On this day — 18 May
185 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 18 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Edward Abbott
- Flying Officer Derek Hurlstone Allen
- Corporal Eric Torance Baillie
- Sergeant William Baxter
- Pilot Officer Adrian Bouwens
- Sergeant Robert Burns
- Flight Lieutenant Paul Geoffrey Chapman
- Aircraftman 1st Class William August Christie
- Sergeant Cecil Ernest Colbourn
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Sidney Darwood
- Flying Officer Francis Desmond Dawson Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Dockray
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Leslie Durant
- Pilot Officer Roy Alwin Durie
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest John Fagg
- Flying Officer Ernest Campbell Ford
- Sergeant Anthony Colin Gothard
- Flying Officer Kenneth Walter Graham
- Corporal Royston Ewart Gumbrill
- Sergeant Reginald George Hopkins
- Pilot Officer Leslie Jack Huggett
- Flying Officer George Derrick Osmund Le Hutchesson
- Squadron Leader Hector Yeates Lawrence
- Pilot Officer John William Lecky
- Pilot Officer Robert James Lennox-french
- Sergeant Herbert Reginald Megarry
- Sergeant Donald Vivian Moseley
- Pilot Officer Curran Smiley Robinson
- Flying Officer Frank Charles Rose
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Scovil Soden
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas William Clifford Staples
- Sergeant Alfred William Swinburne Thomas
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Austin Tomlinson
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Arthur Turner
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Waddington
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Grace Watts
- Flying Officer Robert Francis Weatherill
1941
- Corporal George Alfred Acton
- Sergeant George Clifton Allenby
- Sergeant George Lee Morris Bayly
- Flying Officer John Beveridge
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Robert Butcher
- Sergeant Kenneth Wilson Coates
- Sergeant Luther Crawshaw
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Lawrence Dartnall
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Gilbert Davies
- Sergeant Edward Kerfoot Dawson
- Pilot Officer Peter Dixon-spain
- Sergeant Alfred Raymond Ferrier
- Leading Aircraftman William Ronald Glover
- Sergeant Peter Ronie Gordon
- Flight Sergeant Victor James Griffiths
- Sergeant Billy Halbert
- Sergeant Robert Lang Riddet Halbert
- Corporal George Kerr
- Pilot Officer Brian Edward Lymbery
- Squadron Leader William Robert McCleery
- Sergeant Thomas Morgan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Herbert Porter
- Leading Aircraftman John Samuel Edgar Rawcliffe
- Pilot Officer Arthur Mitchell Saunders
- Sergeant John Trevor Smale
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry William Steer
- Sergeant Reginald Frederick Tatnell
- Corporal David Samuel Temple
- Flying Officer Bruce Kentish Thomas
- Sergeant Derek William Thomas
- Air Mechanic Vorster
- Sergeant Wilbur Frederick Webber
- Pilot Officer Allan Herbert Wise
- Sergeant Irwin Harold Wiskar
1942
- Flying Officer Eliot Ralph Barnfather
- Sergeant Harold Boardman
- Flight Lieutenant Neville George Richardson Booth
- Sergeant Francis Norman Butterworth
- Sergeant John Bernard Butterworth
- Flight Sergeant Robert Dyce Cameron
- Pilot Officer Robert William Charters
- Pilot Officer Michael Anthony Rodgers Dawson
- Flying Officer Sebastian Bernard De Mier
- Aircraftman 1st Class Wilfrid Bernard Downing
- Pilot Officer John Fisher
- Sergeant Cyril Flint
- Pilot Officer Arthur John Frost
- Corporal Frank Haines
- Squadron Leader John Charles Hall
- Flight Sergeant Edward Robert Hamilton
- Sergeant Leslie Hammond
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph William Haycock
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Brown Kennedy
- Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Lloyd
- Sergeant Gordon James Victor Lock
- Sergeant Ronald Maycock
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert John Miles
- Corporal Frank Jules George Miller
- Sergeant George Denis Nicholls
- Sergeant Robert Nicholson
- Sergeant James Richards Pendlebury
- Sergeant Arthur Wilton Ragan
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Douglas Royal
- Flying Officer John Patrick Ryan
- Sergeant Frank Leslie Sharp
- Sergeant Reginald James Sharp
- Sergeant Anthony Spriggs
- Sergeant George Walker Thornton
- Sergeant Harry Unsworth
- Sergeant William Richard Wagstaff
- Flight Sergeant James Michael Wootton
- Pilot Officer William Falconer Young
1943
- Sergeant Victor Bailey
- Sergeant Sidney Biddulph
- Flying Officer Harry Oscar Bouchard
- Sergeant James William Bousfield
- Sergeant Joseph Edward Boyes
- Sergeant Frank Ronald Bradbury
- Flying Officer Leonard Gordon Burgess
- Sergeant John Burns
- Flying Officer Allen Henley Burton
- Pilot Officer Charles Albert Cheese
- Warrant Officer Richard James Clarke
- Flying Officer Peter Bryson Code
- Sergeant John James Cooper
- Flying Officer John Maxwell Crawford
- Sergeant Arthur Leslie Eastwick
- Pilot Officer Wallace Saunders Fyfe
- Flying Officer Leonard George Gill
- Flying Officer Douglas Ross Hall
- Sergeant Leslie Hurst
- Flying Officer Robert Inwood
- Wing Commander Donald Vernon Ivins
- Flying Officer William Lawrence
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Reavley Mason
- Flight Sergeant Charles Leslie McCarthy
- Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Edward McGee
- Sergeant Arnold Doyle McKim
- Flight Sergeant James David Muir
- Sergeant John Andrew Murray
- Corporal Wilfred Francis Murrin
- Flying Officer Edward Lancelot Musgrave
- Sergeant William Mycock
- Flight Sergeant Harold Raymond Nice
- Sergeant Douglas Parry
- Sergeant Frederick Victor Prime
- Warrant Officer Class II Edward John Ramey
- Flying Officer Harold Rathbone
- Pilot Officer Charles Verdun Gore Richardson
- Flying Officer Keith Ross Russell
- Sergeant Cecil Claude Daniels Scotney
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Seddon
- Sergeant Gordon Alexander Shearer
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Kelly Jameson Simpson
- Sergeant Thomas Smith
- Sergeant Harold Thomas Smithson
- Sergeant Jabez Harold Steward
- Flying Officer Donald Castleman Stone
- Flight Sergeant Ian Murray Sykes
- Flight Lieutenant Hendrik Denis Van Der Linden
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Keene Whitall
- Pilot Officer Raymond Farmer Wilson
1944
- Squadron Leader Hilary Charles Caldwell
- Flying Officer Kenneth Eric Chambers
- Sergeant Wallace James Cowey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward John Culling
- Pilot Officer Robert Leonard Double
- Squadron Leader Thomas Henry Desmond Drinkwater
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Max Meir Gans-schiller
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Colin Glenn
- Flight Sergeant William Geoffrey Goodwin
- Leading Aircraftman George Hannaford
- Corporal Cameron Henry Keys
- Sergeant Albert George Lee
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Thomas John Locke
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Ernest Rivett
- Flight Engineer Derek Shirley Smith
- Flight Sergeant Derrick Rhonda Ward
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfrid Cecil Warne
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Ronald Wilson
1945
- Warrant Officer Class II Michael Cecil Cameron
- Flying Officer Anthony Arthur Clifford
- Flying Officer David Arthur Fehrman
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Julius Halvorson
- Leading Aircraftman George Earl Hardiman
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Claude Hellekson
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Bruce McIvor