Object Number: Ma5248

Collection: Fine Art

Object Name: poster

Title: 'Your Friends Need You. Be A Man'

Artist: BRANGWYN, Sir Frank

Description: a framed black and white printed recruitment poster on buff-coloured paper, before lettering, showing: a scene from the British offensive at the French village of Neuve Chapelle which took place during March 1915; the British recaptured about 2km of lost ground, and over 22,000 men from both sides died; the poster was displayed at London Underground stations and the text on the finished version reads: (above image) AT / NEUVE CHAPELLE (below image) YOUR FRIENDS NEED YOU, BE A MAN