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Suffragette medal
Hunger Strike medal awarded to Kate Williams Evans by the Women's Social and Political Union, 4 March 1912. Silk ribbon in three stripes of green, white and purple hanging from a silver bar engraved FOR VALOUR. Ribbon attached to silver disc engraved HUNGER STRIKE on one side and KATE EVANS on the other. A bottom bar is engraved 4 MARCH 1912 (the date of Kate's arrest)
Only 100 Hunger Strike medals are known to exist – this is one of only 3 awarded to a Welsh Suffragette that are believed to survive
Kate Williams Evans, born in Montgomeryshire in 1866, was sentenced to two months hard labour for malicious damage, having smashed a window in a government building. She served 54 days in Holloway Prison, and on 16 April 1912 she was one of 92 suffragettes who went on hunger strike after the withholding by the Home Secretary of certain priveleges regarding exercise, conversation, clothing, and reading and writing materials