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).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- New Zealand Army Department (publisher), printed by Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, Wellington
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Oceania
- Country
- New Zealand
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Savage Government
- Leader
- Michael Joseph Savage
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 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.
