Recruitment Poster
This hand painted World War One recruitment poster is part of the collections at Bury Art Museum. It was destined to be posted around the town of Bury to encourage young men to sign up to the 'Comrades' Battery of Artillery for Bury and Rochdale, luckily or whatever reason it wasn't posted on a billboard and so survived.
Recruitment Poster
Recruitment and Conscription
Official document
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This World War One recruitment poster is part of the collections at Bury Art Museum. It was meant to have been posted on a billboard in the town to encourage young men to sign up, but for reasons unknown it wasn't posted and survives today.
Bury
CONTRIBUTOR
Bury Art Museum
DATE
-
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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