'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.
- Date
- 1914
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Postcard publisher (not named on the card)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Asquith Government
- Leader
- Herbert Henry Asquith
- Audience
- Own forces
- Themes
- War and the military, Religion
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- TestimonialTransfer
- Regime
- Asquith government
- Leader
- H. H. Asquith
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (WWI-era postcard published before 1931; Commons: PD-USGov-Military-Navy for the museum photograph)
Photograph: National Museum of the U.S. Navy (Flickr, Public Domain Mark), via Wikimedia Commons; card courtesy of the Library of Congress
Text on the object
Do your duty bravely. Fear God, Honour the King. LORD KITCHENER
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