On this day — 7 July
260 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 7 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Alexander Aitken
- Pilot Officer Ralph Alan Anthony Ball
- Pilot Officer Hugh Christopher Morris Bamber
- Pilot Officer Norman James Brisbane
- Sergeant Alexander Glen
- Sergeant Patrick Sherlock Hayes
- Sergeant John Holdsworth
- Sergeant Frank Hutton
- Squadron Leader John Davies Clement Joslin
- Flying Officer Douglas Weatherall Lindsay
- Sergeant Charles William Pickering
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Graham Dyer Protheroe
- Flying Officer George Victor Proudman
- Sergeant George Reid
- Sergeant John Aidan Rogers
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Ruston
- Sergeant John Henry Waterfall
- Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Henry Wilson
1941
- Squadron Leader Lionel Aitken
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles Amy
- Pilot Officer Donald Noel Robert Armstrong
- Sergeant David Edward Barry Augustus
- Squadron Leader Andrew George Gordon Baird
- Sergeant Joseph Denham Beer
- Sergeant James Walter Bent
- Sergeant Kenneth Charles James Botsford
- Sergeant John Henry Brown
- Sergeant George Ellis Buckingham
- Sergeant Thomas Oakley Burgess
- Sergeant John Albert Causon
- Sergeant John Clayton
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Conlon
- Pilot Officer Hugh James (jim) Cooper
- Sergeant George Arthur Crompton
- Sergeant William Bernard Cundill
- Air Mechanic William Derham
- Sergeant Ronald George James Dewin
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Claude Dier
- Sergeant Albert Dobson
- Sergeant Simon Fullard Drummond
- Sergeant Charles Stanley Rutherford Edwards
- Sergeant Arthur Evans
- Sergeant David Morgan Evans
- Sergeant Gerald Farbrother
- Flight Sergeant Leonard William Walter Firman
- Leading Aircraftman Ian Sim Forbes
- Corporal James Alcliffe Deans Fortner
- Pilot Officer Horace Gray Gilliland
- Sergeant Louis Goldberg
- Pilot Officer James Graney
- Sergeant Patrick Michael Griffin
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Royson B. Hearne
- Flight Lieutenant Horace Colvill Hilton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Leslie Hoare
- Flight Sergeant Philip Hudson
- Flight Sergeant Jackson
- Flying Officer Reginald Maurice Peter Jenkyns
- Sergeant Thomas Hastie Kelsall
- Sergeant Robert William Ronald Kerruish
- Sergeant Edward Henry King
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Lewis Kingston
- Flying Officer Archibald Leeson
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Urquhart Lowson
- Flight Sergeant Albert Luckhurst
- Sergeant Kenneth George Macleay
- Sergeant Gerald Fenwick Manuel
- Sergeant Oswald Arthur Matthews
- Pilot Officer John McAnally
- Pilot Officer Neil McCarthy
- Flight Sergeant Robert McCormack
- Sergeant John Hutcheon McInnes
- Corporal Leslie Dudley Ward Miller
- Sergeant Arthur George Oliver
- Sergeant Cyril Victor Pearce
- Sergeant Fred Cecil Pocock
- Sergeant Frank Purnell
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander James Roberts
- Sergeant Charles Hepburn Robson
- Squadron Leader Anthony Aloysius McDonald Scott
- Sergeant Kenneth Lindsay Shonk
- Flying Officer Ronald William Vernon Smith
- Pupil Pilot Peter Seiger Sowerby
- Sergeant Roy Spencer
- Pilot Officer John Edwin Mackenzie Steeds
- Sergeant John Chesley Steeves
- Sergeant William Alexander Strachan
- Sergeant Jack Sykes
- Sergeant Hugh Tait
- Sergeant Raymond Burn Turner
- Sergeant Albert Edwin Varnsverry
- Flying Officer William Francis Ward
- Flying Officer Stanley Page Watkins
- Sergeant Albert Webster
- Pilot Officer Rodney William Kinross White
- Flying Officer Frederic Christopher Donald Winser
- Flight Sergeant George Thomas Wood
- Sergeant John Wright
- Pilot Officer Hugh Streatfield Wynne-edwards
1942
- Sergeant Kenneth Joseph Alexander
- Sergeant Robin Aelred Attwater
- Flight Sergeant Grahame Cowan Barrie
- Sergeant Kelvin Arthur Bates
- Sergeant Harry Willis Brayshaw
- Pilot Officer Ernest Ross Brooks
- Warrant Officer Class I Clayton Penrose Lindon Brown
- Sergeant Frank Henry Stuart Bush
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edmund James Delaney
- Sergeant John Ralph Dougall
- Air Mechanic Eva
- Pilot Officer Ivan Thomas Hugh Evans
- Flight Sergeant James McMillan Ferguson
- Sergeant Norman Fountain
- Sergeant John Gordon Fry
- Sergeant Arthur Frederick Galley
- Flight Sergeant Haydn Haggas
- Sergeant Clifford Handley
- Sergeant Frank Owen Holder Harrison
- Sergeant John David Robert Heddle
- Flight Sergeant Frank Brown Graham Heron
- Sergeant William Hill
- Flight Sergeant John Gordon Holmes
- Sergeant William Henry Leedham
- Flight Sergeant George Douglas Maluish
- Sergeant William Percival Marshall
- Sergeant Robert Jack McKean
- Sergeant Harold Milton Miners
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Louis Murphy
- Pilot Officer Henry Christopher Nichol-smith
- Sergeant Robert Parker
- Sergeant Lincoln Thomas Beynon Phillips
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney Albert Pilbrow
- Sergeant Alexander Rae
- Flight Sergeant William George Roddy
- Sergeant Raymond Jeffery Smart
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Baker Smith
- Sergeant Mervyn William Stanley
- Sergeant George Edward Step
- Pilot Officer Donald John Sterling
- Flight Sergeant Peter Clifford Terry
- Sergeant Joel Treister
- Pilot Officer Reginald Neville Walford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert Warburton
- Pilot Officer Reginald Francis Watson
- Sergeant Eustace Harry Whitmee
- Sergeant Norman Rigby Wiltcher
- Corporal Albert Charles Winter
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert John Allen
- Sergeant Thomas Armstrong
- Flying Officer Ronald Charles Arthur
- Sergeant Leonard William Bacon
- Sergeant Charles Dennis Barker
- Flight Sergeant Donald Leighton Spence Barr
- Sergeant William Henry Bartlett
- Sergeant Raymond George Bates
- Squadron Leader Robert George Leslie Baxter
- Flying Officer Adrian Beare
- Sergeant Sydney James Betts
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Godfrey Brazendale
- Warrant Officer Charles Willie Brooks
- Sergeant John Desmond Butterly
- Sergeant Gideon Jamieson Cairncross
- Corporal Maurice Cawkwell
- Flight Sergeant Clement Frederick Clements
- Flight Sergeant Robert Humphrey Collis
- Sergeant Bernard Daniel Charles Cox
- Sergeant Victor Charles Cummins
- Sergeant Lysle Herbert Hungerford Dearing
- Leading Aircraftman Keith Ernest Dickinson
- Sergeant James Driver
- Flying Officer Vivian Roberts Eady
- Sergeant Arthur Ernest Hewitt Edwards
- Sergeant Clifford Elvidge
- Sergeant Victor Eyton-jones
- Sergeant Roy Albert James Farahar
- Sergeant Matthew Henderson Galt
- Sergeant Henry Gardner
- Sergeant Ronald Francis Garside
- Sergeant Frank Graham
- Flight Sergeant James Foster Hansen
- Sergeant James McCready Helm
- Sergeant John Ernest Hindmarch
- Sergeant Osborne Holey
- Sergeant Raymond Hollas
- Sergeant Leslie Hopkinson
- Sergeant Alfred Charles Horley
- Sergeant Frederick George Howard
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Henry Isaacs
- Flying Officer Percy Cecil Jackson
- Sergeant Dennis Cecil (bill) Joel
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Kirby Kitney
- Leading Aircraftman Percy John Lancaster
- Sergeant William Clement Lankshear
- Aircraftman 1st Class George William Lloyd
- Sergeant Peter Maynard
- Sergeant John Robert McDougall
- Sergeant John Irwin Middleton
- Flight Sergeant Frederick John Nelson
- Leading Aircraftman Vincent Brendan O'Dowd
- Flying Officer Frederick Ryder Ousey
- Sergeant Henry Hugh Patrick
- Flying Officer Robert Victor Paul
- Sergeant James Eric Potts
- Warrant Officer Class I Charles Halbert Pratt
- Sergeant Joseph Edward Ratcliffe
- Sergeant Anthony Edward Deighton Ross
- Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Opawa Rutherford
- Flight Lieutenant Cyril James Scrivener
- Sergeant Ronald Cecil Selth
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Eric Sheppard
- Flying Officer Francis Melville Smith
- Flight Sergeant Lisle Gordon Smith
- Flight Sergeant John Ramsay Tonkin
- Sergeant Desmond Frank Oswald Turner
- Sergeant Charles Henry John Walklin
- Flying Officer George Montague Maybank Webb
- Sergeant Henry William Charles Wheeler
- Flying Officer James Clarence White
- Leading Aircraftman David Allen Whyte
- Sergeant William Russell (bobs) Wooding
- Sergeant Raymond Lewis Wynniatt
1944
- Squadron Leader William Walter Blessing
- Flying Officer John William Blyth
- Warrant Officer Warwick Brothers
- Warrant Officer Class II Henry Ramsay Carruthers
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Anthony Conway Coldridge
- Pilot Officer Ronald Thomas Collins
- Corporal Robert Edwin Colwell
- Warrant Officer Geoffrey James Custance
- Flight Sergeant John Phillip Sinclair Dalton
- Flight Sergeant Rae Charles Dalton
- Warrant Officer Robert Barnes Flegg
- Pilot Officer Robert Bruce Groves
- Sergeant Fred Hardy
- Flight Sergeant Richard James Harris
- Flight Sergeant Rowland Eames Jones
- Pilot Officer Leonard Dewain Kidd
- Pilot Officer Ralph Ernest Lemmon
- Flying Officer Ernest William Macintosh
- Captain Marquard
- Warrant Officer Maxwell Wellman Marsh
- Flying Officer Hector Joseph McEachern
- Flight Sergeant McNamara
- Flying Officer George Edward Scott McNaughton
- Captain Povey
- Sergeant Alfred Rowe
- Air Pupil Eric Sarcki
- Flight Sergeant William Arthur Sheppard
- Pilot Officer Albert David Telford
- Flight Sergeant Josiah Turner
- Lieutenant Vlok
- Warrant Officer John Lugton Warne
- Warrant Officer Cedric Milford Wood
1945
- Flying Officer William Crawford Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Ellens
- Flying Officer Wilmer Jacob Friesen
- Flying Officer Alexander Ross Weir Harrison
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Robert Rouse
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Herbert Lodington Smith