On this day — 16 July
270 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 16 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Anthony St. John Bunker
- Pilot Officer Richard Jeffery Carter
- Sergeant John Clark
- Sergeant John George Cowlishaw
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Crossland
- Sergeant James Henry Fletcher
- Pilot Officer Thomas Albert Grundy
- Sergeant Peter Raymond Harris
- Sergeant John Frederick. Hatch
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Gardner Keeble
- Flying Officer John Kershaw
- Sergeant Alistair David Williams Main
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Murray
- Sergeant Peter Douglas Snowden
- Sergeant William Charles Harry Style
- Leading Aircraftman Matthew Hetherington Winship
1941
- Sergeant William Frederick Archer
- Sergeant James Austin
- Leading Aircraftman George Edward Baker
- Pilot Officer Edward Bethridge-topp
- Sergeant James Eric Singleton Bevan
- Sergeant Clement Peter Blackburn
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Samuel Bole
- Warrant Officer Alfred Harry Bolton
- Flight Sergeant David Brett
- Sergeant Gerald Coodon Caesar
- Sergeant Kenneth Patrick Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard John Chambers
- Flight Sergeant Neil Caldwell Cook
- Sergeant Ivan Frederick Dell
- Sergeant George Arthur Dvorjetz
- Sergeant Henry David Patrick Dyer
- Sergeant Sydney Allan Dyer
- Sergeant Arthur Walford Evans
- Sergeant Neville Arnold Foster Folkard
- Sergeant Robert Ewen Ernest Fotheringham
- Sergeant Frank Fullard
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Galbraith
- Sergeant William Edgar Gibb
- Leading Aircraftman Allan John Girling
- Pilot Officer Keith Fereday Glenn
- Sergeant Albert Glover
- Sergeant Albert Horace Green
- Sergeant Hugh Wright Hardie
- Sergeant Phillip Edgar Hare
- Sergeant Alan Richard Harris
- Sergeant William James Howard Hartry
- Sergeant Raymond Denis Hesketh
- Sergeant Eric Vincent Keiran Higgins
- Sergeant John Hughes
- Sergeant Stuart William Jackson
- Sergeant David Campbell Joyce
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Leslie Kennedy
- Sergeant Sydney David Lane
- Flight Lieutenant Phineas John Lea
- Sergeant Vernon Hardcastle Leng
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Lythe
- Sergeant Douglas Malcolm Mackinnon
- Sergeant Walter Thomson McDonald
- Sergeant Leonard Richard Mynott
- Sergeant William Ronald Norman
- Sergeant Gordon David Osborne
- Sergeant Richard Palmer
- Pilot Officer Leslie William Parfitt
- Wing Commander Thomas Noel Partridge
- Sergeant Denis Arthur Price
- Flying Officer Allen Alexander Purkiss-ginn
- Sergeant Sidney Richard Rishworth
- Sergeant Joseph Harold Campbell Roberts
- Sergeant Henry Edmund Robinson
- Sergeant Ronald James Brownee Rost
- Pilot Officer Ralph Martin Slade
- Sergeant James Murray Smith
- Flight Sergeant John Oscar Noel Smith
- Flight Lieutenant John Stokes
- Sergeant John Harold Storey
- Sergeant George Adam Todd
- Sergeant Frank Lees Turner
- Flight Lieutenant Antonin Velebnovsky
- Squadron Leader Reginald George Weighill
- Sergeant Arthur Ernest Whitbourne
- Pilot Officer Alexander Walter Wilkinson
- Sergeant Robert Ernest George Williams
- Sergeant Peter Wilson
- Sergeant Stanley William Winter
- Sergeant Fred Wood
1942
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Paul Adams
- Sergeant James Alexander Alcorn
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Arnott
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Henry Avern
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Douglas Russell Baird
- Flight Sergeant John Fernie Cullen Ballantyne
- Leading Aircraftman William George Banks
- Sergeant William Buntin Barr
- Sergeant Denis Robert Barrett
- Pilot Officer Murray Arthur Bennetto
- Sergeant Ronald Brooke
- Flight Lieutenant James Gordon Brown
- Sergeant Malcolm Vernon Cato
- Pilot Officer James Wilson Craig
- Sergeant Ronald Victor Deakin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Ivor De Lange
- Sergeant Rupert Victor De Podesta
- Flight Sergeant Querino Di Persio
- Sergeant Ronald Cecil Drake
- Sergeant Harry Leslie Duckworth
- Sergeant Alexander Dunn
- Flight Sergeant Herbert James Ford
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Gordon
- Flight Lieutenant The Hon. John Ambrose Henry Greville
- Sergeant Charles Joffre Griffiths
- Flying Officer Harry Clem Hain
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Hawkins
- Flying Officer Arthur Kenneth Charles Holder
- Sergeant Henry Peter Johnson
- Sergeant Leslie Walter Kerr
- Squadron Leader John William Kerwin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Kitchener
- Sergeant Derek Stanley Large
- Flight Sergeant Frank Robert Lennon
- Sergeant Henry James Ian Lockhart
- Flight Sergeant John Martin
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Ray Maxmen
- Pilot Officer Henry Claud McComas
- Pilot Officer Robert Lorraine Melville
- Sergeant Eric Moores
- Sergeant Robinson Nicholls
- Flight Sergeant Jack Napier Nicol
- Leading Aircraftman Basil Cyril Oliver
- Pilot Officer Erle Walter Ollen-bittle
- Sergeant Charles Sidney Parker
- Sergeant Edward Place
- Sergeant Leslie Ernest Pole
- Flight Sergeant Eric Purcell Presland
- Sergeant George Edward Price
- Leading Aircraftman James Arthur Redner
- Sergeant Bruce William Richards
- Wing Commander William Riley
- Sergeant Gerald Aloysius Russell
- Sergeant Charles Thomas Shepherd
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Baden Thorp
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Edward Townsend
- Sergeant John Evan Francis Waylan
- Sergeant Robert Douglas Wells
- Pilot Officer Dean Edward Whiteside
- Warrant Officer Harry Ward Williamson
- Sergeant Richard William Wilson
- Pilot Officer John Forster Withy
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Ernest Wright
- Sergeant Norman Henry Zamek
1943
- Corporal Albert Victor Allen
- Pilot Officer Alan Ross Airly Arnott
- Sergeant Stanley Arthur
- Flight Sergeant Richard Conant Babb
- Sergeant Harold Victor Baldwin
- Pilot Officer Keith Alec Barr
- Sergeant John Beanland
- Flying Officer Ernest James Bertuch
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Henry Bishop
- Sergeant Clifford Eugene Blanchette
- Flying Officer Winston Francis Bradshaw
- Corporal Herbert Victor Sidney Brown
- Sergeant John Dennis Gordon Bunker
- Sergeant Reginald Arthur Burrell
- Flight Sergeant Joseph William Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick Clisby Church
- Sergeant William Henry Robert Clark
- Sergeant Eric Thomas Cooke
- Sergeant Bertram George Arthur Cooper
- Aircraftman 1st Class Dunlop
- Sergeant Edward William Edwards
- Sergeant Dillwyn Enoch
- Sergeant Robert Brown Mack Gemmell
- Sergeant Reginald George William Goff
- Flight Sergeant Albert Michael Griffiths
- Sergeant Arnold Hillam
- Pilot Officer George Edward Holmes
- Sergeant William James Hood
- Flight Lieutenant Colin Herbert James Hunt
- Sergeant Richard John Hutchings
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard William Melville James
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Melville Kearns
- Sergeant John Kirby
- Flying Officer Michael Edward Lawton
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel Lehrer
- Flying Officer Donald Webster Licquorish
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Edward Mann
- Pilot Officer Oswald Peter Marshall
- Sergeant Ronald Daniel McKeown
- Squadron Leader James Anthony Meade
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Douglas Melhuish
- Sergeant Harry Briggs Mellor
- Flying Officer James Elmer Morris
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred William Morse
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Brydon Nesbitt
- Flight Sergeant James Sutherland Ogilvy
- Sergeant Arthur Neville Owen
- Warrant Officer Frederick Vincent Parker
- Corporal Edward Llewellyn Parry
- Sergeant Norman Edwin Philbrick
- Sergeant Gordon Leonard Fursland Philcox
- Flight Sergeant William Frank Pyle
- Flight Sergeant Vernon Francis Rector
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Edward Nagle Redway
- Flying Officer Norman Stewart Matthew Reid
- Sergeant Frank Joseph Richardson
- Pilot Officer Allan John Slaughter
- Pilot Officer Hedley Millard Smith
- Flying Officer Albert Dennis Serpell Snell
- Pilot Officer Andrew Patrick Stevenson
- Sergeant Harold Handley Stockley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Albert Thomas
- Sergeant William George Trowbridge
- Sergeant John Stanley Tubb
- Sergeant Peter Wheaton Wallis
- Sergeant George Cornelius Wilkinson
- Sergeant Roy Albert Wilfred Wilkinson
- Sergeant Cyril Willson
- Sergeant Geoffrey Nigel Yeoman
1944
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Colin Ahrens
- Flight Sergeant Paul Andersen
- Warrant Officer Benjamin George Blatch
- Pilot Officer Michael James Wallace Cantwell
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Royal Felken Cook
- Pilot Officer James Foxall Crossley
- Warrant Officer Lewis Clement De Garis
- Warrant Officer Class I Deitch
- Lieutenant Dutton
- Flying Officer James Alwyn Ewen
- Lieutenant Ferreira
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Wilfred Romeo Fournier
- Flight Lieutenant Desmond Edward James Gardiner
- Pilot Officer Frederick George Graham
- Lieutenant Grobler
- Flying Officer Dermot John Hegarty
- Sergeant Herbert Dennis Hoare
- Warrant Officer William Hobman
- Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Hedley Jenkins
- Flight Sergeant John Harrison Jones
- Flight Sergeant Elmer Charles King
- Air Mechanic Kruger
- Flying Officer William Edward Linning
- Warrant Officer Class II John Alexander Maclennan
- Flying Officer Stanley Dickinson Mann
- Pilot Officer Carl Joseph McConvey
- Corporal Allan McWade
- Sergeant Eric Walter Mickleborough-saunders
- Sergeant Patrick Charles Henry Mullins
- Flight Lieutenant William Joseph Bernard Murphy
- Flying Officer Miall Bourchier O'Kelly
- Flight Sergeant David Alastair Paterson
- Flight Sergeant William Paul
- Corporal Harry Pell-ilderton
- Pilot Officer Jacob Harry Singer
- Flying Officer Derwood William Smith
- Captain Solms
- Warrant Officer Class II Taylor
- Flying Officer Frank Reginald Tickle
- Warrant Officer James Alphonsus Upton
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Webb
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Henry Wilman
- Pilot Officer Wilson Harry Emanuel Wright
1945
- Flight Sergeant John Glyndwr Jones
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Charles Moir
- Flying Officer Robert John Sloan