Date:1915
Description:A colour lithographic poster appealing for recruits. The poster has a print of a soldier set against a country village background. The text reads 'Your Country's Call/ Isn't This Worth Fighting For?/ Enlist Now'.
Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London, Poster No. 87 and printed by Jowett & Sowry, Leeds.
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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