Violet's Scarf

AN INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY This book is about a small girl, World War 1, and a hand-knitted scarf. Violet Cloughley lived in Riverton at the bottom of the South Island, New Zealand. When WWI started in 1914, Violet, aged eight, wanted to help the soldiers fighting overseas. So she knitted a scarf. This story is about the scarf Violet knitted and sent away as a 'gift for soldier.' The extraordinary World War 1 true story of two New Zealand siblings and a scarf. In 1915 Violet is eight years old, living in Southland, when a Red Cross worker asks her class to contribute something for the soldiers serving overseas. Violet knits a scarf. The scarf is wrapped and the parcel has a tag with Violet's name on it. The parcel joins 250,000 others sent to New Zealand soldiers in France in1916. The journey takes more than a year and when the Red Cross parcels are thrown randomly to the soldiers, Violet's scarf is caught by her brother George serving near the frontline. George kept the scarf safe throughout the rest of the war and brought it and Violet's tag home to New Zealand. The tag is now in Dunedin's Hocken Library.