Talk to our man...about your army career

'Talk to our man at, about your army career' is a Australian Army recruitment poster that would have been used to show a place and time of an Army recruitment van location. In the background is the van along with men and women of the different services. 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