Portrait of Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer GCB GCMG GCVO GBE KStJ, 1857-1932, oil on canvas, English School Early XX Century, signed indistinctly, 89cm x 74cm, together with book 'Plumer' by Geoffrey Powell.

Plumer was commissioned into 65th Regiment of Foot (later 1st Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment) in 1876. He served with distinction in The Mahdist War at El Teb & Tamai (mentioned in dispatches) and in The Second Boer War at The Relief of Mafeking. By the outbreak of WWI he had achieved a senior rank and he is best remembered for his stunning attack on Messines Ridge in 1917.

Provenance - From The Regimental Headquarters of Army Reserve Unit, Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield.