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title: Remember Belgium — Enlist To-Day
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remember-belgium-1915/
description: A defiant British soldier stands between the viewer and a woman and child fleeing a burning village, invoking the 1914 invasion and occupation of Belgium.
section: Collection
---

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[![Remember Belgium — Enlist To-Day](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/remember-belgium-1915.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/remember-belgium-1915.jpg)

# Remember Belgium — Enlist To-Day

A defiant British soldier stands between the viewer and a woman and child fleeing a burning village, invoking the 1914 invasion and occupation of Belgium. The atrocity is real and documented, but the poster compresses it into a single silhouette so 'enlist' reads as the only possible response.

- **Date:** 1915
- **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi)
- **Made by:** Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (United Kingdom)
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [United Kingdom](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-kingdom)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Asquith Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=asquith-government)
- **Leader:** [Herbert Henry Asquith](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=herbert-henry-asquith)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Recruit](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=recruit)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front)
- **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i)
- **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remember_Belgium-Enlist_to-day_LCCN2003662916.jpg), retrieved September 25, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published before 1923) Henry Jenkinson Ltd., Kirkstall, Leeds, 1915. Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-11071.

## Text on the object

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

```
REMEMBER BELGIUM

ENLIST TO-DAY

Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London. Poster No. 19.

[illegible — small printer's line, bottom right] Henry Jenkinson, Ltd., Kirkstall, Leeds
```

The bottom-left publisher line ('Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London. Poster No. 19.') is legible; a printer's job-number code preceding 'Henry Jenkinson, Ltd., Kirkstall, Leeds' at bottom right is too small to read with confidence and is marked [illegible].

[← "Porte timbre de guerre des Alliés" poster stamp (Allied powers, 1914-1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/porte-timbre-de-guerre-des-allies-1915/) [Winox anti-German poster stamps: Zeppelin, Edith Cavell, "Kultur", Lusitania (Britain, 1915) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/winox-anti-german-poster-stamps-1915/)

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