[5] Throughout 1913 and 1914 she campaigned including speaking against the 'Cat and Mouse Act' and force-feeding of women to a public meeting at the Wallace Statue, in Aberdeen,[6] wrote many letters to the press and was regularly removed from public meetings for being disruptive,[1] again in the Music Hall Aberdeen, she planned to disrupt Irish M.P, T.P.

[6] On another occasion, disguised in widow's tweeds and glasses, she managed to get into a Labour meeting held by Ramsay MacDonald in the Gilfillan Memorial Hall, but was roughly dragged out by eight burly men – an onlooker describes this as "one of the strongest arguments for women’s suffrage that I have ever seen.

"[4] At the outbreak of war in 1914 she enlisted as a nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment at Caird Hospital, Dundee.

In 1916 she joined Margaret Damer Dawson's Women Police Service, working first in a munitions factory[2] and then serving in London as a Constable, then a Sergeant and, by 1918, had reached the rank of Sub-Inspector.

[3] She was then selected as a David Lloyd George supporting Liberal candidate for Leeds South East constituency for the general election.