Sir Cyril Harry Colquhoun
(1903-1996), Major-GeneralSitter in 1 portrait
by Walter Bird
bromide print, 30 April 1963
NPG x166679
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Simon Collins
26 July 2017, 17:00
I am his great Nephew. He married my great Aunt, Stella Rose, in India in between WW1 and WW2. He was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa in 1903. He served with distinction in the Royal Artillery and saw active service at Dunkirk in 1940. At the end of his regimental service he was Colonel Commandant of the Regiment relinquishing this post on 16th August 1968. He saw Royal household service as an equerry to HM Queen Elizabeth 11 and on the 17th August 1968 her majesty appointed him as a Gentleman Usher as was reported in the London Gazette of 20th August 1968.
Ironically the portrait in your possession was commissioned in the year of my birth, 1963 when he was 60 years of age.
He lived a long and peaceful retirement in the Oxfordshire village of Shennington with his wife Stella before he passed away aged 93 in 1996.