Heh. Conspicuously absent from the call to arms is "South Africa" -- mostly, I suspect, because at the time the poster was printed, there was a distinct possibility that the Japies would come in on the side of the Germans.
Oy Kim!- isn't the guy with the round hat (behind the boy in blue in the fourth poster) a South African.
Sadly you are right. But some of them still served. My great uncle (8th SA Horse) was killed in East Africa in 1916. My grandfather (Durban Light Infantry) was wounded two weeks before the Somme - so he missed Delville Wood.
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Heh. Conspicuously absent from the call to arms is "South Africa" -- mostly, I suspect, because at the time the poster was printed, there was a distinct possibility that the Japies would come in on the side of the Germans.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | July 31, 2009 3:39 PM
That first poster with the lions (I'm guessing from WWI) almost brought a tear to my eye.
Posted by: Bob K | July 31, 2009 7:04 PM
I love that first poster.
And yes it is from WW1.
Posted by: Gareth | August 1, 2009 3:20 PM
Oy Kim!- isn't the guy with the round hat (behind the boy in blue in the fourth poster) a South African.
Sadly you are right. But some of them still served. My great uncle (8th SA Horse) was killed in East Africa in 1916. My grandfather (Durban Light Infantry) was wounded two weeks before the Somme - so he missed Delville Wood.
Posted by: Vincent | August 4, 2009 8:27 PM
Can you buy any of these? If so have you a weblink to them?
Posted by: David Smith | August 5, 2009 3:42 PM