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 [citation needed] Ref: Crawford, Elizabeth (1999). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928. Routledge.
Gertrude Ansell [citation needed] 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
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
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:: 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