---
title: '''Get a move on old man!'' (Harry J. Weston, Sydney)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/australia-get-a-move-on-1915/
description: A bandaged, shirt-sleeved Australian soldier shades his eyes with a bandaged hand, rifle and bayonet at his side, under the quoted words 'Get a move on…
section: Collection
---

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# 'Get a move on old man!' (Harry J. Weston, Sydney)

A bandaged, shirt-sleeved Australian soldier shades his eyes with a bandaged hand, rifle and bayonet at his side, under the quoted words 'Get a move on old man!'. The tell is the vernacular: the soldier speaks to the viewer in slang, as a mate, so enlistment is presented as ordinary talk rather than argument.

## Text on the object

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

```
"Get a move on old man!"

HARRY J. WESTON [signature]
W. A. GULLICK, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, SYDNEY [small]
```

[← Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men; will you help us keep that promise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/australia-50000-more-men-1915/) [Australia's imperishable record. Australians! The empire needs you (Farmer's, Sydney) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/australias-imperishable-record-1915/)

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