On this day — 26 July
414 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 26 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant William Donald Francis Annan
- Sergeant George Henry Bell
- Sergeant Norman Wilson Brown
- Flying Officer William Harcourt Coleman
- Sergeant John Dowds
- Sergeant Leslie John Horton
- Sergeant Geoffrey Wyatt Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Selwyn Jones
- Pilot Officer Patrick Chaloner Lindsey
- Pilot Officer Alexander Livingstone McLaggan
- Pilot Officer William Arthur Coote Mulloy
- Sergeant William Eric Nevill
- Pilot Officer Frank Twain Poole
- Pilot Officer Charles Henry Robinson
- Sergeant Gilbert Peter Rowe
- Sergeant Angus Lamont Stewart
- Pilot Officer Thomas Monks Taylor
- Sergeant Douglas George John Townsend
- Pilot Officer Matthew Roy Turnbull
- Pilot Officer William Oliver Digby Tweddell
- Sergeant David Wallace
- Sergeant Gordon Reeves Watt
1941
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Arthur Bates
- Sergeant Douglas Bernard Beverley
- Flight Sergeant Robert Victor Collinge
- Pilot Officer Ernest Ronald Peter Shackle Cooper
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas James Larmour Crawford
- Sergeant John Milne Rigg Cruickshank
- Pilot Officer Harry Joseph Daniels
- Sergeant Gilbert Lacy Dawson
- Flight Sergeant Albert James Heller
- Sergeant Anthony Russell Holmes
- Sergeant Mervyn Samuel Hunt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edwin James Jarvis
- Leading Aircraftman Gilbert Laing-meason
- Sergeant Cyril Webster Fitzmaurice D E. Lawson
- Pilot Officer William Hume Mather
- Sergeant Ronald Laird McDavid
- Sergeant William Albert McGinley
- Sergeant Douglas James Mennie
- Flying Officer Oliver Bertram Morrogh-ryan
- Sergeant Leslie Netherclift
- Leading Aircraftman Vincent Nuttall
- Pilot Officer Allan Gower Pratt
- Sergeant Wilfred Puttick
- Pilot Officer William Larry Rees
- Corporal Alexander Robertson
- Sergeant Ernest Short
- Pilot Officer William McNaughton Spiers
- Flight Lieutenant Martin Edward Tomsett
- Squadron Leader Eric Alliott Verdon-roe
- Sergeant Horace Robert Willis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Alexander Wilson
- Sergeant Gordon Kenneth Wood
- Sergeant Gordon Thomas Yates
1942
- Pilot Officer Eric George Henry Allen
- Sergeant William Arthur Allsopp
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Appleyard
- Sergeant Donald Bagley
- Sergeant Garnet James Bailey
- Flying Officer Herbert Boyd Barber
- Sergeant Oswald Barraclough
- Sergeant Robert Lovie Beaddie
- Flight Sergeant Richard Denison Beeston
- Sergeant Aubrey Archdale Bice
- Sergeant Guy Andre Rene Bissonnette
- Sergeant Cyril Wellesley Bourke
- Sergeant Alwyne Robert Bowen
- Sergeant Ernest Bradley
- Sergeant Robert Hugh Brash
- Sergeant James Vincent Brett
- Pilot Officer Haddo Eric Von Bruce
- Flight Sergeant Norman Albert Bryson
- Flight Lieutenant Clifford Henry Burgess
- Sergeant Richard William Butler
- Sergeant Phillip Denis Byrne
- Flight Sergeant Louvain Trevor Cairns
- Sergeant Peter Hay Campbell
- Sergeant Leonard Causley
- Sergeant John Sidney Cheesebrough
- Sergeant Basil Osborn Collins
- Sergeant Raymond Patrick Coppersmith
- Pilot Officer Jack William Corfield
- Sergeant William Kenneth Daniel
- Flight Sergeant Montague Darvill
- Sergeant James Douglas Davie
- Pilot Officer John Francis Day
- Pilot Officer Thomas Dean
- Pilot Officer Harold Frederick Deck
- Pilot Officer John Mary Fernand De Clercq
- Flying Officer Leonard Joseph Dejace
- Pilot Officer William Herman Dingwall
- Sergeant Lionel George Dowling
- Flight Sergeant John Peter Doyle
- Aircraftman 1st Class Wesley Thomas Ellison
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Ernest Evans
- Pilot Officer Donald Orlo Felt
- Flight Sergeant John Chisholm Fitzgerald
- Sergeant Diamond Freeman
- Sergeant John Luke Graham
- Sergeant Lawrence Aubrey Lytton Gray
- Sergeant Thomas Allison Grey
- Sergeant James William Grimwade
- Sergeant Eric Norman Grimwood
- Sergeant Ian Chetwood Hamilton
- Sergeant John Christopher Harrold
- Flight Sergeant Edgar Horace Hawter
- Sergeant Charles Errol Hayes
- Pilot Officer Ralph Ballantyne Henry
- Pilot Officer Derrick Arnold Holliger
- Sergeant David Horgan
- Pilot Officer Albert Farish Jackson
- Leading Aircraftman David Henry Jenkins James
- Sergeant Orme Kedgley
- Flying Officer Gerald Purdon King
- Squadron Leader John William Edward Leighton
- Flight Sergeant Percy Gartshore Leslie
- Flight Sergeant Roland Lionel Manley
- Sergeant Roy Albert Mansell
- Pilot Officer John Edward Maple
- Sergeant John McCarten
- Sergeant Thomas B. McGee
- Flying Officer William Archibald McMurchy
- Flight Sergeant Colin Valentine McPherson
- Pilot Officer Reginald Thorley Meek
- Sergeant John Edward Millar
- Sergeant James McPherson Milligan
- Pilot Officer David Bruce Mills
- Flight Lieutenant Denis Milne
- Flight Sergeant Peter Mitchell
- Flying Officer Charles Mitchener
- Flying Officer Edward Tompson Mobsby
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ivor Terence Moody
- Sergeant Douglas Wallace Moss
- Pilot Officer John Wilfred Naden
- Flight Sergeant William Harrie Nettle
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Stanley Norton
- Pilot Officer Gilbert Inland Omens
- Flight Sergeant John Owen
- Sergeant Leslie Edward Caleb Oxley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter Lindsay Patterson
- Pilot Officer Robert Hart Pike
- Sergeant George Anthony Prag
- Flight Sergeant John George Richardson
- Flight Sergeant William George Rock
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Macrae Ross
- Flight Sergeant Stanley David Ross
- Sergeant Ernest Arnold Rudge
- Sergeant William McPhie Samuel
- Sergeant George Gardener Scott
- Pilot Officer John Walker Scott
- Pilot Officer Wilbert Andrews Shoemaker
- Sergeant Frank Skelley
- Flight Sergeant Charles Edwin Smith
- Pilot Officer Ray Branton Smith
- Flight Sergeant Robert Ainslie Smith
- Sergeant George Reginald Stone Spencer
- Pilot Officer Philip Charles Spittal
- Pilot Officer Noel Geoffrey Sprake
- Sergeant John Storey
- Pilot Officer George Anthony Strasser
- Sergeant William Henry Taker
- Sergeant Walter John Taylor
- Sergeant Douglas Thornton
- Squadron Leader Herbert Richard Tidd
- Sergeant Archibald Edmond Tinkler
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Trower
- Pilot Officer John Richards Tucker
- Sergeant Ivan Thomas Tulloh
- Sergeant Ernest Arthur Tweedale
- Pilot Officer Bertram Noel Ward
- Warrant Officer Class I Eugene Edward Warnick
- Air Mechanic Webster
- Sergeant Cecil Stanley Weston
- Sergeant James Whalley
- Pilot Officer Harold Hopper Whitehead
- Sergeant Ronald Frederick Whitten
- Pilot Officer Kenneth James Williams
- Sergeant Ralph Alexander Wilson
- Sergeant Leonard Walter Young
1943
- Pilot Officer Douglas Baldwin Ackerley
- Flying Officer George Frederick Alderdice
- Flying Officer Anthony Vitus (tony) Amberg
- Sergeant Ernest Edward Alexander Ambridge
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Archer
- Sergeant Michael Henry Charles Ashdown
- Flight Sergeant George William Askew
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry William Baugh
- Pilot Officer Leslie Thomas Beck
- Flight Sergeant Eric Norman Bird
- Flight Sergeant James Ferguson Bowman
- Sergeant Edward Raymond Bray
- Sergeant Ronald Broadley
- Sergeant Frank Charles Brown
- Flying Officer Ronald William Buckland
- Sergeant Jeffrey Burroughs
- Sergeant Arthur Carter
- Sergeant George Ellis Clark
- Flying Officer John Sinclair Clements
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Herbert Clements
- Sergeant Archie Cleveland
- Flying Officer John Stuart Cole
- Sergeant William Collins
- Flying Officer Patrick Hector Conroy
- Pilot Officer John Albert Basil Cooper
- Flight Sergeant Charles Robert Cowan
- Pilot Officer Joseph George Crowe
- Sergeant Joshua Crowther
- Sergeant Christopher Harry George Daft
- Flying Officer John Henry Clarence Davie
- Pilot Officer David Tudor Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Ivon George James Davies
- Sergeant Thomas Davis
- Sergeant Harold Clyde Dawson
- Sergeant Roderick John Charles Dean
- Pilot Officer Ernest Arthur Dennis
- Sergeant William Arthur Dent
- Sergeant Ernest Claude Denyer
- Flying Officer George Downey
- Squadron Leader Joseph Dugdale
- Flying Officer John Desmond Dunne
- Pilot Officer Douglas Arthur Dyball
- Sergeant Albert James Ede
- Sergeant Frederick Arthur James Edwards
- Sergeant Albert William Evans
- Flight Sergeant David Geoffrey Evans
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Frederick Ewer
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Brown Fielder
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Basil Fisher
- Flight Sergeant James Richard Fitch
- Sergeant Kenneth Percy Froud
- Sergeant George Murray Galbraith
- Pilot Officer Alex Edward Gale
- Sergeant Thomas Gates
- Sergeant Peter Aubrey Joseph Gore
- Flight Sergeant Robert Grainger
- Sergeant Samuel John Greer
- Sergeant Howard Hadfield
- Sergeant Brodie Dodds Haldane
- Aircraftman 1st Class Allen Ormsby Hall
- Flying Officer Stanley Willard Handforth
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Harper
- Warrant Officer Jack Harrison-owen
- Sergeant Ronald Kenneth Harrold
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest William Harvey
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Hay
- Pilot Officer Cecil Earl Hightower
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Hill
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Leslie Hill
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Merwin Hill
- Sergeant Desmond Frank Augustus Hobbs
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Francis Hogan
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Victor Hombsch
- Sergeant Walter Agar Leopold Huddy
- Flying Officer John Melvill Hudson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Alfred Ivey
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Lloyd Brown Janes
- Flight Sergeant David Geraint Lloyd Jenkins
- Flying Officer Keith McLean Johnston
- Leading Aircraftman Cedric Neville Jones
- Flight Sergeant Eric James Jones
- Sergeant Gwynfryn Jones
- Pilot Officer Wilton Jones
- Flight Sergeant Francis Ernest Juggins
- Flight Sergeant James Hamilton Keeley
- Sergeant Donald Eddie Killick
- Flying Officer Frank King
- Sergeant Joseph Ballard Lamont
- Sergeant Kenneth Richard Larkin
- Sergeant Claude Oscar Legroulx
- Sergeant Harry Lewis
- Sergeant Joseph Maurice Claude L'Heureux
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Roderick Gerald Macdonald
- Sergeant Ronald Blair Mackenzie
- Warrant Officer Class I Allan Allister Macleod
- Flying Officer Farquhar Duncan Matheson
- Flying Officer George Frederick McCleary
- Pilot Officer Andrew McIntyre
- Sergeant John McLauchlan
- Sergeant Alfred Victor Meads
- Sergeant Allan Millican
- Sergeant Raymond Arthur Mitchell
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Charles Moon
- Sergeant Thomas Morris
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon Wilfred John Musk
- Sergeant George Henry Newbolt
- Sergeant Stuart Albert James North
- Sergeant Hugh Owen
- Pilot Officer Donald Victor Park
- Pilot Officer Charles Edwin Parkin
- Pilot Officer Ronald James Parr
- Pilot Officer John Grant Patteson
- Sergeant Norman Alfred John Pearce
- Flight Sergeant Owen Harvey Phoenix
- Flight Sergeant Allan Lloyd Porter
- Sergeant Thomas Price
- Sergeant John Desmond Rathbone
- Sergeant Roy Desmond Raven
- Sergeant William Reid
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Harvey Renaud
- Sergeant John Ritchie
- Sergeant Stanley Robson
- Flying Officer Neville Frederick Rogers
- Flight Lieutenant William Bligh Rogers
- Flight Sergeant Walter Eugene Ross
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Salter
- Pilot Officer John Sarginson
- Sergeant Harry Scott
- Flying Officer John Lawrence Seymour
- Flying Officer John Frederick Shepherd
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Ernest Sidwell
- Sergeant Albert Simons
- Sergeant Roger Vincent Slater
- Pilot Officer Edward Smith
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Salter Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gerald Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Hall Smith
- Sergeant Mick Anthony Smith
- Pilot Officer John Stanley Smyth
- Flight Sergeant David Poole Speechley
- Sergeant Milton Spencer
- Flying Officer Edward Morgan Stanyon
- Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Woodhouse Stevens
- Sergeant James Stewart
- Sergeant James Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Anthony George Tanner
- Sergeant Kenneth Charles Tate
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Taverner
- Flying Officer Harold Adam Taylor
- Sergeant Leslie Alfred Taylor
- Sergeant George Clark Thompson
- Sergeant Ian Thomas Thomson
- Sergeant James Henry Thornton
- Flight Sergeant Raoul Ellery Thorpe
- Sergeant Ronald Walter Threadgold
- Flying Officer Walter Roy Tidball
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edwin Tinham
- Sergeant Reginald Toulson
- Pilot Officer Wilfred Towse
- Sergeant James Robert Tully
- Flight Sergeant Harry Turner
- Sergeant William Edward Wakeman
- Sergeant John Horix Wallace
- Sergeant William Charles Wallace
- Flying Officer John Stuart Wallis
- Flight Sergeant Percy Fisher Watson
- Flying Officer Denis Max Weddell
- Corporal Frederick Edward Weir
- Sergeant Stanley Henry Welch
- Sergeant James Franklin Wells
- Pilot Officer James Newell Whitehouse
- Sergeant Robert Wild
- Pilot Officer Derek Williams
- Sergeant Jack William George Wilson
- Sergeant Ronald Joseph Wyatt-matthews
- Sergeant George William Yare
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Bennett York
- Sergeant Norman Albert Young
1944
- Sergeant Arthur Ashby
- Flying Officer Douglas Payne Billman
- Wing Commander Charles Harold Brandon
- Flying Officer Reginald Shore Bray
- Pilot Officer Robert Gordon Carter
- Flying Officer George Stanley Corry
- Pilot Officer Robert Dey
- Sergeant Roy Kenneth Dove
- Flying Officer Maurice Ballard Dyer
- Lieutenant Essery
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Jean Paul Ethier
- Warrant Officer Jack Finlow
- Lieutenant Gesundheit
- Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles
- Sergeant Ernest Greenwood
- Air Corporal Walter Hanchant
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Woodrow Johnson
- Pilot Officer John Reid Kellum
- Flight Lieutenant David Drexel Laird
- Pilot Officer George Bernard Martin
- Flying Officer Donald Cameron McLeod
- Flying Officer Royston Edwards Monk
- Flying Officer Kenneth Lionel Moss
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Malcolm Palmer
- Warrant Officer Class II Raeburn
- Lieutenant Rood
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Sheen
- Pilot Officer Francois Adrien Jean Van Droogenbroeck
- Lieutenant Van Rooyen
- Flying Officer Robert John Branch Warren
- Warrant Officer Frank Wallace West
- Flight Lieutenant John Frederick Hart Williams
- Flying Officer Frederick Wittmack
1945
- Lieutenant Blom
- Lieutenant Bond
- Pilot Officer Raymond Maurice Bullen
- Flying Officer Warren Meredith Day
- Corporal John Dyson
- Captain Edwards
- Air Corporal Leslie Errington
- Sergeant Geoffrey Peter Newton Eyears
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Joseph Ford
- Flight Sergeant James Gardner Gilchrist
- Captain Lockhart
- Lieutenant Park
- Leading Aircraftman Norman John Salem Porteous
- Leading Aircraftman Alan Walter Riley
- Lieutenant Templer
- Warrant Officer Charles Wheeler
- Lieutenant John Leonard Treeve Woodcock
1946
- Air Corporal Devenish
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Brian Fitzgerald
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley McAndrew