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title: 'Be ready for your war service: Join Red Cross Student Reserve'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/be-ready-for-your-war-service-red-cross-student-reserve-1943/
description: Painted poster of a young nurse in cap and white apron holding a lit candle, with a faint ghostly scene behind her of a soldier and a medic tending
section: Collection
---

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# Be ready for your war service: Join Red Cross Student Reserve

Painted poster of a young nurse in cap and white apron holding a lit candle, with a faint ghostly scene behind her of a soldier and a medic tending a patient under a drip. The headline reads 'Be ready for your war service' above 'Join Red Cross Student Reserve'. The technique is transfer: the candle and the nurse's dress carry the prestige of nursing onto enrolment.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Be ready for your
WAR SERVICE
Join RED CROSS [red cross emblem] STUDENT RESERVE
[badge: NURSING SERVICE STUDENT RESERVE]
[signature: Edmundson]
POSTER 710B AUGUST 1943
[imprint: printer's mark, illegible]
```

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