Will You Give a Helping Hand Too?
A handwritten letter from an evacuated mother says the baby is doing splendidly and that she is happy, and a photograph of a smiling woman holding an infant overlaps the page. The appeal for householders to offer billets rests on this first-person account of good treatment, and the page of the letter breaks off mid-sentence (testimonial).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Health (issuer), printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office by J. Weiner 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
- Recruit
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- 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)
Ministry of Health; printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office by J. Weiner Ltd, c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
Will you give a helping hand too? and baby is going along splendidly. I know you'll be glad to hear that I'm very happy here, everything is being done to make us feel at home, and now they're trying to organize a club for Your help is wanted. See your local billeting officer NOW! ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH [printer's line:] Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by J. Weiner Ltd., London, W.C.1. [illegible]
