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title: 'Support Our Forces and Their Leaders: Honour Your Pledge, Buy War Savings Certificates - Regularly'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-support-our-forces-war-savings-sampson-1939/
description: A painted portrait of a stern, moustached officer in a peaked cap with general's insignia looks out at the viewer above the lines 'Support our forces
section: Collection
---

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[![Support Our Forces and Their Leaders: Honour Your Pledge, Buy War Savings Certificates - Regularly, 1939 Canada poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-support-our-forces-war-savings-sampson-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-support-our-forces-war-savings-sampson-1939.jpg)

# Support Our Forces and Their Leaders: Honour Your Pledge, Buy War Savings Certificates - Regularly

A painted portrait of a stern, moustached officer in a peaked cap with general's insignia looks out at the viewer above the lines 'Support our forces and their leaders / Honour your pledge' and a banner 'Buy War Savings Certificates - Regularly'. The tell (transfer) is the senior officer's face and uniform, which lend military authority to a request to buy savings certificates; the officer is not named.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SUPPORT OUR FORCES
and THEIR LEADERS
Honour your pledge
Buy WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES - Regularly
[signature:] SAMPSON
```

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