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title: You can bet your boots on him!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-you-can-bet-your-boots-on-him-1939/
description: A close photograph shows a helmeted soldier in a sleeveless shirt checking his bare foot beside a pair of worn boots on sand.
section: Collection
---

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[![You can bet your boots on him!, 1939 UK poster: A close photograph shows a helmeted soldier in a sleeveless shirt checking](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-you-can-bet-your-boots-on-him-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-you-can-bet-your-boots-on-him-1939.jpg)

# You can bet your boots on him!

A close photograph shows a helmeted soldier in a sleeveless shirt checking his bare foot beside a pair of worn boots on sand. The text says fighting men have daily foot inspection and that 'our boots must keep them in marching trim', moving the soldier's hardship onto the people who make and supply boots.

## 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

```
You can
BET YOUR BOOTS
on him!

BRITAIN'S FIGHTING MEN
HAVE DAILY FOOT INSPECTION.
OUR BOOTS MUST KEEP THEM
IN MARCHING TRIM

MINISTRY OF SUPPLY No 72
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY MULTI MACHINE PLATES LTD. LONDON E.C.4  S1-93
```

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