Lieutenant Colonel Harry Whitehill DSO, wearing the uniform of his former regiment, the City of London Yeomanry (Roughriders), 1935

Oil on canvas by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (1880-1952), exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, No. 11, 1935.

Three-quarter-length portrait, seated to right, with a peaked forage cap on his knee.

Harry Whitehill (1872-1958) changed his surname from Weisberg after World War One (1914-1918). A veteran of the Boer War (1899-1902), Trooper Weisberg (6416) is recorded in the South African Field Force Casualty List as being slightly wounded at Senekal on 25 May 1900. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order at the end of World War One, having served at Gallipoli, in Palestine and on the Western Front, with the City of London Yeomanry and on attachment to the Machine Gun Corps. He was confirmed as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1920. Whitehill served in the Home Guard during World War Two (1939-1945).