Fighter for Womens Rights Rests Now in Quiet Grave
(United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) Reed.. Xoon. LONDON, Monday. Leaders of the women's movement, including Mrs. Stanley Baldwin. Lady Astor. Mrs. Despard, Mr. F. W. Pethick-Lawrence, Miss Laura Knight, and Miss Flora Drummond, attended the funeral of Mrs. Emmeline Panthurst at Saint John’s, Westminster, close to the scene of the stormiest episode in the suffragette campaign. There were also scores of elderly women, wearing brooches and symbols, who had suffered imprisonment, some even wearing old campaign clothes. There were touching scenes at the graveside at Brompton Cemetery, where Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst watched the coffin lowered, as a woman dipped a large purple, green and white flag to the earth.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 384, 19 June 1928, Page 9
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