Your Country Needs You by James Taylor

Author:James Taylor [James Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908643117
Publisher: Saraband
Published: 2013-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

‘There’s Room For You’ (LoC)

The article also revealed that ‘Natives of Holland and other neutral States on the Continent have asked for copies of posters, and there have been applications from France and Russia. From the United States also numerous letters have been received, and from many parts of the British empire have emanated requests for supplies – from Canada, Newfoundland, British Colombia, India, Australasia, and South Africa, and from others of the Colonies, and an exceedingly interesting fact is that specific illustrations have found their way to the Australian camp under the shadow of the Pyramids in Egypt. What more convincing proof could be wished of the world-wide influence of this remarkable poster campaign?’

The PRC proudly boasted that ‘the work was not by any means confined to the Mother country. From all parts of the Empire and from various neutral countries came requests for supplies [of posters]… it is a fair assumption that there is hardly a civilised part of the globe to which our publications have not found their way. In Canada and in Australia [they have made] important use of our posters and pamphlets… aiding the Recruitment Movement… and many tons of them have been shipped across the Atlantic in the last few months.’36

However, the protracted war on several fronts had required increasing numbers of manpower (let’s not forget the womanpower needed in many other spheres of operation too), and by the end of summer 1915 the introduction of conscription was viewed by many as inevitable. Rather than disband the machinery of the PRC, it was later transformed into the Parliamentary War Savings Committee.

Irish recruitment poster (Priv.)

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