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Text for the award of Hunger Strike medal

nnn was awarded a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Hunger Strike Medal for her imprisonment on 4 March 1912, a date when many women were arrested for a militant campaign of window-breaking. The citation engraved on the bar is 'For Valour' and the inscription says"'PRESENTED TO nnnn BY THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION IN RECOGNITION OF A GALLANT ACTION, WHEREBY THROUGH ENDURANCE TO THE LAST EXTREMITY OF HUNGER AND HARDSHIP A GREAT PRINCIPLE OF POLITICAL JUSTICE WAS VINDICATED.'"The medal ribbons were in the WSPU colours of green white and purple. nn's medal is in the nnnnn.

Eileen Mary Casey Ref: Crawford, Elizabeth (1999). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928. Routledge.

Gertrude Ansell  Ref: Elizabeth Crawford, "Ansell, Gertrude Mary (1861–1932)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/63818

Violet Aitken: Ref: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024

Doreen Allan:

Leonora Cohen:

Catherine Corbett Ref: https://womanandhersphere.com/2012/08/11/collecting-suffrage-the-hunger-strike-medal/

Louie Cullen Ref: https://www.nla.gov.au/stories/blog/behind-the-scenes/2016/06/15/louie-cullen-part-one

Alice Davies Ref: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/historic-items-leeds-chart-struggle-womens-votes-1918-1763768

Caroline Dowling Ref:https://www.parliament.uk/documents/WORKS-OF-ART/Women-in-Parliament-History-web.pdf

Charlotte Blacklock Ref:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884452205

Sarah Jane Baines Ref:Atkinson: ISBN 9781408844045

Caprina Fahey Ref:https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/call-for-public-s-help-to-piece-together-life-of-norfolk-suffragette-caprina-fahey-1-5262750

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/call-for-public-s-help-to-piece-together-life-of-norfolk-suffragette-caprina-fahey-1-5262750

Helen MacRae: Ref Atkinson: ISBN 9781408844045

Alice Stewart Ker Ref:pp. 193–194. ISBN 9780748632930

Kitty Kenny Ref: The Militant Suffrage Movement : Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, by Laura E. Nym Mayhall, Assistant Professor of History Catholic University of America; The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928. Routledge. p. 320. ISBN 1-135-43402-6

Florence Haig Ref:https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp125269/florence-eliza-haig

Theresa Garnett Ref:http://spartacus-educational.com/WgarnettT.htm

Lettice Floyd Ref:http://spartacus-educational.com/WgarnettT.htm

Bertha Ryland Ref:https://womanandhersphere.com/2013/03/22/suffrage-stories-from-frederick-street-to-winson-green-the-birmingham-womens-suffrage-campaign/

Laetitia Withall Ref:http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-139607609/view

Elsie Wolff van Sandau Ref:Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-48459860

Olive Wharry Ref:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Wo89DfZ-T6AC&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=Olive+Wharry+died&source=bl&ots=DgdF98z-fk&sig=kEDJMjBRZb4BY7lQFWua_mczZps&hl=en&ei=NbD_S8zhOo3-0gSCtan3Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Olive%20Wharry%20died&f=false

Annie Williams Annie Williams (suffragette) Ref: Atkinson ISBN 978-1-4088-4404-5  p 355

Janie Terrero Ref:https://bevoismounthistory.weebly.com/suffrage.html#

Catherine Tolson Catherine Tolson Ref: https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/6990073.medal-sale-recalls-bravery-jailed-suffragette/

Genie Sheppard Ref:Genie Sheppard https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42818833

Pleasance Pendred Pleasance Pendred Ref:https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=36&lot_uid=67259

Myra Sadd Brown Ref:https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=36&lot_uid=67259

Dorothea Chalmers Smith Ref: ISBN 1135434018

Alice Maud Shipley Ref: The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928. Crawford, Elizabeth (1999). Routledge

Gertrude Wilkinson Ref: https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=184534&sos=0

Frances Parker Ref: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/77311734/te-papa-buys-rare-bravery-medal-awarded-to-suffrage-activist-frances-parker

Beatrice Sanders Ref: Atkinson ISBN 9781408844045

Ellen Pitfield Ellen Pitfield Ref: Caroline Morrell (1981) "Black Friday": Violence Against Women in the Suffragette Movement

Rona Robertson Ref:https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/152448-womens-suffrage--hunger-strike-medall

Isabella Potbury Ref:https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/ee5a777f-1d7c-416b-a249-c7cb64fcc0a8

Olive Grace Walton Ref: Atkinson ISBN 9781408844069

Ada Wright Ref:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a2EK9P7-ZMsC&pg=PA760&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Elizabeth Thomson Elizabeth and Agnes Thomson Ref: Leneman, Leah (1995). A Guid Cause. Revised edition. Mercat Press. p155

Helen Tolson Ref: 'Suffragists Released: "Hunger strike" at Strange Ways', The Manchester Guardian, 9 September 1909

Edith New Ref: ISBN 9780198614128

Laura Geraldine Lennox Ref to be checked: Laura Geraldine Lennox

Helen Kirkpatrick Watts Ref: https://womanandhersphere.com/2015/06/19/suffrage-stories-helen-watts-and-the-mystery-of-the-unclaimed-trunk/

to be followed up

Sarah Winstedt (O'Flynn)

Sarah Carwin

Mary Richardson

Arabella Scott

Jane Short

Vera Wentworth

Sylvia Pankhurst

Dora Marsden

Minnie Turner

Edith Rigby

Mary Phillips (suffragette)

Helen Margaret Spanton

Dora Beedham

Ethel Moorhead

Grace Roe

Catherine Pine (suffragette medal?)

Leonora Tyson