For a modern career choose the Regular Army

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number ARTV10125
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 62.0 x 49.0 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description screenprint on paper on linen
Maker Unknown
Australian HQ
Place made Australia
Date made c. 1952
Conflict Army organisation period 1948-1952
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

'For a modern career choose the Regular Army' uses Modernist artistic traits of geometry, colour and line to emphasis the Army's movement into the modern, post-nuclear era. Tanks, bombs and other military paraphernalia are depicted on the edges with a central head in a slouch hat in the middle. The history of the Australian Army has 2 distinct phases. Pre-1947 the army was divided into 'Regular Army' and Citizens Military Force (CMF). The CMF had the most members, as it was formed from the colonial militia groups post-Federation. As both groups were unable to serve overseas, a volunteer force was created for both the First and Second World Wars, called the 'Australian Imperial Force'. After 1947, a standing peacetime infantry was formed and the CMF (which was renamed in 1980 to Army Reserve) started to declined in importance.