On this day — 18 April
303 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 18 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Air Mechanic Iden E. Barr
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Booth
- Corporal Robert Strang Bryson
- Corporal James Mackenzie Clavering
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Lister Edwards
- Pilot Officer Ronald Hall
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Albert Skuce Haynes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William George Albert Hoyland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Samuel Kirk Little
- Pilot Officer John Geoffrey Carr Salmond
- Flying Officer Abraham Frederick Smith
- Sergeant Edward Howard Williams
1941
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Sydney Edward Aldridge
- Sergeant Edward Ernest Allnatt
- Flight Sergeant Michael Barton Appleby
- Sergeant Leslie William Bacon
- Sergeant Frank Weldon Baker
- Flying Officer Jesse Augustus Baldwin
- Wing Commander Arthur Montague Aubrey Birch
- Pilot Officer Herbert Henry Boler
- Sergeant Alan Chester Bonnett
- Sergeant John Stafford Bools
- Pilot Officer William Lawton Boon
- Flight Sergeant John Brown
- Sergeant James Harold Bruce
- Pilot Officer Bertrand William Butler
- Sergeant Stanley George Capel
- Sergeant Philip Johnson Church
- Flying Officer Francis Godfrey Collins
- Flight Sergeant George Simpson Cornwall
- Pilot Officer Thomas Mackintosh Couper
- Sergeant Robert Herbert Charles Crook
- Sergeant Arthur Drury
- Sergeant John Dunning
- Sergeant Stephen Arnold Du Plessis
- Aircraftman 1st Class Denis Earnshaw
- Wing Commander George Reginald Alexander Elsmie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon Marshall Endsor
- Sergeant Frank Fulford
- Sergeant George Gibb
- Sergeant John Griffin
- Sergeant Gordon Ernest Heaysman
- Pilot Officer Leslie Barker Hewitson
- Flight Sergeant Jack Hickingbotham
- Sergeant Frederick Simpson Hobden
- Pilot Officer Frederick William Holden
- Sergeant Peter Hope
- Sergeant Arthur William Hughes
- Sergeant Harry Franklin Hurt
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Jennings
- Sergeant John Ernest Johnson
- Pilot Officer John Alexander Hope Johnston
- Flying Officer Harold Jones
- Squadron Leader Hubert Douglas Jones
- Sergeant Harry Keen
- Sergeant Norman Ernest Thomas Kendall
- Sergeant Ronald Roy Mann
- Pilot Officer Herbert Kitchener Marshall
- Sergeant Grant John Mavor
- Sergeant Donald McLean
- Flying Officer Ian Lambton Menzies
- Sergeant Harold Thomas Whitfield Montgomery
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Herbert Myers
- Sergeant John William Nightingarl
- Sergeant Edgar Ian Pocock
- Flight Sergeant Jack Proctor
- Pilot Officer Michael Seymour Proudlock
- Pilot Officer Joseph Dougald Ready
- Squadron Leader Augustine Stuart Quallett Robins
- Sergeant Raymond Eric Rowley
- Sergeant Kenneth Ian Scott
- Sergeant Alan Shepherdson
- Sergeant Robert Donald Cowan Stark
- Sergeant Eric John Street
- Leading Aircraftman Fred Taylor
- Pilot Officer Edward Walter Thomas
- Sergeant Douglas William Townsend
- Sergeant Dudley Howard Trotman
- Sergeant Alfred Francis Tweed
- Flight Sergeant John Webb
- Sergeant Reginald Ernest Williams
- Sergeant Harvey William Wright
1942
- Flight Sergeant Edward George Alexander
- Sergeant Charles Walter Allen
- Sergeant Ronald Sydney Andrews
- Corporal Frederick Charles Barnes
- Pilot Officer Richard Glendenning Beard
- Flight Lieutenant Archibald Augustus James Beer
- Sergeant Richard Lewis Bilton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Booth
- Flight Sergeant Wilson Draper Burd
- Flight Lieutenant William Deryk Castello
- Second Lieutenant Patrick James Chapman
- Sergeant William Waddell Chapman
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Thomas Douglas Collins
- Air Pupil William C. Collyer
- Sergeant Ronnie Cowley
- Sergeant Alfred James Currie
- Sergeant William Ernest Davies
- Sergeant Maurice Deighton
- Sergeant John Alfred Dowling
- Flying Officer Robert Arthur Conrad Draper
- Sergeant Edward Allan Lucas Fairman
- Pilot Officer Edward Jean Francois Joseph Feyten
- Sergeant John Robert Frehner
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Gedling
- Pilot Officer Edmond David Girardot
- Sergeant Richard John Cecil Granville
- Squadron Leader Jack Donald Harris
- Corporal Kenneth Walter Hayter
- Pilot Officer Adrian Russel Heaton
- Sergeant Valentine Ernest Michael Henry
- Sergeant William Bradley Henvey
- Sergeant Stanley Hextall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eddie Hopkins
- Pilot Officer Edwin Arthur House
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Vaughan John
- Sergeant Harry Raymond Jones
- Sergeant Kenneth John Jones
- Sergeant Frederick John Keeler
- Sergeant Ronald Victor Kemp
- Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Kennedy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Geoffrey Lanckham
- Sergeant Arthur Edward Lewry
- Leading Aircraftman William Brown Macfarlane
- Squadron Leader James Eglinton Marshall
- Flight Sergeant George Morton Mason
- Sergeant Arthur Charles May
- Sergeant Douglas Willey McConville
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Norman
- Flight Sergeant Edward Alan Olliver
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander O'Mara
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Douglas Quick
- Sergeant Raymond Rawlings Richardson
- Wing Commander Peter Stanley Salter
- Sergeant Jack Marshall Smith
- Sergeant Ronald Summers
- Sergeant Alfred William Taylor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Andrew Nicholas Tracey
- Flight Lieutenant Sidney Francis Trimm
- Flight Lieutenant Percy Frederick Wakelin
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Wilbert Weaver
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Edward Willigar
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Gladswood Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Warwick St. George Ruxton Wilson
1943
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Chipman Amero
- Sergeant James Henry Aspden
- Sergeant Kenneth Kirby Bell
- Sergeant Frank Oliver Bonham
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Briggs
- Flying Officer Robert Nevin Chancellor
- Flight Sergeant Eric Alston Clyde
- Sergeant Godfrey Storian Cooper
- Sergeant Ronald Stott Cordingley
- Flying Officer Brian Tristram Davies
- Leading Aircraftman David Michael Dimmer
- Sergeant David Roy Edwards
- Squadron Leader Michael Foulis
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Ian Fraser
- Sergeant John Leonard Gunn
- Pilot Officer Clifford John Hamment
- Pilot Officer Blair Miller Harker
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Glen Harley
- Squadron Leader Howard Stephenson Hill
- Warrant Officer Class II Cornelius Robert Donovan Hurley
- Leading Aircraftman John Albert Johnston
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Lorne Locker
- Flight Sergeant Robert Haydon Malcolm
- Flight Sergeant Horace Daniel Eugene Messier
- Sergeant Basil Walter Miller
- Sergeant William Morton
- Pilot Officer Jonathan North
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Page
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Wyndham Pain
- Sergeant Alfred Penlington
- Sergeant Edward Montague Philpott
- Flight Sergeant Ernest William Pitt
- Flight Sergeant John Bertram Reid
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis John Sanders
- Flight Sergeant Walker Scott
- Sergeant Leonard Edward Smedley
- Flying Officer Douglas May Swanson
- Flying Officer Lionel Ernest Thompson
- Sergeant Eric Vevers
- Flying Officer Roger George Wallis
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Wilkes
- Sergeant Vivian Ivor Williams
- Pilot Officer Joseph Francis Loftus Wise
1944
- Sergeant Frederick Thomas George Atkins
- Sergeant John Faulds Barron
- Flight Sergeant Dudley Clive Bates
- Flying Officer Edward John Bowers
- Lieutenant Brand
- Sergeant Owen McDavid Brown
- Flight Lieutenant Peter George Fleming Brown
- Sergeant Alan Kenneth Butcher
- Flight Sergeant James William Carr
- Pilot Officer David Beatty Carter
- Sergeant Charles Christie
- Flight Sergeant John Baxter Clelland
- Warrant Officer Clifford Harvey Coathup
- Pilot Officer Robert Courtney Cross
- Warrant Officer Class II Francis Basil Dennis
- Sergeant John Doyle
- Flight Lieutenant Gerald Boyd Edmonds
- Sergeant Francis Joseph Edwards
- Pilot Officer Edward William Eppler
- Pilot Officer Sidney Wallace Follows
- Flight Sergeant Harold William Fox
- Sergeant William James Gilchrist
- Flight Sergeant James Kenneth Goslin
- Sergeant Anthony Albert Hatton
- Flight Sergeant Frank Heath
- Pilot Officer Maurice Albert William Henley
- Flight Sergeant James Heyes
- Sergeant John Graham Dobbie Hislop
- Pilot Officer Douglas Haig Hogg
- Flying Officer William Adrian Hughes
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Johnson
- Pilot Officer William Kemp Johnson
- Sergeant Desmond William Kennedy
- Pilot Officer Peter Kettles-roy
- Sergeant Alan Francis Kneller
- Pilot Officer Edwin Arthur Lansdowne
- Sergeant Philip Latchford
- Flying Officer Neil Trehearne Lawrence
- Warrant Officer James Alfred Leaver
- Pilot Officer Gordon William Lillico
- Sergeant Michael Madden
- Pilot Officer John George Manson
- Sergeant Robert Matthews
- Sergeant Victor Joseph Mayo
- Sergeant Mark Charles McCarthy
- Flight Sergeant George McEwan
- Pilot Officer Irvin Neil McInnis
- Leading Aircraftman Lance Alexander McNamara
- Flying Officer William George Meeson
- Flying Officer Frederick Henry Mills
- Sergeant Leonard Morgan
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Elvet Moss
- Sergeant Stanley George Myers
- Sergeant Harry Dennis Nash
- Aircraftman 1st Class Patrick Charles Oldman
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Jamieson Olmsted
- Pilot Officer William Frederick Palmer
- Sergeant Gerald Joseph Patterson
- Pilot Officer Thomas Mitchell Ryan
- Flight Sergeant Frank Salmond
- Flight Sergeant Alan Sarjantson
- Flight Sergeant St. John Edward Roderick Samuel Scheffler
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Colin Scott
- Flight Sergeant Colin Shackleton
- Sergeant James Alan Smith
- Flying Officer Ronald Stakes
- Pilot Officer William John Deblois Sturmy
- Flight Sergeant Fred Taylor
- Pilot Officer Glenford Herbert Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Duncan Thomas
- Flying Officer Arthur Ross Thrasher
- Pilot Officer Harold Keith Tole
- Flying Officer Bertram Alfonso Trewin
- Warrant Officer William Alexander (sandy) Watson
- Flying Officer John Mitchell Westlake
- Flight Lieutenant James Henry Whalen
- Pilot Officer John Arthur Whittaker
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Charles Wilkie
- Sergeant Arthur William Wilkinson
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Edward Williams
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Robert Williams
- Sergeant Ronald Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Robert Wallis Wright
- Flight Sergeant Eric Oscar Downing Yorke
- Pilot Officer Tony Zbytnuik
1945
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Herbert Balkwill
- Squadron Leader John Fairfax Carlyle
- Sergeant Robert Clarke
- Flight Lieutenant Albert James Cull
- Pilot Officer William John Dunnigan
- Lieutenant Du Preez
- Warrant Officer Harold Kendall Franklin
- Sergeant Linton Gibson
- Lieutenant Good
- Flying Officer Farley Cecil Hill
- Flight Sergeant Richard Albert McDonald
- Flying Officer Donald Mitchell Miller
- Flight Sergeant George Franklin Montgomery
- Captain Helge Charles Murman
- Sergeant Leroy Francis Joseph Murphy
- Flying Officer Donald Maurice Neilson
- Flight Sergeant Davey William Newman
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth John Newman
- Warrant Officer Class I Asa Nelson Pixley
- Flying Officer Harold Kenneth Pugh
- Corporal Joseph Regis Richard
- Flying Officer Donald Fraser Ross
- Corporal Eric Seckington
- Warrant Officer Harold Wilson Webster
- Pilot Officer Charles Henry White
- Pilot Officer Roland Wesley Williams
- Pilot Officer Hugh Raymond Wood