Date:1915
Description:A recruitment poster with a colour lithograph print of a sea battle. The text reads 'England Expects / Are You Doing Your Duty Today?'
Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London, Poster No.101 and printed by Seargeant Bros Ltd.
These posters are part of the Derby Scheme of recruitment during World War One. By 1915 numbers of recruits were falling and Edward Stanley (Lord Derby) introduced a scheme of voluntary enlistment in the winter of the same year. Under the scheme, men aged 18 to 40 could continue to volunteer, or they could ‘attest’ – this meant they did not have to fight straight away but could be ‘called up’ at any time. Men who registered under the scheme were grouped according to age and marital status with young single men being chosen to fight before older married men. The scheme was dropped in 1916 when the Military Service Act introduced conscription, compulsory enlistment into the armed forces.
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Donor ref: LEAMG : M3571.1991.54 (71/21394)
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