On this day — 20 July
170 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 20 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Alexander John Anderson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert William Bennett
- Pilot Officer Edward Colin Joseph Cameron
- Pilot Officer David Stuart Carnegie
- Sergeant Andrew McNab Cockburn
- Sergeant Henry Corcoran
- Sergeant Walter Robert Cowell
- Sergeant Gordon Murray Cumming
- Flight Lieutenant Stephen Edward Frederick Curry
- Sergeant Merle Gott
- Sergeant Aubrey John Harris
- Flying Officer Joseph Frederick John Haworth
- Pilot Officer Harold Frederic Archdale Lees
- Sergeant Ronald Norman Lewis
- Sergeant Eric Edward Lockton
- Pilot Officer Stanley Perry Lodge
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Davidson Middleton
- Sergeant Reginald Talbot Miller
- Squadron Leader John Blackwell Sinclair Monypenny
- Sergeant Percy Dryden Nixon
- Sergeant John Lewis Owen
- Pilot Officer Frederick Hyam Posener
- Pilot Officer Richard John Redfern Powning
- Squadron Leader John Frank Stephens
- Pilot Officer Maurice Roy Tagg
- Sergeant John Tansley
- Sergeant Frederic Stanley Waltho
- Sergeant Fred Watson
- Flying Officer Samuel Miles Mackenzie Watson
- Sergeant James Victor West
1941
- Flight Sergeant John Woodrow Arnott
- Corporal William Thomas Avery
- Sergeant Norman Baron
- Sergeant Ian Ronald Aird Beaton
- Sergeant John Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Stanley Holloway
- Sergeant Kenneth William Hopkinson
- Squadron Leader William Hughes
- Sergeant Joseph Hunter
- Leading Aircraftman Asa Howard Keith
- Sergeant Russell Joseph Kempling
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert James Killner
- Flight Sergeant John David McCracken
- Sergeant Vaclav Netik
- Pilot Officer Jaroslav Partyk
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Eric Sackley
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Frank Surridge
- Pilot Officer Alan Roderick Thomas
- Sergeant Robert Walter Ullmer
- Sergeant Marshall Wilding
1942
- Sergeant Reginald Connell Allan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Hillman Alway
- Sergeant Cresswell Atchison
- Sergeant Albert John Beattie
- Warrant Officer Class I Wesley Leonard Belous
- Pilot Officer Ronald Jeffrey Bennett
- Sergeant Frederick George Albert Bick
- Sergeant William Joseph Brazier
- Sergeant Colin McDonald Broadfoot
- Sergeant William Desmond Cheese
- Sergeant Charles Henry Durrant
- Pilot Officer John Samuel Victor Fegan
- Sergeant Robert Forgie
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Germain
- Flight Sergeant William Graham Gibson
- Sergeant Herbert Edward Godfery
- Sergeant George Randolph Halliwell
- Sergeant Fred Hebron
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald John Hooper
- Pilot Officer Alan Robert Houstoun
- Sergeant Douglas George Jillings
- Pilot Officer Erle Ernest Edward Johnstone
- Pilot Officer John Hesketh Kinsey
- Sergeant Wilfred Ernald Konigkramer
- Flight Sergeant Henry Lea
- Sergeant Ernest Lister
- Flight Sergeant Frank William Martin
- Wing Commander Howard Clive Mayers
- Flight Sergeant William McIntyre McLachlin
- Flight Lieutenant Andrew Crawford Rankin McLure
- Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Henry Moher
- Flight Sergeant Eric Brooke Moorhouse
- Flight Sergeant John Morgan
- Pilot Officer John Patrick Muirhead
- Sergeant Dennis Stephen Murphy
- Sergeant James Keith Paton
- Sergeant John Lawrence Powell
- Sergeant Douglas Arthur Redler
- Sergeant John Reeves
- Sergeant John Robertson Rennie
- Pilot Officer Hugh Robert Russel
- Leading Aircraftman Jeffery Sell
- Sergeant Richard Henry Creed Seymour
- Sergeant Frederick Henry George Simkins
- Pilot Officer Horace James Skelly
- Sergeant Roland Jack Smith
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Stanbury
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Stewart
- Flying Officer Anthony Noel Hailes Tustain
- Pilot Officer Wilson Twentyman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sydney Maurice Varndell
- Sergeant Cyril Waldron
- Flight Sergeant Eric Waple
- Second Lieutenant White
- Corporal William Westwood Wilshire
1943
- Sergeant James Benedict Aitken
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Edwin Bowler
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Henry Deugo
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Edwards
- Sergeant Leonard Irvine Elliott
- Aircraftman 1st Class John William Emmanuel Hagley
- Sergeant John Haworth
- Sergeant Dennis Harold Head
- Squadron Leader Raymond Thomas Hunn
- Sergeant Leslie James Stewart Jaques
- Flying Officer David Bulgass Leggatt Johnstone
- Sergeant Alan James King
- Sergeant Joseph George Lysaght
- Sergeant George Duffett McCulloch
- Flying Officer Edward Griffin Meade
- Leading Aircraftman Charles McNaughton Miller
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Edward Norman
- Pilot Officer Walter Geoffrey Macaulay Papworth
- Sergeant William Edward Pearce
- Flying Officer Harold Mathew Pettigrew
- Sergeant Robert William Pluck
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Price
- Leading Aircraftman Alex Rae
- Sergeant Robert Raisbeck
- Flying Officer Andrew Charles Reid
- Aircraftman 1st Class William John Rush
- Sergeant Andrew Wood Smith
- Sergeant Austen Smith
- Air Corporal Johannes Steenkamp
- Sergeant Edward Francis Tanner
- Sergeant William Reginald Tee
- Corporal John Thomas Vasileff
- Flight Sergeant Robert Bruce Wardrobe
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Williamson
1944
- Leading Aircraftman Alwyn Royce Baker
- Leading Aircraftman Leon Herbert Bernard Bennett
- Flying Officer Leonard Joseph Blackwell
- Flight Lieutenant Lionel Manton Capron
- Flight Sergeant Harold Leslie Coggin
- Squadron Leader James Foulsham
- Flying Officer Ralph Martin Harsley
- Pilot Officer George Reginald Macarthur
- Flight Sergeant Jack Curtis McKittrick
- Flight Sergeant George Ian Hamilton Neate
- Warrant Officer Class I William Charles Powers
- Sergeant Ronald John Robinson
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Lindsay Small
- Flight Sergeant Edward Patrick Smith
- Warrant Officer Jack Storer
- Flying Officer Thomas Temperley
- Sergeant Adam Thomson
- Flying Officer Archie Tulloch
- Squadron Leader John Bentley Weightman
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Russell Weston
- Sergeant Reginald Stanley Keith Wheatland
- Sergeant John Murray Wilson
1945
- Sergeant Laurence Hilton Cameron
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick William Cobbett
- Flight Sergeant Frank Ronald Jeyes
- Warrant Officer Robert Walter Knox
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Armand Jean Marie Mongrain