Jock Elliott delivered this eulogy for his father Peter on 8 June 1998 If the measure of a man is how many people turn up to his funeral on a cold and rainy day, then Peter Elliott was a pretty remarkable man. Those of you here today have known Pete Continue Reading
A Different Tune
Speech by Jock Elliott Aug 1998 Elvis Presley is alive and well and working in a diner in Dayton Ohio. People say they’ve seen him there, so of course, it must be true. And 3.7 million Americans have been abducted by aliens, or so it says in the National Enquirer, Continue Reading
Peter the pilot finds his peace at last on St.Lucia
from On the move with Earl Dowdy “The Sunday News” CASTRIES, St Lucia –His smiling, suntanned face and ample girth offer abundant proof that Peter Elliott has tried to enjoy life since surviving the flak-filled skies over Germany in World War II. But even after 30 years, he still finds Continue Reading
Archibald Prize
These are the 3 subjects that Peter painted and submitted as a finalist for the Archibald. Whereabouts of 2 of these paintings unknown. However, the portrait of H Talbot Sanderson, Esq resides with the Sanderson family in Tamworth, NSW. The winner in 1953 was artist Ivor Hele with portrait of Continue Reading
National Gallery
What Joan Said …
One of Pete’s friends rang this morning to have a chat. He said he remembered Pete one day shopping in Halesowen Cantre , walking along the street holding a book in one hand trying to read and a shopping bag in the other. And smoke coming out of his jacket Continue Reading
Lady Cobham
Newspaper Clipping: Portrait of a Lady A Halesowen artist unveiled his latest portrait this week, which he is hoping will be the third of his works to be exhibited in the annual Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition in London. Peter Elliott, aged 59 of Mendip Road, Halesowen was commissioned Continue Reading
Record of Service
This first page describes how his flying log book was badly damaged in a domestic flood; some photos, one of himself and another bomber PatMcCarthy, after investiture at Buckingham Palace (where the King told him he was a ‘good lad’) The above page chronicles his flying operations during WW2. His Continue Reading
Interrupted Melody
My brother Andrew remembers being with Pete for the day during the promotion for the film “Interrupted Melody”. The film is an autobiographical account of Marjorie Lawrence, an Australian opera singer who falls victim to polio, marries her doctor and then has a major comeback. It starred Glenn Ford, Eleanor Continue Reading