On this day — 8 April
340 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Richard Baverstock Ainsworth
- Pilot Officer Peter Duncan Aldous
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Albert Augood
- Pilot Officer Michael Edward Fulton Barnett
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bernard Victor Hiram Bulmer
- Sergeant Anthony Charles Catton
- Sergeant George Chapman
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Henry Costello
- Pilot Officer John Milton Davies
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Henry Uriah Dolley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard John Fowell
- Pupil Pilot Goble
- Sergeant Fred Graham
- Sergeant Alfred Ernest Hall
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Philip Ainsley Harrison
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Harrott
- Sergeant James Holmes
- Pilot Officer Ronald Frank Hoskins
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Arthur Hughes
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Halstead James
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John William Kempton
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Sinclair Lloyd
- Leading Aircraftman Norman McReynolds
- Flying Officer Leslie Andrew McSherry
- Sergeant Ian Murdoch
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Francis Roberts
- Sergeant Alexander Fergusson Scott
- Sergeant Gilbert Hunter Scott
- Corporal George Adolphus Verlaque
1941
- Sergeant John Herbert Allen
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Maescher Armstrong
- Sergeant Frederick Ashurst
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Shearer Wood Ballantyne
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jean E Battaglia
- Sergeant Norman Benfield
- Leading Aircraftman John Samuel Bennett
- Sergeant Ronald Sacheverell Browning
- Sergeant Leonard Ernest Eric Bundock
- Sergeant Kenneth Stevenson Campbell
- Pilot Officer Ronald McCoy Carrapiett
- Sergeant Ronald Arthur Chatfield
- Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Chipperfield
- Pilot Officer William Ernest Cochrane
- Wing Commander Francis Charles Cole
- Sergeant Edward John Cook
- Sergeant John Stewart Crane
- Flight Sergeant Walter Edward Craven
- Sergeant John Denis Harold Cunningham
- Sergeant Walbey John Cunningham
- Pilot Officer Joseph George Curley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Henry Dawson
- Sergeant Henry Dawson
- Flight Sergeant John Derbyshire
- Sergeant John Gordon Donnelly
- Sergeant Herbert Robinson Easton
- Sergeant Thomas Gamble
- Flying Officer Donald Gordon Glennie
- Flying Officer David George Gorrie
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Ritchie Graham
- Sergeant Robert John Holborow
- Pilot Officer Cecil Frank Jones
- Pilot Officer Edward Townley Laverack
- Sergeant Kenneth Manson
- Sergeant Harold Raymond Martin
- Sergeant Cecil Harry Reuben Mercer
- Leading Aircraftman John Morris
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Nesbitt
- Sergeant Roylance Claude Plummer
- Sergeant Leslie Kenneth Purrott
- Leading Aircraftman Allen Mitchell Randell
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Wardle Savage
- Sergeant John Sharkey
- Sergeant Frank Sherratt
- Sergeant Robert Cyril Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Tweedie
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Patrick Conroy Vignaux
- Sergeant Anthony John White
- Sergeant Russell Arthur Williams
- Sergeant Albert Douglas Wood
- Sergeant Arthur Clifford Wroath
1942
- Sergeant Eric Coleman
- Pilot Officer Fernand Albert Hegisippe Conard
- Sergeant John Cecil Dennis
- Pilot Officer Harold Dickinson
- Sergeant Desmond Walter Dowling
- Pilot Officer Robert James Dyer
- Sergeant Aubrey Harold Edwards
- Sergeant Frederick Thomas Ellingham
- Sergeant Frederick Keith Fairclough
- Sergeant Ercole Caesar Fiorini
- Sergeant Edward Augustine Fitchett
- Sergeant Geoffrey Clarence Gihl
- Sergeant Walter Frank Good
- Flying Officer Donald Goodman
- Sergeant Neville Griffin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Chelsea Gordon Hilton
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Alfred Holdsworth
- Sergeant Robert Wright Hunter
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Basil Johnson
- Squadron Leader Alan Chave Jones
- Pilot Officer John Charles Jones
- Sergeant Jack Matthew Kennedy
- Air Corporal Koll
- Sergeant William Haylett Lacey
- Sergeant Graham Lakeman
- Pilot Officer James Robert Lee
- Warrant Officer George Ernest Leeke
- Flight Sergeant Nelson Leftly
- Flight Sergeant James Edward Linehan
- Pilot Officer Richard Philip Locke
- Sergeant William McLafter Lomax
- Flight Sergeant John Richard Pentreath Mann
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ivor Mitchell
- Sergeant Stuart Bruce Moffitt
- Sergeant Vernon Lewis Morris
- Flight Sergeant John Graham Morrison
- Pilot Officer Noel Percy Morse
- Flying Officer William Murray
- Sergeant Norman Joseph Naylor
- Sergeant John Neary
- Flight Sergeant Stanley William Pook
- Sergeant Dennis Gerard Porter
- Sergeant Thomas Pugh
- Flying Officer Douglas James Renvoize
- Sergeant Roland Geoffrey Richards
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Ernest Richardson
- Flight Sergeant John William Scarff
- Pilot Officer Leslie Bramah Sceales
- Sergeant Ernest Shepherd
- Flying Officer Reginald William Sheppard
- Sergeant William Smith
- Flight Sergeant William James Stevenson
- Flight Sergeant George Hillary Vogan
- Pilot Officer John Mervyn Warnock
- Sergeant William Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Donald Schlueter Woodley
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Hally York
1943
- Pilot Officer Leonard George Adamson
- Sergeant Reginald John Amos
- Sergeant Reginald Arthur Asbury
- Sergeant Thomas Bailey
- Sergeant John Howard Ball
- Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Bemi
- Sergeant Rodney Berry
- Sergeant Lorenzo Bertrand
- Sergeant Thomas Arthur Bird
- Sergeant John Bartram Boyd-clark
- Sergeant Wilfred Spencer Bragg
- Warrant Officer Class II Cuthbert Worcester Graham Burke
- Sergeant Norman James Casserley
- Sergeant John Geoffrey Chalmers
- Flying Officer Herbert James Marriott Chapman
- Sergeant Stanley Frederick Walter Chappell
- Sergeant Haigh Chatterton
- Flying Officer Russel Gordon Cook
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Cox
- Warrant Officer Class II Leo Ralph Crowe
- Sergeant Thomas Raymond Davidson
- Leading Aircraftman George Davison
- Sergeant Robert Fairbairn Davison
- Sergeant George Granville Dobson
- Flying Officer Ronald Frederick Downes
- Flying Officer Robert Alexander Duff
- Sergeant Dennis Louis Noke Eggleton
- Flying Officer Leopold Albert Elkington
- Flying Officer Maurice Alec Stanley Elliott
- Sergeant Percy William Elliott
- Warrant Officer Class II David Finlay Evans
- Pilot Officer Noel Ferguson
- Pilot Officer Maurice Herbert Finbow
- Flying Officer James David Fisk
- Flight Sergeant Roderick Henry Flett
- Sergeant James Forrest
- Sergeant Cecil Robert Fox
- Sergeant Charles Edward James Frampton
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Anderson Garven
- Sergeant Kenneth Herbert Godbold
- Flight Sergeant James Pearce Massey Grace
- Sergeant Cyril James Grimshaw
- Sergeant Donald Charles Lionel Guest
- Pilot Officer Anthony John Gurr
- Flight Sergeant Ivan Charles Haines
- Sergeant James Hall
- Air Sergeant Harris
- Flying Officer John Henry William Harrison-broadley
- Flight Lieutenant Clement William Haydon
- Flying Officer Arthur Reginald Hickey
- Flying Officer Alexander Millar Houston
- Flying Officer John Robert Howard
- Sergeant Reginald Hulme
- Sergeant Thomas Vincent Hyland
- Sergeant Percy John Ireland
- Sergeant Albert James Jackson
- Sergeant Harry Jenkinson
- Sergeant Horace Norman Joyes
- Sergeant John Evan Samuel Kimber
- Pilot Officer Arthur Clifford Kneeshaw
- Sergeant Maurice Henry Knowles
- Sergeant Frederick George Lambert
- Flying Officer John Goulburn Lancaster
- Sergeant William Corner Langley
- Flying Officer James Balam Lapping
- Captain Laubscher
- Sergeant John Albert Lemmerick
- Sergeant Percy Lutwyche
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Watson Macdonald
- Flight Lieutenant Bertram Joseph Marsden
- Corporal Noel Clifford Marshall
- Sergeant Douglas George Gordon Martin
- Sergeant Reginald John Matthews
- Flying Officer Jack Raymond May
- Flying Officer Charles Daniel McKenna
- Squadron Leader John Arnott McKinnon
- Corporal William Ivan Meyers
- Sergeant Richard James Bruce Montigue
- Flight Sergeant Paul Huart Rowland Moody
- Flying Officer Noel John Moon
- Sergeant Arthur Anthony Moors
- Sergeant David Gwynne Mordecai
- Sergeant John Hubert Morris
- Sergeant Harold Motby
- Flying Officer Alexander Lyon Munro
- Corporal Malcolm James Mutton
- Sergeant Lawrence Neild Oppy
- Sergeant Albert Douglas Pennycord
- Sergeant Brian Gordon Pilgrim
- Sergeant Ralph Gregory Prince
- Sergeant George Stanley Pring
- Flight Sergeant Terence Emile Procureur
- Sergeant George Rayner
- Sergeant Stanley Richardson
- Sergeant Arthur Ridge
- Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Rispin
- Flying Officer Harold Humphrey Rogers
- Pilot Officer James Leslie Rollins
- Pilot Officer Olivier Edouard Emile Schulz
- Leading Aircraftman James Augustus Scott
- Sergeant Howard Rolleston Simmonds
- Warrant Officer Class II James Francis Smith
- Sergeant Paul Anthony Smith
- Warrant Officer Robert William Snowdon
- Flying Officer Derek John Nigel Southern
- Leading Aircraftman William Charles Speirs
- Sergeant Newman G. Stopford
- Flying Officer James Sherman Strachan
- Warrant Officer Class II Edwin Strandberg
- Sergeant Ronald Spencer Sweetlove
- Sergeant John Robert Tait
- Sergeant Charles John Tiley
- Pilot Officer Douglas Arthur Sydney Tomkins
- Sergeant Leslie Raymond Upperton
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Kenneth Wagstaff
- Sergeant Ralph Ernest Waite
- Flight Sergeant Donald Foster Walker
- Sergeant George Frederick Maurice Walker
- Flying Officer John Walker
- Pilot Officer William Alexander Walkinshaw
- Sergeant John Wallace
- Sergeant Frank Glenister Ward
- Flight Sergeant Delmar Cyril Way
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Archer Webb
- Sergeant Harold George Webb
- Flying Officer William Robert Welsh
- Sergeant Gerald Henry Wheatland
- Sergeant Stanley Musgrave White
- Sergeant Ivor Wyn Williams
- Pilot Officer James Herbert Wolton
- Pilot Officer Sidney Midgley Wood
- Sergeant Derek Alan Wray
- Flying Officer Peter Stanley Wright
- Flying Officer Merle Noel Wytkin
- Flying Officer James Cowpe Yates
- Sergeant Louis John Yeo
- Flight Sergeant Robert Graham Younger
1944
- Corporal Charles Melvin Allan
- Warrant Officer Donald Albert Anderson
- Flying Officer Robert Alwyn Anderson
- Leading Aircraftman Owen Warren Bate
- Squadron Leader Heathcote Huia Butler Beale
- Flying Officer Jeffery James Kellaway Burr
- Wing Commander Eric Frank Knowles Campling
- Corporal Joseph George James Carter
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Ernest Cary
- Flight Sergeant Frank Dadd
- Leading Aircraftman Edgar Cowley Dennis
- Flying Officer Henry George Eise
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Percy Freer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth William Howse
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Valentine Frank Killick
- Leading Aircraftman John Bernard Kinder
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas King
- Warrant Officer Malcolm Thomas Foster Knox
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Lacey
- Flying Officer Bryan Francis Lawler
- Squadron Leader Charles Manaton Grosvenor Luxmoore
- Warrant Officer Alexander Edward McGee
- Squadron Leader Ian Anderson Morrin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Quinton
- Sergeant Lancelot Thomas Daniel Regan
- Sergeant Clifford John Selby
- Sergeant Charles Arthur Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Henry Spiller
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Roland Steventon
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Charles Frederick Summers
- Corporal Alfred Westmoreland
1945
- Flying Officer Robert Ross Anderson Adrain
- Flight Sergeant Lindsay Arthur Bayley
- Warrant Officer Class I John Bomby
- Flight Sergeant Anthony George Stewart Brunskill
- Flying Officer Royden Leslie Cotnam
- Flying Officer William Gordon Craig
- Flight Lieutenant John Currie
- Flying Officer Ralph Emerson Featherstone
- Warrant Officer Class II Hugh Alexander Fisher
- Flying Officer Russell Richard Napier Forrest
- Flying Officer Russell James Glazier
- Flight Sergeant Everard Charles Graebner
- Air Commodore Stephen Hardy
- Warrant Officer Charles Henry Harrison
- Warrant Officer Raymond John Hedge
- Flying Officer Joseph Arthur Rosaire Gaetan Heroux
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Claude Raul Andre Laferriere
- Flight Sergeant John Harrie McGuigan
- Flying Officer William Charles Milligan
- Flying Officer Keith Walkom Milne
- Flight Sergeant John William Newcombe
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Adrian Leo Potvin
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Walter Rooms
- Flying Officer Joseph Louis Philippe Routhier
- Pilot Officer Joseph Georges Louis Sicotte
- Sergeant John Stevenson
- Flying Officer John Earl Stillings
- Flight Sergeant John Raymond Thomas
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Claude Valiquette
- Flight Sergeant John Keith Vickers
- Warrant Officer Ralph Charles Wingrove
- Sergeant Jack Winterbottom
- Flying Officer Bernard Selby Woolstencroft