On this day — 7 August
253 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 7 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Dennis Frank Alves
- Sergeant Arthur Stuart Dalgress
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Edwin Denbee
- Pilot Officer Roy Bruce Forbes
- Sergeant David Allen Gibbs
- Sergeant William Claude Goldsmith
- Sergeant Stephen Grant
- Sergeant David Kinnaird Mills
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Patrick Mortimer
- Sergeant John Morgan Oliver
- Pilot Officer Robert Archer Smith
- Sergeant George David Tennant
- Sergeant Henry Humphrey Wilson
- Sergeant Roy Fleming Wilson
1941
- Pilot Officer Alexander Cairns Anderson
- Sergeant Joseph Hagan Bolton
- Sergeant Jack Wilson Bottomley
- Pilot Officer Alistair Ferguson Bruce
- Sergeant Robert Gordon Burnett
- Pilot Officer John Wooltorton Carr
- Pilot Officer Thomas Keith Coupland
- Sergeant William John Vincent Crowsley
- Sergeant William John Culley
- Sergeant Desmond Ernest George Denier
- Sergeant Owen Robert Bruce Dick
- Pilot Officer Colin McDougall Didsbury
- Flying Officer Patrick Braund Doorly
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Edgecombe
- Sergeant Frederick Shirley Ellis
- Sergeant James Thompson Farmer
- Sergeant Thomas Cyril Gallant
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Douglas Geldard
- Pilot Officer Alexander George Gill
- Sergeant George Haines
- Flight Sergeant George William Hemsley
- Pilot Officer Arthur Wilfred Lambert
- Pilot Officer Cowen Landreth
- Sergeant Geoffrey Lickley
- Pilot Officer Harold Andrew Thomas Lind
- Sergeant William Neill Kennedy Mellon
- Sergeant Frederick Peter Nekludow
- Sergeant Norman William Paples
- Sergeant William Henry Petratos
- Pilot Officer Stanislav Plzak
- Leading Aircraftman George Edward Pyper
- Sergeant Vernon Beverley Quinlan
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Henry (teddy) Ridgewell
- Sergeant William Swann Robinson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Scotney
- Pilot Officer Gerald Daniel Edward Stack
- Leading Aircraftman Elmer James Stanley
- Group Captain John Edward Tennant
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Frank Vaughan
- Pilot Officer Harold Ernest Waite
- Pilot Officer Leslie Ward
- Flying Officer Thomas Hovenden Worth
- Sergeant Arthur Yoxall
1942
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Harry Angel
- Warrant Officer Class II Allen Leland Bachelder
- Sergeant Leslie William Arthur Barnard
- Flight Sergeant Robert Wilson Baxter
- Warrant Officer Jean Beaupre
- Sergeant Kenneth Bickmore
- Sergeant Philip Cecil John Brain
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Charles Brown
- Sergeant Gerard Joseph Michael Cantwell
- Pilot Officer Eric Arthur Cassidy
- Sergeant George Clayton Cavanagh
- Sergeant William John Cole
- Sergeant Bertie Harry Cosby
- Pilot Officer Douglas George Cowie
- Sergeant Norman Geoffrey Crabtree
- Flight Sergeant William Maurice Crane
- Flight Lieutenant Christopher William Wharton Darwin
- Lieutenant Alan Matheson Duncan
- Flying Officer Count Jacques Marie Joseph A. D'Ursel
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Wentworth Earp
- Sergeant Harold Phillip Gardiner
- Pilot Officer Joseph Norman Gilby
- Sergeant Robert St. Clair Gowdie
- Sergeant Wilfred John Gray
- Flight Sergeant Edward Kelly Hainey
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Julian Harris
- Flight Sergeant Paul Gordon Hemmer
- Sergeant James George Arthur Hoare
- Sergeant Samuel Leach Hore
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Noel Howarth
- Sergeant Harold Huddless
- Flight Sergeant Arthur George Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert Carrington Keats
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Percival Kerr
- Sergeant Eric Gilbert Kershaw
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Stanley Kotelmach
- Major Dennis Vernon Dold Lacey
- Sergeant John Charles Lee
- Flight Sergeant Archie William Lefurgey
- Flight Sergeant William Ernest Samuel Luck
- Leading Aircraftman John Charles Manning
- Sergeant Douglas Wilfred Mathieson
- Leading Aircraftman William McLean
- Corporal Robert Montgomery McNeill
- Sergeant Bernard John Miller
- Pilot Officer Alexander Whyte Cassie Montgomery
- Pilot Officer Percy Leslie Moxey
- Sergeant Oswald Parker
- Flight Sergeant Clifford George Pullen
- Pilot Officer William Geoffrey Rannie
- Pilot Officer Michael Gordon Meston Reid
- Sergeant Ronald Leslie Rodwell
- Flight Sergeant Isaac Rutherford
- Sergeant George William Scott
- Pilot Officer Harold Shaw
- Sergeant Frank Raymond Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Leonard Smith
- Sergeant Peter Macdougall Spence
- Sergeant John Ivan Thomson
- Sergeant Robert Frank Tidmarsh
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Roland Tipple
- Leading Aircraftman John Ewald Todd
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gerald Jack Watson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Geoffrey Arthur Watts
- Sergeant Harold Weller
- Sergeant Douglas Ernest Williams
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Wolstenholme
1943
- Sergeant Raymond Henry Amstell
- Flight Sergeant Ronald William Bagley
- Sergeant Robert (ronnie) Baird
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Abraham Bate
- Sergeant Frank Belcourt
- Flying Officer Wilbert Jacob Bieber
- Sergeant James Binnie
- Flying Officer Colin Basil Lynch Bodger
- Sergeant Ronald Booth
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Bottomley
- Sergeant Bernard Bradshaw
- Sergeant Vitezslav Briza
- Flying Officer Leslie Norman Buttimore
- Flight Sergeant Reginald B. Clements
- Flying Officer Chester Coburn Darling
- Sergeant John James Davidge
- Sergeant Wilfred Davies
- Sergeant John Bernard Davis
- Sergeant Alexander Dewar
- Pilot Officer Dixon David Donkin
- Flight Sergeant Thomas John Driscoll
- Sergeant William Kenneth Elderson
- Flying Officer Roy William Ellis
- Sergeant Clive Henry Charles Fietz
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Henry Gittins
- Squadron Leader Cyril Francis Green
- Flight Sergeant Howard Green
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Raymond Greer
- Pilot Officer Jan Hadravek
- Sergeant Thomas Frederick Harvey
- Flying Officer Patrick Micheal Hetherington
- Warrant Officer Thomas Sidney Heyes
- Sergeant William Grant Hill
- Sergeant Eric Williams Hirst
- Sergeant John Leonard Hiscock
- Sergeant Ronald James Holmes
- Corporal George Hutchinson
- Flight Sergeant James Richard Ivory
- Flying Officer John Henry Willox Johnstone
- Sergeant Stephen Tom Kitching
- Sergeant Stanley Waddy Knight
- Flight Sergeant Eric Douglas Lee
- Sergeant John Donald Lofthouse
- Sergeant George Albert Long
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Douglas Lory
- Sergeant David Kimberley Lovesy
- Flying Officer Ronald Alexander Lyons
- Flight Lieutenant Jaroslav Mares
- Flight Sergeant Walter William Marsh
- Sergeant Daniel Montgomery Martin
- Flight Sergeant John Russell Mayo
- Sergeant John Patrick Valentine McKeon
- Flight Sergeant Frank Meres
- Flying Officer Eric Joseph Needham
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Nestor
- Corporal Raymond Gibbons Northam
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Lambert Oates
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Joseph O'Keeffe
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Francis O'Loghlen
- Sergeant Richard Arthur Owens
- Sergeant Ernest Leslie Padfield
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald William Pearson
- Pilot Officer Peter William Phillips
- Sergeant Ronald William Belmont Pimm
- Flying Officer Peter John Playfair
- Sergeant Charles Henry Pullum
- Sergeant Colin Edward Rashley
- Sergeant Charles Andrew Reist
- Sergeant Stanley Robertson
- Flying Officer John Arthur Rogers
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Salkeld
- Sergeant Z. Karel Salz
- Sergeant George Vincent Sigwart
- Leading Aircraftman Smith
- Flight Lieutenant William James Smith
- Flight Sergeant Derrick Ralph Sorensen
- Sergeant Josef Sotola
- Sergeant John York Sowter
- Sergeant James Henry Stevens
- Flying Officer Arthur Ewart Stocker
- Sergeant Eric Taylor
- Squadron Leader Alan Edward Thompson
- Warrant Officer Ian Treloar
- Sergeant Josef Turna
- Sergeant Albert Edward Turner
- Flying Officer Colin James Twist
- Corporal Frederick August Wagner
- Sergeant Horace William John Ware
- Sergeant Charles William Cubitt Waters
- Sergeant James Leonard Webber
- Squadron Leader Richard George Winnicott
- Pilot Officer Duncan Andrew Wood
- Flight Sergeant Fredrick John Wright
- Sergeant Peter Clifford Wilfred Wyatt
1944
- Lieutenant Anderson
- Flight Sergeant John James Bales
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Reginald Barker
- Pilot Officer William Arthur James Bennet
- Sergeant William Irvin Bruce
- Pilot Officer Earl Stanley Cary
- Flight Sergeant Vernon Edward Clark
- Flight Lieutenant Warren Alvin Duffy
- Sergeant John William Ellis
- Flying Officer Edward Clason Gates
- Lieutenant Colonel Ginn
- Flying Officer Alexander Thomas Gorman
- Flying Officer Leslie Arthur Green
- Major Brian Lynn Hutchinson
- Lieutenant Kewley
- Lieutenant Lane
- Lieutenant John Burns McArthur
- Sergeant Malcolm McHardy
- Flying Officer Archibald Stewart McTavish
- Sergeant Gwynfryn Morgan
- Pilot Officer Lionel Joseph Morris
- Flight Lieutenant John Williamson Peacock
- Squadron Leader Thomas Charles Sherwood
- Corporal James Arthur Simmons
- Sergeant William Lewis Southwick
- Lieutenant Spruyt
- Captain Towy-thomas
1945
- Corporal Henry Ernest Free
- Leading Aircraftman John Friesen
- Flying Officer Hedley Vicas Jarrett
- Flying Officer John Lawson McBride
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm John Russell
- Leading Aircraftman George Wilfrid Thomas