On this day — 8 July
252 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Squadron Leader Desmond Cooke
- Pilot Officer John Eadie
- Sergeant Cyril Richard Hallett
- Sergeant Leonard Howard
- Sergeant Frank Schofield King
- Sergeant Basil Kinton
- Pilot Officer Oliver Harry Launders
- Sergeant Edgar Francis John L'Estrange
- Flying Officer Edward William Mitchell
- Pilot Officer John Edward Randell Wood
1941
- Pilot Officer John Bailie
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth George Betts
- Flight Sergeant Cyril John Bevan
- Sergeant Arthur Bird
- Sergeant Foster Wilson Black
- Sergeant Harris Black
- Sergeant Cyril George Blandon
- Sergeant Niall Hope Burnett
- Sergeant John Stanley Burnside
- Sergeant Rodney Victor Butcher
- Sergeant Kenrick William Marshall Christopher
- Flight Sergeant John Verdun Clegg
- Pilot Officer Grossett Keith Coates
- Flying Officer Thomas Joseph Cook
- Flight Sergeant Richard George Crossman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Davidson
- Sergeant Brian Proctor Dawbarn
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Stanley Elsmore
- Sergeant Brian William Feely
- Flying Officer Ronald John Fraas
- Leading Aircraftman Edmond Louis Fragniere
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Stevenson Gardner
- Sergeant Fred Gilliatt
- Sergeant Alfred Norman Frederick Glide
- Sergeant Peter William Goodwin
- Sergeant James Gordon
- Sergeant John Stuart Gray
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Gray
- Sergeant Norman Walter Harding
- Sergeant Hubert Richard Heighton
- Sergeant William Nisbet Hendry
- Pilot Officer Douglas James Jamieson
- Sergeant Wilfred George Jesson
- Sergeant Gordon Archibald Jupp
- Pilot Officer Stephen John Leach
- Sergeant Gerald Lightley
- Sergeant Mortimer Livis
- Sergeant Robert Harold Lomas-smith
- Flight Sergeant Owen Roderick Lucas
- Flight Sergeant Samuel John Lytle
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Mackay Macdonald
- Flying Officer Jiri Machacek
- Sergeant Henry Douglas Mackenzie
- Sergeant Malcolm Todd Matthews
- Sergeant Leonard George May
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur David Michael Merretti
- Pilot Officer Reginald David Morley
- Sergeant Glyndwr Owens
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Robert McLeod Petley
- Sergeant Ramsden
- Sergeant William Ross
- Sergeant Bertram Edward Sale
- Sergeant Leslie Norman Smith
- Sergeant Leonard Albert Soutar
- Pilot Officer David William Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Robert Henry Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Eric Douglas Tyler
- Sergeant Joseph Frank Walton
- Pilot Officer Robert Ernest Waugh
- Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Nelson Wilde
- Sergeant Charles Wilkinson
- Flight Sergeant William George Williams
- Sergeant Alfred William Wilson
- Pilot Officer Frank Wilson
- Sergeant Josiah Herbert Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Wordsworth
1942
- Sergeant Roy Alan Ashmore
- Sergeant Jack Edgar Ashwell
- Sergeant Norman Albert Burr
- Aircraftman 1st Class William John Candler
- Sergeant John James Stephen Corderoy
- Sergeant William Henry Curtis
- Sergeant Albert Leslie Gane
- Leading Aircraftman Grant William Gibson
- Pilot Officer John Carlton Gilbert
- Second Lieutenant Gilfillan
- Pilot Officer Charles Willard Gomm
- Sergeant Edward Ernest Gutteridge
- Sergeant Peter Hind
- Sergeant Allen Walter Crawford Jerman
- Warrant Officer Edward Owen Johnson
- Sergeant Robert Guthrie Johnston
- Flying Officer Neville Stuart King
- Pilot Officer Cyril Henry Leonard
- Pilot Officer Joseph Lorkin
- Leading Aircraftman William Claude Macdonald
- Pilot Officer James Percival Michael
- Flying Officer Samuel Henry Miller
- Sergeant David Arthur Morris
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Joseph Newman
- Sergeant Leslie George Islwyn Owen
- Sergeant Stanley George Rimmer
- Sergeant Te Roki Robieson
- Lieutenant Arthur Kemp Roskilly
- Flying Officer John Smith
- Sergeant Claude Macdonald Stearns
- Flying Officer Frank Tribe
- Lieutenant Leon Udwin
- Sergeant James Stratton Wardle
- Pilot Officer Robert Edwin Wigle
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Raymond Henry Winter
- Flight Sergeant Robert Ward Woolner
- Sergeant Bernard John Worsfold
1943
- Pilot Officer Charles Grindle Baker
- Leading Aircraftman James Gordon Barr
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrence R. Beresford
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Lawton Bernthal
- Sergeant Edgar Richard Black
- Flying Officer Benedikt Blatny
- Leading Aircraftman George Mellis Leiper Brown
- Flight Sergeant Carbarns
- Corporal Edward Adlington Chamberlain
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Chambers
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Charles Channon
- Sergeant John Charley
- Flying Officer Oscar Edward Coates
- Sergeant Dennis Harold Cockram
- Flying Officer David Alexander Colvin
- Flight Sergeant Bernard John Day
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter Divers
- Leading Aircraftman Walter William Dorrell
- Sergeant George Sydney Dryden
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Enman
- Lieutenant Barend Hendrik Erasmus
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Alexander Fraser
- Corporal Frank Roland Gentle
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roger Julius Hall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alan Hardy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Frederick Harmsworth
- Leading Aircraftman John Gordon Rix Harries
- Sergeant Frank Everett Harrison
- Sergeant Stanley Henry Noel Hart
- Sergeant Richard Hobby
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Frederick Laing Hopkinson
- Sergeant James Howatson
- Warrant Officer Class I Peter Human
- Flight Sergeant George Richard Hutchins
- Pilot Officer James Archibald Jackson
- Sergeant Ivor Gordon Jones
- Sergeant Stanley Knowles
- Major Gerald John Le Mesurier
- Flight Lieutenant John Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Lodge
- Pilot Officer Ronald William Lornie
- Captain Main
- Leading Aircraftman Svatopluk Maly
- Flight Sergeant Albert Arthur Mansell
- Warrant Officer Class II John Leroy McGill
- Sergeant Norman Ian Mellor
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Murton Oliver
- Sergeant Dennis George Oney
- Flight Sergeant Harry Frederick Palmer
- Flying Officer Frederick Perkins
- Flying Officer Robert Russell Waldo Peters
- Sergeant Kenneth Vivian Pike
- Flying Officer John Korostovetz Piry
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harry George Langford Price
- Sergeant Frederick James Brightwell Rawlings
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Hugh Richmond
- Sergeant Sidney Wilson Salkeld
- Aircraftman 1st Class Geoffrey Charles Scadding
- Sergeant Hector Henderson Sharpe
- Corporal John Shepherd
- Air Mechanic Reginald J. Sheppard
- Flying Officer Edward Watson Skirrow
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Taylor
- Pilot Officer Oswald James Thorpe
- Corporal Douglas Albert Tickner
- Captain Truter
- Pilot Officer George Moffat Urwin
- Flight Sergeant Frank Sidney Vause
- Sergeant Norman Waddington
- Flight Lieutenant Ralph Edward Walker
- Flight Sergeant Eric Vernon Frederick Weatherley
- Leading Aircraftman George Robert Arthur Williams
- Flying Officer Jack Witts
1944
- Warrant Officer Hilton Craig Bell
- Pilot Officer James Douglas Bishop
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Arthur Boyce
- Pilot Officer Hugh Thomas Blakeley Burgess
- Corporal Reginald Edward Stanley Butler
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Joseph Cleary
- Flight Sergeant Verne Edward Cockroft
- Flying Officer Arthur George Corck
- Flight Sergeant Horace Andrew Cummins
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Albert Davies
- Lieutenant Francois Meyer Du Toit
- Flying Officer Douglas Elphick
- Flying Officer Norman Vincent Gautschi
- Sergeant Norman Budden Gibbs
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Halsey
- Flying Officer Walter Haraczay
- Pilot Officer James Martin Hickey
- Pilot Officer Fredrick Randall Hopkins
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Byron Huppert
- Warrant Officer Clifford Cecil Jones
- Flight Sergeant Brian Martin Joyce
- Flight Sergeant William Deldon Douglas Killworth
- Flying Officer Gordon Stanley Kimber
- Flight Sergeant George Fraser McLaurin
- Warrant Officer Stanley Arcadie Motriuk
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Nash
- Flight Sergeant Peter Oliver Kenneth Noren
- Flight Sergeant Charles Joseph O'Connor
- Flying Officer John Daniel O'Driscoll
- Flying Officer Patrick Joseph O'Leary
- Warrant Officer Harry Donald Parker
- Flying Officer Reginald Herbert Passant
- Flying Officer Frank Gordon Paterson
- Sergeant Johnston Irwin Stewart (jack) Patterson
- Flying Officer Robert Allen Pearson
- Flight Lieutenant Bernard Norman Phillips
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Edward Piper
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert Graham Podosky
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Haig Porritt
- Pilot Officer George Arthur Rae
- Flying Officer Max Rose
- Flight Lieutenant Alfred Herbert Rutledge
- Flying Officer Philip Wyatt Ryan
- Captain James Edward Sharpe
- Flight Lieutenant James Shaw
- Flight Sergeant James Pat Steffan
- Warrant Officer John Hamilton Stibbard
- Warrant Officer Eric John Walter Stirling
- Flight Sergeant Allan Cameron Sutherland
- Flying Officer Frank Macdonald Thomas
- Flying Officer Ian James Thompson
- Flying Officer John Wenger
- Flying Officer George Albert White
- Pilot Officer James Wright
1945
- Captain Blinkhorn
- Flight Sergeant Ford
- Air Corporal Ford
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Grayson
- Wing Commander Lawrance Haydn Hillier
- Squadron Leader Charles Joseph Merryfull
- Flying Officer William George Luigi Mills
- Sergeant Kenneth Edward Nuttall
- Captain Kevin Leahy O'Leary
- Sergeant Geoffrey Wright