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
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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Printed for His Majesty's 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
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- 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)
Printed for HMSO by Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd. UK government poster, c. 1939-1945. US National Archives (NAID 44267281, 44-PF-478).
Text on the object
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
