---
title: '''Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the King.'' Lord Kitchener postcard (about 1914)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kitchener-duty-bravely-postcard/
description: A lettered postcard sets Kitchener's instruction 'Do your duty bravely.
section: Collection
---

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# 'Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the King.' Lord Kitchener postcard (about 1914)

A lettered postcard sets Kitchener's instruction 'Do your duty bravely. Fear God, Honour the King.' on a panel under a crown and crossed flags, above warships firing into a rising sun. The tell is the attribution line 'Lord Kitchener', a named authority whose vouch is the message, and the stacking of crown, flags, God and navy around a plain order.

## Text on the object

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

```
Do your duty bravely.
Fear God,
Honour the King.

LORD
KITCHENER
```

[← यह सिपाही हिन्दुस्तान की हिफ़ाज़त कर रहा है (This Soldier Is Defending India), Indian Army recruiting poster, Bombay](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/indian-army-hindi-recruiting-poster-1914/) [Подошёл колбасник к Лодзи (A Sausage-Maker Came to Łódź) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sausage-maker-came-to-lodz-1914/)

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