March of the Suffragettes

The First World War period was not only notable for the terrible slaughter in the trenches (and elsewhere around the world) - it was also the period when women were campaigning for the vote. At the same time, they were stepping into the jobs that the men had formerly done at home, before they were called up.
So the First World War commemoration included suffragettes. Here they are, marching through town:

A moment later I had joined them, as I was also dressed as a suffragette (any excuse to wear a costume!), chanting "Deeds Not Words" and "No surrender till we win!"
A little later, one of the ladies shouted "We will fight them on the beaches!", to the reply; "No, I think that was later!"
As we passed below the wall at the end of the Honesty Garden, one of the leading suffragettes had an altercation with the Red Cross post re-enactor there, who told us we should join up and become Land Girls.
Further round town, the Recruiting Sergeant was trying to get a group of boy scouts to join up, and he was berated for turning innocent lads into soldiers. He told us to be on our way, as he was on the King's business. Here there was also a re-enactor dressed as a policeman (I'm pretty sure he and his wife were at the History Day at Hereford, too), who arrested the suffragette and dragged her away!
Later, they re-appeared, handcuffed together:

There was a little while before the concert at Cartref started (the Surrey Police Band were playing, with a soloist who sang old favourites like Keep the Home Fires Burning and Abide With Me), so some of the ladies went for tea at Eves and I went home for lunch.