![Byddwch yn Gefn i'r Arfogion [Back the Forces], 1939 UK poster: A painted trio of an airman, a soldier in a steel helmet](../images/uk-byddwch-yn-gefn-ir-arfogion-welsh-1939.jpg)
Byddwch yn Gefn i'r Arfogion [Back the Forces] (British poster in Welsh)
A painted trio of an airman, a soldier in a steel helmet and a sailor with an 'H.M.S.' cap tally looks up and out against a green ground, above a Welsh headline in red capitals. The idealised, heroic portraits carry the transfer tell: admiration for the services is attached to the request in the headline.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- H.M. Stationery Office (British government); artist Mackinlay; printer Charles & Read Ltd., London
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
H.M. Stationery Office (British government), Great Britain, 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
BYDDWCH YN GEFN I'R ARFOGION [signature in the painting:] MACKINLAY PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY CHARLES & READ LTD. LONDON W.C.2. 51-[illegible]
BE A BACKING TO THE ARMED FORCES [i.e. Back the Forces] [signature in the painting:] MACKINLAY PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY CHARLES & READ LTD. LONDON W.C.2. 51-[illegible]
