On this day — 12 July
186 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 12 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer James Henry Leslie Allen
- Sergeant John William Craig
- Sergeant John Vernon Futcher
- Pilot Officer Duncan Alexander Hewitt
- Pilot Officer Charles William Howie
- Sergeant Sydney Ireland
- Sergeant Leonard Jowitt
- Captain Kriel
- Sergeant Frederick (freddy) Nelson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Phillips
- Pilot Officer John Alexander Rose
- Sergeant Charles Suggett
- Pilot Officer Joseph Simon Torgalson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Llewelyn Rhys Williams
1941
- Leading Aircraftman Lance Lorimer Andrew
- Lieutenant Paul Daniel Aneck-hahn
- Sergeant Ralph Winston Askin
- Flight Sergeant Ashley Bisgood
- Pilot Officer Ronald Owen Boon
- Wing Commander Arthur Frank Calvert Booth
- Sergeant Lionel Francis Clay
- Sergeant William Henry Dickens
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Ernest Freeman
- Flight Sergeant Colin Gordon Goodfellow
- Flight Sergeant Jack Guest
- Sergeant John Norman Hallam
- Sergeant Herbert Hastings
- Sergeant Wilfred Leonard Hiscock
- Sergeant Israel Jacobovitch
- Sergeant Kenneth John Lord
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Osman Milford
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Maurice Alfred Morrison
- Flight Lieutenant George Kenneth Peacock
- Leading Aircraftman Louis Frants Josef Pfeffer
- Corporal Alfred Sydney Poulter
- Sergeant Idris Price
- Sergeant William John Quinn Ramsay
- Sergeant George Andre Joseph Richard
- Pilot Officer Francis Herbert Schumer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie Smart
- Sergeant Ronald James Smith
- Sergeant Desmond David Patrick Thomas
- Sergeant James Tinker
- Sergeant Eugene Oscar Townsend
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Fisher King Turner
- Pilot Officer Edward Douglas Vivian
- Corporal Donald Wilkinson
- Leading Aircraftman William Andrew Williams
- Sergeant Arthur James Worsfield
1942
- Pilot Officer Alexander Alfred Angel
- Flight Sergeant James Robert Axon
- Sergeant Thomas David Belford
- Flying Officer Owen William Hugh Berkeley-hill
- Sergeant Elton Duncan Brabender
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Brayne
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Allan Arthur Chalmers
- Squadron Leader Cyril Lancelot Fellowes Colmore
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Denis Crofton
- Sergeant Lenard Charles Underwood Dreyer
- Flying Officer Robert Terence Wolfenden Elcoate
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Potts Gillott
- Leading Aircraftman James Edwin Green
- Sergeant Alexander Guthrie
- Flight Sergeant Eric Hannath
- Flying Officer Philip Francis Grant Harbottle
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Howard
- Flight Sergeant Percival Eric John Howe
- Leading Aircraftman William Conroy James
- Sergeant William Moreton James
- Pilot Officer Malcolm George Lees
- Flying Officer Alan James Leslie
- Sergeant Frank Lewin Luff
- Pilot Officer George Boris Lukhmanoff
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Kenneth Mackay
- Pilot Officer Basil Craig Middleton
- Sergeant Alan Lipson Moyle
- Sergeant Harold Price Odell
- Sergeant Charles Leslie O'Hara
- Sergeant Alan Richard Parker
- Flight Sergeant Jack Askew Parkinson
- Sergeant William Henry Parsons
- Sergeant Ronald John Perry
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Edgar Pickel
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Radford
- Sergeant Charles Martin Redgrave
- Corporal Harold George Richardson
- Flight Lieutenant Victor Anthony Ricketts
- Flight Lieutenant Egerton James Ashurst Roberts
- Sergeant Thomas Leslie Roberts
- Sergeant Raymond John Bruce Sharkey
- Flight Sergeant Arthur James Smith
- Flight Sergeant John Thomas
- Warrant Officer Class II Jack Oliver Waltenbury
- Sergeant Dudley Merten Wehl
- Sergeant Raymond Edgar Wylie
1943
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Leslie John Aitchison
- Flight Sergeant Richard Clyde Armstrong
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Thomas Gordon Atkins
- Pilot Officer Horace Badge
- Flying Officer John Anthony Belecky
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Hyman Benjamin
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Burke Bolger
- Sergeant William Thomas Brain
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Oswald Charles Brett
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Alfred Coatman
- Flight Sergeant Roy Donald Ernest Codd
- Sergeant George Collins
- Flight Sergeant Paul Crawforth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Seymour Cumming
- Flying Officer John Clifton Davis
- Sergeant Geoffrey Bernard Andrew Debnam
- Sergeant Ronald Ernest Defroand
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Dickinson
- Warrant Officer Jaroslav Dohnal
- Sergeant Maurice Gillman Eastlake
- Flying Officer Douglas William Ellis
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Raymond Emmett
- Corporal John Ford Escott
- Sergeant Benjamin Kenneth Hall Evans
- Pilot Officer Alexander Watson Farquharson
- Sergeant John Godley
- Sergeant Ernest Edward Goldstraw
- Sergeant James Bowling Graham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Oswald Grimstone
- Sergeant David Holmes Hamilton
- Flight Sergeant Percy Edward Harding
- Sergeant William Edmund Leslie Harrison
- Sergeant James William Heald
- Pilot Officer James Joseph Hewerdine
- Sergeant Edward Higgins
- Sergeant Leonard Hocking
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Charles Jepps
- Corporal Reginald William Roper Lewis
- Sergeant Henry Alexander Lloyd
- Flight Sergeant John Martin Maher
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Martin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Crosbie McLellan
- Flying Officer Graham Douglas Mitchell
- Flying Officer Walter Henry Morgan
- Sergeant Gordon Harry Peck
- Flying Officer Christopher Posford Martin Phillips
- Warrant Officer Robert Quine
- Sergeant Thomas Reid
- Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
- Lieutenant Robinson
- Flight Sergeant Norbert Albert Rubens
- Flight Sergeant Charles Thomas Rudman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Denis Henry Russell
- Sergeant Mervyn John Rees Ryan
- Warrant Officer Class II Richard Clare Smith
- Sergeant James Handley Sowerby
- Sergeant Andrew Sparks
- Sergeant Wilfred Albert Speller
- Sergeant James Arthur Spence
- Pilot Officer Alwyn Charles Stephens
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Ernest Stephens
- Flying Officer Harold Raymond St. George
- Squadron Leader John Stuart Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Anthony David Terry
- Corporal William Alexander Thompson
- Flying Officer James Hedley Tremear
- Sergeant Ronald Vincent Turner
- Flight Sergeant Kendall Van Waning
- Sergeant Allan Maurice Vinton
- Sergeant Douglas Allenby Waterman
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Robert Welch
- Sergeant Roy Gilbert Whale
- Pilot Officer Anthony Williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Williamson Williamson
- Sergeant Robert Wood
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Woollard
- Sergeant Arthur Charles Wright
1944
- Pilot Officer Walter Edward Atkinson
- Leading Aircraftman John McDowell Booth
- Flight Sergeant Wesley Benjamin Hunniford
- Leading Aircraftman William Joseph Kenny
- Lieutenant Naylor
- Flying Officer Edward Charles Radford
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Frederick Walter Smith
1945
- Flight Lieutenant Roderick Paul Foulds
- Pilot Officer Brian Squire Fowler
- Warrant Officer Clifford John Goodenough
- Flying Officer Hugh Leo O'Neill
- Corporal Matthew Whyte Walmsley