It features the image of a woman in a white dress standing in front of a tattered Australian flag with a yellow background. She is pointing to it with her left hand, as if asking the viewer if they were there when the flag was damaged. The main aim is to make the viewer guilty. This is really persuasive because women could think that if they didn’t help for war Australia would be destroyed. 

  More than 3, 000 civilians nurses were volounteers during world war I in Australia. This number shows the great influence of women at this time.

 The red and white colors are very attractive.

 We can imagine that this poster was aimed to persuade women to enrol in Queen Mary’s Army auxiliary corps. Our attention is cought by the text, mostly by the « YOU » that we can read in the circle or also « enrol To-Day ». The use of imperative forms and the exclamation marks make the readers react when they see this poster.

 The way t the women on the poster are smiling or pointing at us could make the women feel concerned, motivated and even touched by this enroling poster during WWI. Women were very important to support the war. Their help was needed for example in hospitals to take care of the soldiers. This kind of propaganda posters could be really persuasive at the time.

 We know that 3,000 Australian civilian nurses took part in this war effort during WWI.

This women’s involvement shows that they had an important place in this war period. It made them more powerful because they proved that they were able to work alone at home with the children and also support the soldiers in the war effort.

 In the foreground we can see a woman, She is wearing a feminine military uniform with a hat. She is smiling. In the background, there is a village. The poster is colourful, like the writing of the propaganda. The writing is huge, so it attracts the attention.

 This poster encouraged women to become nurses and to participate to the war effort. WWI effort needed the women’s help to take care of wounded soldiers. Women had to act because their brothers, fathers and husbands were absents.

 This poster is quite persuasive and convincing. 

 Johane Corbel, Zoé Herbreteau ( 1^ère section européenne )

 This poster is a propaganda poster, created in 1918, after the First World War. The author is unknown but we know that is was created by the association «Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps »

In the foreground, we can see a smiling woman wearing a war uniform. She is pointing her finger towards the readers. In the background, six women, with the same uniform, are aligned. They seem, also, happy to be members of the same association. The background is red. We can read many captions.

 The aim of this poster was to urge Australian women to join the army because little by little it was running short of men. They were all killed or injured in the front line. The war office identified that a number of jobs doing by men were not jobs in relation with the war so they decided to send this men to the war and complete the jobs with women. 

 This poster was attractive and persuasive. The women' smile and the dynamic colors were powerful!

 Noémie Palvadeau ( 1^ère section européenne )

 The main colors of this poster are white. The American and Red Cross flags are fluterring in the background. The nurse is wearing a white uniform with the Red Cross logo on it and has a black and red cape draped over her shoulders.

 When we see this poster, we can feel the pride of the nurse who is helping soldiers and her country.

 This poster is persuasive because we can observe, in the background, barracks of soldiers. We can, also, imagine wounded soldiers inside. The use of « you » and «  your » emphazises the need and catch the attention of the readers.

 This poster illustrates the active role played by women during WWI.

 In the middle ground, we can see the sky with clouds and on the right the sentence « more planes are needed » can be read. In the foreground, we can read « Women come and help ! Free training and maintenance allowances ».

 This poster was aimed to recruit women to build planes for the battlegrounds. The words are written in big white letters to emphazise the message and also facilitate the reading.

 We can can say that the poster is very colorful and also very persuasive because women seem really happy with their new job .

 Propaganda posters can let us imagine people‘s feelings in those hard days which could however be joyful too.

 The creators are the Australia. State Recruiting Committee of South Australia, Newland, J.Halliday Bros.

It was published in Adelaide : State Recruiting Committee, [1916 or 1917-1918]

Physical Description : 1 poster (3 parts, unbound) : 1 col. map ; 152 x 102 cm.

 On the poster, we can see the Australian map with crossed out cities names and new German names. Nietscheburg for Sydney; Hindenburg for Adelaide; Tirpitzburg for Perth; Bernhardiburg for Brisbane; Zeppelinburg for Melbourne and Kaisermania for Tasmania.

The author aims to convince Australian citizens to get into the army or to become nurses if they were women. A personification of the country, calling it « her » instead of « it », is also used to convince them.

 This poster is saying that Germany would take over Australia if there weren't enough soldiers. More, this poster is trying to encourage Australians to join the army.

 Now, this poster is kept in "The Enemy at Home : German Internment in World War 1 Australia", Museum of Sydney”.