On this day — 31 July
264 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 31 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Victor Guy Bray
- Corporal Percival Callicott
- Sergeant William Gray Cameron
- Squadron Leader Patrick Francis Connaughton
- Sergeant Frederick William Eley
- Pilot Officer Harold Raymond Gunn
- Pilot Officer James Henry Horan
- Air Corporal Jacob Kruyshaar
- Sergeant Samuel Morgan
- Pilot Officer Bruce Campbell Paton
- Sergeant Cecil James Richardson
- Sergeant Joseph Beckett Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Pryce Tomley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward John Toy
- Sergeant Edward Waite
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Arthur Ward
- Sergeant Archibald Gordon Willis
1941
- Pilot Officer Patrick James Neil Adshead
- Pilot Officer George Norman Bevan
- Pilot Officer Donald Brook
- Sergeant Wilfred Stanley Brooks
- Sergeant Wilfred Leonard Butler
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Ernest Cave
- Sergeant William Chambers
- Sergeant Robert Brown Chrisp
- Pilot Officer Bernard Castle Curtis
- Wing Commander Arthur Hammond Dalton
- Flight Sergeant Rex Ronald Boyce Durtnall
- Sergeant Jack Douglas Evelle
- Sergeant Kenneth Marcel Fillmore
- Flight Sergeant Roy John West Geater
- Sergeant Peter Thomas Giblett
- Corporal Kenneth George Gilbey
- Sergeant Gordon Harvey
- Sergeant Joseph Arthur Haswell
- Sergeant Thomas Stanley Hathaway
- Sergeant William Grenville Herrod
- Pilot Officer Charles Dale Hewson
- Sergeant Thomas Ivor Hicks
- Sergeant Allan Cyril Mew
- Sergeant Frederick Leonard Molteni
- Sergeant Dennis Aloysius Monk
- Sergeant Percival Harold Charles Parrott
- Pilot Officer Frank Edward Pratt
- Pilot Officer Ralph Ruskin Price
- Sergeant James Graham Rogers
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Saunders
- Sergeant Ronald Walter Smale
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Frank Spiby
- Leading Aircraftman Wesley Charles Clifford Stratton
- Sergeant Victor Ronald Sutton
- Flight Sergeant Henry Alexander Vincent Vidler
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Walker
- Sergeant Frederick Kenneth Webber
- Sergeant Norman Francis Clarke Williams
- Sergeant Wallace Henry Wyatt
- Leading Aircraftman John Kenneth Young
1942
- Pilot Officer Mitchell George Abey
- Pilot Officer John Allen
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney Charles Andrews
- Flying Officer Christopher Edward Thomas Bartram
- Sergeant David Bell
- Sergeant Clive Thomas Bingham
- Flight Sergeant Mandel Bloomfield
- Sergeant William Bluck
- Flying Officer William Dennis Bohl
- Flight Sergeant James Andrew Collins
- Lieutenant Alfred Edward Corbey
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander William Court
- Aircraftman 1st Class Nevil Thomas Cuddihy
- Pilot Officer Arthur Archibald Currie
- Air Mechanic De Lange
- Pilot Officer Grant Eugene Eichar
- Flight Sergeant Roy Milton Ennis
- Sergeant Herbert Henry Fealy
- Sergeant John Forsyth
- Sergeant Clifford Gurney Fort
- Pilot Officer Ernest Francis Hamilton Frith
- Sergeant John Robert Goodings
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Gray
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ivor Thomas Hugh Hall
- Leading Aircraftman John David Hamilton
- Pilot Officer Frank Richard Hancock
- Pilot Officer Carter Woodruff Harp
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Nicholas Basil Heygate
- Sergeant Ronald George Lawry Holton
- Flight Sergeant Elden Francis Hueston
- Sergeant Arthur Hutchinson
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Leslie Kenneth Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Norman Keith Judd
- Flight Sergeant Robert Henry Kelly
- Flight Lieutenant Coburn Clark King
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Labelle
- Sergeant Vivian Lewis
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Bruce Martin
- Warrant Officer Class I Bud Douglas Roy McComb
- Flying Officer Arthur Reginald Meaker
- Sergeant John Russell Mullins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie David Nevill
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Oswald O'Brien
- Flying Officer Arthur Francis O'Dwyer
- Warrant Officer Andrew Steel Patterson
- Pilot Officer Robert Samuel Patterson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Todd Pullinger
- Sergeant Bernard Frederick Charles Rixon
- Sergeant Harry Scrace
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Albert Seeds
- Sergeant John William Southgate
- Flight Sergeant John Knight Stone
- Flight Sergeant Maurice John Tomley
- Flight Lieutenant James Robert Traill
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Turner
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Ernest Tyler
- Pilot Officer Raymond Ernest Vaupel
- Sergeant Roy Vernon
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Harry Wakefield
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Walker
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Neil Wallace
- Aircraftman 1st Class Garnet William White
- Sergeant Norman Williams
- Pilot Officer Norman Dudley Young
1943
- Flight Sergeant John McGowan Barclay
- Sergeant Edwin Charles Albert Barnes
- Sergeant Edward Albert Bartlett
- Sergeant George Henry Beck
- Sergeant Frank Berry
- Sergeant Frederick Blackburn
- Sergeant Bernard John Bond
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Harold Bretten
- Sergeant Robert Charles Broadbent
- Sergeant Dennis Brown
- Sergeant Albert Edward Chalk
- Sergeant Leonard Clifton
- Sergeant Arthur Victor Edward Cobby
- Flying Officer Norman Cole
- Sergeant Robert Arnold Cole
- Sergeant Howard Melville Cornes
- Sergeant John Crammond
- Sergeant Arthur Bryce Cresswell
- Pilot Officer Frederic William Raukawa Cumpsty
- Flight Sergeant Jack Neville Darney
- Sergeant George Chamberlain Davies
- Sergeant Robert Jewett Dickson
- Flight Lieutenant John Collins Dillicar
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard Charles Dive-robinson
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin Drake
- Warrant Officer Lewis Edmunds
- Sergeant Robert George Edwards
- Aircraftman 1st Class Maxwell Charles Elsden
- Sergeant Ronald Charles George Evans
- Sergeant John Ferguson
- Sergeant Henry John Russell Fisher
- Sergeant William John Ford
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Fuller
- Sergeant John William Gale
- Flight Sergeant Anthony James Gibbons
- Sergeant John Charles Gibson
- Flying Officer John Trevor Gilbert
- Pilot Officer William Leslie Gray
- Sergeant Derrick Hadwin
- Sergeant Alan Bert Harper
- Sergeant John Francis Harper
- Flight Sergeant William Andrew Hebden
- Aircraftman 1st Class Roy Horne
- Flight Sergeant Ross Orlando Hutchison
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Karl Ibbotson
- Lieutenant Arthur Ray Ingle
- Sergeant George Harold Irons
- Flying Officer Bernard Lionel Jackson
- Sergeant Douglas Thomas Jee
- Flying Officer Philip Robert Johnson
- Sergeant Griffiths Gwyn Jones
- Sergeant Reginald Matthew Jordan
- Flying Officer George Gordon Judd
- Sergeant Derek Henry Kealey
- Flight Lieutenant William Robert Kilpatrick
- Sergeant John Lewis
- Sergeant Sydney Robert Long
- Warrant Officer Class I Charles David Macintosh
- Squadron Leader James Archibald Findlay Maclachlan
- Sergeant Duncan Hugh Cameron Macrae
- Flight Sergeant Angus Herbert Marshall
- Sergeant Joseph Martin
- Warrant Officer Russell George McIntaggart
- Sergeant Kenneth Percy Middleton
- Flight Lieutenant George William Nickerson
- Sergeant John Hubert O'Farrell
- Sergeant Pierpoint
- Sergeant James William Pothecary
- Sergeant Leonard Stephen Pugh
- Sergeant Alfred Bryden Radcliffe
- Flight Sergeant Ian Grant Ramsay
- Sergeant William Lewis Reed
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Millson Reid
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Maxime Reid
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Alan Rourke
- Sergeant Robin Francis Russell
- Flight Sergeant Denis Tolman Shaw
- Sergeant Ronald Shelton
- Flying Officer Alfred Alexander Shepherd
- Pilot Officer Albert Richard George Small
- Sergeant Edward Arthur Stevens
- Flight Sergeant Robert James Stone
- Sergeant James Arthur Suffield
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Taylor
- Pilot Officer Alfred John Thomas
- Pilot Officer Raymond Alfred Timmins
- Pilot Officer Frederick Thomas Turner
- Flight Sergeant Terrance James Vercoe
- Flying Officer Albert Baulcombe Wallis
- Pilot Officer Frank Walmsley
- Sergeant William Alfred Wells
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Wilfred Westerberg
- Pilot Officer David Williams
- Sergeant James Richard Williams
- Flight Sergeant Lyn Williams Williams
- Wing Commander Edgar Arthur Williamson
1944
- Flying Officer Joseph Leonidas Gerald Avon
- Air Corporal Boraine
- Flight Lieutenant Ian McKenzie Caldwell
- Pilot Officer Joseph Charles Lionel Carriere
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Towers Clarke
- Corporal Philip Collinge
- Sergeant George Lewis Copeland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Macgregor Dyke
- Sergeant Donald Fraser Enright
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Lewis Gaspard
- Lieutenant John Henry Stevenson Glenny
- Pilot Officer John Howard Green
- Flying Officer Edward Keith Hender
- Air Corporal Hosmer
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Ingham
- Flight Lieutenant Terrance Patrick Jarvis
- Sergeant Albert John Linegar
- Warrant Officer Class II Roy James Love
- Sergeant Arthur John Mayhew
- Warrant Officer Class I John McBeth
- Pilot Officer Robert Francis McKinney
- Flying Officer Veikko Victor Miettinen
- Flying Officer John Kendell Newth
- Pilot Officer Thomas James Peacore
- Flying Officer Joseph Ovila Peltier
- Lieutenant Pennington
- Lieutenant Schutte
- Flying Officer Harry Morden Sharpe
- Flying Officer Conrad Clifford Swire
- Flight Sergeant John David Syverston
- Pilot Officer John Robert Tones
- Corporal James Whelan
- Pilot Officer Alexander Alfred Wilson
1945
- Flight Sergeant Aubrey Edward Burgess
- Flight Sergeant Robert William Delahunt
- Flying Officer Douglas Poultney Dewhurst
- Flying Officer Jack Bonfield Faviell
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Sydney Guerin
- Flying Officer Benjamin George Hamilton
- Warrant Officer Bruce Vaughton Paech
- Flight Sergeant Neville Herbert Playford
- Sergeant Gordon Malcolm Scott
- Flying Officer William Joseph Stubbs
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Jack Walker