'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.
- Date
- 1915
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Australian recruiting authorities (NSW Government Printer)
- Region
- Oceania
- Country
- Australia
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Hughes Government
- Leader
- William Morris Hughes
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Plain folks
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1915, before 1931; Library of Congress World War I Posters, item 2004666246)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA (item https://www.loc.gov/item/2004666246/)
Text on the object
"Get a move on old man!" HARRY J. WESTON [signature] W. A. GULLICK, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, SYDNEY [small]
