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title: Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men; will you help us keep that promise
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/australia-50000-more-men-1915/
description: A kangaroo stands beside a huge '50,000' while a column of silhouetted soldiers with bayonets marches behind it under the words 'Australia has promised…
section: Collection
---

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[![Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men; will you help us keep that promise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/australia-50000-more-men-1915.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/australia-50000-more-men-1915.jpg)

# Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men; will you help us keep that promise

A kangaroo stands beside a huge '50,000' while a column of silhouetted soldiers with bayonets marches behind it under the words 'Australia has promised Britain'. The tell is the promise framed as the nation's own, with a marching crowd and a national animal standing in for the audience: the poster asks 'will YOU help us keep that promise' and gives no reason beyond the pledge.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
AUSTRALIA HAS PROMISED BRITAIN
50,000
MORE MEN
WILL YOU HELP US KEEP THAT PROMISE

[printer's mark] Syng ADELAIDE
```

[← The Illustrated War News, 7 October 1914: "The Spy at Work", the innocent landscape "decoded"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iwn-spy-at-work-landscape-code-1914/) ['Get a move on old man!' (Harry J. Weston, Sydney) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/australia-get-a-move-on-1915/)

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