diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 986385d03..5e1d3fa8e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Changelog
  * Fix: Search no longer crashes when auto-indexing a model that doesn't have an id field (Scot Hacker)
  * Fix: The `wagtailfrontendcache` module's HTTP backend has been rewritten to reliably direct requests to the configured cache hostname
  * Fix: Resizing single pixel images with the "fill" filter no longer raises "ZeroDivisionError" or "tile cannot extend outside image"
+ * Fix: The queryset returned from `search` operations when using the database search backend now correctly preserves additional properties of the original query, such as `prefetch_related` / `select_related`
 
 
 1.0 (16.07.2015)
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.1.rst b/docs/releases/1.1.rst
index 0ed3c4c9e..1ec77917a 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.1.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/1.1.rst
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Bug fixes
  * Search no longer crashes when auto-indexing a model that doesn't have an ``id`` field
  * The ``wagtailfrontendcache`` module's HTTP backend has been rewritten to reliably direct requests to the configured cache hostname
  * Resizing single pixel images with the "fill" filter no longer raises "ZeroDivisionError" or "tile cannot extend outside image"
+ * The queryset returned from ``search`` operations when using the database search backend now correctly preserves additional properties of the original query, such as ``prefetch_related`` / ``select_related``
 
 
 Upgrade considerations
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailcore/tests/test_page_queryset.py b/wagtail/wagtailcore/tests/test_page_queryset.py
index 9c4f3e7b7..c9913bc9c 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailcore/tests/test_page_queryset.py
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailcore/tests/test_page_queryset.py
@@ -410,3 +410,17 @@ class TestSpecificQuery(TestCase):
             Page.objects.get(url_path='/home/events/christmas/').specific,
             Page.objects.get(url_path='/home/events/').specific,
             Page.objects.get(url_path='/home/about-us/').specific])
+
+    def test_specific_query_with_search(self):
+        # 1276 - The database search backend didn't return results with the
+        # specific type when searching a specific queryset.
+
+        pages = list(Page.objects.specific().live().in_menu().search(None, backend='wagtail.wagtailsearch.backends.db'))
+
+        # Check that each page is in the queryset with the correct type.
+        # We don't care about order here
+        self.assertEqual(len(pages), 4)
+        self.assertIn(Page.objects.get(url_path='/home/other/').specific, pages)
+        self.assertIn(Page.objects.get(url_path='/home/events/christmas/').specific, pages)
+        self.assertIn(Page.objects.get(url_path='/home/events/').specific, pages)
+        self.assertIn(Page.objects.get(url_path='/home/about-us/').specific, pages)
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailsearch/backends/db.py b/wagtail/wagtailsearch/backends/db.py
index 2e789973e..e7e32fce0 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailsearch/backends/db.py
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailsearch/backends/db.py
@@ -22,10 +22,12 @@ class DBSearchQuery(BaseSearchQuery):
 
         return q
 
-    def get_q(self):
-        # Get filters as a q object
-        q = self._get_filters_from_queryset()
+    def get_extra_q(self):
+        # Run _get_filters_from_queryset to test that no fields that are not
+        # a FilterField have been used in the query.
+        self._get_filters_from_queryset()
 
+        q = models.Q()
         model = self.queryset.model
 
         if self.query_string is not None:
@@ -57,10 +59,10 @@ class DBSearchQuery(BaseSearchQuery):
 
 class DBSearchResults(BaseSearchResults):
     def get_queryset(self):
-        model = self.query.queryset.model
-        q = self.query.get_q()
+        queryset = self.query.queryset
+        q = self.query.get_extra_q()
 
-        return model.objects.filter(q).distinct()[self.start:self.stop]
+        return queryset.filter(q).distinct()[self.start:self.stop]
 
     def _do_search(self):
         return self.get_queryset()