Britain's Schoolgirls are Training Now for Wartime Duties (For Freedom series, F.D./F.8)
Photographs show girls in uniform at an anti-aircraft gun with a soldier, a saluting girl, and women finishing a nursing course, under the title on girls' wartime training. The tell for transfer is the Union Jack device and 'For Freedom' label with the salute and uniforms, and for glittering-generalities the claim that girls are 'enthusiastically supported' and 'anxious to train', which asserts attitude without evidence.
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
- War and the military, Gender and suffrage
- 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-561e.
Text on the object
F.D./F.8 Girls inspect an Anti-Aircraft Gun British schoolgirls train for war nursing. FOR FREEDOM BRITAIN'S SCHOOLGIRLS ARE TRAINING NOW FOR WARTIME DUTIES VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS such as the National Girls' Training Corps and Girl Guides are enthusiastically supported by British girls who are anxious to train as early as possible for the job they want to do in the war. In the bottom picture, British schoolgirls are seen finishing a training course for nurses—one of the most important of all women's war duties. Britain's youth is playing a great part in the record mobilisation of Britain's manpower.
