Army Recruitment Campaign
Q.1 Why was this poster published Britain in 1915?
This poster (source A) was produced in the Britain in 1915 because it needed people to join the army but it did not make people join the army in 1915 like several other countries so to get people to join the army it published posters that implied you were a coward if you did not like source A. Source A is a army recruitment poster that shows a John Bull standing in front of a row of soldiers saying “who’s absent? Is it you?” John Bull was a fictional fat British farmer. John Bull was made up as a rich British farmer telling people to join the army. The question he is asking is implying that whichever man that did not join was a coward.
In 1915 Britain did not force men to join the army so there way of getting people to join the army was through posters that implied that you were a coward if you did not join, some posters implied that the army was great fun, and some posters said the German’s were evil and nasty and we must fight them. The poster was published in 1915 as a recruitment strategy as later in the war people were forced to join so the poster wouldn’t have been any use later than 1915.
Q.2 Is one source more useful than the other in helping you understand why men volunteered for the army when the war began?
Source B and Source C are useful in helping to understand …show more content…
Source C supports this statement as it says “The Younger men were certainly inspired by the thoughts of adventure and travel at a time when few people had been further that their own city or the nearest seaside resort”. This supports the statement as it said young people were inspired by the thought of adventure so that is one of the reasons they joined. However there is a chance that this source is unreliable as the author probably wasn’t alive at the time. So this source supports the statement partly as it only says young men thought of the army as an
This poster (source A) was produced in the Britain in 1915 because it needed people to join the army but it did not make people join the army in 1915 like several other countries so to get people to join the army it published posters that implied you were a coward if you did not like source A. Source A is a army recruitment poster that shows a John Bull standing in front of a row of soldiers saying “who’s absent? Is it you?” John Bull was a fictional fat British farmer. John Bull was made up as a rich British farmer telling people to join the army. The question he is asking is implying that whichever man that did not join was a coward.
In 1915 Britain did not force men to join the army so there way of getting people to join the army was through posters that implied that you were a coward if you did not join, some posters implied that the army was great fun, and some posters said the German’s were evil and nasty and we must fight them. The poster was published in 1915 as a recruitment strategy as later in the war people were forced to join so the poster wouldn’t have been any use later than 1915.
Q.2 Is one source more useful than the other in helping you understand why men volunteered for the army when the war began?
Source B and Source C are useful in helping to understand …show more content…
Source C supports this statement as it says “The Younger men were certainly inspired by the thoughts of adventure and travel at a time when few people had been further that their own city or the nearest seaside resort”. This supports the statement as it said young people were inspired by the thought of adventure so that is one of the reasons they joined. However there is a chance that this source is unreliable as the author probably wasn’t alive at the time. So this source supports the statement partly as it only says young men thought of the army as an