National Savings Strengthen Every Fighting Front. Save through the Post Office Savings Bank
Two yellow-and-blue globes, one showing the Atlantic, Europe, Africa and the Americas and the other Asia, the Pacific and Australia, sit under the headline 'National Savings Strengthen Every Fighting Front', with 'Save through the Post Office Savings Bank' below. The virtue word 'strengthen' and the world-wide map link a household bank deposit to every theatre of war without saying what the money buys.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Post Office Savings Bank / National Savings movement (UK government); artist not stated
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, 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
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
Post Office Savings Bank / National Savings (UK), c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters.
Text on the object
NATIONAL SAVINGS STRENGTHEN EVERY FIGHTING FRONT SAVE THROUGH THE POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK P.B. 58
