Wallace Reyburn Says...
A uniformed man in a cut-out photograph stands before a clipping headed 'I Was Six Hours Ashore At Dieppe', over the quotation that the governing factor about a Second Front is shipping. The tell is the eyewitness's name and uniform standing as the authority for the claim that shipping, and so shipbuilding, decides the second front (testimonial).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Montreal Standard (Canadian weekly newspaper), poster featuring its staff correspondent Wallace Reyburn
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Mackenzie King Government
- Leader
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; Canadian wartime publication (Crown copyright, if any, expired); hosted by owner decision
Montreal Standard (Canadian weekly newspaper), poster featuring its staff correspondent Wallace Reyburn. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-718.
Text on the object
WALLACE REYBURN "I Was Six Hours Ashore At Dieppe" Standard Writer, Wounded In Fighting, Tells of Battle Following is a personal story of the fighting in Dieppe town by ... Reyburn, Standard staff correspondent, who saw more of ... other writer and returned to England slightly wound[ed] ... boats sunk under him. By WALLACE REYBUR[N] (Strictly Copyright. Any infringement ... I WAS ATTACHED to the South Saskatch[ewan] ... first to reach the beaches of Dieppe. ... [clipping text partly covered; not transcribed further] Missed Death in Trap SAYS: "Brave men can make the landing. The governing factor about a Second Front is shipping. I saw the huge number of ships which were used for the Dieppe raid. But there'll have to be a constant shuttle of ships crossing the sea to bring reinforcements and supplies. And there'll have to be enough ships left over to supply Britain with its needs. That's the governing factor."
