Genie Sheppard
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Genie Sheppard was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union and militant suffragette who in prison went on hunger strike where she was force-fed for which action she received the WSPU's Hung
A Suffragette being force fed, in a contemporary poster
Hunger Strike Medal
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The Hunger Strike Medal was a silver medal awarded between August 1909 and 1914 to suffragette prisoners by the leadership of the Women's Social and Political Union. During their imprisonment, many we
Genie Sheppard
…Political Union (WSPU) and militant suffragette who in prison went on hunger strike where she was force-fed for which action she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal. She was born as Eugenie Sheppard in 1863 in Dudley in Worcestershire, the youngest of four children born to Ellen née King (1829-) and Thomas Sheppard…
Medal awarded to Myra Sadd Brown in 1912
Medal in its presentation case with silver bar for a hunger strike and enamel bar for force-feeding awarded by the WSPU to Mabel Capper
Hunger Strike Medal awarded to Georgina Fanny Cheffins
Charlotte Blacklock's Hunger Strike Medal, Museum of Australian Democracy collection