Place | Oceania: Australia |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
For a modern career choose the Regular Army
'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.