An original First World War sketch of three founding figures from the earliest days of British military aviation - Winston S. Churchill, Hugh Montague Trenchard, and Edward Louis Gerrard

by Artist: unknown

$1,450 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

Circa 1919. This large, compelling, circa First World War original sketch features three founding figures from the earliest days of British military aviation. Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, is featured in his aviation kit, accompanied by Hugh Trenchard and E. L. Gerrard, as well as two unidentified airmen. The sketch is based on a photograph that appeared on 21 June 1914 in the Swedish magazine Hvar 8 Dag.As pictured in the sketch, Churchill had just

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