--- title: More Men Are Wanted for His Majesty's Army (Poster No. 33) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/more-men-are-wanted-his-majestys-army-uk-1915/ description: An all-text recruiting poster headed 'More men are wanted for His Majesty's Army' sets out who may enlist, terms, pay, separation allowances. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. More Men Are Wanted for His Majesty's Army (Poster No. 33) [![More Men Are Wanted for His Majesty's Army, 1915 UK poster: An all-text recruiting poster headed 'More men are wanted for His](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/more-men-are-wanted-his-majestys-army-uk-1915.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/more-men-are-wanted-his-majestys-army-uk-1915.jpg) # More Men Are Wanted for His Majesty's Army (Poster No. 33) An all-text recruiting poster headed 'More men are wanted for His Majesty's Army' sets out who may enlist, terms, pay, separation allowances, pensions and widows' provision, closing 'Men are wanted - Enlist now'. The tell is selection: the printed material lists benefits and allowances in detail, and the risks of service appear only as pension and widow provisions. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` MORE MEN ARE WANTED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S ARMY WHO MAY ENLIST. All men who are 5ft. 3ins. and over, medically fit, and between 19 and 38, and all old soldiers up to 45. TERMS OF ENLISTMENT. You may join for the period of the War only if you do not want to serve for the ordinary period of the regular soldier. Then, as soon as the War is over, you will be able to return to your ordinary employment. PAY. Ordinary Army Pay (the lowest rate of pay is 7s. a week, less 1½d. for Insurance). Food, Clothing, Lodging and Medical Attendance provided free. SEPARATION ALLOWANCES. During the War the State, by the payment of Separation Allowance, helps the soldier to maintain his wife, children or dependants. The following are the weekly rates for the wife and children of a private soldier, including the allotment usually required from his pay:- [table: Government Separation Allowance / Largest Allotment required from Soldier / Weekly Income Secured to Family] For Wife only: 9s 0d / 3s 6d / 12s 6d and 1 Child: 14s 0d / 3s 6d / 17s 6d and 2 Children: 17s 6d / 3s 6d / 21s 0d For each additional child an additional Separation Allowance of 2s. is issuable. Families living at the time of enlistment in the London Postal area are allowed by the State 3s. 6d. a week extra as long as they continue to live there. Fuller particulars as to Separation Allowance, and as to Allowances to the Dependants of Unmarried Soldiers, and to the Motherless Children of Soldiers, can be obtained at any Recruiting Office or Post Office. PENSIONS for the DISABLED. Men disabled on service will be entitled after discharge to benefits under the Insurance Act IN ADDITION TO the Pension given by the War Office for partial or total disablement. PROVISION for WIDOWS and CHILDREN. The widows and children of soldiers who die on active service will continue to receive their Separation Allowances for a period which will not in any case exceed 26 weeks, and afterwards they will receive, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN QUALIFICATIONS, pensions at various rates. HOW TO ENLIST. Go to the nearest Post Office or Labour Exchange. There you will get the address of the nearest Recruiting Office, where you can enlist. MEN ARE WANTED - ENLIST NOW. [imprint:] PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, 12, DOWNING STREET, S.W. Poster No. 33. H.W. & V. Ld. W.10754 1/15 W.13636 3/15 ``` [← La France / L'Allemagne: même dans le timbre-poste (France / Germany: even in the postage stamp)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-france-l-allemagne-timbre-poste-1915/) [A diadalmas magyar és bolgár seregek egyesülése Kladovónál (The Union of the Victorious Hungarian and Bulgarian Armies at Kladovo), bilingual postcard →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/muhlbeck-kladovo-hungarian-bulgarian-postcard-1915/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.