Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades
A large inverted face with concentric rings radiating from its mouth, and a red spiral ending as a bayonet, pierces three silhouetted soldiers below. The headline states the consequence of careless speech as death to comrades, staging the harm as imminent without giving any rate of loss.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Information (HMSO imprint, P.R. No. 53); artist Abram Games; printed by James Upton Ltd.
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- 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)
His Majesty's Stationery Office; artist Abram Games; James Upton Ltd., c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
YOUR TALK MAY KILL YOUR COMRADES A. GAMES. PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY JAMES UPTON LTD., BIRMINGHAM & LONDON 51-4059 P.R. No. 53
