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title: Make Nursing Your War Job - It's War Work with a Future
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/make-nursing-your-war-job-uk-1939/
description: A smiling nurse in cap and uniform is cut out in front of a hospital ward with two bandaged patients, above the words 'Make nursing your war job - it's War
section: Collection
---

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[![Make Nursing Your War Job - It's War Work with a Future, 1939 UK poster: A smiling nurse in cap and uniform is cut out](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/make-nursing-your-war-job-uk-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/make-nursing-your-war-job-uk-1939.jpg)

# Make Nursing Your War Job - It's War Work with a Future

A smiling nurse in cap and uniform is cut out in front of a hospital ward with two bandaged patients, above the words 'Make nursing your war job - it's War Work with a future. Ask here for explanatory leaflet'. The tell is the virtue phrase 'War Work with a future', which promises a benefit without stating terms; the leaflet carries the details.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
MAKE NURSING
YOUR WAR JOB
-it's War Work with a future
ASK HERE FOR EXPLANATORY LEAFLET
[imprint:] Printed in England by Charles & Read Ltd.
```

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