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title: Blood Donors Wanted - Your Blood Can Save the Life of Someone...Somewhere
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-blood-donors-wanted-someone-somewhere-1939/
description: A photograph of a helmeted soldier smiling over a bandaged wounded man, with red lines running from his body to the words 'Your blood can save the life
section: Collection
---

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[![Blood Donors Wanted - Your Blood Can Save the Life of Someone...Somewhere, 1939 UK poster: A photograph of a helmeted soldier](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-blood-donors-wanted-someone-somewhere-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-blood-donors-wanted-someone-somewhere-1939.jpg)

# Blood Donors Wanted - Your Blood Can Save the Life of Someone...Somewhere

A photograph of a helmeted soldier smiling over a bandaged wounded man, with red lines running from his body to the words 'Your blood can save the life of someone... somewhere'. The tell for identity-fusion is the underlined 'Your' and the lines that tie the reader's own body to an unnamed soldier.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Blood donors wanted

Your blood can save the
life of someone...
...somewhere

ENROL IN THE EMERGENCY BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE

ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY FORD, SHAPLAND LTD. LONDON E.C. 51-3785
```

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