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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 1097

The portrait miniature of Major W. M. Churchill, 12th Cavalry, Indian Army

Portrait miniature, image 70mm x 90mm, signed 'Th. Meyendorff', in glazed wooden frame with leather backing with strut for table display, image generally in very good condition

Wandril Maurice Churchill, was the husband of Eileen Mary Churchill, whom he married in 1912. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was commissioned from the Northampton Regiment and served with the Bengal Lancers and Cavalry Corps, being grievously wounded at Gallipoli during the Great War. Having earned the Order of St. Anne, 3rd Class, he died of pneumonia, following influenza on 4 November 1918 and is buried in St. Peter’s Churchyard, Broadstairs, Kent. Following his death, his widow married Admiral V. H. G. Bernard, Royal Navy.

The artist who executed this work is likely Baron Theophile Von Meyendorff.

Sold together with a studio photograph and leather-bound Notes on the War Services of the XII Cavalry, printed at Lahore in 1908.

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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£120