On this day — 9 May
338 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 9 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Lionel Austin-duck
- Sergeant Douglas Gordon Bonnar Falconer
- Corporal James Edward Hall
- Flight Lieutenant Alick Charles Heath
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Mackenzie Lester
- Corporal John William Maxey
- Sergeant Stanley Arthur Nicholls
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Quincey
- Pilot Officer Walter Fowler Smith
- Sergeant William Southward
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Percy Turrell
1941
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Eric Bailey
- Flight Lieutenant Harry John Bamber
- Sergeant Robert John Bennett
- Sergeant Geoffrey Andrews Bennetts
- Sergeant Robert Charles Henry Blatchford
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Rowland James Scott Blunn
- Flight Sergeant William Herbert Browell
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Robertson Burch
- Flying Officer Sydney Carlin
- Squadron Leader Gerald Charles Neil Close
- Sergeant William George Hugh Dauncey
- Flying Officer Renford Percy Davey
- Sergeant Joseph Dawson
- Sergeant Alan Walter Dean
- Corporal Arnold Delday Dearden
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Dorman
- Squadron Leader Frank Leslie Herbert Eddison
- Sergeant Peter William Reynolds Emmett
- Wing Commander William Charles Farley
- Sergeant Douglas George Finney
- Sergeant Harry Walter Francis
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Russell Gates
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Robert Gear
- Pilot Officer Frederick Kennett Gill
- Wing Commander William Monteith Graham
- Sergeant William Clark Hamilton
- Sergeant James Harding
- Flight Sergeant Reuben John Harris
- Sergeant John Holt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon Lionel Howard
- Pilot Officer Gordon David Gerald Hudson
- Squadron Leader Philip Howard Jackson
- Corporal Thomas Edward Jackson
- Sergeant John Alfred Keates
- Pilot Officer Norman Mervyn Kebbell Kirkcaldie
- Squadron Leader Richard Langebear
- Sergeant Peter James Lewis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Denis Brian Lucas
- Flying Officer Gavin John Lynes
- Pilot Officer David Martin
- Sergeant William James Stephen McGregor
- Pilot Officer Lewis Henry Mercer
- Sergeant Robert Turner Deighton Mercer
- Flight Sergeant Alec Kenneth Newbery
- Sergeant Ivor Bernard Oultram
- Sergeant Cyril Paton
- Sergeant Gordon William Richards
- Flying Officer Frederick George Roberts
- Sergeant Maxwell George Robertson
- Pilot Officer Ian Ogg Mackenzie Smith
- Sergeant John Leslie Smith
- Pilot Officer Jack Richard Stone
- Sergeant Kennedy Tait
- Sergeant Gerard Joseph Talbot
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis John Thomas
- Pilot Officer Albert Ernest John Thorne
- Sergeant Lawrence Thorpe
- Sergeant Joseph Raymond Vigar
- Pilot Officer Ronald Walter Wallis-stolzle
- Flying Officer Frank Stanley William Webb
- Sergeant Arnot Flaws Wilson
1942
- Sergeant John Ernest Baillie
- Pilot Officer Rex Vivian Beatson
- Pilot Officer Frederick William Belton
- Sergeant Alwyn Bentley
- Flying Officer Leonard Manley Blain
- Sergeant Arnold Jose Blairon
- Sergeant William Craig Brodie
- Flight Lieutenant John Walter Buckstone
- Flying Officer Henry John Bullock
- Sergeant Kenneth Edward Byrne
- Flight Sergeant James Douglas Cameron
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Patrick Carney
- Flight Sergeant Ivan Lee Charbonneau
- Pilot Officer John Peter Dixon Clarke
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Shedrick Clarke
- Sergeant Donald Alexander Clephane
- Sergeant William McDonald Crane
- Pilot Officer Jack Stanley Dafoe
- Flight Sergeant Ian Wynn Davies
- Flying Officer Francis Montagu Davis
- Sergeant Joseph Davison
- Sergeant Raymond Davison
- Sergeant Joseph Dodds
- Sergeant Dennis Arthur Douthwaite
- Sergeant Geoffrey Frederick Dunks
- Flight Lieutenant John Livingstone Hopkins Eliott
- Sergeant John Robert Etherington
- Sergeant Kenneth Archibald Evans
- Corporal Frederick John Few
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Henry Finkbeiner
- Pilot Officer Edward William Gillespie
- Squadron Leader John Edward Gorringe-smith
- Pilot Officer George Leslie Gosnell
- Pilot Officer Victor Emanuel George Goss
- Sergeant John Buxton Gower
- Pilot Officer Robert Macfarlane Graham
- Flight Sergeant Michael Bay Green
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Frederick Grosvenor
- Sergeant Maurice Gruber
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest George Gulliver
- Squadron Leader Neil Drummond Guthrie
- Pilot Officer Douglas Walter Hales
- Flight Lieutenant George Raymond Hall
- Sergeant Richard Arthur George Halliday
- Wing Commander Charles Francis Herrington
- Flight Sergeant Howard Robert Hibbard
- Sergeant John Edward Hobgen
- Sergeant Eric Hollows
- Leading Aircraftman Allan Hoople
- Flight Sergeant Franklin Wales Hough
- Sergeant Gilbert Walter Hough
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Raymond Howe
- Sergeant John Francis Jacklin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Cyril Jacobs
- Sergeant Clifford Stanley Jefferies
- Aircraftman 1st Class William George Jenkinson
- Sergeant Donald Haydn Jones
- Sergeant Alfred Valentine Kay
- Sergeant Arthur John Bruce Kemp
- Sergeant Edgar John Jex Killham
- Sergeant Matthew George Killingbeck
- Flight Sergeant John Clifton King
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Samuel Klein
- Sergeant Humphrey Charles Knipe
- Flying Officer John Alan Leslie
- Sergeant Frank Harry Le Vack
- Flying Officer William Leslie Long
- Flying Officer Donald George Mackay
- Flying Officer Gerald Maclagan
- Warrant Officer Arthur Malin
- Flight Sergeant Jack Wellington Markle
- Flight Sergeant Michael McAroy
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Surtis Cranmer McClure
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Ernest McCoy
- Pilot Officer Donald Gower McLaren
- Pilot Officer Harold Ashton Milburn
- Sergeant Alan John Millar
- Pilot Officer Alexander Rentoul Montgomery
- Pilot Officer Harry Barker Moorehouse
- Sergeant Ralph William Morin
- Sergeant Archibald Mounteney
- Sergeant Victor Frank Munt
- Sergeant Bertram Llewellyn Nesbitt
- Sergeant Desmond Roderick Neve
- Flight Sergeant Charles Stacey Neveu
- Sergeant Allan Nicholson
- Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
- Sergeant Robert Duncan Olver
- Sergeant John Joseph O'Reilly
- Aircraftman 1st Class John William Park
- Sergeant Ronald Robert Parry
- Sergeant Stewart Thomas Paterson
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Bruce Petersen
- Sergeant Shaun Craving Preston
- Flight Sergeant Alexander John Reid
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Duggan Roddy
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Rogers
- Flying Officer Leonard Duncan Rollo
- Flight Sergeant John Vaughan Rounsefell
- Sergeant Douglas Morton Sellars
- Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
- Flight Sergeant Robert Donald Sherrington
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Harold Charles Sly
- Leading Aircraftman James Percival Smith
- Sergeant Thomas Patrick Smith
- Sergeant William James Smith
- Pilot Officer John McFarlane Weir Somerville
- Pilot Officer Richard John Sotham
- Sergeant Neville Christian Stocker
- Sergeant Algernon Guy Strickland
- Sergeant Herbert Frederick Stroud
- Pilot Officer Hubert John Sand Sturgess
- Pilot Officer Edward Scholes Taylor
- Sergeant Wilfred Lawson Taylor
- Sergeant Alec Ernest Towler
- Pilot Officer Gordon Russell Tweedale
- Warrant Officer Class I Charles Napoleon Valiquet
- Squadron Leader John Harold Gilbert Walker
- Pilot Officer David Owen Waters
- Pilot Officer John Derrick Forbes Weet
- Flight Sergeant Henry Edward Went
- Flying Officer William Alfred White
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Richard Williams
- Flight Lieutenant Herbert Keep Wilson
1943
- Sergeant Joseph Walter Armstrong
- Sergeant Wallace Henry Ayton
- Sergeant David Christopher Henry Baker
- Sergeant Bernard Kevin Barry
- Sergeant Kenneth Harrison Bateman
- Sergeant John Bilton
- Sergeant Herbert Ewart Boyd
- Flight Lieutenant Warren Robert Brodrick
- Sergeant Harold Stuart Butler
- Corporal Norman John Case
- Warrant Officer Class I Kenneth William Clark
- Sergeant Leslie George Albert Cooper
- Flight Lieutenant John Kenneth Denham
- Pilot Officer Gordon Henry Dunn
- Warrant Officer Francis Victor Dyson
- Flight Sergeant Peter Fennell
- Sergeant Jack Flux
- Flying Officer Leslie Newell Whittingham Goldspink
- Sergeant Terence Edward Hamley
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Craigton Hart
- Sergeant Robert Young Herd
- Flight Sergeant James Alfred Hoather
- Sergeant John Jones
- Sergeant Vincent Ambrose McCarthy
- Flight Sergeant William James Nicholas
- Leading Aircraftman John Gerard Olin
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Richard Ott
- Sergeant Eric Rabjohn
- Sergeant Clifford Horace Rawlins
- Sergeant Donald Alexander Rayment
- Sergeant John William George Reeve
- Sergeant Alan Kenneth Rogers
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Geoffrey Notcutt Russell
- Sergeant Arthur Simpson
- Sergeant James Somerville
- Sergeant Harold Stripp
- Flight Sergeant Jack Talbot
- Pilot Officer Horace Burpee Tucker
- Flying Officer Leonard William Vinden
- Leading Aircraftman Evan Gwyn Williams
1944
- Flight Sergeant Henry George Andrews
- Flight Sergeant Leonard William John Arnold
- Sergeant Aubrey George Barber
- Flying Officer John Lindsay Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Alfred George Boam
- Sergeant Derek Malcolm Brandrick
- Sergeant Edward Raymond Bray
- Flight Sergeant James Mathew Buckley
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Leverne Cannings
- Flight Lieutenant William McLaurin Chase
- Flight Sergeant Allan Robert John Chisholm
- Flight Sergeant Robert Charles Clark
- Pilot Officer Donald Johnston Copeland
- Warrant Officer Harry Robert Crook
- Warrant Officer Dennis Harold James Cross
- Pilot Officer Douglas Charles Crosthwaite
- Sergeant Henry Dale
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Denver Daniels
- Pilot Officer Robert Joseph Dobbyn
- Flight Lieutenant Victor John Dodd
- Flight Sergeant John Thomas Gill
- Flying Officer Adriano Richard Girolami
- Pilot Officer Joseph Victor Jacques Gravel
- Sergeant James Greaves
- Sergeant William Macmillan Green
- Flight Lieutenant Dennis Newton Greenhalgh
- Sergeant Derek Vernon Guttridge
- Flight Sergeant William James Hamilton
- Flying Officer Stanley Allen Hawkins
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Ernest Haywood
- Flight Lieutenant William Oakley Helm
- Pilot Officer Leslie William Higgins
- Pilot Officer Newman Jack Higgins
- Pilot Officer Arthur Leslie Horton
- Pilot Officer Harry Ibbotson
- Flight Sergeant Harold Elburn Isles
- Pilot Officer Albert Edward Jackson
- Warrant Officer Ronald Keith Jamieson
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Frank Kelly
- Warrant Officer Felix Edward Keon
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Leslie Colin Kerr
- Warrant Officer Sylvain Kluska
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Winston Knupp
- Pilot Officer John Walter Raymond Lefebvre
- Sergeant Leslie Albert Lewis
- Flight Lieutenant Watson Temple Loftus
- Pilot Officer Rowley Lomas
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Mackrell
- Pilot Officer Kenneth George Marris
- Flying Officer Thomas Russell Martin
- Pilot Officer Donald Stuart McGregor
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Frazer Mead
- Wing Commander George Guy Meager
- Sergeant Philip George Mellor
- Sergeant Harold George Millard
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Henry Moore
- Pilot Officer Vernon Mudford
- Pilot Officer Joseph Albert Bastien Ouimet
- Pilot Officer Edwin Earle Fairgrieve Park
- Flying Officer William Henry Parkinson
- Flying Officer Rolland Nelson Peever
- Squadron Leader Frederic John Pope
- Sergeant David Charles Rhodes
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Cornelius Richards
- Flying Officer Tore Rickland
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Alexander Robertson
- Pilot Officer John Ross
- Squadron Leader Gilbert Bryce Dart Roxburgh
- Flight Sergeant Edward Joseph Ryan
- Flight Sergeant William David Sandwell
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Lloyd Schmidt
- Flying Officer Charles Henry Setterfield
- Flight Lieutenant William Sinclair
- Flying Officer Albert Richard Steeples
- Pilot Officer Claude Michael Sylvah
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Vincent Walter
- Flying Officer Robert Alan Watson
- Flying Officer Leslie Charles Edgar Webley
- Flight Lieutenant Allan Pluis Whitford
- Flying Officer William Harold Wilson
- Corporal Jack Wiseman
- Warrant Officer Frederick Edward Wood
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Woods
1945
- Pilot Officer Orval Clare Evers
- Corporal Frederick Harold Granger
- Group Captain John Francis Griffiths
- Sergeant Leonard Arthur George Hale
- Flying Officer Ray Bertram Hilchey
- Flight Lieutenant Lawrence McMillan
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth John Otter
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Herbert Archenoul Pindar
- Flying Officer Donald Thomas Robinson
- Captain Arthur Ruddock
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Earl Clifford Slack
- Corporal Joseph Charlton Smith
- Pilot Officer Robert Macpherson Toms
- Sergeant Murray Avard Vail