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title: Women! You are Needed in the National Fire Service
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-women-you-are-needed-in-the-national-fire-service-1941/
description: A stylised head of a woman in a steel helmet with an NFS badge fills the poster under the direct address 'Women!
section: Collection
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[![Women! You are Needed in the National Fire Service, 1941 UK poster: A stylised head of a woman in a steel helmet with an NFS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-women-you-are-needed-in-the-national-fire-service-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-women-you-are-needed-in-the-national-fire-service-1941.jpg)

# Women! You are Needed in the National Fire Service

A stylised head of a woman in a steel helmet with an NFS badge fills the poster under the direct address 'Women! You are needed in the National Fire Service'. The headline addresses women as a group and tells them the service needs them, and the small print lists practical roles (telephonist, despatch rider, driver, canteen worker) and where to apply.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Women! You are needed in
THE NATIONAL
FIRE SERVICE
AS FULL-TIME OR PART-TIME MEMBERS
You can train to be a telephonist, despatch rider,
driver, canteen worker and for many other duties.
APPLY FOR PARTICULARS TO NEAREST FIRE STATION OR EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Geo. Gibbons Ltd. 51-2219
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
```

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