Hello, Does anyone have a better/original image of the attached poster with details of the ACI for transfers to the Glider Pilot Regiment. I got this one from the Eagle but do not have a scanner at the moment. It gives the source of IWM but I cannot find it in their online search facility. If anyone has a different one along the same lines I would be equally as happy. Thanks Dave
I can tell you that the artists was Abram Games if that helps. He was a captain in the General List and was responsible for many other iconic wartime posters such as "Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades" and "ATS". This image can bought here: http://www.abramgamesposters.com/p54/Airborne-Forces-Poster/product_info.html Hope this helps
Good one Dave! I think you may have just started an Airborne poster thread. Like Skip says it's the work of the very talented graphic designer Abram Games. It's available for sale at any number of poster sites. The only colour examples I ran across were watermarked and small in size. Hopefully someone will come through ... Regards ...
Thanks for the information - the name of the artist led me to a free, un-watermarked one here http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=2013-07-2-32 Thanks Cee - Yes if there are other airborne posters floating about it would be great to see them. Perhaps this can be merged with the "Airborne Humour" thread with the illustrations. Here is a para related one http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/12683 And a glider related one http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20594
Nice ones Dave ... Although not WW2 era I thought this graphic found on Matt's site celebrating the 71st Anniversary of the GPR was very effective. Also included is enlistment poster for the 6th Airborne Cheers ...
Yep I like that one plus Games' Commando Medic poster that I was very pleased to see hanging half way up the staircase to the reading room at Kew earlier in the year.
BBC audio - (the item on Abram Games starts about 15 mins in) BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, War poster artist Abram Games, Saxophonist Jess Gillam, Author Tayari Jones War poster artist Abram Games, Saxophonist Jess Gillam, Author Tayari Jones Front Row The influential graphic designer Abram Games, who created The Festival of Britain 1951 poster and the BBC’s first television logo, first came to prominence as the 'Official War Poster Artist' during the Second World War. Over 100 of the posters he created while employed by the War Office are on display at new exhibition at the National Army Museum in London. Curator Emma Mawdsley discusses the significance of the artist and his work. The saxophonist Jess Gillam won the BBC Young Musician award in 2016 and went on to take the Last Night of the Proms by storm last year. She plays live in the studio and talks to Samira about her beginnings in a carnival band in Cumbria and how she wants to expand the repertoire for sax players in classical music. Tayari Jones’s novel, An American Marriage, tells the story of a young African-American couple whose lives are torn apart when the husband is imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. Tayari Jones discusses the inspiration for her the book which has been championed by Oprah and picked by Barack Obama as one of his favourite summer reads of 2018. Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Harry Parker ATS poster (Courtesy of the National Army Museum) The art of persuasion: Wartime posters by Abram Games, curated by Emma Mawdsley, is at the National Army Museum until 24th November 2019.
I think I've seen that poster and a couple of others on the wall at the Museum of Army Flying at Middle Wallop.