What to Do if National Insurance Cards or Books are Destroyed in an Air Raid
A text-only notice in red and brown tells workers where to ask and employers whom to apply to if their insurance cards are lost in an air raid. The phrase 'destroyed in an air raid' states the bombing plainly and the poster otherwise gives instructions only.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Health (printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Security and surveillance
- 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)
Ministry of Health; printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd, 1942. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
WHAT TO DO IF NATIONAL INSURANCE CARDS OR BOOKS ARE DESTROYED IN AN AIR RAID WORKERS: Ask at the Information Centre, or ask the Insurance Inspector at the address given below. EMPLOYERS: Apply to the Insurance Inspector, Ministry of Health Issued by the Ministry of Health (F.940). Wt. 9950. 7,000. 4.42. Gp. 961. F. & C., Ltd.
