On this day — 8 February
214 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 February during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Pilot Officer Robert Atkinson
- Sergeant Robert Wilson Baker
- Sergeant James John Castleman Batty
- Sergeant Neil Colin (jim) Boyle
- Pilot Officer Adam Wilson Burnet
- Sergeant Edward Frederick (ted) Carter
- Sergeant Edward Cottingham
- Sergeant Arthur Crooks
- Flying Officer Lawrence Elwood Cryderman
- Sergeant Robert Ellis
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bernard Feeney
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Alfred George Graham
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Mons Head
- Wing Commander William Tatham Holmes
- Squadron Leader Phillip Cutliffe Lawrence
- Sergeant Terry Le Dong
- Sergeant Hugh Denis McNabb
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Richard Pearson
- Sergeant George Wallace Poulton
- Pilot Officer Peter Edward Renniker
- Sergeant Frederick George Roy
- Pilot Officer Thomas Henry Scorror
- Pilot Officer Eric Alan Tingey
- Sergeant Robert Tod Tomlinson
- Flying Officer Henry Colin Paris Turney
- Pupil Pilot Bruce Mitchell Wellbeloved
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Willis
1942
- Sergeant Samuel Appley
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Shenton Aucott
- Flight Sergeant Louis Joseph Raymond Bechard
- Sergeant Arthur Fred Boucher
- Sergeant Leonard Newall Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond George Carter
- Sergeant Arthur Kenneth Cobb
- Sergeant Joe Crossley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Saunders Christmas Davies
- Flight Sergeant William Robert Donaldson
- Sergeant Alexander Tait Donkin
- Sergeant Henry Lyndon Downes
- Flight Sergeant Guy Wilton Elwell
- Flight Lieutenant John Denys Fletcher
- Sergeant Thomas Reginald Gamble
- Sergeant William Herbert Griffiths
- Pilot Officer Samuel Nicholas Hackforth
- Sergeant Stanley Gordon Hagell
- Sergeant James Graham Hardie
- Sergeant Eric Geoffrey Hatch
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Hawthorne
- Flight Sergeant Brian Patrick Hoare
- Sergeant Leslie James Hodson
- Pilot Officer William Hollingsworth
- Sergeant Rowland Geoffrey Holmes
- Flight Sergeant Edward George Jenner
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert John Joyner
- Sergeant John Rainsford Keith
- Sergeant John James Knight
- Pilot Officer Gunnar Krogsbol
- Sergeant Thomas Lawrence
- Sergeant Andrew Lawrie
- Sergeant Charles Lee
- Sergeant Frank Llewellyn
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Henry Gabriel Matthews
- Pilot Officer John Ryan McCulloch
- Sergeant Hugh John McDowall
- Sergeant Leslie George John Mizen
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Granville Morris
- Flight Lieutenant James Manson Ogilvie
- Flight Sergeant Norman Nelson Palmer
- Sergeant Jack Randolph Pierce
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Edward Charles Pollard
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Crowninshield Pound
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Dufton Preston
- Sergeant Joseph Pringle
- Pilot Officer Donald Frederick Read
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cecil John Richardson
- Pilot Officer Denis John Richardson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Liddle Scott
- Sergeant Archibald Smith
- Sergeant Walter Graham Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Erick William Tate
- Sergeant Paul Antoine Van De Walle De Ghelcke
- Sergeant Douglas Frederick James Ward
- Flight Sergeant Walter Ware
- Leading Aircraftman James Stanley Watts
- Sergeant Will Lawrence Brockie Wright
1943
- Sergeant Archibald John Adams
- Sergeant Wilfred John Adams
- Flight Sergeant James Robert Carl Barton
- Warrant Officer Class II Harry Gordon Black
- Sergeant Alfred Leslie Bond
- Sergeant Hubert John Burnham
- Leading Aircraftman Beatty Elwood Campbell
- Warrant Officer Class II Cornelius John Carmody
- Sergeant Leslie Harold Curtis
- Sergeant Philip Gordon Cust
- Sergeant Robert William Drury
- Sergeant Philip Llewellyn Edmond
- Leading Aircraftman Saul Endleman
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Macivor Given
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Eugene Gullison
- Sergeant John Edward Hogan
- Flight Sergeant Donald Hood
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Jack Hookings
- Sergeant Arthur Howells
- Sergeant John Hunter
- Sergeant Leonard Vernon Jackson
- Corporal Basil Kapusta
- Sergeant Alan Knight
- Sergeant Wallace Harold Macdonald
- Sergeant Stanley Wallis Marshall
- Flying Officer John Whitla Millar
- Sergeant Leonard Granville (len) Moseley
- Sergeant Oliver Ormrod Openshaw
- Sergeant Arthur Page
- Corporal Ernest John (jack) Paget
- Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth Mitchell Perkins
- Sergeant Charles Hugh Eddie Ross
- Leading Aircraftman Harold James Sapsed
- Flight Sergeant William Wilson Scrimgeour
- Pilot Officer Edward Charles Sherwood Seller
- Lieutenant James Marshall Shannon
- Corporal James Simpson
- Flight Sergeant Harry Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Roy Swain
- Sergeant Thomas James Thompson
- Squadron Leader Pieter Robert Marie Van Der Heijden
- Sergeant George Taylor Vincent
- Sergeant Harold Theodore Waddell
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Walton
- Warrant Officer Class II George Randal Woollatt
1944
- Pilot Officer Arthur Robson Armitage
- Flying Officer Thomas Wilfred Baptie
- Sergeant Alan Peyman Bashforth
- Flying Officer Gerald Dennis Carroll
- Pilot Officer Joseph Lucien Anatole Champoux
- Sergeant Ronald Denis Clement
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Charles Climpson
- Sergeant John Robert Colnet
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Arthur Austin Croskell
- Sergeant Frederick William Samuel Cross
- Flying Officer John Downes
- Flight Sergeant Percy Ellenbogen
- Sergeant Harold Findler
- Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
- Sergeant Reginald Gordon Graves
- Flying Officer Edward Hanson
- Sergeant John Lomax Harrison
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Charles Hildage
- Flying Officer Harold John Hirst
- Warrant Officer Ronald Percy Holmes
- Sergeant Charles Alexander Irvine
- Flying Officer John Howard Irwin
- Sergeant Stanley Gordon Johnson
- Sergeant Alfred Cecil Jones
- Leading Aircraftman William Jones
- Pilot Officer Joseph Emile Jean Baptiste G. Lussier
- Pilot Officer Robert Macgillivray
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Gordon Marshall
- Flight Sergeant Thomas William Matthews
- Flight Sergeant Neil James McCook
- Captain Meiring
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Sydney Milford
- Pilot Officer Alvin James Ness
- Flight Lieutenant Keith Wells (peter) Noble
- Corporal Basil Pleavin
- Sergeant Kenneth William Radford
- Sergeant Ronald Henry Ramsey
- Flying Officer Arthur Edward Reid
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alan Lynton Richardson
- Flying Officer John Riddell
- Sergeant Harold Scholes
- Sergeant Arthur James Sims
- Flight Sergeant Neville Walker Smethurst
- Flight Sergeant James Alvin Taylor
- Sergeant Peter Theodore Thompson
- Pilot Officer Russell Urban
- Sergeant William Varley
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Vizard
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Waite
- Flight Lieutenant James Arthur Walker
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Clay Whitehurst
- Sergeant Bernard Roy Wilde
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Kitchener Wilson
- Pilot Officer Raymond Frank Woodiwiss
- Sergeant Gordon Stanley Woodrow
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Bickerstaffe Woods
1945
- Squadron Leader Alexander Hallam Baird
- Lieutenant Black
- Air Mechanic Daniel Brazer
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Oliver Cameron
- Flight Sergeant Raey Hilton Cheatle
- Wing Commander John Keith Douglas
- Warrant Officer Class II John Edward Fitzpatrick
- Flight Lieutenant Peter John Hedderwick
- Flying Officer Harold Thomas Hesketh
- Pilot Officer Arthur Percy Hoare
- Captain Jenkinson
- Flight Lieutenant Gerard Stansfield Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Peter Leeton Kirkpatrick
- Flight Sergeant James Livingston Macdonald
- Flight Lieutenant George Keith Malcolmson
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Mangos
- Pilot Officer Joseph Francis Edward Moyle
- Pilot Officer John Barrie Nanscawen
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Robert Normoyle
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Cecil Smalley
- Pilot Officer Henry Montgomery Stanbrook Stuart
- Flying Officer Donald Graeme Lane Taylor
- Flying Officer Gordon Stuart Taylor
- Flying Officer Walter Ross Tinker
- Flying Officer Thomas Watson Wood