Farmers All Over the Country Need All the Help Available to Gather This Year's Vital Harvest - Free Ships for the Second Front
A photograph of men and women stooking sheaves in a field is framed as a window in a brick wall, above the line 'Farmers all over the country need all the help available to gather this year's vital harvest'. The slogan 'Free ships for the Second Front' ties farm labour to shipping space and the coming invasion, which is the transfer tell.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Henry Hildesley Ltd; artist Beverley Pick (issuing ministry not named in legible imprint)
- 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
- Home front, Labor, Economy and finance
- 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)
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Henry Hildesley Ltd. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), World War II Foreign Posters, local identifier 44-PF-197a.
Text on the object
BEVERLEY PICK Farmers all over the country need all the help available to gather this year's vital harvest FREE SHIPS FOR THE SECOND FRONT
