Help British Guiana to Work for Victory
A painting of three shirtless men working a drilling rig, captioned 'Oil-drilling crew', above the line 'Help British Guiana to work for Victory'. The tell is the virtue word 'Victory' standing in for any stated task or measure, with colonial labour presented as a contribution to the war effort.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Government printing imprint 'G.P.D. 365/38/17' (issuing body not named; British Guiana or UK government); artist Nunney
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Empire and colonialism, 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
- UK Crown copyright, published 1939-1945, expired; held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Government printing imprint G.P.D. 365/38/17; artist Nunney. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-211.
Text on the object
Oil-drilling crew Help British Guiana to work for VICTORY [signature:] NUNNEY [imprint:] G.P.D. 365/38/17
