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'General' Flora Drummond, 1907. Drummond joined the suffragette campaign to obtain the vote for women, shortly after the first militant act - the ejection of Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney from the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, (1905). She moved to London as a paid organiser, and was imprisoned at least four times, once serving three weeks for chaining herself to the railings of 10 Downing Street. The intials NSWPU (National Women's Social and Political Union), on her cap refer to the split with the Pankhursts by Charlotte Despard and others who used the name Women's Social and Political Union until they announced their new Women's Freedom League. Not wishing to be confused or associated with the breakaway group, the Pankhursts added National to the name of their organisation. The 'General' was a horsewoman, as evidenced by her riding crop. Drummond named her son after Keir Hardie, the founder and first member of Parliament of the Independent Labour Party.