Surely You Will Fight for Your King and Country (Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No. 83)
A portrait of King George V sits above a red map of the British Isles, between the words 'Surely you will fight for your' and 'Come along, boys, before it is too late'. The tell for transfer is the pairing of the monarch's portrait and the national map with the enlistment appeal; the tell for bandwagon is 'Come along, boys', which frames enlisting as joining others.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1915
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London (printed by Jas. Truscott & Son, Ltd., Suffolk Lane, London)
- 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, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Asquith government
- Leader
- H. H. Asquith
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- UK work published c. 1914-1915; copyright expired (published before 1931); hosted by owner decision
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London; printed by Jas. Truscott & Son, Ltd., National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-410.
Text on the object
SURELY YOU WILL FIGHT FOR YOUR [portrait of King George V] AND COME ALONG, BOYS, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE [imprint:] PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, LONDON.-POSTER No. 83. PRINTED BY JAS. TRUSCOTT & SON, LTD., SUFFOLK LANE, LOND[ON]
