"Get a move on old man!"

Recruiting poster produced by the NSW government. The image of a wounded soldier set against a yellow background features in the top half. He is shielding his eyes with his left hand as if searching for something. In his right he holds his rifle, bayonet visible. His head and right forearm are bandaged and bleeding. The title text " Get a move on old man!" positioned beneath the image is printed in white against a black background. It appeals directly to older men urging then to enlist to reinforce the young men already fighting and dying overseas.

Cheap, easy to mass- produce and highly visible, Australian First World War propaganda posters were produced by a number of Commonwealth departments and individual state recruiting committees together with volunteer organizations, such as the Win the War League.

Harry John Weston (b.1874, Tasmania) was a cartoonist and commercial artist. He worked as a sailor, store-clerk and lithographer before taking up teaching in northern Tasmania. He then traveled to Victoria where he established his own business as a commercial artist in Melbourne. By 1903 he had established himself as a leading poster artist. He also worked in Sydney and had previously designed posters with Blamire Young and Lionel Lindsay around 1893. He was a member of the Prehistoric Order of the Cannibals Club 1893 and is best remembered for his old salts and waterfront characters and as a contributor to 'The Bulletin', where he worked as an illustrator in the Advertising Department. In 1924 he became a member of the world's first society of cartoonists, the Black and White Artists' Society, formed in Sydney. He is best known for a poster style that sought to convey 'something typically Australian- something that conveys some meaning to an Australian...[with ] a simple and broad treatment'.