Recruit Collection (page 3)

WW1 recruitment poster with silhouette
World War One recruitment poster with silhouette -- The Thin Khaki Line Keeps the Fate of Belgium from Your Hearth and Home, Get into Khaki Now! Showing a determined soldier with a bayoneted rifle

National Service 1947
Eighteen-year-old R.A.S.C. National Service recruit Tony Boxall. Date: 1947

Poster, More Men and Still More until the Enemy is Crushed -- a quotation from Lord Kitchener. Showing a soldier blowing a bugle. circa 1914-1915

Poster, Why Aren t You in Khaki? You ll Be Wanted. Enlist At Once. A poster designed to shame people (especially men) into joining one of the wartime services. circa 1914-1915

Poster, Lend Your Strong Right Arm to your Country, Enlist Now. circa 1915

Poster, Offer Your Services Now, Our Brave Soldiers at the Front Need Your Help. Recruitment for the First World War. circa 1914-1915

German recruitment poster designed by Lucian Zabel: Pioniere heraus! A German soldier carries a shovel, pickaxe and rifle, prepared for every eventuality

Queen Marys Army Aux
A poster encouraging women to enrol in Queen Marys Army Auxiliary Corps

Devil Marks Recruit
The Devil puts his mark on a new recruit

The Young Recruit / Going to the War
THE YOUNG RECRUIT / Going to the War.One of two coloured lithograph vignettes, after Wagner, 1855.Shows a young recruit taking leave of his family

5th Royal Irish, Aldershot, August 1907
Photograph of recruits at musketry.From a printed booklet containing 17 photographs, 1907. Date: 1907

The Army Recruits Farewell Departure. circa 1840s

Music cover, For KIng & Country, by J Ord Hume, WW1
Music cover, For KIng & Country, a descriptive Grand Military Fantasia selected and arranged by J Ord Hume, during the First World War. 1915

New police recruits bathing outdoors, Germany
New police recruits bathing outdoors, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

World War I. Poster for recruitment and war bonds. Deutsches
World War I. Poster for recruitment and war bonds. I want you for Usa Army 1917 by James Montgomery Flagg. Sure! We ll finish the job. 1918 by Gerrit Albertus Beneker. For home and country

War in Egypt. The emissaries of Arabi Pasha recruiting soldiers among the tribes to fight against the British. In the background Temple of Horus at Edfu. Colored engraving from 1882

The Recruits Departure - Off to War. circa early 19th century

Policewomen recruits measured for height, London
Policewomen recruits in civilian clothes being measured for height by a woman police officer (possibly Inspector Alice B Clayden). Another woman police officer watches from behind a desk

Women recruits for police jobs lined up
Women recruits for jobs with the Metropolitan Police in London lined up in uniform wearing armbands with the initial WPSR (probably standing for Women Police Service Recruit). Date: circa late 1910s

Sub-Inspector Barnett with women applicants
Sub-Inspector Barnett at Metropolitan Police headquarters, receiving applications from women to work for the London police force. Date: circa late 1910s

Women applicants for police jobs lined up
Women applicants for jobs with the Metropolitan Police in London lined up, some of them already in uniform. Date: circa late 1910s

WW1 recruitment: employers encourage servants to enlist, 1915
" 5 questions to those who employ male servant" s: an advertisement intended to encourage employers to get their servants to enlist during World War One. Date: 1915

WW1 - Recruitment Day - Lord Derbys Group System
WW1 - Recruits in batches at Camberwell, London as they volunteer to join the army under Lord Derbys group system. The volunteers in this recruitment office raise their arms as they make an oath to

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

WW1 - German Recruitment Day, 1914
WW1 - German volunteers follow a German Officer through the gates where the men will continue and complete the recruitment procedure. The event is watched and guarded by other German Officers

WW1 - Lord Derbys Recruitment Drive - November 17th 1915
WW1 - Derbys Day - A cartoon, or satorical print from the magazine Punch on the subject of recruitment for the army, during the First World War

Interwar Period Recruiting poster
Interwar Period Recruiting - Stock poster circa 1930 - 89 x 63 cm Date: circa 1930

WW1 - Army Recruiting poster
Pre WW1 Army Recruiting poster circa 1903 Date: circa 1903

WW1 - Letter form the King recruiting poster
To My People, letter form the King recruiting poster circa 1914 Date: circa 1914

WW1 - Yiddish Recruiting poster
Yiddish recruiting poster circa 1916 Date: circa 1916

New boy scouts in Sierra Leone, West Africa
Newly recruited boy scouts (known as tenderfeet) in a field in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: 20th century

WWI Poster, Each recruit brings peace nearer
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Each recruit brings peace nearer. With Allied flags on either side. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, If you cannot join the Army
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, If you cannot join the Army, try and get a Recruit. 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

NFS recruiting van at Olympia
A National Fire Service recruiting van at Olympia, West London, 14 February 1946, possibly aiming to recruit soldiers returning from the war and visiting to the RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps)

New LFB recruit being measured for uniform
A new LFB recruit being measured for his uniform

New LFB recruit being kitted out with uniform
A new LFB recruit being kitted out with his uniform

LCC-London Fire Brigade training in use of telephone
LCC-London Fire Brigade training recruits in taking messages over the telephone, at Lambeth HQ

LCC-London Fire Brigade recruits undergoing examination in pump drill, connecting a pump to a hydrant

Dinapore (Danapur) Wolf Cubs, India
Dinapore (Danapur) Wolf Cubs in embryo, India

The compleat Angler (Derby Scheme)
Caricature of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith attempting to catch fish, representing men of age able to fight in WW1. The fish in the net represent married men who had already volunteered (attested)

Bystander cover-Derby scheme
An illustration showing the number of men attested in 1916 for the volunteer (Derby) scheme to encourage military recruitment

Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster
Each recruit brings Peace nearer. Poster No. 86, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Printed by Andrew Reid & Co. 50 Grey Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. English School

Beaten Up Raw by H. M. Bateman, new recruits by WW1
Humorous illustration showing two raw recruits, just out of the egg, looking a little dishevelled as they consider crossing the road. Date: 1914

Johnny Get Your Gun by Frank Reynolds, outbreak of WW1
Illustration by Frank Reynolds showing a young man in tennis whites smoking a cigarette hesitating while the rest of the country rush to the colours at the outbreak of the First World War

French soldiers - an old hand and new recruit by Georges Sco
Piou-Piou the veteran and Piou-Piou the recruit: Tips from the Lips of Experience. An old, experienced hand takes a new recruit under his wing in the French trenches. Date: 1915

Patriotic tableau at the Alhambra, Defenders of Europe WW1
A scene from the patriotic revue, Not Likely, at the Alhambra theatre in Leicester Square, showing the Defenders of Europe, - Russia (Madge Thorpe), Britannia (Hilda Dick)

Recruit undergoing heart tests, WW1
Testing a new recruit whose heart conditions the Army authorities are doubtful about. Rather worryingly, the photograph shows the man sitting with one bare foot

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