Enlisting Collection

Remember Belgium Poster
A WWI recruitment poster stirring memories of the horrors of the German invasion of Belgium to encourage young men to enlist in the armed forces

Advertisement, Carters Little Liver Pills, WW1
Advertisement, Carters Little Liver Pills for Active Service, showing a man undergoing an army medical examination during the early stages of the First World War. Date: 1914

British Army recruitment poster
Recruitment poster for the British Army. A smiling man in uniform asks: Have you a relation or friend serving?

WW2 British Forces Enlistment Queue And Refugees
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows a boy scout presenting us with a queue of civilians lining up to serve the British forces by enlisting

WW2, The Blue-Eyed Cat Enlists Some Hares
A WW2 childrens book illustration from The Blue-Eyed Cat. The image portrays Tom the cat, wearing military uniform, enlisting some hares to help him catch some mice. Date: circa 1945

WW2, The Blue-Eyed Cat Enlists A Cow
A WW2 childrens book illustration from The Blue-Eyed Cat. The image portrays Tom the cat, wearing military uniform, enlisting a cow to help him catch a mouse. Date: circa 1945

Woman enlisting in Women's Battalion, Russia, WW1
Woman on her way to enlist in the Women's Battalion of Death, Russia, to fight alongside the men during the First World War

Women's Battalion of Death, Russia, WW1
Women who have enlisted in the Women's Battalion of Death, Russia, to fight alongside the men during the First World War

Women enlisting in Women's Battalion, Russia, WW1
Women enlisting in the Women's Battalion of Death, Russia, to fight alongside the men during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Volunteers for British Army during the Boer War
A batch of potential recruits drawn up in front of the recruiting Depot at St Georges Barracks, London. Photograph showing the average representation of the youth of the British Nation

WW1 poster, I Want You for the Navy - promotion for anyone enlisting, apply any recruiting station or postmaster. Date: 1917

Recruits queueing up to enlist, WW1
Recruits queueing up to enlist at the start of the First World War. 1914

British recruitment poster, WW1
British recruitment poster, First World War -- Have you a reason, or only an excuse, for not enlisting NOW! 1914-1918

Calendar, December 1914, WW1
Calendar, December 1914 -- Enlisting, First World War. By Hermann-Paul. 1914-1915

Enrolling the City of London volunteers on New Years day, at the Guildhall for service in South Africa. Date: January 1900

Taking the Oath to join the British Army 1901
British military oath taken in front of a magistrate, during the Second Boer War. Date: 1901

WWI Poster, Have you a reason or only an excuse?
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Which? Have you a reason or only an excuse for not enlisting? Now! Date: 1915

Kitchener Quote Poster
A recruitment poster featuring a portrait of Lord Kitchener alongside a quote from a speech he gave at the Guildhall in July, 1915 stressing the Call of Duty

WWI Poster, Help to end the War
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Help to end the War by enlisting in the gallant British Army, which is fighting Britains Battle for Freedom. Date: 1915

Cornishmen at the Central Recruiting Office, WW1
Scenes outside the Central Recruiting Office in Whitehall where around 200 Cornish men had travelled to London in order to enlist under the Derby Scheme in 1915

Enlisting / Comic Postcard
A comic postcard on the subject of recruitment; the boys in uniform seem to have much more luck with the girls! Date: 1914

How Big Bill Answered the Call by H. M. Bateman, WW1
An American cowboy hears that the USA has entered the war and gallops off on his horse to enlist, encountering unbelievable obstacles on the way including killer eagles

WW1 - Recruitment Advertisement
WW1 - " A Call from the Trenches." - The quoted extract from a letter from the trenches is used as a personal, and persuasive language tool

Six brothers fighting in France for Great Britain, Crisps
The six brothers Crisp, all fighting at the front. Three of them fought in the Boer War and were attached to various regiments - the R.F.A

WWI Poster, Questions to men who have not enlisted
4 Questions to men who have not enlisted... Enlist Today. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster, designed to shame men of fighting age into enlisting. Date: 1916

Bayonet display at a recruiting meeting, WW1
Two army officers engage in friendly combat in order to attract new recruits at a recruitment meeting in Trafalgar Square in December 1915. Date: 1915

A recruiter speaking on the plinth in Trafalgar Square, WW1
Sergeant Newsand, a constant speaker in Trafalgar Square in the cause of recruiting for the war, pictured in action in December 1915. Date: 1915

Recruitment during WW1
" Now, My Lad, You Can t Ignore that." Corporal Hall, the army ex-champion boxer gains a new recruit - a former tram conductor - by showing him a poster with a message from the King

Recruitment in the City of London, WW1
A recruiter and his capture in the City - a well-dressed young man willingly assents to the recruiting sergeants arguments in December 1915. Date: 1915

Service cards in a window in Arundel, WW1
Four cards representing the fact that four members of a household in Maltravers Street in Arundel had enlisted 1914. The Earl of Arundel had converted his ancestral castle into recruiting offices

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Help to end the War
Printed recruitment poster No 42: Help to end the War by enlisting in the gallant British Army, which is fighting Britains Battle For Freedom in Belgium & France

Enlisting in Kitcheners Army at the start of World War I
On 6th August 1914 the House of Commons unanimously sanctioned an increase of the Army by 500, 000 men and recruiting for the first 100, 000 men of Kitcheners army began on 7th August

Which. An Excuse - for Not Enlisting Now
Which have you a Reason - or only an Excuse - for Not Enlisting Now !. Poster

Just my D- - D Luck! 1915
Our B Hoys :- Put on Home Defence. 1915

City of London recruits, Tower of London, WW1
Young men answering the call to enlist at the start of the First World War. All of them employees of City firms, they were joining the City of London Battalion, consisting of 1300 men

Find the range of your patriotism by enlisting in the Navy. Poster showing soldiers firing a cannon as a plane flies over. Date 1918

The Amercian Revolution - A Call to Arms
A husband and eldest son get the call to aid the struggle against the British during the American Revolutionary War (American War of Independence - 1775-1783) and leap at the opportunity to enlist

British Army recruits receiving their pay, London, WW1
British Army recruits receiving their pay in St Martins Churchyard, Trafalgar Square, London at the beginning of the First World War. Date: August 1914

Kitcheners Army 1915
Men of Kitcheners Army, the new volunteer recruits enlisted at the request of Kitchener during World War I in 1915

British Army recruits waiting for pay, 1914
British Army recruits waiting for pay in St. Martins Churchyard, Trafalgar Square, London during World War I in August 1914

Home Guard Call up, World War I
Home Guard Call up, London, at the beginning of World War I in 1914

Enlisting for War
Enlisting for Charles XIIs rash war with Russia : though initially successful, he will ultimately be decisively defeated at Poltowa in 1709

If you Don t Go
If you don t go, we must... In Londons Trafalgar Square patriotic British girls parade as soldiers, to shame any cowardly men who shrink from enlisting in WW1

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