Football Battalion Recruitment Poster

This stunning remastered A3 print of the iconic recruitment poster for the 17th (Service) Battalion, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment), the famous Footballers’ Battalion, is now available priced £10 with free postage on the Football and the First World War Buy Me a Coffee page. Raised in December 1914, the battalion was at the forefront of […]

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Recruitment Posters in World War One

RECRUITMENT POSTERS Recruitment and propaganda posters were of huge importance to the way in which was fought during the First World War. The Parliamentary Recruitment Committee, chaired by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, was created at the start of the War and would go on to commission more than one hundred poster designs, of which over […]

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