Helga Gill

Helga Gill (1885–1928) was a Norwegian-British suffragette. She was an organiser for the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and campaigned on behalf of Women's Suffrage across the UK.

Early life Helga Gill was born in 1885 in Bergen, Norway to parents were Johan Klerk Gill and Karen Marie Ottilia Gill. She was their oldest child and had five siblings. Her mother died when she was a child, and Helga helped raise her brothers and sisters.

Work at NUWSS Helga Gill initially visited the United Kingdom for a holiday. She made friends with members of the politically prominent Corbett family, Marie and her daughters Cecily and Margery. Gill was speaking at suffrage meetings and was the organiser of the NUWSS by 1909. and frequently referenced her Norwegian origins in her speeches. Norway had given women partial suffrage in 1907, and so Gill's viewpoint of a voting woman was valued. By 1912 she was an Organiser for Oxford, Berks, and Bucks and was sent on a tour of Ireland by the NUWSS to promote women's suffrage. and by suffrage periodical The Common Cause.

Awards As a result of her wartime work in France, she was awarded the British War Medal, Victory Medal, Croix de Guerre, and the Médaille des Épidémies.