Calling You - Signals Rely on You
A signaller in a steel helmet speaks into a field telephone under four panels of aircraft, tanks, artillery and infantry in action. The headline and slogan 'Calling You / Signals Rely on You' tie the individual operator's role to the whole battle, the tell for identity-fusion.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Publicity Department, Central Ordnance Depot, Greenford (British Army)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- 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)
Publicity Department, Central Ordnance Depot, Greenford, c. 1939-1945. NARA, WWII Foreign Posters.
Text on the object
CALLING YOU SIGNALS RELY ON YOU Produced by PUBLICITY DEPT., CENTRAL ORDNANCE DEPOT, GREENFORD.
