Enlist in the Sportsmen's Thousand

Shows Lieutenant Albert Jacka, who had won the highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross.  The poster appeals to the idea of sporting competitiveness: if Australians could beat the Germans at sport, they should be able to beat them at war.

 

Artist unknown, lithograph, 1915

 

 

Accession number: H2001.34/1

 

From the State Library of Victoria's Pictures Collection.

 

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Propaganda