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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Health (Emergency Blood Transfusion Service), printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Ford, Shapland Ltd
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Health, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
Ministry of Health; printed by Ford, Shapland Ltd for H.M. Stationery Office, 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, WWII Foreign Posters (44-PF-107).
Text on the object
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
