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Rare Suffragette medal commemorates courageous Nellie Godfrey

Rare Suffragette medal commemorates courageous Nellie Godfrey © Dix Noonan Webb The ‘suffragette’ medal awarded to Miss Nellie Godfrey, who was arrested and imprisoned for throwing a missile at Winston Churchill’s car in 1909, was offered by Dix Noonan Webb on January 13. The silver medal was enamelled in the colours of the Women’s Social and Political Union, Mrs Pankhurst’s militant wing of the Edwardian suffrage movement. It was inscribed ‘Hunger Strike’, with ‘Nellie Godfrey’ on the reverse, the suspension bar dated ‘December 7th 1909’, and a ‘For Valour’ brooch bar. The medal’s original case was inscribed, ‘Presented to Nellie Godfrey by the Women’s Social & 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.’

Medal given to Suffragette Nellie Godfrey goes under the hammer

A PRESTIGIOUS medal awarded to a Suffragette who was jailed for throwing a missile at Winston Churchill s car as he attended an election rally in Bolton is to go under the hammer. Nellie Godfrey broke through strong timber barricades erected by police ­ who were suspecting protests ­ to lob an iron missile at Mr Churchill’s car in December 1909 during the campaign to give women the right to vote. At the time Churchill, the Member of Parliament for Dundee, was President of the Board of Trade, and was undertaking a campaign tour of Lancashire. Attached to the missile was a message ‘Thrown by a woman of England as a protest against the Government’s treatment of political prisoners.’

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