'Convoy your country to victory: buy Defence Bonds' (British National Savings poster)
Two sailors on a warship's stern watch a line of merchant ships under a large White Ensign. The caption 'Convoy your country to victory' turns the act of buying Defence Bonds into the naval escort itself, borrowing the navy's prestige for a savings product.
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- National Savings Committee (artist Rowland Hilder; IWM Art.IWM PST 15633)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Chamberlain Government
- Leader
- Neville Chamberlain
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Imperial War Museums (scan via Wikimedia Commons), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright expired; PD-UKGov per Wikimedia Commons)
Rowland Hilder (artist); National Savings Committee (sponsor); J. Weiner Ltd, London (printer). Imperial War Museums, Art.IWM PST 15633; scan via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
CONVOY your COUNTRY to VICTORY BUY DEFENCE BONDS AT BANKS AND POST OFFICES [illegible: artist's name at top and imprint line at the foot]
Read from the committed image.
