On this day — 8 March
216 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 March during the Second World War.
1940
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Reginald Berrill
- Flying Officer Derek Charles Gray Clinkard
- Flying Officer John Patrick Coveney
- Sergeant Henry Richard Culpin
- Sergeant Ronald Philips Glasson
- Sergeant Charles Carlile Hobbs
- Corporal Roy Jackson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Leopold James Mackenzie
- Flying Officer William John Macrae
- Sergeant Cornelius Thomas Murphy
- Leading Aircraftman Brynmor Rees
- Leading Aircraftman Winston Kitchener Wood
- Pilot Officer Jack Augustus Woollen
1941
- Pilot Officer Paul Roger Anderson
- Sergeant William Robert Catling
- Sergeant Jack James Hampton Deacon
- Pilot Officer Frederick Peter Ferris
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Francis Laver
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reuben Frank Mercer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Max Radstone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Rafer
- Pilot Officer Robert Brook Redfern
- Corporal Harry McAlister Rentell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Taylor
1942
- Pilot Officer Douglas Spencer Aitken
- Leading Aircraftman James Asquith
- Corporal Frank James Ball
- Sergeant Sydney William Benson
- Sergeant Phillip Crocker Bucknell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Victor Bunn
- Wing Commander Vernon Stanley Butler
- Flight Lieutenant Basil Bernard Callick
- Leading Aircraftman George Albert Close
- Leading Aircraftman William Richard Collier
- Leading Aircraftman John Coventry
- Sergeant Thomas Alfred Reginald Crowe
- Flying Officer Allan Godfrey Davidson
- Sergeant William Mervyn Alastair Eardley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Wighton Fenton
- Sergeant Leslie Norman Follows
- Sergeant Alec Robert Frewing
- Sergeant Derek Maitland Hall
- Sergeant Allan Harold Hanson
- Sergeant Jack Hayhurst
- Pilot Officer Leslie Heggie
- Sergeant Herbert John Hickman
- Pilot Officer Russel Lloyd George Hosea
- Sergeant William James Michael Howell
- Sergeant Leslie Frank Humphrey
- Sergeant Stanley Edwin Hyam
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Lawley King
- Warrant Officer Class I Stanley John Kozlowski
- Flying Officer Reginald Robert Lamb
- Pilot Officer Charles Ernest Lees
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Albert Le Gassick
- Sergeant Marcel William Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Jack Adrian Colin London
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Elliot Luke
- Sergeant John Franklin Macphail
- Sergeant Russell McDonell
- Sergeant Robert Edgar Nies
- Sergeant William Wilfred Parr
- Warrant Officer George Bryan William Peck
- Pilot Officer John Murray Pope
- Pilot Officer Cedric Hubert Owen Priest
- Leading Aircraftman Clarence William Redfearn
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Boyd Rendall
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Vivian Shepherd Richardson
- Pilot Officer Joseph Moore Runner
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick George Sandford
- Flying Officer Basil Mervyn Sayers
- Sergeant Gordon Shackleton
- Sergeant Roy Walter George Stephens
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Peter Thompson
- Sergeant Cyril Tofield
- Sergeant Henry Norman Walker
- Flight Sergeant Francis Henry Wilkinson
- Sergeant Thomas Colin Wills
- Sergeant Isaac Sidney Woolf
1943
- Pilot Officer Walter Raymond Affleck
- Leading Aircraftman Colin Neville Anderson
- Warrant Officer Class II Anthony Arlen
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Douglas Babington-browne
- Flight Sergeant Arthur James Bagg
- Sergeant Eric Thomas Beney
- Flight Sergeant Jack William Blyth
- Flying Officer Malcolm Bradshaw
- Pilot Officer Ian James Duncan Brodie
- Corporal Robert Gordon Brown
- Sergeant Frederick Miller Brum
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Burkill
- Sergeant Bernard James Caine
- Sergeant John Alan Richard Callick
- Sergeant Edward Carr
- Wing Commander Francis Blomfield Chapman
- Flight Sergeant Frank William Richard Cole
- Sergeant Alexander Bruce Cowie
- Sergeant Charles Raglan Davey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Taliesyn Davies
- Flying Officer Stanley Alfred Deacon
- Flight Sergeant John Dean
- Aircraftman 1st Class Michael Devlin
- Sergeant John Edward Dewhurst
- Leading Aircraftman Robert George Docking
- Flight Sergeant John William Albert Dorsett
- Sergeant James Francis Farrelly
- Sergeant Andrew James Feenan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Earl Spensley Fielden
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Forbes
- Corporal Albert French
- Flight Lieutenant Clifford Argo Giles
- Pilot Officer Lee Gordon Gosper
- Sergeant Derek Milner Gray
- Pilot Officer Bernard John Gunter
- Pilot Officer Henry Harwood
- Sergeant John Stanley Horton
- Sergeant Arthur Edgar Howlett
- Flight Sergeant William Peel Hudson
- Flying Officer James Gilbert Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Elmer Keith Matlock
- Sergeant Alexander McDougall
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Sydney Miller
- Flight Sergeant George Mitchell
- Sergeant Jack Neale
- Sergeant William Harold Owens
- Sergeant John Derek Perring
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Douglas Privett
- Flying Officer Francis Richards
- Pilot Officer Jack Graham Ripley
- Lieutenant Rowe
- Flight Lieutenant Crofton Lustleigh Selman
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd George Stanley
- Flight Lieutenant Benignus Stefan
- Sergeant Ronald Noblett Stephens
- Sergeant Leighton Mansel Stone
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Douglas Strong
- Sergeant Clement Roland Swift
- Sergeant Alfred Bertram Tarrant
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Vivian Thompson
- Flying Officer John Trevor David Todd
- Flight Lieutenant John Patrick Trench
- Flying Officer Lester McBride Wadman
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Cameron Walker
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Harvey Ward
- Pilot Officer Murray Edward White
- Leading Aircraftman George Edward Wilson
1944
- Flight Sergeant Alan Ashby Applegate
- Flying Officer James Hamilton Ballantyne
- Sergeant Joseph William Bell
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Sheppard Blanchard
- Sergeant Edward Irvin Brock
- Flying Officer George Herbert Eversley Buckley
- Squadron Leader John Dawson Clements
- Wing Commander James Carleton Coffey
- Flying Officer George Leslie Coster
- Leading Aircraftman John Reginald Durston
- Flight Lieutenant Gerrard Gough
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Hall
- Corporal Charles Frederick Hill
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Thomas Leslie Jones
- Flight Sergeant John Gilbert Jones
- Flight Sergeant John Carlton Wesley Marshall
- Flying Officer Alan Louden Pearsall
- Air Mechanic Johannes G. Rademan
- Leading Aircraftman Robert James Strawbridge
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Sugden
- Pilot Officer William Somerville Watson
- Sergeant John Charles Willis
1945
- Sergeant William George Anderson
- Flight Sergeant Peter Noble Black
- Flying Officer Walter Frederick Blackford
- Warrant Officer Ivor Hexter Bond
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Chesnutt
- Flight Lieutenant William David Corbett
- Flying Officer Thomas Maynard Draper
- Flying Officer Robert Nicholas Ferguson
- Squadron Leader Montgomery Vincent Gibbon
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Edward Gillespie
- Corporal James Scott Mullin Glover
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Bradley Hicks
- Pilot Officer John William Hickson
- Flight Lieutenant Edward George Hollis
- Flight Sergeant Auburn Clyde Innes
- Flight Sergeant Ivor Hilton Jury
- Flying Officer Harry Demerse Laronde
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth James Mackenzie
- Pilot Officer Rudolph Walter Mahr
- Flying Officer Vincent Paul McAllister
- Flight Sergeant Keith Charles McGinn
- Flight Lieutenant George Melvin Stark McMorran
- Flight Lieutenant Charles G. Mitchell
- Pilot Officer William Douglas Mitchell
- Corporal Robert Henry Moore
- Pilot Officer Joseph Robert Morin
- Pilot Officer Kelvin Gordon Munro
- Flying Officer William Edwin Nightingale
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Charles O'Connor
- Pilot Officer Leonard John Parent
- Sergeant Nelson Peckham
- Pilot Officer William Bowd Reynolds
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Clifford Ridge
- Warrant Officer Neville Vincent Ryan
- Flying Officer Samuel Leo Saxe
- Flying Officer Michael Shatzky
- Flying Officer Robert Frederick Donald Smith
- Flying Officer Cecil Paul Sparkes
- Flight Sergeant William Stanley Horace Tandy
- Warrant Officer Charles Wagstaff
- Pilot Officer George Napier Ware
- Flight Sergeant John Melville Yates