On this day — 27 July
260 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 27 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Edward Barker
- Corporal Michael Allman Barringer
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Michael Blom
- Pilot Officer James Richebourg Buchanan
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Ypres Cann
- Sergeant Norman Frederick Cooper
- Flying Officer Philip Anthony Neville Cox
- Sergeant Arthur St. George Fisher
- Sergeant William Henry James Franklin
- Leading Aircraftman George Arthur Hall
- Flying Officer Robert McGee Halpenny
- Pilot Officer David Michael March
- Leading Aircraftman Robert L. Richardson
- Corporal Dennis Harold Sharp
- Flight Lieutenant Allan Simpson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Stewart
- Flying Officer Harold Raymond Wheeler
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Edmund Wiggins
1941
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Appleton
- Pilot Officer William Hilliard Arnold
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Henry Dennis Batty
- Air Mechanic Desmond Begley
- Second Lieutenant Bowman
- Pilot Officer John Kenneth Charles-jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Enos Coughlin
- Sergeant Gordon Edward Fleming
- Flying Officer Allan Douglas Frampton
- Sergeant Peter Crowhurst Gammon
- Warrant Officer Class II Frank Hatfield
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Henry Hendrix
- Sergeant Arthur Raymond Jones
- Lieutenant Frank Kempen
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gerard Lamb
- Aircraftman 1st Class Wallace Lockerbie
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph McCormick
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Angas Alexander Miskimmin
- Flying Officer Murray Donald Orr
- Flying Officer Arthur Paterson
- Sergeant George Alexander Prosser
- Flight Sergeant George Robert Slater
- Sergeant Kenneth Snuggs
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Swindley
- Sergeant Harold George Turner
- Sergeant Stephen Harold Vavasour-durell
- Sergeant Norman Horace Whittaker
- Sergeant Bernard Winchester
- Sergeant Robert Edward Woolston
1942
- Sergeant Norman Frank Axford
- Pilot Officer William Henry Baber
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Kenneth Baker
- Second Lieutenant Reginald George Baker
- Sergeant Peter Barr
- Flying Officer Kenneth Sinclair Blair
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joshua Arthur Bradley
- Flying Officer Frederick James Breen
- Sergeant Robert Bush
- Sergeant James Humphrey Caldwell
- Flight Sergeant Noel Ernest Robertson Carrel
- Sergeant George Leslie Cooper
- Sergeant Joseph John Cooper
- Sergeant Joseph Daniel Creede
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Robert Delamere
- Sergeant Maurice John Dembrey
- Wing Commander Frank William Dixon-wright
- Sergeant Adam Thomas Drysdale
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Duckworth
- Sergeant John Ridley Elliott
- Sergeant Francis Gordon Ellis
- Pilot Officer Keith McDowell Ferguson
- Pilot Officer William Scott Findlay
- Flight Sergeant Max James Foley
- Flying Officer Thomas Jeffery Forsyth
- Pilot Officer William Alfred John Fuller
- Sergeant Garth Richard Gower
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Thomas William Grady
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Cecil Griffiths
- Flight Sergeant Richard Griffiths
- Sergeant William Charles Percival Harfoot
- Sergeant William Lusk Harper
- Pilot Officer Arthur Stuart Hawkins
- Flying Officer Nathaniel Edmund Hodson
- Sergeant Ellis Albert Holland
- Sergeant Frederick William Holmes
- Lieutenant Hilgard Hoogenhout
- Lieutenant Stafford Mating Hope
- Sergeant William Edward Horsfall
- Sergeant Kenneth Hudson
- Sergeant Frank William Huntley
- Sergeant Philip Harry Jackett
- Sergeant Jack Stead Jarvis
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Taylor Johnstone
- Sergeant Gwilyn Mieron Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Matthew Keat
- Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Franklin Kelly
- Flight Lieutenant Vernon Frank Keyser
- Sergeant John Albert Knox
- Flight Sergeant William Martin Kostyshyn
- Pilot Officer Norman Leslie Laing
- Second Lieutenant Royston Thomas Lambert
- Warrant Officer Class II Harold Naismith Law
- Pilot Officer Reginald Sidney Lees
- Sergeant John Derek Leicester
- Flying Officer Douglas Percy Leigo
- Flight Sergeant Victor Raymond Lenichek
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Arthur Lishman
- Sergeant Richard Leslie Lloyd
- Flight Lieutenant David Septimus Stewart Low
- Sergeant Ian David Lowther
- Sergeant Bernard Edwin Bentley Luckman
- Sergeant Alexander Lyle
- Sergeant John Walter Macaulay
- Flight Sergeant William Eric Mander
- Pilot Officer Thomas Andrew McCann
- Sergeant Keith Malcolm McGregor
- Sergeant David John Miller
- Sergeant Percy Milnes
- Sergeant Douglas George Mogg
- Sergeant Alfred Coghlan Moore
- Sergeant Raymond Hill Moses
- Sergeant Fred Newbound
- Sergeant John Dudley Newick
- Warrant Officer Denis Nixon-stevenson
- Sergeant Stanley James Oertel
- Pilot Officer Alexander Johnston Stewart Ollar
- Sergeant Douglas Lester Osborne
- Sergeant Henry Goodrich Le Barr Pakenham-walsh
- Flight Sergeant William Alfred Penney
- Sergeant Norman Arthur Penstone
- Sergeant Douglas Charles Penwarden
- Wing Commander Murrey Vernon Peters-smith
- Sergeant Arthur Walter Pierard
- Flight Sergeant John Victor Potter
- Sergeant Robert Bruce Prentice
- Flight Sergeant John James Price
- Flight Sergeant Norman McInnes Rattray
- Sergeant Donald Ernest Raymond
- Squadron Leader Francis Harold Robertson
- Pilot Officer Norman Bruce Robertson
- Flight Sergeant John Ross
- Pilot Officer Victor Nelson Salmon
- Sergeant George Robert Saville
- Sergeant Allan Cyril Savory
- Flying Officer Patrick Campbell Sayce
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cecil Scales
- Pilot Officer Ian James Shepherd
- Sergeant Kelvin Hewer Shoesmith
- Flight Sergeant Henry Maximilian Slezak
- Sergeant Peter Horace Smith
- Sergeant William Smith
- Flying Officer John Frederick Stock
- Sergeant James Octon Straffen
- Pilot Officer Douglas Alfred Street
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Douglas Swansburg
- Flight Sergeant George Thomas Thornton
- Pilot Officer George Edward Tilling
- Pilot Officer John Harold (jack) Timmis
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Robert Titus
- Sergeant Stanley William Walliter
- Sergeant Kenneth Storey Watson
- Pilot Officer Donald Coburn West
- Pilot Officer Frederick Sidney White
- Flight Lieutenant Robin Eustace Brittain White
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edwin James Whitehead
- Pilot Officer George Whittaker
- Sergeant James Francis Winstanley
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Austin Withers
- Sergeant Cyril Wood
- Sergeant Francis Noel Wright
- Flying Officer Eric John Robert Yates
1943
- Flight Sergeant Will Andrew
- Sergeant George Law Campbell
- Flying Officer Leonard Robert Crampton
- Flying Officer John William Crowley
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond James Davies
- Sergeant James Eastwood
- Aircraftman 1st Class John James Farley Elliott
- Pilot Officer Richard Donald Esselmont
- Flight Lieutenant Owen Faircloth
- Pilot Officer Milton Arnold Foster
- Leading Aircraftman Neil Macmillan Glenday
- Sergeant Kenneth Alfred Gooding
- Corporal Norman Frederick Hart
- Lieutenant Jacques-houssa
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Raymond Johnson
- Sergeant Gwynne Charles Lawrance
- Sergeant James Lionel Leader
- Flying Officer Everett Victor Lee
- Sergeant Robert Lobb
- Pilot Officer Ian Bert Mann
- Warrant Officer Class II Russel David Mathers
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Jack McLean
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander McTaggart
- Sergeant Stanley Packham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Hymie Revzen
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Hughes Robertson
- Sergeant Alexander Suttie Scott
- Sergeant Albert John Shorter
- Sergeant John Nathan Swann
- Leading Aircraftman Paul Arthur Trudel
- Flying Officer William Martin Ross Reid Urquhart
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Vail
- Warrant Officer Ian Wallace-cox
- Flight Sergeant John Alfred Watkins
- Flying Officer Adam Gardener McArthur Watson
- Pilot Officer Raymond Wilson
- Flying Officer Hugh William Woodsend
1944
- Flying Officer Ambrose Bain
- Sergeant John Arnold Breadner
- Pilot Officer John Donald Buchanan
- Flying Officer John Christie
- Pilot Officer Leon Albert Dessert
- Lieutenant Dickinson
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Alan Dutneall
- Sergeant Hugh Allen Foster
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Francis Galbraith
- Flight Lieutenant John Gilmour
- Pilot Officer John Reginald Cecil Gutcher
- Warrant Officer Allan Harold John Harris
- Flying Officer Balfour Richard John Hay
- Flying Officer Ralph Alexander Johnstone
- Flying Officer Alexander Lindsay
- Sergeant Wilfred Robert Little
- Flight Sergeant Roswell Howard Tourle Martin
- Flight Lieutenant Walter James Mattocks
- Pilot Officer Hiram Archibald McCormick McKell
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander James Mitchell
- Sergeant John Joseph Kenneth O'Brien
- Flight Sergeant Pearce
- Pilot Officer Peter March Price
- Flying Officer Gordon James Pursey
- Flying Officer John Murray Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Len Rothwell
- Flight Sergeant David Shaw
- Leading Aircraftman Chancy Melvin Simpson
- Flying Officer William Hugh Skelton
- Flying Officer Ronald George Turvey
- Flying Officer John Gibson Webb
- Warrant Officer John Robert West
- Flying Officer Harold Earl Wilson
- Leading Aircraftman Norman George Wood
1945
- Leading Aircraftman John Philip Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Stephen Patrick Cloake
- Warrant Officer Alfred Cook
- Leading Aircraftman Keith Frederick Cox
- Flying Officer Ronald Henry Edward Dunsford
- Warrant Officer Ernest Robert Gunn
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth John Hanson
- Flight Sergeant Brendan Michael Heslin
- Flying Officer John James Oliver Hume
- Flight Sergeant Frank Grainger Vincent Hutton
- Corporal Neely Anthony Lonnen
- Flight Sergeant William James Maxwell
- Sergeant Thomas Harold McDermott
- Squadron Leader James Stewart McGoldrick
- Flight Sergeant Charles Neville Nichol
- Sergeant Joseph Albert Vermette