'Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us victory' (British Ministry of Information poster)
Gold capitals on red under a Tudor crown read 'Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us victory', with 'YOUR' underlined each time. Three virtue words stand in for any plan, and the crown lends the state's authority to the claim.
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- UK Ministry of Information
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Chamberlain Government
- Leader
- Neville Chamberlain
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright expired; PD-UKGov per Wikimedia Commons)
UK Ministry of Information. Photograph of a poster via Wikimedia Commons (File:Yourcourageposter.jpg).
Text on the object
[Tudor crown] YOUR COURAGE YOUR CHEERFULNESS YOUR RESOLUTION WILL BRING US VICTORY [the word YOUR is underlined in each of the first three lines]
Read from the committed image.
