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title: Come Then Let Us to the Task, to the Battle & the Toil
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-come-then-let-us-to-the-task-churchill-1941/
description: 'A ruled and nautical-ornamented border frames red and black type: a quotation from the Prime Minister listing tasks for everyone (''Fill the Armies.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Come Then Let Us to the Task, to the Battle & the Toil, 1941 UK poster: A ruled and nautical-ornamented border frames red](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-come-then-let-us-to-the-task-churchill-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-come-then-let-us-to-the-task-churchill-1941.jpg)

# Come Then Let Us to the Task, to the Battle & the Toil

A ruled and nautical-ornamented border frames red and black type: a quotation from the Prime Minister listing tasks for everyone ('Fill the Armies, Rule the Air, Pour out the Munitions...') and the line 'There is not a week, nor a day, nor an hour to be lost.' The tell for testimonial is the named office-holder as the warrant, and for identity-fusion the 'each to our part' and 'all parts of the Empire' framing that makes the listener one of a single team.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
COME THEN
LET US TO THE TASK
TO THE BATTLE & THE TOIL
Each to Our Part  Each to Our Station, Fill the Armies, Rule the Air, Pour out the Munitions, Strangle the U-boats, Sweep the Mines, Plough the Land, Build the Ships, Guard the Streets, Succour the Wounded, Uplift the Downcast & Honour the Brave.
Let us go forward together in all parts of the Empire, in all parts of this Island. There is not a week, nor a day, nor an hour to be lost.
Mr. Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister.
[imprint:] (F29) 9097-6,250. Gp. 959. 4/41. Printed in England by Fosh & Cross Ltd.
```

[← Winston Churchill \[2\]: "I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate" (text and crossed flags)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-churchill-i-avow-my-hope-and-faith-bis-text-1941/) [Danger From Lyctus Beetle: Hardwoods Make War Weapons (Ministry of Supply No. 105) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-danger-from-lyctus-beetle-1941/)

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