Title: Fag Day VADS Collection: Imperial War Museum: Posters of Conflict - The Visual Culture of Public Information and Counter Information

Queen Alexandra

Journal Article: DOI: 25948

Abstract

Concept: charities, advertisement, military personnel, uniform, comforts, wounded / disabled, women / womens work, royalty
Description: whole: the image occupies the whole, with the title and text integrated and positioned in lower quarter, in blue.
image: full-length depictions of a wounded soldier with a crutch, smoking a cigarette, and a wounded sailor with his arm in a sling, smoking a pipe. In the background a nurse approaches.
text: BERT THOMAS
'THUMBS UP'
PATRON OF THE FUND QUEEN ALEXANDRA.
WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
'FAG' DAY
TUESDAY. MAY 29 T.H. 1917.
THE SMOKE FUND OFFICIALLY APPROVED BY THE WAR OFFICE AND ADMIRALTY.
Offices:- 4 Buckingham Gate, S.W.
WITHERBY AND CO.
Object: crutch, cigarette, pipe

Source: OAI

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Keywords

ADMIRALTY
 
comforts
 
full-length depictions
 
FUND QUEEN ALEXANDRA
 
image occupies
 
lower quarter
 
military personnel
 
nurse approaches
 
SMOKE FUND
 
WAR OFFICE
 
womens work
 
wounded sailor
 
wounded soldier
 
WOUNDED SOLDIERS