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title: Together
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-together-empire-forces-1939/
description: Eight uniformed men of Empire and Commonwealth forces, including a Royal Air Force Canada patch, an H.M.S. Victory cap tribute and Indian, African.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Painted British wartime image of Empire and Commonwealth personnel, in the period's illustrative style, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Together, 1939 UK poster: Eight uniformed men of Empire and Commonwealth forces, including a Royal Air Force Canada patch](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-together-empire-forces-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-together-empire-forces-1939.jpg)

# Together

Eight uniformed men of Empire and Commonwealth forces, including a Royal Air Force Canada patch, an H.M.S. Victory cap tribute and Indian, African, Australian and other dress, march rifles on shoulder before a Union flag. The single word 'TOGETHER' fuses the different peoples into one cause (identity-fusion) under a virtue-style slogan.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
TOGETHER
[cap tally:] H.M.S. VICTORY
[shoulder patch:] CANADA
MADE IN ENGLAND
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY LOWE & BRYDONE PRINTERS LTD., LONDON, N.W.10. 51-5176
```

[← Tighten Your Grip!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-tighten-your-grip-newbould-1939/) [Tribute to You - Beaufighter Bulletin No. 14 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-tribute-to-you-beaufighter-bulletin-14-1939/)

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