R.A.F. Badge: Bomber Squadron 215 (Original)

Artist: 20th Century unidentified artist
Medium: Watercolour on Paper
Size: 8" x 12" (210mm x 300mm)
Date: c. 1950
Code: 20thRAFSq215

This is the unique original Watercolour painting by artist unknown.

This is a very rare original painting by an unknown artist, produced for an unpublished run of cigarette cards featuring R.A.F. badges, most likely by John Player & Sons Cigarettes.

This artwork features the badge of the R.A.F. Bomber Squadron 215.

The RAF Bomber Squadron 215 motto was "Surgite nox adest", which is Latin for "Arise, night is at hand".

This motto reflects the squadron's operations during the Second World War, where they flew long-range bomber missions, such as those conducted with Vickers Wellingtons, Consolidated Liberators, and Douglas Dakotas.

No. 215 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force aircraft squadron formed as a night bomber squadron in the First and Second World Wars, becoming a transport squadron near the end of the Second World War.