On this day — 26 February
323 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 26 February during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Sergeant Tom Dale Ainslie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Hugh Aitken Galloway Bledge
- Sergeant Archibald Raymond Burrow
- Sergeant Kenneth Dalton
- Sergeant Kenneth George Deacon
- Wing Commander Raymond Arthur Holmwood
- Pilot Officer Peter William Jeffery
- Pilot Officer Philip James Kearsey
- Sergeant Wilfred Lake
- Pilot Officer Charles Edward Langdon
- Squadron Leader Eric Jack Kennedy Megaw
- Warrant Officer Bertram Newton
- Sergeant Eric Albert Victor Spencer
- Flying Officer Frederic Frank Taylor
- Sergeant Ronald Henry Thomas
- Flight Lieutenant Desmond Ernest Crosbie Trench
- Sergeant Arnold Turner
1942
- Pilot Officer Edward Akeroyd Bairstow
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Herbert Bennett
- Flight Sergeant John Alexander Bissett
- Sergeant Alexander Bolton
- Air Sergeant Brice
- Flight Sergeant Charles Harold Latshaw Brown
- Second Lieutenant Coventry
- Sergeant Clifford Francis Darwin
- Second Lieutenant Herbert Dilworth
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Dyson
- Sergeant Rupert Vivian Pereira Ennor
- Sergeant George Edward Fox
- Leading Aircraftman Iain Alasdair Fraser
- Sergeant William Arthur Ivor Glanville
- Sergeant William Allen Godfrey
- Flight Sergeant Charles Hackney
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Edward Haylett
- Leading Aircraftman John Howe
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Jamieson
- Sergeant John Harold Jeffries
- Sergeant Francis William Joyce
- Air Mechanic Lichtenstein
- Sergeant George Selwyn Long-innes
- Wing Commander Gordon Dale Macallister
- Flight Sergeant William David Angus McLeod
- Sergeant George Gordon McNeill
- Sergeant Norman Anthony Morgan
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas (tommy) Neagle
- Pilot Officer Allan Howard Odgers
- Leading Aircraftman Shane Anthony Vernon O'Gorman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Bruce Pengelly
- Flight Sergeant Edmund Cecil Phillips
- Flight Sergeant William Stapleton Piers
- Sergeant Jack Redfern
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Francis Robb
- Flight Lieutenant James Alexander Robson
- Flight Sergeant Melvin Peter Frederick Robson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Roy Pope Sheppard
- Sergeant Edward Hopkin Simmons
- Lieutenant Stuart
- Pilot Officer Eric Tunnington
- Corporal Paul Joseph Turgeon
- Sergeant Frederick John Wakefield
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Fitzgerald Walden
- Flight Lieutenant Edward James Watson
- Sergeant John Joseph Westland
- Corporal Victor Frederic White
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Victor Hallam Wieland
- Sergeant Keith Winterton
1943
- Flight Sergeant Richard Ashdown
- Sergeant Donald Stuart Bates
- Flying Officer Robert Lowell Benson
- Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Adolf Bernick
- Sergeant William Hughes Bevan
- Sergeant George Beverley
- Sergeant Stanley Boden
- Pilot Officer John Basil Bond
- Warrant Officer Class II William Boon
- Sergeant Thomas Bows
- Sergeant Henry Easton Bradshaw
- Pilot Officer Edwin Gordon Kingsley Bullen
- Pilot Officer Reginald Silvester Burgher
- Sergeant George Caldwell
- Flight Sergeant William Wilson Cameron
- Sergeant Vivian Max Caplin
- Flight Sergeant Burnet Montieth Chamney
- Sergeant Jack Percy William Cockerton
- Sergeant Francis Stewart Crichton Cook
- Sergeant Trevor John Cox
- Sergeant Donald Francis Crowley
- Sergeant Neil Edward Cundy
- Leading Aircraftman James Edward Curtis
- Pilot Officer James Lorne Kenneth Daly
- Sergeant Eric James Davey
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Allison Davies
- Warrant Officer Class II Edward Alexander Dawson
- Sergeant Richard Edward Dean
- Sergeant James Lloyd Denholm
- Air Mechanic Victor Bartlett Devine
- Sergeant Thomas Melville Law Dingwall
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Wiseman Donaldson
- Flying Officer Leonard James Dowdall
- Sergeant James Isaac Drake
- Sergeant John Henry Dyer
- Flight Sergeant Charles Lawrence Earp-jones
- Sergeant John William Epathite
- Sergeant Stanley Frederick Essen
- Sergeant Claude Falkiner
- Sergeant Richard Henry Frankland
- Sergeant Edwin John Frith
- Sergeant Michael Gerrard Gibbons
- Warrant Officer Class II Jack Kenneth Glazebrook
- Flying Officer Thomas Donald Gordon
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Lewis Griffiths
- Aircraftman 1st Class Anthony Michael Hall
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter John Hall
- Warrant Officer Class II Mark David Willis Hambrook
- Warrant Officer Class II Harry Alwin Hansen
- Pilot Officer Norman Clifford Harris
- Flight Lieutenant Victory Henry Harris
- Sergeant William Edward Harwood
- Sergeant Bernard Alfred Hayes
- Sergeant John William Hearn
- Pilot Officer John Harold Henderson
- Sergeant Dennis Herbert
- Sergeant Thomas Hodgson
- Sergeant Arthur Charles Hole
- Sergeant George Selwyn Holme
- Sergeant Eric Howeth Holmes
- Flying Officer William Max Hooper
- Sergeant John William Hunt
- Warrant Officer Class I Donald Campbell Hunter
- Sergeant Aubrey Rex James
- Flying Officer Ambury Newton Jarvis
- Sergeant Howell Rees Jones
- Flight Sergeant Royden Martin Jupe
- Flight Sergeant Lorne Edward Kellaway
- Pilot Officer William Kelly
- Sergeant Robert Van Kennedy
- Flying Officer Spencer Griffith Kimmel
- Flying Officer Harry Nettleton Kirkland
- Sergeant Louis John Langham
- Flight Sergeant Charles Francis Leach
- Sergeant George Lock
- Wing Commander Geoffrey Phelps Longfield
- Pilot Officer Wilfred Roy Major
- Warrant Officer Class II George Matthews
- Sergeant Richard Ayerst Matthews
- Sergeant Arthur Cave McBay
- Sergeant Tom McCall
- Sergeant Donald Carstairs McIntyre
- Pilot Officer Donald Gillespie Mercer
- Flight Sergeant Francis John Miles
- Flight Lieutenant Ralph Frederick Millns
- Flying Officer Joseph Arthur Mitchell
- Warrant Officer Class II Philip Hubert Mitchell
- Flying Officer John Philip Monckton
- Flying Officer Derrick Norrington
- Pilot Officer Anthony Notley
- Sergeant Thomas Marshall Otto
- Sergeant James Peak
- Sergeant George Pettinger
- Sergeant Sidney Phillips
- Flight Sergeant Harold Rands
- Sergeant George Alexander Aitken Ranken
- Sergeant William Benjamin Richards
- Sergeant Dennis Stanley Richings
- Flight Sergeant Wallace Anthony Ringe
- Squadron Leader Samuel Robinson
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Robinson
- Sergeant Peter Rogers
- Sergeant Thomas Edward Russell
- Sergeant Wilfred Shaw
- Flying Officer Victor Charles Sherring
- Pilot Officer Frederick John Silk
- Squadron Leader Ernest Robert Simpson
- Pilot Officer Oliver Henry Skelton
- Flying Officer Neville Smart
- Sergeant Charles Derrick Smith
- Flight Sergeant Theo Curtis Smith
- Sergeant Douglas Reynold South
- Sergeant Harold Jack Steel
- Sergeant William Stewart
- Flight Sergeant John Stoneley
- Sergeant Lloyd Lincoln Stuart
- Flying Officer John Goodhugh Swain
- Sergeant Vivian Rex Taylor
- Sergeant John Newton Town
- Pilot Officer John Nathan Treadwell
- Sergeant Ronald Noel Vaisey
- Sergeant Raymond William White
- Sergeant Jack Wilby
- Sergeant Edward Wilkins
- Sergeant Evan Williams
- Sergeant Robert Williams
- Sergeant John Leslie Wilson
- Sergeant Edward John Wood
- Sergeant Hugh Woodfield
- Sergeant Jack Wratten
- Sergeant David Bennett Yates
- Sergeant Eric Ashley Yates
- Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth Ian Young
1944
- Flying Officer Frank Arthur Arnston
- Sergeant Frederick Cecil Barker
- Sergeant John Skinner Barker
- Sergeant Leonard Charles Barrett
- Sergeant Raymond Leonard Bates
- Pilot Officer Lloyd Stuart Beer
- Sergeant Ian Bell
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Macmillan Bessette
- Flight Sergeant Campbell David Bird
- Flying Officer Lester Ferguson Blakeney
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Charles Bond
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Edgar Bowler
- Sergeant James William Brown
- Sergeant Peter Gordon Burgon
- Pilot Officer Edward Robert Burns
- Sergeant George Cannock
- Flight Sergeant James Edward Carrott
- Flight Lieutenant William Maurice Carruthers
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Edward Christie
- Sergeant Charles Thomas Leslie Clement
- Flying Officer John Lowrey Clifton
- Sergeant Geoffrey Thomas Clouter
- Flying Officer Anthony Owen Colan
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Martindale Cook
- Flight Sergeant Frank Stewart Cooke
- Pilot Officer Fred Crofts
- Flight Sergeant Allan Edward Dearlove Davey
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Anthony Davis
- Sergeant George Davison
- Pilot Officer James Edward Derbyshire
- Flying Officer Desmond Patrick Doyle
- Pilot Officer Clarence Oscar Draper
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Bruce Dumbrill
- Lieutenant Neil Dummett
- Flight Sergeant John David Eaton
- Sergeant Stanley James Eden
- Sergeant Thomas Harrison Armstrong Forster
- Flight Lieutenant Andrew William Fraser
- Warrant Officer Class II Stanley David Gaunce
- Sergeant William Albert Geraghty
- Sergeant Kenneth Edric Gilson
- Flying Officer Fred Goddard
- Sergeant William Ernest Harbidge
- Sergeant Douglas Haydock
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Kinsey Hignett
- Sergeant James Charles Holbrook
- Pilot Officer Edward Clayton Howey
- Flying Officer Alec Richard Hurley
- Flying Officer Stanley Alfred Isham
- Flying Officer Clifford James Johnson
- Sergeant John Jones
- Pilot Officer Harold Edward Jupp
- Pilot Officer Emil Dan Kent
- Leading Aircraftman James Alexander Kinloch
- Flying Officer Earl Allan Knight
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Albert Rodrigue Wilfrid Lalonde
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Leithead
- Sergeant John William Linfoot
- Sergeant Kenneth Linford
- Sergeant David Glanville Lloyd
- Sergeant Alexander Donald Macgillivray
- Flight Sergeant George Macoun
- Captain Harold Mallett
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Wilson Mander
- Flight Sergeant William Victor Manuel
- Pilot Officer Kevin Harold McKnight
- Sergeant Edward Roseby Metcalf
- Pilot Officer Joseph Metka
- Pilot Officer Albert Charles Middleton
- Flight Lieutenant James Roy George Milton
- Sergeant Mike Minett
- Pilot Officer Alexander Milton George Munro
- Flying Officer Neil Munro
- Flight Sergeant Stanley James Nelson
- Sergeant Henry Christian Oswald
- Sergeant Edward Lionel Parrish
- Flying Officer Edward Douglas Patterson
- Sergeant Roy Eugene Pickard
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Herbert Pickering
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Muir Reid
- Flying Officer Cyril Frederick Ridgers
- Sergeant Leslie William Roberts
- Pilot Officer Gilbert Euclide Rheal Robineau
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Jean Paul Adrien Rodrigue
- Pilot Officer Sidney John Rogers
- Flying Officer Harold Maxwell Sherman
- Flying Officer Alfred Wilson Shirley
- Flight Sergeant Charles Holsey Simpson
- Sergeant Maurice Raymond (bobby) Singer
- Flight Sergeant Clive Warren Sisley
- Flight Lieutenant William Robert Smith
- Warrant Officer Class II George Edward Stevenson
- Warrant Officer Class II George Edward Stringer
- Leading Aircraftman Archie James Tailby
- Flying Officer Mervyn James Taylor
- Sergeant William Thompson
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Vincent Turner
- Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
- Flying Officer Arthur Louis Warren
- Pilot Officer William Thomas Wiggins
- Sergeant Denis Frederick Dean Wilder
- Sergeant Thomas Winn
- Sergeant Ronald William Wood
- Sergeant George Ernest Wright
1945
- Warrant Officer Ivan William Butler
- Pilot Officer Leslie Anwyl Chadwick
- Lieutenant Flack
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Leo Gallipeau
- Flight Sergeant Charles Alexander Goodall
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Jackson
- Flight Lieutenant Claude Mapletoft
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Edward Murphy
- Flying Officer John Edward Stanton
- Flight Sergeant Eric John Dalton Stone
- Flying Officer Noel Humphrey Thorpe
- Warrant Officer Brian Douglas Tovey