Recruitment Posters

This page shares recruitment posters which the Women’s Land Army used during the First World War to encourage women to join the civilian organisation.

God Speed the Plough and the Woman Who Drives It. Land Girl, full-length figure, in uniform and hat, guiding a horse-drawn plough to right. Source: Art.IWM PST 5996, 1917
God Speed the Plough and the Woman Who Drives It. Land Girl, full-length figure, in uniform and hat, guiding a horse-drawn plough to right.
Source: Art.IWM PST 5996, 1917
WW1 Recruitment poster showing a Land Girl, full-length facing figure, in white coat and sun hat, holding a bucket in her left hand. Source: Art.IWM PST 5489, c.1918
WW1 Recruitment poster showing a Land Girl, full-length facing figure, in white coat and sun hat, holding a bucket in her left hand.
Source: Art.IWM PST 5489, c.1918
This Women’s Land Army recruitment poster by the artist J Walter West, emphasises the work done by the Forage Department of the WLA. Source: Imperial War Museum
Women’s Land Army recruitment poster by the artist J Walter West.
Source: Imperial War Museum
Recruiting poster [updated. c 1917] “A Landswoman’s Appeal To all Women In The Land…Join The Land Army To-day. Don’t Hesitate.” Courtesy of Stuart Antrobus
Recruiting poster [updated. c 1917] “A Landswoman’s Appeal To all Women In The Land…Join The Land Army To-day. Don’t Hesitate.”
Courtesy of Stuart Antrobus