RFC or RNAS Recruitment Posters

20 October 2005, 03:32 AM

Hello Everybody,

Does anyone know where I could find images of the above posters? I am trying to write a novel for 13+ readers and would really appreciate some help as all my internet searches are drawing a blank.

Cheers,

Eugene

20 October 2005, 05:05 AM

I would start with the Imperial War Museum in London - their collections of "ephemera" are immense and their educational team is very good.

charles · 20 October 2005, 10:38 AM

This is a recruiting poster from Canada in 1917.

According to a narrative from The War Museum Canada, "Lieutenant-Colonel (later Brigadier) C.G. Hoare, the RFC officer who headed the new training organization in Canada, moved quickly when he arrived from Britain in January 1917. He ordered that flying instruction commence at Long Branch on 28 February 1917, although buildings were still under construction and the first JN-4s had been completed and approved for service only days before. The largest school, Camp Borden, began flying training on 30 March 1917." This would date this recruiting poster to 1917.