Original Framed WW1 British Government Royal Air Force Recruiting Poster By James Walker (Printers) Dublin. - 22602 Original Framed WW1 British Government Royal Air Force Recruiting Poster By James Walker (Printers) Dublin. - 22602 Antique & Militaria

Although the technology to enable the relatively inexpensive mass production of high quality images had been in existence for over a century, the First World War saw the first extensive use of posters for propaganda purposes. The British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (PRC) was a thirty member body organized by political party organizers, under the supervision of the War Office, with the express aim of aiding the raising of troop numbers in Britain’s volunteer army. The main modes of appeal were through mass recruiting rallies and through posters and pamphlets that encouraged enlistment. Within a few weeks of the outbreak of the war the designs of poster began to incorporate striking graphic images. Some 200 different posters were produced and distributed by the PRC over the course of the War. War posters were intended to be ephemeral and never meant to be archival or historical documents. Yet, because of the content of the messages they projected they have become an important resource by which we can today explore the mind set of those who believed passionately in the rightness of the cause and the necessity to wage War between 1914 and 1918. On the 1st of April 1918, the British government amalgamated the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) that were established before WW1 into the Royal Air Force. During WW1, many recruiting posters were printed by the British Government to recruit from the United Kingdom and its empire. This is a coloured recruiting poster from April 1918 to recruit pilots into the newly formed Royal Air Force. This is an original WW1 British Government PRC framed recruiting PRC poster to recruit into the Royal Air Force. The poster measures 28” x 18” and the printing is clear and bright. There is part of the bottom of the poster missing with the printers name (photographed). NB. Due to the fragile nature of this piece, the poster can be collected by arrangement or it can be posted in a postal tube within the U.K. Sn 22602