Recruitment Posters 1914 Research help needed

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As a new member I have also posted this topic in the general section - sorry for it being in twice!

I am researching recruitment publicity in the early war years 1914-15, particularly the 'Kitchener' advert by Alfred Leete that first appeared on the front cover of the London Opinion magazine in 1914 and was subsequently used by HMGov on advertising posters.

This is a research project and a pretty serious investigation.I have a number of questions and will post them on this forum as time goes on.

My research is concerned with the relationship between the strong visual impact and the emotional wording in the poster.I am interested to know how the design migrated from the magazine to HMGov, was it actually Kitchener's picture and where did this originate? I want to find out it's true impact on the general public then as opposed to folk lore about it now. (how would we react to being pointed to by this image nowadays?)

This first posting is to introduce myself to the forum and to plea for anyone with any specialist knowledge about this very small area of WW1 to make contact with me. All contributors will be given credit in the final publication.

Martyn Thatcher