Buy Victory Bonds
1918
Artist
Designer Unknown
DIMENSIONS
35 1/2 x 24 in. (90.2 x 61 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.26
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Canada
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Peter A. Blatz
KEYWORDS
Bonds, Homefront, Man, Military, Political, War, WWI

This poster urges Canadians to invest in the national Victory Bond campaign of 1918; it was one of the Canadian government’s most successful bond campaigns during World War I, raising more than six hundred thousand dollars in three weeks. The government launched five war-bond campaigns between 1915 and 1919, each of which was supported by a poster campaign organized by the Victory Loan Dominion Publicity Committee. The poster, showing Canadian soldiers in the trenches about to charge with bayonets, also includes a slogan that rather clumsily paraphrases a line from Alfred Tennyson’s 1854 poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” about the British light cavalry during the Crimean War: “Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.”

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