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title: 'The "Spirit of Anzac" Calls You: Enlist Now for Overseas Service (Second N.Z. Expeditionary Force)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/spirit-of-anzac-calls-you-nz-1939/
description: A large grey-and-orange head of a First World War soldier in a lemon-squeezer hat looms over a striding Second World War infantryman with fixed bayonet…
section: Collection
---

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# The "Spirit of Anzac" Calls You: Enlist Now for Overseas Service (Second N.Z. Expeditionary Force)

A large grey-and-orange head of a First World War soldier in a lemon-squeezer hat looms over a striding Second World War infantryman with fixed bayonet, under the words 'The Spirit of Anzac Calls You' and 'Enlist Now for Overseas Service'. The prestige of the 1915 Anzac soldier is pasted onto the new enlistment, so that joining the Second N.Z. Expeditionary Force reads as inheriting the legend (transfer).

- **Date:** 1939
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** New Zealand Army Department (publisher), printed by Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, Wellington
- **Region:** [Oceania](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=oceania)
- **Country:** [New Zealand](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=new-zealand)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=military)
- **Regime:** [Savage Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=savage-government)
- **Leader:** [Michael Joseph Savage](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=michael-joseph-savage)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Recruit](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=recruit)
- **Theme:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa](https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/780935), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Te Papa rights statement 'No Known Copyright Restrictions'; NZ Crown publication, 1939-40 New Zealand Army Department; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. Late 1939 / early 1940. Te Papa, GH015835, purchased 2007.

## Text on the object

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

```
SECOND N.Z.
EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

The "Spirit of Anzac"
CALLS YOU

ENLIST NOW
FOR OVERSEAS SERVICE
APPLY AT NEAREST DEFENCE OFFICE

W. & T. LTD.
```

[← Suomen armeijan sotilaat! (Soldiers of the Finnish Army!): Soviet leaflet signed by named Finnish prisoners](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-suomen-armeijan-sotilaat-1939/) [Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-courage-your-cheerfulness-1939/)

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- [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer)
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- [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
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- [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer)
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