A portrait of Martin Ernest Lashmore by Henry Lamb. According to the son of the sitter, Lashmore sat for a painting but he was sent to the Far East to serve on Mountbatten's staff and the painting was never completed. Lashmore was born in 1911 and went to Dartmouth at 13. He joined the Fleet Air Arm in the 1930s. He flew Walrus, Swordfish and Albacore and served on Ark Royal, Eagle and a seaplane carrier during the Second World War. Lashmore was Lieutenant-Commander of the Naval Air Squadron in Malta in 1943, was awarded the DSCO, and DSO ‘for bravery in successful air-attacks on the enemy in the Mediterranean’.
Postwar, Lashmore was a deputy director of Naval Intelligence and was awarded an OBE. He died in 1996. [information supplied by the family of the sitter, 09/14].