THE courage of a young woman imprisoned for her beliefs will be remembered next month.
A medal presented in 1909 to suffragette Catherine Tolson is going under the hammer at Tennants, of Leyburn, in the Yorkshire Dales.
The medal, which is expected to fetch at least £6,000, is one of less than 100 commissioned by the Women's Social and Political Union for those who suffered for its cause.
Catherine, known as Kitty, was imprisoned for being one of the suffragettes, who wanted women to be given the vote.
From Ilkley, West Yorkshire, she was born in 1892, never married and died of TB while nursing in Russia in 1924.
The medal is being sold by her niece, who lives in Richmond, and engraved on it are the words Hunger Striker and the date September 4. It is in its original case.
A number of jailed suffragettes went on hunger strikes and were often released just before they would have died and re-arrested when they recovered.
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