/blog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2013-08-28T21:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:28:47","slug":"army-recruitment-propaganda-through-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Army Recruitment Propaganda through the ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>19th Century<\/h2>\n<h3>And a crown to drink his majesty&#8217;s health<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Date Created\/Published:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>circa 1800<br \/>\n<strong>Summary:\u00a0<\/strong>Ten Guineas Bounty and a crown to drink his Majesty\u2019s Health. Wanted to complete a company in His Majesty\u2019s Fourth or King\u2019s Own Regiment of Infantry&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ko2527-01.jpg\" alt=\"ko2527-01\" width=\"560\" height=\"707\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com\/recruitingposters01.htm\">Image src<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>To Arms! To Arms<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Date Created\/Published:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>1862<br \/>\n<strong>Summary:\u00a0<\/strong>Southern Army recruitment poster; Floyd County, Virginia; War of Northern Aggression.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/To_Arms_Confederate_Enlistment_Poster_1862.jpg\" alt=\"To_Arms_Confederate_Enlistment_Poster_1862\" width=\"456\" height=\"670\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>20th Century<\/h2>\n<h3>Destroy the mad brute<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Date Created\/Published:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Dated ca 1917.<br \/>\n<em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE &#8211; Enlist U.S. Army&#8221; is the caption of this World War I propaganda poster for enlistment in the US Army. A dribbling, moustached ape wielding a club bearing the German word &#8220;kultur&#8221; and wearing a pickelhaube helmet with the word &#8220;militarism&#8221; is walking onto the shore of America while holding a half-naked woman in his grasp (possibly meant to depict Liberty). This is a US version of an earlier British poster with the same image.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/destroy-this-mad-brute-wwi-propaganda-poster.jpg\" alt=\"destroy this mad brute ww2 army recruitment poster\" width=\"512\" height=\"770\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>If the cap fits you, join the army to-day<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Date Created\/Published:<\/strong>\u00a0London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, 1915<br \/>\n<strong>Summary:<\/strong>\u00a0Poster showing a military hat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-634 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3g10910u-82.jpg\" alt=\"If the cap fits you army recruitment poster\" width=\"540\" height=\"808\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Attention! &#8230; Canadian Grenadier Guards now recruiting<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Date Created\/Published:<\/strong> Montreal : Southam Press Limited, [between 1914 and 1918]<br \/>\n<strong>Summary:<\/strong> Poster shows two soldiers, in profile, standing at attention.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3g12396r-www.freevintageposters.com_.jpg\" alt=\"87th Overseas Battalion recruitment poster\" width=\"363\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>The Second Artillery 1840-1917 needs 200 real men&#8211;Will you be one?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Date Created\/Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Philadelphia : Committee of Public Safety, Department of Military Service, [1917]<br \/>\n<strong>Summary:<\/strong>\u00a0Poster is text only. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vintage_army_second_artillery_military_recruitment_poster-rd9b07a96f1be4a7b93906267780cb6a4_aillo_8byvr_512.jpg\" alt=\"the second artillery needs 200 real men - army recruitment poster\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>21st Century<\/h2>\n<h3>Become a modern day knight<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Date Created\/Published:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>2007<br \/>\n<strong>Summary: <\/strong>Shows an Australian army sniper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-660\" src=\"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Knight_lo.jpg\" alt=\"Australian Army Recruitment Poster\" width=\"540\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19th Century And a crown to drink his majesty&#8217;s health Date Created\/Published:\u00a0circa 1800 Summary:\u00a0Ten Guineas Bounty and a crown to drink his Majesty\u2019s Health. Wanted to complete a company in His Majesty\u2019s Fourth or King\u2019s Own Regiment of Infantry&#8230;&#8230; [Image src] &nbsp; To Arms! To Arms Date Created\/Published:\u00a01862 Summary:\u00a0Southern Army recruitment poster; Floyd County, Virginia; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89],"tags":[109,120,121],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}