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.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1915
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (United Kingdom)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Asquith Government
- Leader
- Herbert Henry Asquith
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Asquith government
- Leader
- H. H. Asquith
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons), 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].
