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Spend Your Holidays on the Land - With Pay! At a Volunteer Agricultural Camp, 1939 UK poster: An all-text poster in red

Spend Your Holidays on the Land - With Pay! At a Volunteer Agricultural Camp

An all-text poster in red, cream and black lists the attractions of a volunteer farm-work holiday: pay, half fares, free evenings, meals and beds. It states a camp fee of 4s a day and pay of 1s an hour for men and 10d for women, then closes 'Every hour you give to food production is an hour nearer victory!'. The benefits are listed prominently while the work itself is not described.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Card stacking
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Volunteer Agricultural Camps (Home Counties), printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd, London
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
Event
World War II
Regime
Churchill wartime government
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)
Volunteer Agricultural Camps (Home Counties); printed by Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd for HMSO, c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives (NAID 44267075, 44-PF-398b).

Text on the object

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

SPEND YOUR HOLIDAYS
ON THE LAND - WITH PAY!

AT A
VOLUNTEER
AGRICULTURAL CAMP
(HOME COUNTIES)

CAMP FEES 4/- A DAY · 4 Days Minimum Stay

PAY (when employed)
AT THE RATE OF
1/- AN HOUR FOR MEN...
10d AN HOUR FOR WOMEN

HALF-FARES PAID
THERE AND BACK

EVERY EVENING
FREE

ENTERTAINMENT
AND RECREATION
FACILITIES

GOOD SUBSTANTIAL MEALS

COMFORTABLE BEDS

26 HOME COUNTIES
CAMPS TO
CHOOSE FROM

For full particulars apply to the Principal Organiser, Volunteer Agricultural Camps (Home Counties), 'Cannon Croft', Eastcote Road, Pinner, Middlesex.

EVERY HOUR YOU GIVE TO FOOD PRODUCTION
IS AN HOUR NEARER VICTORY!

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