Salute the Soldier
A painted view from behind a helmeted sergeant shows an artillery crew loading a gun in a yellow haze, under the title 'Salute the Soldier'. The tell for transfer is the title: the respect owed to the gun crew is the frame in which the savings committees' request is meant to be read; a large blank area was left, apparently for local overprinting.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- National Savings Committee (London), Scottish Savings Committee and Ulster Savings Committee, printed for HMSO by Wm. Brown & Co., Ltd.
- 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
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- 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)
National Savings Committee; HMSO; printed by Wm. Brown & Co., Ltd., c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, World War II Foreign Posters (NAID 44267013).
Text on the object
SALUTE THE SOLDIER W.F.P. 339. Issued by the National Savings Committee, London; Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh; Ulster Savings Committee, Belfast Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Wm. Brown & Co., Ltd., London, E.C.3 51-4293
