On this day — 28 July
277 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 28 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman William Roy Driscoll
- Pilot Officer Herbert Paul Greenwood Fisher
- Sergeant Albert Edward Frank Gould
- Sergeant John James Hawken
- Leading Aircraftman Denys William Gordon Johns
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Murton
- Sergeant Jack Philip Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Cheesman Swann
- Pilot Officer James Hugh Roumieu Young
- Sergeant John Young
1941
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Gilbert Bradley
- Flight Sergeant Hubert Charles Gerard Brook
- Sergeant Niel Brook
- Pilot Officer William Brandwood Burrows
- Sergeant Colin Cawthorne
- Sergeant Philip Pedrick Chapman
- Pilot Officer Peter Clarence Chappell
- Sergeant William John Chevers
- Sergeant Charles Gordon Alexander Christy
- Lieutenant Johannes Jacobus Conradie
- Flying Officer Charles Thomas Dacombe
- Pilot Officer Michael Forster
- Pilot Officer John Malcolm Graham
- Sergeant Robert Henderson
- Sergeant William Hesketh Hindle
- Sergeant Arthur Innes
- Flight Sergeant Cyril John Jolin
- Sergeant Brynmor Jones
- Sergeant John Benjamin Kamedish
- Leading Aircraftman George William Alfred Kirby
- Sergeant Louis Brian Eugene Larsen
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph William Henri Louis Monfette
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Charles Andrew Muir
- Sergeant Christian Conrad Ostenfeld
- Sergeant Gordon Stanley Parry
- Sergeant Philip Stanley Pugh
- Sergeant Cyril Pullan
- Sergeant Cyril Douglas Rose
- Sergeant George Murray Scott
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph Stanley Smith
- Sergeant Roy Smith
- Flight Sergeant Eric Ernest Sturgeon
- Flight Lieutenant Lewis Stanley Tindall
- Sergeant Howard Bate Webster
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Maurice Whitehead
1942
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Claude Alton
- Flight Sergeant Prentis Blair Andrew
- Flight Sergeant Richard Butcher Ayers
- Flight Sergeant William John Birmingham
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Richard Borsberry
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Cyril Francis Bowman
- Sergeant Ernest Bridge
- Pilot Officer James Alexander Brown
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Thomas Chapman
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Clark
- Sergeant Douglas Charles Cochrane
- Flight Sergeant John Robert Collins
- Sergeant Norman Seton Comber
- Sergeant Edward Hodgson Dean
- Pilot Officer Ben Perry De Haven
- Sergeant George McKenzie Duff
- Corporal Clifford George Kendall Easey
- Pilot Officer Keith Henry Iveson Easton
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Alfred Eastwood
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Edgar
- Flight Sergeant James Spencer Evans
- Pilot Officer Ronald Arthur Flood
- Leading Aircraftman A E Fricker
- Flight Sergeant Rex Thomas Gammon
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Wayne Ganes
- Pilot Officer Ronald Palmer Godfrey
- Flight Sergeant Harold Gordon Graham
- Flight Sergeant Francis Leon Joseph Hartnett
- Flying Officer Lynn Harvey
- Pilot Officer Brian Ernest Hawes
- Sergeant Ronald Douglas Horder
- Sergeant Donald Frank Hubbard
- Leading Aircraftman Ian Macintyre Hunter
- Pilot Officer Frank Arthur Hurley
- Pilot Officer William Arthur Leslie Ireland
- Sergeant Selwyn Jackson
- Sergeant Charles Peter Jenkins
- Flight Sergeant George William Jewell
- Flight Sergeant Frank Edward Johnson
- Sergeant Peter Brian Kember
- Sergeant Henry Charles Kent
- Air Mechanic Le Grange
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alan Cecil Colin Lloyd
- Sergeant Rupert Harold Lowe
- Pilot Officer Thomas Kirkham Matthews
- Sergeant James McLennan McIntosh
- Corporal George Alan McKie
- Sergeant Walter Herbert Mitchell
- Sergeant Ronald North
- Sergeant John George James Parrott
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Francis Pearson
- Sergeant Joseph Eric Percival
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Robert Pulling
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph Rabone
- Pilot Officer Douglas Rogers
- Flight Sergeant Richard Anderson Russell
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Norman Ryder
- Sergeant Siddle Henry Schofield
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Herbert Shearn
- Sergeant Stewart William Stockford
- Sergeant Leonard Joseph Storey
- Pilot Officer Robert James Stubbings
- Warrant Officer Class I Eric Phippen Sutherland
- Sergeant Peter Granville Teall
- Flight Sergeant Joseph James Thompson
- Sergeant Cecil Edgar Tipper
- Pilot Officer Charles Richard Hamilton Underwood
- Flight Sergeant Elmer Leroy Wagner
- Pilot Officer Philip Walker
- Sergeant John George Watson
- Sergeant Eric Webster
- Flying Officer Frank Watson Weekes
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Griffith White
- Sergeant Brian Thomas James Woodland
- Sergeant Ronald Charles Wootton
- Sergeant Kenneth John Yates
1943
- Sergeant Vernon Allen
- Flying Officer Robert Frederick William Allison
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Allitt
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Percy Anken
- Sergeant Ian George Armet
- Leading Aircraftman Halden John Cameron Armstrong
- Sergeant Francis Langhorne Backhouse
- Sergeant Christopher Albert Bailey
- Sergeant Douglas Allen Barnfather
- Sergeant Harold Garside Bartle
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Dennis Barton
- Sergeant Leslie George Bentley
- Sergeant Herbert Bradley
- Sergeant Gordon Harry Brown
- Pilot Officer James Thomas Buchanan
- Flying Officer Colin Burne
- Sergeant Edward James Cahill
- Flying Officer Donald Allister Campbell
- Pilot Officer James Llewellyn Carrington
- Flight Sergeant Nigel Paul Ivan Castells
- Flight Sergeant John Bennett Charters
- Flight Lieutenant John Rowlison Childs
- Flying Officer George McFerran Clarke
- Sergeant Allan Cloud
- Flying Officer Donald Campbell Colahan
- Sergeant Robert Henry Connor
- Corporal Joseph Cooper
- Sergeant Ernest Stanley Crabbe
- Pilot Officer John Albert Harold Dale
- Sergeant David Richard Daniels
- Sergeant Derwish Haj Darwish
- Flight Lieutenant George Frederick Davey
- Sergeant Thomas Brown Dawson
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Samuel Louis Day
- Flight Sergeant David Erskine Ellis Dean
- Sergeant Kenneth Joseph Devall
- Sergeant John Dolan
- Sergeant James Donaldson
- Sergeant David William Downes
- Sergeant Joseph William Doyle
- Flying Officer John Duffy
- Flying Officer Allan Ronald Armitage Farquhar
- Sergeant John Victor Flood
- Sergeant Walter Frederick
- Flight Sergeant James Kerr Gold Freeland
- Warrant Officer Roy Gafford
- Flying Officer Noble Andrew Gardiner
- Pilot Officer Arthur Leonard Gibbons
- Sergeant Joseph Eric Goddard
- Sergeant Ernest Edward Roberts Gomersall
- Sergeant Bernard Gorman
- Sergeant Edward Gough
- Sergeant William Green
- Leading Aircraftman George Murray Grier
- Sergeant Edward Hamill
- Sergeant Daniel Harrison
- Sergeant Henry Victor Hawkins
- Flying Officer William Hemmings
- Flying Officer William Joseph John Hitchcock
- Warrant Officer Rupert Anthony Hodges
- Pilot Officer Kevin Herbert Hoffman
- Sergeant Alfred Eric Ancel Holden
- Pilot Officer Horace Holman
- Flight Sergeant Ross Primrose Holmes
- Flight Sergeant Albert Victor House
- Flight Sergeant David Picton Phillips Hurst
- Sergeant Vernon Russell Jacob
- Flying Officer Denzil Gordon Jones
- Sergeant Eric Bernard Jordan
- Sergeant Robert Benjamin Lyon Kent
- Flight Sergeant Michael Rodney Warr King
- Sergeant Graeme James Kynnersley
- Sergeant James Land
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Renee Alexis Le Blanc
- Sergeant John Patrick Lee
- Flight Sergeant James Lynch
- Flying Officer Paul Lynch
- Sergeant William Snowball Maben
- Sergeant Leslie Edward Maidment
- Sergeant Duncan McMillan McCulloch
- Flying Officer Howard William McDonald
- Flight Lieutenant George Horne McDougal
- Flight Sergeant Ellis George McLeod
- Flying Officer Charles Howard McMinniman
- Sergeant Robert McWilliams
- Sergeant John Weir Merrie
- Sergeant George Edwin Milton
- Flight Sergeant Orton Minor
- Sergeant Roy Newcombe
- Sergeant Donald Alfred Page
- Pilot Officer Elbert Frank Parker
- Sergeant Geoffrey Charles Peggs
- Sergeant Thomas John Perrin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Henry Peters
- Sergeant Ernest Aubrey Phillips
- Wing Commander James Arthur Piddington
- Sergeant Bernard Stanley Rate
- Flying Officer Paul Renton
- Flight Sergeant Robert Garth Reu
- Pilot Officer Robert Myrick Rice
- Sergeant Charles William Robertson
- Sergeant Frank Robertson
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Joseph Roche
- Sergeant James Wesley Rooke
- Warrant Officer Wilfrid Salthouse
- Leading Aircraftman Denis Sidney Shafsby
- Sergeant Robert Malcolm Shepley
- Sergeant William Alexander Roy Sinclair
- Sergeant George Rowland Slack
- Sergeant Arthur Smith
- Sergeant Ronald Davidson Smith
- Group Captain David William Stannard
- Flight Lieutenant Clifford Campbell Stovel
- Sergeant James Sullivan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Tan Seng Guan
- Flight Sergeant Neil Clifton Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Allan Murray Thomson
- Flying Officer David John Neville Towle
- Sergeant John Alfred Tyler
- Leading Aircraftman Denis Hudson Walker
- Flight Sergeant Robert Francis Wells
- Sergeant George White
- Sergeant Norman Peter Wiseman
- Sergeant Reginald John Woolford
1944
- Flying Officer Joseph Alphonse Carmen Campeau
- Flying Officer John Thomas Clifford
- Air Mechanic Dukas
- Lieutenant Du Plessis
- Warrant Officer Class II Albert Ellis
- Squadron Leader Lawrence Denis Emblem
- Corporal Ernest Flaskett
- Pilot Officer James Wallace Hocking
- Flight Lieutenant William Gladstone Hoffman
- Captain Petrus Johannes Steinkamp Louw
- Flying Officer Angus Alexander McKiggan
- Pilot Officer Thomas Cornelius Mulcair
- Flight Sergeant Allen George Otton
- Flying Officer David Pickard
- Sergeant Edgar Leslie Price
- Flying Officer Clifford Russell Pring
- Sergeant William Revill
- Sergeant Leonard Daniel Shortland
- Warrant Officer Gilbert Allen Noel Smith
- Pilot Officer Albert William Tuuri
- Pilot Officer Gordon Kenneth Vimy Ridge Vincent
- Flying Officer Maurice Dier Zimmerman
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Anthony Joseph George McCarthy Elliott
- Flight Sergeant George Ivor Hill-jones
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Gordon Ireland
- Flight Sergeant John Victor Orgill
- Air Sergeant Gerhardus H. Van Der Merwe