Emily Davison she had been force-fed. On 4 June 1913 Davison obtained two flags bearing the suffragette colours of purple, white and green from the WSPU offices; she then travelled by train to Epsom, Surrey, to attend the Derby. She positioned herself at Tattenham Corner, the final bend before the home straight. At this point in the race, with some of the horses having passed her, she ducked under the guard rail and ran onto the course; she may have held in her hands one of the suffragette flags. She reached up to the reins of Anmer—King George V's horse, ridden by
Statue of Millicent Fawcett The memorial was unveiled on 24 April 2018. The bronze statue portrays Millicent Fawcett at the age of 50, when she became president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The figure holds a banner reading , an extract from a speech Fawcett gave in 1920, seven years after the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. Fawcett was rather critical of Davison's actions in 1913, shortly after the latter's death (which was probably an accident caused by a failure to realise the speed – 40 mph or more – of a racing horse, and the subsequent danger