Dedicated to the memory of Elva Blacker
This site is a tribute to Sgt Elva Blacker. Elva was an MT driver in the WAAF during WW2 and was stationed primarily at Biggin Hill.
As an artist, Elva used her spare time to paint the portraits of over 1000 pilots and ground crew, creating a lasting and unrivaled record of life at the worlds most famous fighter station. These paintings are now owned by the RAF Museum and can be viewed in their online collections.
After her demobbing, Elva arranged many exhibitions of her work, often donating sale proceeds to the RABF.
I wish to honor her life and work and over time raise money in her name.
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We hope that you find it a positive experience developing the site and that it becomes a place of comfort and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.
Sent by RAF Benevolent Fund on 20/09/2018
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.
Extract from a poem by Henry Scott Holland