wartime recruiting poster, HEROES OF ST JULIEN AND FESTUBERT
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19750046-010
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Gazette Printing Co Ltd.
- Date Made 1916
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Advertising medium
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1916/01/01
- Latest 1916/12/31
- Inscription HEROES OF ST. JULIEN; AND FESTUBERT; Here's to the Soldier who bled; To the Sailor that bravely did fa!; Their fame is alive, though their spirits have fled; On the wings of the Year that's awa!; SHALL WE FOLLOW THEIR EAMPLE? APPLY AT RECRUITING STATION; Printed by GAZETTE PRINTING CO. LIMITED, Montreal, Canada
- Medium ink
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Measurements Height 92.5 cm, Width 62.5 cm
- Related activity Recruiting
- Caption Recruitment Poster
- Additional Information Posters such as this asked young men to enlist to honour those who had already fought and died.
- Caption Heroes of St. Julien and Festubert
- Additional Information This is the English version of a Canadian recruitment poster. Produced in both French and English, it was meant to encourage recruitment by highlighting the Canadians' heroic stand at the battles of St. Julien (Ypres) and Festubert.