diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index 459b755..8d29344 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -47,3 +47,4 @@
 | Radosław Jan Ganczarek <radoslaw@ganczarek.in>
 | Lucas Wiman <lucas.wiman@gmail.com>
 | Jack Cushman <jcushman@law.harvard.edu>
+| Daniel Andrlik <daniel@andrlik.org>
diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index cdc681d..e37c172 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ master (unreleased)
 - Fix handling of deferred attributes on Django 1.10+, fixes GH-278
 - Fix `FieldTracker.has_changed()` and `FieldTracker.previous()` to return
   correct responses for deferred fields.
+- Update AutoLastModifiedField so that at instance creation it will
+  always be set equal to created to make querying easier. Fixes GH-254
 - Support `reversed` for all kinds of `Choices` objects, fixes GH-309
 - Fix Model instance non picklable GH-330
 
diff --git a/model_utils/fields.py b/model_utils/fields.py
index d9d9b85..2799eac 100644
--- a/model_utils/fields.py
+++ b/model_utils/fields.py
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ class AutoLastModifiedField(AutoCreatedField):
     """
     def pre_save(self, model_instance, add):
         value = now()
+        if not model_instance.pk:
+            for field in model_instance._meta.get_fields():
+                if isinstance(field, AutoCreatedField):
+                    value = getattr(model_instance, field.name)
+                    break
         setattr(model_instance, self.attname, value)
         return value
 
diff --git a/tests/test_models/test_timestamped_model.py b/tests/test_models/test_timestamped_model.py
index 8760411..cac07f3 100644
--- a/tests/test_models/test_timestamped_model.py
+++ b/tests/test_models/test_timestamped_model.py
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ class TimeStampedModelTests(TestCase):
             t1 = TimeStamp.objects.create()
         self.assertEqual(t1.created, datetime(2016, 1, 1))
 
+    def test_created_sets_modified(self):
+        '''
+        Ensure that on creation that modifed is set exactly equal to created.
+        '''
+        t1 = TimeStamp.objects.create()
+        self.assertEqual(t1.created, t1.modified)
+
     def test_modified(self):
         with freeze_time(datetime(2016, 1, 1)):
             t1 = TimeStamp.objects.create()