Winston Churchill letter sells for £800 at Shrewsbury auction
A letter signed by Sir Winston Churchill sold for £800 at a militaria auction in Shrewsbury yesterday.
The letter, dated January, 1918, congratulated a subordinate in the Ministry of Munitions on being recognised with a CBE towards the end of the First World War.
It also informed Henry Piggott, who received both the CBE and CB and was later knighted, that Churchill had recommended him to the Prime Minister for the award whilst serving as Minister of Munitions. At the time Piggott was Assistant Secretary of the Ministry.
As a result of the ‘shells crises’ of 1915, David Lloyd George took over as Minister of Munitions and radically reorganised Britain’s shell supply before being succeeded in July 1917 by Churchill.
The letter went under the hammer at fine art auction house Halls.
