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title: We're Both Needed to Serve the Guns! Fill Up the Ranks! Pile Up the Munitions!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-were-both-needed-to-serve-the-guns-1915/
description: A soldier with rifle and pack shakes hands with a bare-armed factory worker; a field-gun crew fires behind the soldier and chimneys smoke behind
section: Collection
---

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[![We're Both Needed to Serve the Guns! Fill Up the Ranks! Pile Up the Munitions!, 1915 UK poster: A soldier with rifle and pack](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-were-both-needed-to-serve-the-guns-1915.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-were-both-needed-to-serve-the-guns-1915.jpg)

# We're Both Needed to Serve the Guns! Fill Up the Ranks! Pile Up the Munitions!

A soldier with rifle and pack shakes hands with a bare-armed factory worker; a field-gun crew fires behind the soldier and chimneys smoke behind the worker, under 'We're both needed to serve the Guns!'. The tell is the handshake: the soldier's service is presented as shared with the munitions worker, so the call to enlist and the call to produce are fused in one image.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
We're both needed to serve the Guns!

FILL UP THE RANKS!
PILE UP THE MUNITIONS!

[imprint:] PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, LONDON.-POSTER No. 85c.   PRINTED BY CHORLEY & PICKERSGILL LTD. LEEDS AND LONDON
```

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