Did you know children were recruited for the war effort too? Throughout the war years Victorian children’s efforts amassed an astonishing £422,470.

How did the children raise so much money?  Country children ‘gathered bones, fat, bottles, wool from the fences and scrub, iron and kerosene tins; they snared and skinned rabbits, trapped foxes, caught fish, dug gardens, cleared tracks . . . ‘ City children ‘have sewn and knitted, made paper and leather flowers, fashioned things of wool and wire, grown wonderful beans on pocket-handkerchief allotments, planned concerts and bazaars.’  

WWI History