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title: Lend a Hand With War Savings
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lend-a-hand-with-war-savings-1939/
description: A low-angle painted soldier in helmet and kit reaches an open hand toward the viewer, with other soldiers advancing behind him.
section: Collection
---

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# Lend a Hand With War Savings

A low-angle painted soldier in helmet and kit reaches an open hand toward the viewer, with other soldiers advancing behind him. The headline 'Lend a hand with War Savings' moves the soldier's outstretched hand and the troops' exertion onto the act of saving, which is the transfer.

## 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

```
LEND A HAND WITH
WAR SAVINGS

W.F.P. 374. ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL SAVINGS COMMITTEE, LONDON.  CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED.  PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY CHROMOWORKS, LTD., LONDON.  51-4982
```

[← Lend a Hand on the Land](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lend-a-hand-on-the-land-1939/) ['Let 'em all come: Home Defence Battalions, men 41-55' (British Army recruiting poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/let-em-all-come-home-defence-battalions-1939/)

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