On this day — 26 April
195 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 26 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Squadron Leader Norman Frank Dennis Buckeridge
- Sergeant Norman Haithwaite
- Sergeant John Francis Hayes
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Hornsby
- Flying Officer Owen Gerard Horrigan
- Sergeant Thomas George Horsfield
- Sergeant Percy Joseph Hurst
- Sergeant Ninian Lewis Jones
- Sergeant Peter William Roberson
- Sergeant Bernard James Spencer
- Flying Officer David White
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Cecil Whitley
1941
- Corporal Walter Ackroyd
- Sergeant Eric Phillips Acton
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Leete Anson
- Flying Officer John Anthony Atwill
- Sergeant Alfred Vernon Band
- Wing Commander George Arthur Bartlett
- Warrant Officer Thomas William Bowles
- Sergeant Wilfred Cook
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred James Thomas Copping
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Crampton
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Eric Crozier
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Smitton Darling
- Flight Sergeant Peter Kershaw Eames
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ian Fiddes
- Sergeant Arthur Jordan
- Pilot Officer Philp Kennedy-allen
- Flight Lieutenant George Oldfield Lings
- Flight Sergeant Charles Ion Martin
- Pilot Officer James Leland McGinnis
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas McKenzie
- Air Corporal McWilliam
- Flying Officer Cyril George William Moore
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Naylor
- Sergeant John Archibald Nicholson
- Sergeant Alfred Henry Norris
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Joseph Pearsall
- Sergeant Stephen George Peplar
- Flying Officer Harold Paul Roberts
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Joseph Smith
- Air Sergeant Sperber
- Sergeant Cyril Francis Spouge
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Suggars
- Flying Officer Stephen Edmund Taitt
- Flight Lieutenant Brian Van Mentz
- Sergeant Arthur James Vaughan
- Flight Sergeant John Purdie Wilson
- Flying Officer Arthur Frederick Stapley Winder
- Flight Lieutenant Nigel Dudley Bigland Wood
- Major Wright
1942
- Sergeant Sydney Kenneth Annesley
- Pilot Officer John Albert Stokes Banting
- Sergeant David Holley Bird
- Sergeant Thomas Cunningham Bird
- Lieutenant Booth
- Flight Sergeant Frank Arthur Brown
- Sergeant Philip Harold Bullock
- Pilot Officer Walter Ephraim Cripps
- Sergeant Percy George Detmold
- Pilot Officer Harry Charles English
- Pilot Officer David Reed Farnham
- Leading Aircraftman William Thomas Flower
- Sergeant Alfred Thomas Fone
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Tasman Green
- Sergeant James Small Grieve
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Davies Howells
- Sergeant William Frederick Gerrard Hughes
- Sergeant Sydney Eustace Hunt
- Sergeant Albert Machen Hunter
- Sergeant Stuart Alan Bain Kellie
- Flight Sergeant Wallace George Lewis
- Flight Sergeant John Raby Liken
- Pilot Officer John Semple Lindsay
- Sergeant Thomas Macfarlane
- Flight Sergeant William Mair
- Sergeant Cecil Charles McAllister
- Leading Aircraftman Murray McEwen
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Emerson McIver
- Pilot Officer Harold Reuben Millichamp
- Sergeant John Alan Nelson
- Sergeant Arthur Ernest Payne
- Flying Officer Bernard William John Peatheyjohns
- Flight Sergeant Walter Phillips
- Sergeant Irvine John Rollinson
- Sergeant Alexander Duncan Saint
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Shepherd
- Sergeant Albert Edward Simmans
- Sergeant Walter John Albert Smart
- Sergeant William Gardiner Smith
- Flying Officer John Robert Spalding
- Sergeant George Lockhart Taylor
- Sergeant John Wilfred Watson
- Flying Officer William Denman Whatley
1943
- Flight Sergeant Whitney Philip Aucoin
- Pilot Officer Thomas Benson Blackburn
- Flight Lieutenant Brian John Bland
- Warrant Officer Class I Eric Douglas Ralph Botten
- Flight Lieutenant William James Clark
- Flight Sergeant Eric Alan Mervyn Deignan
- Flying Officer Walter Harold Fisher
- Sergeant Raymond Leonard Harris
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Alfred Harvey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Kilday
- Flight Sergeant Donald Sydney Lister
- Sergeant Gerald Theodore Lydford
- Flying Officer Francis Malan
- Corporal John Edward Maldrem
- Sergeant Cyril Maurice
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Alfred Maycock
- Pilot Officer Gordon Alexander Phillips
- Flying Officer John Nigel Elmhirst Potts
- Flight Lieutenant Antony Innes Stuart
- Sergeant William Frederick Swift
- Flight Sergeant Cedric Malaher Thompson
- Sergeant Colin William Thompson
- Sergeant Dudley James Ward
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Webber
- Sergeant Eric Douglas George White
- Corporal James Douglas Willoughby
- Warrant Officer Robert Bell Worthington
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas William Wrightham
1944
- Flying Officer Arthur Raymond Allan
- Leading Aircraftman Allan Ball
- Flight Lieutenant Leo Joseph Banks
- Sergeant Thomas Howard Burman
- Sergeant Wallace Wilbur Chancey
- Warrant Officer Elias Stout Chegwidden
- Flying Officer Joseph Horrace Corless
- Flying Officer Lindsay Alfred James Dann
- Corporal Hugh Dawson
- Flight Sergeant Frantisek Fanta
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Fawcett
- Flying Officer Ronald Dean Gardner
- Corporal James Kimberley Gascoigne
- Flying Officer Mark Edward Heels
- Pilot Officer Peter Henderson
- Flight Sergeant Robert Herbert
- Sergeant Alfred Barclay Hicklin
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Hinde
- Flying Officer Keith Hindmarsh
- Sergeant Morris Holmes
- Sergeant Cyril Jack Jewell
- Squadron Leader Roy Lane
- Flight Lieutenant Jan Laska
- Pilot Officer Vojjech Lysicky
- Sergeant Edward Dixon Macdonald
- Wing Commander Roy Marples
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Malcolm McCulloch
- Flight Lieutenant Bruce Sydney Meyer
- Flying Officer Norman Albert Roberts Mousdell
- Leading Aircraftman George Burnaford Murrin
- Pilot Officer Douglas Haig Nelson
- Pilot Officer Christopher Nicholls
- Sergeant Harold Desmond Purbrick
- Corporal Vivian Mackay Scollon
- Pilot Officer Harold Henry Sheather
- Flying Officer Norman Owen Smith
- Squadron Leader Kenneth Thomas Peart Terry
- Corporal John Joseph Toia
- Flight Sergeant Henry Turner
- Sergeant Raymond Henry Walters
- Flying Officer Clarence Gerhart Wenzel
- Pilot Officer Robert James West
- Flight Lieutenant Alban Stanley Williams
1945
- Flying Officer Edward Dale Brydon
- Flight Lieutenant John Alan Burkitt
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Franklin Carrodus
- Flying Officer William John Edwards
- Flying Officer Cedric John Evans
- Flight Lieutenant George Walter John Fenwick
- Pilot Officer Oswald Ernest Goddard
- Pilot Officer Ronald Bede Goodwin
- Captain Gould
- Flight Lieutenant Kilburn Howard Grist
- Warrant Officer Keith Lambert Hamilton
- Flying Officer Lloyd Peter Hedley
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth George William Henderson
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Leslie Holden
- Flight Sergeant Allan Francis Juby
- Flying Officer James Meyrick Larkin
- Flying Officer John Raymond Liddell
- Flight Sergeant Ian James Loveridge
- Leading Aircraftman George Edwin Matikka
- Flying Officer John Kendall Morrison
- Air Sergeant Petrus Peyper
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Claude Robson
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Manson Rupert
- Leading Aircraftman Gilbert Alfred Sulzmann
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Richard Thwaite
- Flying Officer Harold Complin Tyas
- Warrant Officer Frederick Raymond Wilkinson