On this day — 26 May
304 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 26 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Flight Lieutenant Capel Francis Goodson Adye
- Pilot Officer Colin Cecil Robert Anderson
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Peareth Armstrong
- Pilot Officer Gerald Montague Bailey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Charles Brogan
- Sergeant Richard William Butler
- Pilot Officer John Stewart Cameron
- Pilot Officer Horace James Cook
- Sergeant William Cunningham
- Sergeant William John Kelsall Evans
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alan Arthur Gillmore
- Sergeant Eric George Hayward
- Sergeant William Frank Hubbard
- Sergeant Charles Albert Irwin
- Flying Officer Frederick Robert Jamieson
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Jones
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Lay
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold George Littlewood
- Leading Aircraftman Alan Duncan Mackenzie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Murdo McLean
- Wing Commander Harry Manners Mellor
- Pilot Officer Alfred Hall Murphy
- Sergeant Raymond Cranmer Parkhouse
- Sergeant Gordon Louis Schwind
- Pilot Officer Richard Ernest Shaw
- Flying Officer John Hylton Welford
- Sergeant Edmund Wilks
1941
- Sergeant Geoffrey Russell Adams
- Pilot Officer John Tiplady Brown
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walton Clavering Dodds
- Leading Aircraftman Charles William Duddle
- Warrant Officer Arthur Figg
- Flight Sergeant Keith Garrett
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Glaisher
- Sergeant Colin Raymond Glover
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney Godley
- Flight Sergeant George Kenneth Grainger
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Albert Hopkins
- Second Lieutenant Naude
- Sergeant John Murray Opie
- Second Lieutenant Roos
- Flying Officer Arthur Kavhan Round
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Schwartz
- Pilot Officer Henry James Talbot
- Flight Sergeant Neville Headley Thomas
- Pilot Officer Stanislav Zeinert
1942
- Pilot Officer Ronald Beaumont
- Sergeant John Henry Bellamy
- Sergeant David Stuart Brown
- Sergeant Gordon Edward Carden
- Pilot Officer George Kenneth Chadwick
- Flying Officer Robert William Douglas Cowper
- Sergeant Peter Crane
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Cranston
- Pilot Officer Vincent George Desourdy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Dodds
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Henry Edmunds
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Charles Edwards
- Squadron Leader Philip Herbert Foster
- Sergeant Joseph Green
- Leading Aircraftman John Griffiths
- Flight Sergeant John Murray Jamieson
- Sergeant Edmund George Kinsey
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Frank Kirk
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Lawson
- Sergeant Geoffrey Eric Lee
- Leading Aircraftman Derek Thomas Lippitt
- Sergeant Charles McLean
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Tony Edward Mitchell
- Warrant Officer Class I Edwin Albert Russell
- Pilot Officer Leicester Bond Ware
- Sergeant Herbert Henry Way
- Flight Sergeant Christopher Derek Ainley Whitehead
- Sergeant William Richard Willis
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Donald Wills
1943
- Sergeant Brian Cyrus Ainsworth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Colin Granville Atkins
- Sergeant Sydney Arthur James Bailey
- Pilot Officer Frank Greenaway Baker
- Sergeant Eric Harry Frederic Barker
- Sergeant Stanley Francis Barrow
- Sergeant Cyril Walter Bates
- Sergeant Roy Batterbee
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Lyall Beatty
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Bell
- Sergeant Derrick Lewis Berresford
- Pilot Officer Joseph Francois Exavier Gilles Berthiaume
- Flight Sergeant Alburn Frederick Birkbeck
- Sergeant Ronald Sydney Blake
- Flying Officer Cyril Francis Blanchard
- Flying Officer Albert Carey Bonner
- Sergeant George Langdon Bottomley
- Sergeant Eric Broadhead
- Sergeant Alwyn Brotherton
- Sergeant Alfred Brown
- Leading Aircraftman John Martin Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin James Browning
- Sergeant Llyn David Bryant
- Sergeant William Harry Bryant
- Sergeant Stanley Busby
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Carr
- Sergeant Thomas Chalmers
- Sergeant William John Chambers
- Flight Sergeant Albert Chilton
- Sergeant Leslie Malcolm Chisnall
- Sergeant Dudley Dobson Coates
- Sergeant William Reginald Leslie Codd
- Sergeant Albert Glyn Coffin
- Sergeant Norman Sidney Collins
- Sergeant Stanley Arthur James Cook
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Graydon Cooke
- Sergeant James Brownlie Corbett
- Sergeant Douglas William Creevy
- Sergeant Leslie John Daker
- Flight Sergeant Thomas William Darton
- Sergeant Gwynn Towyn Davies
- Sergeant William Price Davies
- Sergeant Walter Denham
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Dixon
- Flying Officer Ronald Thomas Douglas
- Warrant Officer Class II William Ernest Douglas
- Flying Officer Philip Charles Bradley Drayton
- Warrant Officer Class II Michael George King East
- Sergeant Peter Falkingham
- Sergeant Arthur William Fincham
- Sergeant Albert Leslie Fisher
- Sergeant Jack Thomas Francis
- Sergeant Keith John Frost
- Flight Sergeant Michael O'Donovan Fuller
- Sergeant James Kenneth Fulton
- Sergeant Edward Garner
- Sergeant Douglas Alan Genever
- Flight Sergeant David Ronald Gilchrist
- Flying Officer George Martello Gray
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Cyril Green
- Sergeant Leslie George Hadden
- Sergeant Ivor Edwin George Hall
- Flying Officer Dennis Harvey
- Sergeant William Frederick Hayllar
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Charles Haynes
- Sergeant Kenneth George Higgs
- Warrant Officer Class II William James Hills
- Flying Officer David Hirst
- Sergeant Jack Hogg
- Flying Officer Cecil Bertie (bob) Hooper
- Pilot Officer George Edward Hopson
- Sergeant John Hudson
- Sergeant Michael Charles Jefferies
- Sergeant Brian McMahon Jubb
- Sergeant Michael Keogh
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Gerald Kernaghan
- Flight Sergeant Robert Albert Kerr
- Sergeant Joseph Kershaw
- Leading Aircraftman William Gordon Koehler
- Sergeant Noel Lagna
- Flight Sergeant James Crawford Lamond
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Robert Langhorne
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Fernand Rolland Laurence
- Sergeant William James Ledbury
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert George Lee
- Sergeant Richard Lewis
- Sergeant Denys Littlewood
- Sergeant Robert Lowe
- Flight Sergeant David William Macfarlane
- Sergeant Kenneth Mackintosh
- Flight Sergeant James Cumming Macphedran
- Sergeant Wilson Reather Maddison
- Flying Officer Roy Gibson Madge
- Flying Officer Dennis Makin
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Earl Manser
- Flying Officer James Murray Marnoch
- Sergeant Edgar Leslie Matthews
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Cormac Maunsell
- Sergeant Derek Charles Maynard
- Sergeant William Alexander Dalziel McConnell
- Sergeant James Reginald McLeod
- Flying Officer John Beaton McLeod
- Sergeant Alick McQuater
- Flying Officer Norman John Miller
- Sergeant George James Mitchener
- Flight Sergeant Acel Theodore Walter Moore
- Sergeant Harold William Moore
- Flying Officer Walter Edwin Lawrence Morse
- Pilot Officer Raymond Edgar Newman
- Sergeant Rundle Houston Oats
- Flying Officer Cornelius Frederick O'Connell
- Sergeant Thomas Charles Lewis Orchard
- Sergeant Dennis Patrick O'Riordan
- Flying Officer Ronald Paisley
- Flight Sergeant John Maxwell Parsons
- Sergeant Ernest Vincent Pass
- Leading Aircraftman Oscar Lorn Paull
- Pilot Officer Stuart Pennington
- Warrant Officer Class II William George Pepper
- Flying Officer Henry Neville Petts
- Sergeant Ronald William Pittard
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederic Richard Charles Plant
- Warrant Officer Class II Ernest Sinclair Pollon
- Sergeant Frank Henry Edward Pooley
- Flight Sergeant James Leeman Poulter
- Sergeant Edward Temple Powell
- Sergeant Alexander Alwyn Prowse
- Sergeant Alfred Joseph Railton
- Sergeant Stephen Redpath
- Sergeant Lewis William Rees
- Flying Officer William Cassin Reynolds
- Sergeant Christopher Arthur Richardson
- Sergeant John Walton Richardson
- Sergeant Raymond Alexander Ridgway
- Sergeant John Milton Patrick Riordan
- Sergeant Harry Roots
- Sergeant John Patrick Roughan
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Anthony Routledge
- Sergeant David Edward William Roxburgh
- Flying Officer Gordon Russel
- Flight Sergeant Charles Little Saundercock
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Charles Schroeder
- Sergeant Horace Stephen Scott
- Sergeant Thomas Mackie Scott
- Sergeant Ernest Shackleton
- Sergeant Charles Henry Sherwood
- Sergeant Thomas Charles Eugene Simmons
- Warrant Officer Class II Charles Thomas Smith
- Flight Sergeant Eric Granville Moreton Smith
- Sergeant William Smith
- Sergeant Bernard Spencer
- Warrant Officer Class II Edward Alan Sproule
- Flight Sergeant Robert James Steele
- Sergeant Thomas William Tremble Stoddart
- Pilot Officer Norman Cecil Swan
- Sergeant Harold Sweet
- Sergeant Richard Ellwood Talman
- Sergeant Edward Thomas
- Sergeant Arthur Sylvanus Thomson
- Flying Officer Ivan Samuel Thomson
- Sergeant William Henry Thomson
- Sergeant Vernon John Sheldrake Tindale
- Squadron Leader Philip Raymond Turgel
- Sergeant Jack Henry Uden
- Sergeant Richard Wadsworth
- Pilot Officer Robert Ralph Walters
- Sergeant Harold John Warren
- Warrant Officer Class II Norman James Waters
- Sergeant John Hunter Waterston
- Sergeant John George Watkins
- Flying Officer John Kaye Watson
- Sergeant Alfred William White
- Sergeant John Charles Lawrence Whiteman
- Sergeant Frederick Arthur Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Wyndham Williams
- Sergeant Frederick Phillip Willsher
- Flight Sergeant Jack Oliphant Wilson
- Flying Officer Harold Walter Woodhouse
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Cephas Worden
- Sergeant Alexander Thomas Mitchel Wright
- Flying Officer Hugh Manson Wygle
- Pilot Officer Ian Archer Wynn
- Pilot Officer Gordon William Young
1944
- Flight Sergeant Edwin George William Broad
- Sergeant Bernard Broe
- Warrant Officer Thomas Wadeson Buckley
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Wallace John Byerley
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil William Cartwright
- Sergeant Albert Dennis Clark
- Warrant Officer George Cowdrey
- Flying Officer Paul Alexander Davidson
- Flying Officer Burghardt Hans Dobesch
- Corporal Leonard Dugdale
- Flying Officer Raymond Fraser Edwards
- Air Sergeant Cyril Matthew Francois
- Sergeant James Eugene Gray
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Robert Green
- Sergeant Leslie Norman Gurden
- Leading Aircraftman James Charles Hartley
- Leading Aircraftman John Bruce William Haworth
- Flight Sergeant Roy Newton Hill
- Warrant Officer Reginald Jamieson
- Sergeant Noel Thompson Kester
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Bigland Knight
- Pilot Officer William Davidson Lillico
- Sergeant James Graham Middlemas
- Sergeant Dereck Nicholls
- Pilot Officer Archibald Thomas Noble
- Flying Officer Donald George Frederick Parker
- Sergeant Francis Edward Potter
- Sergeant Thomas Dowens Purves
- Warrant Officer Gomer Glyndwr Rees
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Frederick Remnant
- Flight Lieutenant Alfred Ernest Roberts
- Corporal Leo James Rogers
- Pilot Officer George Benjamin Sanderson
- Air Mechanic Gert Van Tonder
- Sergeant Wilfred Walker
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Whitelaw
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Wright
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Marino Harold Anderson
- Sergeant R C Develin
- Flying Officer D W H Furber
- Air Corporal Mare
- Corporal John George Richardson
- Warrant Officer Harold Percival Roberts