Poster, 'Remember Scarborough!'

This First World War poster is about British anger over the German Navy’s attack on Scarborough in December 1914 which killed dozens of civilians. Its crusading imagery would have encouraged feelings to run high, and was published about a month after the attack – proving how fast poster production could be, but also how fast it needed to be to remain topical. It was probably seen in New Zealand during the war, and was at least discussed by the press, which singled it out as an example of ‘the pictorial poster which has proved most attractive in securing recruits to His Majesty’s forces’ (Women in print. Evening Post, Wellington, 18 May, p. 9.)