Military Recruitment Poster

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Date:1915

Description:A recruitment poster listing the rights and duties of citizenship and appealing for men to enlist. The text reads 'Rights Of / Citizenship / Your Rights / ... / Your Duty Is To Fight The / Common Foe And To Get Your / Comrades To Join In.

Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London, Poster No.144 and printed by David Allen And Sons Ltd., Harrow, Middlesex.

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 : M3571.1991.42 (71/21382)

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