Have You Any Women-Folk Worth Defending? Remember the Women of Belgium. Join To-Day
A young woman in a green shawl looks out from a white circle under the question 'Have you any women-folk worth defending?' The words 'Remember the women of Belgium' point to the 1915 reports of violence against Belgian women, never shown, and 'Join to-day' is offered as the only answer to a threat moved onto the viewer's own family.
- Date
- 1915
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Recruiting poster for Ireland (sponsor not named on the poster); printed by Hely's Limited, Dublin
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Asquith Government
- Leader
- Herbert Henry Asquith
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in the U.S. (published before 1931)
1915. Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-10992.
Text on the object
Have You any women-folk worth defending? Remember the Women of Belgium JOIN TO-DAY Hely's Limited, Litho Dublin. P661.
