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G. Lacoste

G. Lacoste was a Frenchman, a Captain in the BEF, whose design ‘Beware’ was first used in France, and due to its success, was then used in the UK.

Information taken from: ‘2,500,000 Anti-Gossip Posters’, Advertiser’s Weekly, February 8 1940, p.98

By Second World War Posters

Mass Communications Academic, @MMUBS. British Home Front Propaganda posters as researched for a PhD completed 2004. In 1997, unwittingly wrote the first history of the Keep Calm and Carry On poster, which she now follows with interest.

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