recruiting poster, Serve Proudly in the Naval Reserve
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20080017-001
- Event 1945-1989 Cold War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made 1950's
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Advertising medium
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1950/01/01
- Latest 1959/12/31
- Inscription SERVE PROUDLY IN THE NAVAL RESERVE; H.M.C.S
- Medium ink
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Royal Canadian Naval Reserve
- Measurements Height 96.4 cm, Width 70.8 cm
- Caption Naval Reserve Recruiting Poster
- Additional Information This undated recruiting poster for Canada's naval reserve was probably produced soon after the Second World War. The poster features a sailor with a cap tally marked "HMCS", for "His Majesty's Canadian Ship", with a backdrop of a ship's guns (left) and a destroyer on the horizon (centre right). Following the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR), which had supplied most of the navy's wartime personnel, and the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve were merged to form the Royal Canadian Navy (Reserve).