British Troops in Battle Manoeuvres (For Freedom series, E.B.6)
A photograph shows infantry climbing a slope beside Bren gun carriers, with a shell burst behind them, over a short caption on realistic training. The tell for transfer is the Union Jack device and the 'For Freedom' label beneath a battlefield image, which attach the national flag and a cause to a training exercise; the caption itself is informational.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- 'For Freedom' series poster (Union Jack device); issuing body not named on the poster
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; wartime British government-period print, hosted by owner decision
Issuer not named on the poster; British wartime poster. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-172a.
Text on the object
E.B.6 BRITISH TROOPS IN BATTLE MANŒUVRES FOR FREEDOM THE TRAINING OF BRITISH TROOPS is as tough and realistic as possible. Here we see infantry and Bren gun carriers of the Royal Berkshire Regiment carrying out an advance under fire. Exercises such as these help to accustom troops to battlefield conditions.
