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  2. Lord Kitchener Wants You - Wikipedia

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    Lord Kitchener Wants You is a 1914 advertisement by Alfred Leete which was developed into a recruitment poster. It depicted Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, above the words "WANTS YOU". Kitchener, wearing the cap of a British field marshal, stares and points at the viewer calling them to enlist in the British Army against ...

  3. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Lord Kitchener

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    Original - British World War I recruitment poster featuring Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, 1916. Reason Per the other day's nomination, this is a subject that does deserve a featured picture. Not quite the same iconic value as the original poster, but much higher technical specs and still pretty good encyclopedic value.

  4. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/World War I ...

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    The title page of the "London Opinion" in 1914 for the first time printed images showing popular by its command posts in colonial wars War Minister Lord Kitchener. The advertising psychologically pioneering subject of fixing the viewer with the look in perspective enlarged outstretched forefinger was copied in several countries - the most ...

  5. Recruitment to the British Army during World War I - Wikipedia

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    Between those and other advertising materials a total of over 54 million pieces were produced at a cost of £40,000. According to numbers of posters produced, the most popular official PRC posters were: "Lord Kitchener", 1915. Posters No. 113 and 117, 145,000 copies "Remember Belgium", 1914–1915.

  6. Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - Wikipedia

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    Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (/ ˈ k ɪ tʃ ɪ n ər /; 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, [1] [2] and his central role in the early part of the First World War.

  7. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Your Country Needs You

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    File:Stanstead Abbotts History Society NeedsYou.jpg Original - 'A 1914 recruitment poster depicting Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener above the words "WANTS YOU" was the most famous image used in the British Army recruitment campaign of World War I. The poster was designed by Alfred Leete. A similar poster used the words "YOUR COUNTRY ...

  8. Kitchener's Army - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army.. The New Army, often referred to as Kitchener's Army or, disparagingly, as Kitchener's Mob, [a] was an (initially) all-volunteer portion of the British Army formed in the United Kingdom from 1914 onwards following the outbreak of hostilities in the First World War in late July 1914.

  9. British propaganda during World War I - Wikipedia

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    The most common theme for recruitment posters was patriotism, which evolved into appeals for people to do their 'fair share'. Among the most famous of the posters used in the British Army's recruitment campaigns of the war were the "Lord Kitchener Wants You" posters, which depicted Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener above the words ...