diff --git a/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/office-ui-fabric-react-5002_2018-05-26-00-58.json b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/office-ui-fabric-react-5002_2018-05-26-00-58.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..f63c620a342282
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/office-ui-fabric-react-5002_2018-05-26-00-58.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+      "comment": "Fix passing onclick from props for contextual anchor item",
+      "type": "patch"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+  "email": "kabalas@microsoft.com"
+}
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diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenuItemWrapper/ContextualMenuAnchor.tsx b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenuItemWrapper/ContextualMenuAnchor.tsx
index 8544bf7797eb34..1b0b8d5bcca253 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenuItemWrapper/ContextualMenuAnchor.tsx
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenuItemWrapper/ContextualMenuAnchor.tsx
@@ -97,4 +97,11 @@ export class ContextualMenuAnchor extends ContextualMenuItemWrapper {
   protected _getSubmenuTarget = (): HTMLElement | undefined => {
     return this._anchor.current ? this._anchor.current : undefined;
   }
+
+  protected _onItemClick = (ev: React.MouseEvent<HTMLElement>): void => {
+    const { item, onItemClick } = this.props;
+    if (onItemClick) {
+      onItemClick(item, ev);
+    }
+  }
 }
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diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/examples/ContextualMenu.Basic.Example.tsx b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/examples/ContextualMenu.Basic.Example.tsx
index b3f9ac39554ac3..bace573f8960cb 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/examples/ContextualMenu.Basic.Example.tsx
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/examples/ContextualMenu.Basic.Example.tsx
@@ -56,6 +56,16 @@ export class ContextualMenuBasicExample extends React.Component {
                 href: 'http://bing.com',
                 target: '_blank'
               },
+              {
+                key: 'linkWithOnClick',
+                name: 'Link click',
+                href: 'http://bing.com',
+                onClick: (ev: React.MouseEvent<HTMLAnchorElement | HTMLButtonElement>) => {
+                  alert('Link clicked');
+                  ev.preventDefault();
+                },
+                target: '_blank'
+              },
               {
                 key: 'disabled',
                 name: 'Disabled item',