Men of Valor, They Fight For You
Rating
Title
Men of Valor , They Fight For You
Creator
Hubert Rogers . Wartime Information Board .
Date (Original)
1943
Description
60.5 x 91 cm . Color . Poster issued by the Canadian government featuring an excerpt from citation awarding Victoria Cross to Lt.-Col . Merritt , South Saskatchewan Regt. , Dieppe , on August 19 , 1942 . The quote tells of the heroic actions of a soldier who helped cover the withdrawal from a battle site . Graphic shows a soldier on a beach carrying guns amongst barbed wire and other soldiers .
Subject
World War, 1939-1945 War Posters, Canadian
Type
Image
Genre
Political posters
Publisher
Wartime Information Board, Ottawa, Printed in Canada.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Rights Notes
No known copyright . Item is believed to be in public domain due to failure to comply with required formalities .
Identifier
sc005f55-297
Source
Is found in SC005 Propaganda Poster Collection https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/sc005.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Digitization
Original items were scanned as 600 dpi tiffs on a Zeutschel OS 14000 A0-LS scanner. They were converted to jpegs (sized at 3000 pixels on the long dimension) using Adobe Photoshop CS2 they and subsequently uploaded into CONTENTdm.
Language
English
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