Elspeth Candlish Green (née Henderson; 16 June 1913 – 24 August 2006) was an NCO and officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF).
She was a plotter during the Battle of Britain, serving at Biggin Hill where she won the Military Medal for her bravery during repeated air raids.
In January 1940, she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, was given two weeks of training as a plotter, and then posted to RAF Biggin Hill – a front-line base in the Battle of Britain.
[1] When her operations room received a direct hit, she was knocked down by the bomb blast but continued to stay on the line until she was ordered to leave the burning building and had to exit through a broken window.
[4] In November 1940, she and two other WAAFs at Biggin Hill – Helen Turner and Elizabeth Mortimer – were awarded the Military Medal for "courage and example of a high order".