On this day — 8 January
209 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 January during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant James Alfred Cockroft
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Arthur Gratton
- Sergeant Thomas Alexander Kerr
- Pilot Officer Desmond Ludlow Payne
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter John Hanley Rowe
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Waters
1941
- Sergeant Ronald Cain
- Lieutenant Petrus Johannes De Villiers
- Air Mechanic Richard George Edwards
- Air Mechanic William Christoffel Els
- Air Sergeant Finlayson
- Sergeant John Mervyn Gladwell
- Lieutenant Nathan Lesar Gordon
- Air Mechanic Isaac Harry Grek
- Air Sergeant Richard Alfred H. Grey
- Sergeant William Edward Griswold
- Sergeant Geoffrey Arthur Haddon
- Sergeant Donald Albert Joseph
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Kellett
- Air Mechanic Edgar Gordon Lang
- Leading Aircraftman William George Lloyd
- Air Mechanic Richard Stephen Martin
- Air Sergeant Andries Albertis Nel
- Air Mechanic William Vivian Oliver
- Air Sergeant Walter Olivier
- Sergeant Peter Robert Peart
- Air Mechanic Robert Joseph Arthur Pennel
- Pilot Officer Anthony Ronald Quemby
- Air Sergeant Clement John Rivers
- Sergeant Archibald Sinclair Roberts
- Pilot Officer Sydney Charles Stone
- Pilot Officer Tom Eric Timmins
- Air Sergeant Coenraad Edward Van Aswegen
- Air Sergeant Isak Malherbe Van Niekerk
- Pilot Officer Charles Norman Walker
1942
- Sergeant Albert Sydney Austin
- Flying Officer Alan Rupert Baster
- Pilot Officer Robert Birnie
- Sergeant Thomas Frederick Burn
- Sergeant William Wallace Forgan
- Pilot Officer Jack Dewberry Gilliland
- Sergeant Sidd Goldsmith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Leslie Gregory
- Flying Officer Bernard Peter Hickey
- Sergeant Fred Hinton
- Sergeant Victor William Johnstone
- Sergeant Robert Salisbury Jones
- Leading Aircraftman John Keighley
- Pilot Officer George Forrester Squire Mackie
- Sergeant Bryan Arthur Mobberley
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander McDonald Morgan
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey George Noseley
- Leading Aircraftman Edward George Phillips
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Ward Robinson
- Sergeant Thomas Alexander Stott
- Leading Aircraftman Bede Bernard Sutton
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Neil Thomson
- Sergeant Edward Upton
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Jack Williams
- Flight Sergeant Gerard Charles Williams
- Sergeant Trevor Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Hubert Arthur Wilson
- Leading Aircraftman John Witts
- Pilot Officer Herbert Basil Wooler
1943
- Sergeant Neville Allison
- Pilot Officer John Gilbert Beck
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Vale Bridgeman
- Sergeant Patrick George Brogan
- Flying Officer George Evelyn Brooke Turner
- Sergeant Lewin Stevens Cubitt
- Leading Aircraftman William Dale
- Pilot Officer Peter Newman Dix
- Flight Sergeant Harold George Dyer
- Sergeant Phillip Stanley Fisher
- Sergeant Kenneth Wilfred Young Fison
- Sergeant Edwin John Charles Florey
- Warrant Officer Alan Dick Foote
- Flight Lieutenant John Francombe
- Flying Officer Richard Paul Frayn
- Pilot Officer Allan Thomas Gell
- Sergeant Kenneth Hall
- Pilot Officer Ralph Trever Hanbidge
- Corporal John Darby Harris
- Flying Officer Reginald Lionel Reddy Hepburn
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Hope Hillary
- Flight Sergeant Harold Albert Horton
- Sergeant James William Humphries
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Kiernan
- Pilot Officer Oswald Theodore Percy King
- Warrant Officer Leonard Courtney Laver
- Sergeant George Longbottom
- Sergeant William David Macrae
- Sergeant Eric Charles Mantell
- Leading Air Mechanic Aron Marcus
- Flight Sergeant David Merriman May
- Sergeant Charles Arthur Patrick McCabe
- Leading Aircraftman John Thomas McCarthy
- Sergeant Munro McKenzie
- Sergeant William Thomas McLennan
- Sergeant Jack Haig Medlyn
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Mills
- Sergeant George Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant David Haynes Barcham Powell
- Sergeant Douglas Robert Ramsay
- Sergeant Reginald Warren Robinson
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Wyndham Rose
- Flight Sergeant Eric Frank Saggers
- Flying Officer Frank Blelock Samuel
- Sergeant Benjamin Watson Shearer
- Sergeant Russell Bruce Douglas Shield
- Sergeant Ernest Arthur Sisson
- Flight Sergeant David Alexander Smith
- Sergeant Maxwell Wilson Stephenson
- Sergeant Leslie Edmund Thomas
- Flying Officer Edward Walter Vogelsang
- Leading Aircraftman Michel Voss
- Sergeant Robert Wardrop
- Pilot Officer Albert Mercier Wark
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Verdun Woyce
- Corporal Arthur Yates-dutton
1944
- Flight Lieutenant Richmond Dean Bamford
- Sergeant Peter Sidney Barlow
- Leading Aircraftman John Broadhurst
- Corporal Kenneth Henry Butcher
- Flying Officer Ian Alister Colquhoun
- Sergeant John Vincent Dadson
- Flight Sergeant David Fisher Davies
- Sergeant Robert Smith Eminsang
- Flying Officer Francis Kent Evans
- Flying Officer Laurence James Frost
- Sergeant Alfred George Fuller
- Leading Aircraftman James Galvin
- Sergeant Edgar Roy Henkel
- Warrant Officer Class I James Andrew Horton
- Leading Aircraftman William Lawrie Howie
- Sergeant Thomas Samuel Howlett
- Flying Officer Peter John Hugo
- Warrant Officer Class II Henry John Hyde
- Pilot Officer Harry Murray Kennedy
- Flight Sergeant Jack David Luckhurst
- Corporal Iorwerth James (jim) Mills-roberts
- Sergeant Charles Parker
- Warrant Officer Dennis Poulton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Louis George Rambert
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Le Gordon Read
- Flying Officer Merton Lambert Horfield Rose
- Sergeant Kenneth Henry Rosewell
- Sergeant Victor Albert Edward Theedom
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Percy Thompson
- Corporal Maurice Thomson
- Sergeant Edwin Thripp
- Warrant Officer Class I William Joseph Toner
- Corporal Albert Edward Turner
- Sergeant Clarence Burdett Wallace
- Corporal Reginald Joseph Whipple
- Sergeant Stanley Whiteley
1945
- Flying Officer John Donald Stewart Barkell
- Flight Sergeant Colin Edward Hunter Barnfield
- Corporal Charles Arnold Beatty
- Sergeant John Rudolph Bensemann
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Bright Bruckner
- Flying Officer John Harvey Clark
- Flying Officer Owen Munro Wovenden Clarson
- Pilot Officer Grant Durnan
- Flight Sergeant Verne Douglas Elliott
- Flying Officer George Fong
- Flight Sergeant Harry Phillip Forster
- Flight Sergeant John Danckert Gloury
- Pilot Officer John Gynane
- Squadron Leader Henry Crawford Haley
- Flying Officer Robert Donald Keith Hanbidge
- Flying Officer James Hornoi
- Flying Officer George Arthur Humberstone
- Wing Commander James Heathcote Humphris
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Ross Hutchins
- Flight Sergeant Frank Hutchinson
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Ross Joslin
- Flying Officer George Bruce Lawrence
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Hadley Roderick Macaulay
- Flight Sergeant John Garwood Mackay
- Flight Sergeant Alick James Makeham
- Flying Officer Milton Alexander Mathieson
- Flying Officer John Kenneth McLean
- Flying Officer William Andrew McNamee
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Walter Mitchell
- Warrant Officer Rex Keith Niederer
- Pilot Officer Clifford Thomas Pollard
- Flight Sergeant Leonard John Porter
- Flight Sergeant Wayne John Rahkola
- Sergeant Robert Rickeard
- Flying Officer Norman Geoffrey Riley
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Arthur Robins
- Flight Sergeant Noel George Sandlant
- Flight Sergeant Laurance Julius Saulwick
- Flight Sergeant Stephanos Servos
- Flying Officer Walter Young James Soper
- Wing Commander Norman John Starr
- Flight Sergeant Bert Lloyd Stevenson
- Flying Officer Kenneth Albert Stroh
- Flying Officer Jean Paul Herbert Terreau
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Cuthbert Thorn
- Flight Sergeant Alan Bruce Tunnock
- Flight Sergeant Albert Eldon Wells
- Flying Officer Albert Howard Williams
- Flight Sergeant Herbert John Williams
- Corporal Wright