diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index c785d23c77..d40be39dc9 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ All (GUI):
 - Add support for style="page-break-inside:avoid" to <div> in wxHTML.
 - Support strike-through in wxDataViewItem attributes (approach, Igor Korot).
 - Allow distinguishing between user- and script-opened windows in wxWebView.
+- Allow binding to events generated by their items in submenus too.
 
 wxGTK:
 
diff --git a/interface/wx/menu.h b/interface/wx/menu.h
index 3157e3a75b..ace479f0dc 100644
--- a/interface/wx/menu.h
+++ b/interface/wx/menu.h
@@ -482,18 +482,20 @@ public:
 
     @section menu_eventhandling Event handling
 
-    If the menu is part of a menubar, then wxMenuBar event processing is used.
+    Event handlers for the commands generated by the menu items can be
+    connected directly to the menu object itself using wxEvtHandler::Bind(). If
+    this menu is a submenu of another one, the events from its items can also
+    be processed in the parent menu and so on, recursively.
 
-    With a popup menu (see wxWindow::PopupMenu), there is a variety of ways to
-    handle a menu selection event (@c wxEVT_MENU):
-    - Provide @c EVT_MENU handlers in the window which pops up the menu, or in an
-      ancestor of that window (the simplest method);
-    - Derive a new class from wxMenu and define event table entries using the @c EVT_MENU macro;
-    - Set a new event handler for wxMenu, through wxEvtHandler::SetNextHandler,
-      specifying an object whose class has @c EVT_MENU entries;
+    If the menu is part of a menu bar, then events can also be handled in
+    wxMenuBar object.
 
-    Note that instead of static @c EVT_MENU macros you can also use dynamic
-    connection; see @ref overview_events_bind.
+    Finally, menu events can also be handled in the associated window, which is
+    either the wxFrame associated with the menu bar this menu belongs to or the
+    window for which wxWindow::PopupMenu() was called for the popup menus.
+
+    See @ref overview_events_bind for how to bind event handlers to the various
+    objects.
 
     @library{wxcore}
     @category{menus}
diff --git a/src/common/menucmn.cpp b/src/common/menucmn.cpp
index 7c12f30765..1c6fd085df 100644
--- a/src/common/menucmn.cpp
+++ b/src/common/menucmn.cpp
@@ -648,11 +648,12 @@ bool wxMenuBase::DoProcessEvent(wxMenuBase* menu, wxEvent& event, wxWindow* win)
 {
     event.SetEventObject(menu);
 
-    if ( menu )
-    {
-        wxMenuBar* const mb = menu->GetMenuBar();
+    wxMenuBar* const mb = menu ? menu->GetMenuBar() : NULL;
 
-        // Try the menu's event handler first
+    // Process event in the menu itself and all its parent menus, if it's a
+    // submenu, first.
+    for ( ; menu; menu = menu->GetParent() )
+    {
         wxEvtHandler *handler = menu->GetEventHandler();
         if ( handler )
         {
@@ -666,19 +667,19 @@ bool wxMenuBase::DoProcessEvent(wxMenuBase* menu, wxEvent& event, wxWindow* win)
             if ( handler->SafelyProcessEvent(event) )
                 return true;
         }
+    }
 
-        // If this menu is part of the menu bar, try the event there. this
-        if ( mb )
-        {
-            if ( mb->HandleWindowEvent(event) )
-                return true;
+    // If this menu is part of the menu bar, try the event there.
+    if ( mb )
+    {
+        if ( mb->HandleWindowEvent(event) )
+            return true;
 
-            // If this already propagated it upwards to the window containing
-            // the menu bar, we don't have to handle it in this window again
-            // below.
-            if ( event.ShouldPropagate() )
-                return false;
-        }
+        // If this already propagated it upwards to the window containing
+        // the menu bar, we don't have to handle it in this window again
+        // below.
+        if ( event.ShouldPropagate() )
+            return false;
     }
 
     // Try the window the menu was popped up from.
diff --git a/src/msw/menu.cpp b/src/msw/menu.cpp
index 4ebd6a5d2d..4705b802c9 100644
--- a/src/msw/menu.cpp
+++ b/src/msw/menu.cpp
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ bool wxMenu::MSWCommand(WXUINT WXUNUSED(param), WXWORD id_)
             }
         }
 
-        SendEvent(id, checked);
+        item->GetMenu()->SendEvent(id, checked);
     }
 
     return true;
diff --git a/tests/events/propagation.cpp b/tests/events/propagation.cpp
index 8c58d662fd..c0d302b7ee 100644
--- a/tests/events/propagation.cpp
+++ b/tests/events/propagation.cpp
@@ -445,11 +445,14 @@ wxMenu* CreateTestMenu(wxFrame* frame)
 // reliable than using wxUIActionSimulator and currently works in all ports as
 // they all call wxMenuBase::SendEvent() from their respective menu event
 // handlers.
-#define ASSERT_MENU_EVENT_RESULT(menu, result) \
-    g_str.clear();                             \
-    menu->SendEvent(wxID_APPLY);               \
+#define ASSERT_MENU_EVENT_RESULT_FOR(cmd, menu, result) \
+    g_str.clear();                                      \
+    menu->SendEvent(cmd);                               \
     CHECK( g_str == result )
 
+#define ASSERT_MENU_EVENT_RESULT(menu, result) \
+    ASSERT_MENU_EVENT_RESULT_FOR(wxID_APPLY, menu, result)
+
 void EventPropagationTestCase::MenuEvent()
 {
     wxFrame* const frame = static_cast<wxFrame*>(wxTheApp->GetTopWindow());
@@ -472,6 +475,17 @@ void EventPropagationTestCase::MenuEvent()
     ASSERT_MENU_EVENT_RESULT( menu, "aomA" );
 
 
+    // Check that a handler can also be attached to a submenu.
+    wxMenu* const submenu = new wxMenu;
+    submenu->Append(wxID_ABOUT);
+    menu->Append(wxID_ANY, "Submenu", submenu);
+
+    TestMenuEvtHandler hs('s'); // 's' for "submenu"
+    submenu->SetNextHandler(&hs);
+    wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_OBJ1( *submenu,
+                          wxEvtHandler::SetNextHandler, (wxEvtHandler*)NULL );
+    ASSERT_MENU_EVENT_RESULT_FOR( wxID_ABOUT, submenu, "aosomA" );
+
     // Test that the event handler associated with the menu bar gets the event.
     TestMenuEvtHandler hb('b'); // 'b' for "menu Bar"
     mb->PushEventHandler(&hb);