On this day — 21 July
290 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 21 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer William Laverick Ather
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Charles Bennett
- Sergeant Joseph Ernest Catchpole
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Edward Clark
- Sergeant Edwin Arthur Cotton
- Sergeant John James Crabtree
- Sergeant Samuel Walter Curry
- Wing Commander Edward Simeon Colbeck Davis
- Pilot Officer Ricardo Adriani De Mancha
- Sergeant Bryan Norman Dingle
- Sergeant Denton Percy Dixon
- Pilot Officer Alan Richard Downer
- Flight Lieutenant David Harold Edwards
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis John Frame
- Sergeant Alexander Joseph Giles
- Corporal Victor Alfred Kemp
- Sergeant Albert William Lamont
- Pilot Officer Philip Allen Leach
- Sergeant William Gray Lillie
- Pilot Officer Gerald Edwin Macdonald
- Sergeant Bernard Joseph Mahon
- Sergeant Dennis Middleton
- Pilot Officer Victor Clement Robert Morrison
- Pilot Officer George Hamilton Muirhead
- Sergeant Edward William Ovens
- Pilot Officer Reginald Tony Pareezer
- Sergeant Cecil Parkinson
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Phillips
- Sergeant Frank Herbert Edward Phillips
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Sneyd
- Leading Aircraftman Trevor Percival Jack Trickey
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Alexander McLaren Gray White
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Christopher Willans
- Sergeant Frederick John Baulch Winch
- Sergeant William Wylie
1941
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Bailey
- Pilot Officer Leonard Richard Blackwell
- Sergeant John William Rolfe Boggis
- Sergeant Bernard Alan James Boyse
- Sergeant Kenneth Walter Bramble
- Sergeant Alan Fincher Brookes
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Daly
- Leading Aircraftman Miroslav Drnek
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Victor Fletcher
- Pilot Officer Harry Gordon Compton Fooks
- Sergeant Winslow Dawson Gilbert
- Sergeant William Eric Grainger
- Pilot Officer Peter Maxwell Gray
- Sergeant Alfred James Grenyer
- Pilot Officer Alan Grout
- Sergeant Roy Harley
- Sergeant Albert John Howes
- Sergeant Kenneth Napier Hudgell
- Sergeant Norman Lachlan Johnston
- Sergeant Kenneth Lunn
- Sergeant Sydney William Robert Mabbett
- Leading Aircraftman Josef Melena
- Sergeant Frederick Alan Nelson
- Sergeant Bernard William O'Hara
- Flying Officer Harold Oxlin
- Sergeant David Graham Patterson
- Sergeant Frank Stubbington Payne
- Sergeant Alexander Pont
- Sergeant Cecil Charles Procter
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Glyn Finlayson Ritchie
- Sergeant Richard Stanley Saunders
- Sergeant George Stevenson
- Flying Officer Michael Frank Suckling
- Sergeant Howard Tucker
- Pilot Officer Michael Duncan Tucker
- Sergeant Hubert Vernon
- Sergeant Robert John Swain Wicks
- Sergeant Albert Edward Williams
1942
- Sergeant Arthur Adams
- Sergeant Alfred Maurice (bob) Blyth
- Warrant Officer Class II George Vincent Cyril Booth
- Pilot Officer Walter Beattie Carlyle
- Warrant Officer Class II William Warren Craig
- Sergeant Mervyn Davies
- Corporal Thomas Brown Donald
- Sergeant Lewis Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Roy Forster
- Flight Sergeant Albert Graham Gibson
- Flight Sergeant Harold Richard Giddens
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Albert Gray
- Lieutenant Green
- Pilot Officer James Francis Haley
- Pilot Officer George Robert Hanna
- Sergeant Alister Hugh Seton Henderson
- Pilot Officer Harry Hibbert
- Warrant Officer Class I William Henry James
- Sergeant George Campbell Jardine
- Corporal Alton Landeg John
- Sergeant Albert Charles Lovegrove
- Pilot Officer Victor Lowson
- Sergeant Norman Macauliffe
- Sergeant John Kenneth Marshman
- Sergeant Walter Edward Mason
- Sergeant Robert Muir Mathieson
- Flight Lieutenant John Felix McGrath
- Aircraftman 1st Class John McIntosh
- Pilot Officer John McKillop
- Pilot Officer Gerald Compton Miall
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Moseley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred John Munro
- Sergeant John S. Munro
- Sergeant Thomas Craik Murray
- Sergeant Derek John Newcombe
- Wing Commander Josef Ocelka
- Sergeant Douglas Ellerington Peart
- Flight Sergeant Warnford Francis Victor Pink
- Sergeant Vernon James Pither
- Leading Aircraftman Idwal Jones Pritchard
- Flight Sergeant James Douglas Robb
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Edward Smith
- Sergeant Morris Solomon
- Pilot Officer Lionel Edward Swatridge
- Sergeant John Teevin
- Sergeant Tom Roberts Thomas
- Sergeant Peter Mitchell Thurgood
- Sergeant Eric Leslie Waldron
- Flight Sergeant John Edward Stuart Walker
- Sergeant Arthur Thomas Wharfe
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Thomas White
1943
- Wing Commander Wallace Stanley Barton
- Aircraftman 1st Class George William Beaumont
- Sergeant Maurice Alfred Bidgood
- Pilot Officer Bleakley
- Sergeant Robert John Broad
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Ivan Isadore Chester
- Flight Sergeant Harold Paul Clancy
- Sergeant Colin Edward Clark
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Henry Clarke
- Flight Sergeant Philip Leonard Clemens
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick James Codling
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Chisholm Cooper
- Flying Officer David Maxwell Crawford
- Sergeant Harry Dickinson
- Sergeant Kenneth Graig Earnshaw
- Corporal William Fleming
- Flight Sergeant Bennett Gallant
- Sergeant Frank Harrison
- Sergeant Derek Hawcroft
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Farish Hewitt
- Sergeant Kevin Leonard Hodge
- Sergeant Stanley Frank Hook
- Air Mechanic John Joubert
- Sergeant Arthur John Maginnis
- Flight Sergeant Sidney McCormick
- Sergeant Alan Millband
- Flight Sergeant Keith Williamson Morrison
- Flying Officer Peter Thomson Muirhead
- Flight Lieutenant Clemence Friedrich Nitschke
- Flying Officer Edwin Herbert Ottway
- Warrant Officer William Arthur Pocock
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Rathie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Reith
- Pilot Officer Graham Rogers
- Sergeant Glen Edwin Rozell
- Squadron Leader Kendrick Herbert Salusbury Hughes
- Warrant Officer Edgar South
- Flight Lieutenant Sydney William Taylor
- Lieutenant Stanley C. Van Der Watt
- Sergeant Norman Richard Waite
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick John Oliver Wheeler
- Flight Sergeant Percival James Whittard
- Flying Officer Claude Neil Wilcox
- Flight Sergeant Eddie Williams
- Corporal John Percival Williamson
1944
- Flight Sergeant James Hedley Abraham
- Sergeant Christopher Maurice Ashford
- Pilot Officer Herbert Frank Axford
- Flight Sergeant Charles Alfred Barlow
- Flying Officer David Arnold Barlow
- Sergeant Ronald John Morton Batty
- Flying Officer William Alexander Bell
- Flight Sergeant Philip William Benson
- Flying Officer Harold Francis Sargent Best
- Flying Officer Keith Cedric Binnie
- Flying Officer Hugo Hysert Borchardt
- Pilot Officer Ernest Elroy Boyle
- Pilot Officer Paul Herman Brittain
- Pilot Officer Alfred Joseph Britts
- Flying Officer David Oscar Brown
- Flying Officer Henry John Burtt
- Flight Lieutenant John Philip Sargent Calder
- Flying Officer Horace Callow
- Flight Sergeant John Joseph Chigwidden
- Flying Officer Colin Mervyn Clarey
- Pilot Officer Bernard Horace Cooper
- Flying Officer Brian Patrick Cosgriff
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Arthur Leo Couture
- Sergeant Henry Edward Lawrence Craze
- Flight Sergeant Raymond John Crotty
- Pilot Officer Neil Douglas Davidson
- Warrant Officer William John Davies
- Pilot Officer Vernon Fairbank Dodds
- Pilot Officer Glenn Thomas Douglas
- Flight Sergeant Albert James Downie
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Kerr Durie
- Warrant Officer John Ernest Richard Ede
- Flying Officer Joseph Stanley Paul Fitzpatrick
- Sergeant Edward John Flaherty
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Crawford Fletcher
- Flight Sergeant Edward Jack Freame
- Flying Officer Keith Herbert Freeman
- Warrant Officer Gottfred Lyall Gillan
- Warrant Officer Hugh Edward Gilmour
- Flight Sergeant Ernest James Hack
- Pilot Officer Norman Earl Hagerty
- Pilot Officer Ingval Millar Hanon
- Flight Sergeant Alan Brian Hartley
- Flying Officer Jack Arthur Harvey
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Charles Hickford
- Flight Sergeant George Thomas Hodgson
- Flight Sergeant John William Houseman
- Pilot Officer Edward Howell
- Lieutenant Hunter
- Pilot Officer Dominic Ianuziello
- Flying Officer Douglas Bruce Jeffery
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Arthur Jeffery
- Flying Officer Joseph John Raymond Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Robert Jones
- Flying Officer Roy King Jones
- Flying Officer Henry Anthony Jowett
- Flight Sergeant William Lane
- Pilot Officer William Oswald Derry Larmouth
- Pilot Officer Roy Arthur Leach
- Flying Officer Robert Arthur Edward Lowe
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Luton
- Pilot Officer Kenneth McIndoe Mackay
- Pilot Officer John Russell Mackinnon
- Pilot Officer Donald Peter Manchul
- Flight Sergeant William Simpson McIlraith
- Pilot Officer Joseph Arthur McKim
- Flying Officer Lamont Weir McLean
- Flying Officer Oliver Hanton Mennie
- Flying Officer David Guy Mills
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Mills
- Flying Officer Frank Charles Montgomery
- Pilot Officer John Howard Morriss
- Pilot Officer Jack Elwin McIntosh Nixon
- Sergeant Darius Bede Northmore
- Warrant Officer Class II Fred Glen Oakes
- Flight Sergeant Jack Olof Ohlson
- Warrant Officer Class II John Joseph Ollinger
- Flight Sergeant William Osadchy
- Flight Sergeant John Edward Osborne
- Pilot Officer William Harry Pool
- Flight Sergeant Eric James Quinn
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Henry Redwood
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Earl Rhodes
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Leo Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Frank Lorne Robertson
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Brian Roche
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Keith Gordon Roy
- Pilot Officer Charles Nott Samson
- Flight Sergeant Robert Kenneth Scott
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard William Shipley
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Alexander Simpson
- Pilot Officer Robert Alexander Simpson
- Flying Officer James Alvin Smith
- Flight Sergeant Keith Emmett Smith
- Warrant Officer Peter Smith
- Flying Officer Sydney Emmington Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Lewis James Somerville
- Flight Lieutenant George Lewis Spofford
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Thompson Stone
- Sergeant Walter Charles Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Archie Campbell Thompson
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Charles Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Tomlinson
- Sergeant William Richard Tomlinson
- Pilot Officer Bedford Philip Upper
- Flight Lieutenant James Denholm Virtue
- Pilot Officer Colin George William Whitehead
- Pilot Officer Harold Whittington
- Sergeant Wilson
- Pilot Officer Carlton Henry Woelfle
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Worsley
- Flight Sergeant Jim Worth
1945
- Corporal George William Beattie
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Richard Millar
- Flight Lieutenant Archibald Paterson
- Sergeant Basil Gerald Roland Tennent