On this day — 6 August
209 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 6 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Ronald Douglas (ron) Bailey
- Sergeant Reginald Frank Batho
- Pilot Officer Henry Wilfred Arthur Britton
- Sergeant William Logan Colls
- Sergeant Alan James Fetherston
- Pilot Officer Arthur Vivian Fisher
- Sergeant Robert James Jennings
- Leading Aircraftman Colin James Campbell Jones
- Sergeant John Jones
- Sergeant James Fenton Lindsay
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Lewis Price Lloyd
- Squadron Leader Nicholas Wyndham Wadham
1941
- Sergeant Frederick William Alleway
- Flight Lieutenant David Bamford
- Flight Sergeant Richard Neilson Barcroft
- Sergeant Alan Beacham
- Pilot Officer Stuart William Stott Beedie
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Payne Bissett
- Sergeant Gordon Stephenson Bradbury
- Pilot Officer Harry Brant
- Sergeant Ronald Thornton Clark
- Pilot Officer Peter Kingsley Clench
- Flight Lieutenant John Compton
- Sergeant Harry Owen Cook
- Sergeant James Roland Cook
- Flying Officer Ernest Edward Creed
- Sergeant Dennis William Ernest Creedy
- Sergeant John Henry Howard Cutmore
- Flight Sergeant Raymond John David
- Sergeant Kenneth Albert Dean
- Sergeant Warren Steen Denby
- Sergeant Harold Edward Fear
- Sergeant Henry John Gibbs
- Flight Lieutenant Maurice Arthur Goodwin
- Sergeant Denis Maxwell Greey
- Sergeant Percy Albert Hammond
- Group Captain Eustace Jack Linton Hope
- Sergeant Bernard Walter Hopton
- Sergeant Charles Oscar Horwood
- Sergeant David Hinton Howe
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Taylor Humphrey
- Flying Officer Richard Sidney Jameson
- Pilot Officer Benedict Warren Melvill Jones
- Sergeant William Leslie Knowles
- Sergeant Granville Fallows Lister
- Sergeant James Melven Macilwraith
- Sergeant Hector John Maclean
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Francis Mahoney
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Patrick Mandeville
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Joseph McHugh
- Sergeant William Joseph McQuade
- Sergeant Jack Moules
- Pilot Officer Alexander William Ogston
- Sergeant Frederick Thomas Prest
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Philip Price
- Pilot Officer John Askey Quick
- Flight Sergeant Eric Francis Reeve
- Sergeant Cecil Rhodes
- Wing Commander Philip Read Robinson
- Flight Lieutenant John William Smith
- Sergeant Johnston Playfair Taylor
- Pilot Officer Michael William Tilley
- Pilot Officer Anthony Winslow Tomlinson
- Sergeant Owen Lawrence Mitchell Williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Leslie Yeats
- Flight Sergeant Samuel David Yeomans
1942
- Sergeant Frederick Samuel Akerman
- Pilot Officer Robert Keith Anderson Andrew
- Sergeant Raymond Bell-berry
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Bottoms
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Michael Brearley
- Flight Sergeant John Brooks
- Flight Sergeant Harold Alexander Brown
- Sergeant Ronald Frederick Churchill
- Sergeant John William Clarke
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry Montague Cole
- Sergeant James Colville
- Sergeant Jack Culley
- Sergeant Harold Curson
- Flight Sergeant Martin Luke Donohoe
- Sergeant Arthur Stanley Charles Ellis
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Charles Everitt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrence Edward Fedrick
- Sergeant John Forbes
- Sergeant Frank Arthur Frost
- Sergeant Herbert Maurice Gall
- Sergeant John Richard Gilbert
- Sergeant Edward William Griffiths
- Sergeant Noel Clive Hain
- Pilot Officer William Leonard Verdun Hallett
- Group Captain Gerard Joseph Hanly
- Pilot Officer Joseph Field Helgason
- Sergeant John William Edward Holland
- Sergeant Albert Hooper
- Flight Lieutenant Gerald Antony Ings
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Malbon Iverson
- Leading Aircraftman Edgar Davies Jenkins
- Flight Lieutenant Paul Ralph Emerson Jenkins
- Sergeant Albert Henry Johnson
- Pilot Officer Raymond Marinus Krefting
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Adolphe Romeo Langlois
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Lawton
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Raymond Lupton
- Flight Sergeant William James Macaulay
- Sergeant John James Manderson
- Sergeant Dennis Rodney Manser
- Pilot Officer John Edwin Marshall
- Pilot Officer Hugh Murrough McKiernan
- Flight Sergeant William Gordon McKinnon
- Corporal James Walker Montgomery
- Sergeant Geoffrey Arthur Morgan
- Pilot Officer Henry William Edward Packham
- Pilot Officer Clive Henry Phillips
- Sergeant James Gough Polson
- Sergeant William Stewart Priest
- Sergeant Edward Thomas Prior
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Frank Chilvers Ratcliff
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Lyall William Scharf
- Warrant Officer Class II William James Aubrey Shapter
- Sergeant Caleb Stanley Kenneth Shepherd
- Pilot Officer Gordon James Strutt
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Seymour Tadman
- Sergeant John Morris Thompson
- Sergeant Eric Gordon Travis
- Sergeant Leonard Stanley Williams
1943
- Sergeant George Leslie Abrahams
- Flight Sergeant William McKenzie Arril
- Air Mechanic Errol F. Ashburner
- Leading Aircraftman John Beattie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon William Bickley
- Sergeant William Leonard Boundy
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Henry Bowles
- Flight Sergeant Edward Dewar Brokenshire
- Pilot Officer Donald Clive Challis
- Flying Officer Ross Edgerton Clark
- Flight Sergeant Russell Kenneth Cox
- Flying Officer Maurice Shehata D'Abadi
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Paul Guy Marcel De Bellefeuille
- Sergeant Henry Walter Stanley Ducklin
- Flight Sergeant Harry John Evans
- Sergeant Charles Robert Kenneth Fay
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard Charles Feldon
- Sergeant John Fleming
- Leading Aircraftman Claude Hamlin
- Sergeant Frederick Arthur Hitchcock
- Flying Officer Robert Whitaker Holdsworth
- Sergeant Charles Martin Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Jonker
- Sergeant Edward Leonard Kemp
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Paul Roland Labbe
- Pilot Officer Cecil Agar Lambert
- Flight Sergeant Lehman
- Sergeant Kenneth Lyne
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Learmonth Marshall
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Ernest Martell
- Leading Aircraftman William Charles McCann
- Leading Aircraftman William Ronald McKay
- Sergeant Derek Goodwin Morrison
- Sergeant George Stanley Burt Newman
- Sergeant Joseph Gerard Noblett
- Sergeant Ronald Bertram Perry
- Sergeant William Thomas Peverell
- Leading Aircraftman Willie Rees
- Flying Officer William Boyd Reynolds
- Corporal Robert Joseph Rielly
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Nathan Rosenblatt
- Flight Sergeant Irvine Sydney Rothstein
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Dennis Schwardt
- Sergeant Raymond Searston
- Leading Aircraftman John Singleton
- Flying Officer Nicholas Solomka
- Warrant Officer Class II Francois Cecilius Jean-louis Therien
- Lieutenant Trembath
- Lieutenant Louis Andries Van Zyl
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Ernest Warne
- Sergeant Gerald Alfred Warren
- Sergeant Edward Watson
- Pilot Officer Jack Austin Wilkins
- Flying Officer Anthony John Willcock
1944
- Warrant Officer Robert Jack Braddock
- Flight Lieutenant George Brown
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Charles Bucknell
- Warrant Officer John Samuel McClelland Campbell
- Second Lieutenant Clark
- Sergeant Frederick Hugh Conaghan
- Sergeant William Logan Dalglish
- Flight Sergeant Ernest William Donkin
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Allan Eunson
- Warrant Officer Arthur Keith Griesbach
- Warrant Officer Class I Gordon Fletcher Harrison
- Lieutenant Henderson
- Pilot Officer Walter Nelson Irving
- Flight Sergeant Edgar Frederick Jones
- Warrant Officer Donald Joseph Lester
- Flight Sergeant Donald John Mackerras
- Flight Sergeant Ronald McAllister
- Corporal Allen Morris
- Warrant Officer Eric Robinson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas William Sinclair
- Pilot Officer Henare Whakatau Uru
- Squadron Leader Ronald Stanley Weir
- Flight Lieutenant John Richard Wilkinson
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Williams
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph Edgar Petley
- Leading Aircraftman George Herbert Rose
- Sergeant Albert Victor Smith