On this day — 8 August
238 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Edward Cyril Adams
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Edward Alderson
- Leading Aircraftman Crawford Anthony
- Sergeant Eric Debnam Baker
- Sergeant Barrington William Beaumont
- Flight Lieutenant Cecil Halford Bull
- Pilot Officer Charles Frederick Cardnell
- Sergeant George Howey Coulton
- Pilot Officer John Cruttenden
- Flying Officer Brian William Jesse D'Arcy-irvine
- Pilot Officer Henry Lawrence Newsom Davis
- Flying Officer Dennis Neve Grice
- Flight Lieutenant Noel Mudie Hall
- Flying Officer Richard Ughtred Paul Kay-shuttleworth
- Sergeant David Ian Kirton
- Sergeant Victor Robert Thomas Land
- Flying Officer Derek Charles Maccaw
- Sergeant John Patrick D'Arley Mitchell
- Wing Commander Donald Graham Motion
- Pilot Officer Johannes Roelof Stephanus Oelofse
- Sergeant Frederick Finkill Parvin
- Flight Sergeant Norman Taylor Phillips
- Sergeant Jack Herbert Saville
- Pilot Officer Lionel Argent Sears
- Flying Officer Holbert Frederick Smales
- Sergeant Kenneth Barton Smith
- Sergeant Cyril Stephens
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Stewart
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Eric Turner
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Martyn Vaughan
- Pilot Officer Ernest Cecil John Wakeham
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Benjamin William Warren
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Clive (ray) Wheeler
1941
- Sergeant Edward Bayley
- Flight Sergeant Robert Ronald Bell
- Aircraftman 1st Class James David Boxall
- Sergeant Stanley Henry Broyd
- Pilot Officer William Brydon Cairns
- Sergeant Albert Arthur Connew
- Sergeant John Turner Corbett
- Pilot Officer James Erskine Cunning
- Pilot Officer John Emrys Evans
- Sergeant John Adrian Gibbs
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Charles Harvey
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Horton
- Sergeant Gerald Percy Imison
- Sergeant George Wilbert Jeffrey
- Pilot Officer Maurice Littlewood
- Sergeant Geoffrey Stewart Lodington
- Pilot Officer Hubert Bryce Love
- Sergeant John Douglas Mackay
- Sergeant William John Mackay
- Sergeant Ellis Charles Matthewman
- Flying Officer Frank James Needham
- Sergeant Alfred Cecil Nuttall
- Pilot Officer John Anton Rennie
- Pilot Officer Benjamin Bernard Hunter Rodwell
- Flight Sergeant Robert Alexander Ross
- Sergeant Kenneth Leslie Rowley
- Sergeant James Pierson Shaw
- Leading Aircraftman John Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Edward Carson Thompson
- Sergeant Ralph Thomas Timms
- Squadron Leader John Vivian
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Westerman
- Flight Sergeant Frederick John Wood
1942
- Corporal John McIntyre Ashley
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Moyle Biggin
- Flying Officer Reginald Carson
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Ossian Chelman
- Flight Lieutenant Cedar Alfred Dawson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Dunnett
- Leading Aircraftman George Jarvis Edwards
- Sergeant Keith Thomas Edwards
- Flying Officer Thomas Michael Gibson
- Warrant Officer Thomas Bradshaw Hamilton
- Second Lieutenant Hartman
- Sergeant Reginald James Haynes
- Pilot Officer Albert Edwin Hull
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Isle
- Sergeant Clarence Lloyd Kelly
- Second Lieutenant Mervyn Robin Lefebvre
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Gordon Lennox
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Edward Thomas Lockhart
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Ernest Lowe
- Flight Sergeant Bertram Loxton
- Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
- Flying Officer Alan Robert McEnnally
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Ernest Menzies
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lindsay Thomas Ogg
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Patterson
- Sergeant George Edwin Procter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Colyn Arthur Rheuben
- Air Mechanic John R Sharpe
- Pilot Officer Gordon John Smith
- Sergeant David Findlay Strachan
- Pilot Officer Bruce Allan Thornley
- Sergeant Doctor Dudley Trood
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Bruce John Wilmot
- Flight Lieutenant Edwin St. Clair Yeoman
1943
- Sergeant Herbert Stanley Airey
- Pilot Officer Walter Patterson Angus
- Sergeant Edward Denis Tootal Barff
- Sergeant William John Barriskill
- Sergeant Sidney Albert Bertie
- Flying Officer Stanley Cornelius Henry Bone
- Flight Lieutenant Philip George Nathan Booth
- Sergeant Kenneth Frank Bristow
- Sergeant Douglas Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Walter George Bryant
- Corporal David Bryson
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Carpenter
- Sergeant Willie Austin (bill) Chamberlain
- Leading Aircraftman John Christopher Chantler
- Sergeant Peter Anthony Reginald Chauncy
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Coates
- Sergeant John Cole
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Frederick Collings
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Thomas Cooper
- Corporal Arthur John Crocker
- Pilot Officer Eric Claude Dowling
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Arthur Ellis
- Flying Officer Cecil Tom Enright
- Flying Officer Eric Filmer
- Sergeant William Garner
- Pilot Officer Matthew Leonard Glynn
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Goulder
- Pilot Officer Henry Halkier
- Sergeant Kenneth Hall
- Sergeant Eric Havenhand
- Warrant Officer Class II Francis William Holcombe
- Sergeant Frederick Glyndwr Holmes
- Sergeant Roy William Lewis Houghton
- Flight Sergeant James Hyde
- Sergeant Cecil Edward Joel
- Sergeant John Harwood Lock
- Sergeant Kenneth McKenzie
- Flight Sergeant Francis Richard Morris
- Sergeant Stanley James Morton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Daniel Newman
- Sergeant Charles Stephen Newton
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick Joseph O'Connor
- Pilot Officer Sydney Oliver
- Sergeant Neville Arthur James Ovenden
- Pilot Officer William Herbert Parlee
- Flight Sergeant James Everest Paterson
- Leading Aircraftman Robert McKenzie Dare Petrie
- Sergeant Ronald Walter John Reeve
- Warrant Officer Robert William Richards
- Warrant Officer John Roberts
- Flying Officer Thomas George Rodgers
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Arthur Charles Rogers
- Corporal Cyril Robert Samwell
- Flying Officer Allister Francis Shapcott
- Flight Sergeant Edmond Rhys Smart
- Warrant Officer Daryl Hamilton Smith
- Warrant Officer Frank Kenneth Smith
- Sergeant Charles Philip Southcott
- Flight Sergeant Norman Wilkie Spalding
- Leading Aircraftman John Frederick Spurr
- Sergeant Arthur William Stevens
- Sergeant David Wilkie Thirsk
- Sergeant Edward Ronald Ellis Thomas
- Sergeant Richard Samuel Veale
- Sergeant Anthony Patrick Leslie Walker
- Flying Officer William John Ward
- Sergeant Frank Edward West
- Flying Officer Frank George Wodehouse
- Sergeant Robert Anthony Young
1944
- Flight Lieutenant John Potter Ball
- Air Mechanic John Belton
- Flying Officer George Chahoon Brown
- Flight Sergeant Maurice George Cleave
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Royce Clemens
- Sergeant John Corless
- Leading Aircraftman Peter William Crees
- Pilot Officer Henri Edouard Dube
- Pilot Officer John Chetwynd Durrant
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Charles Eldred
- Flying Officer William Dawson Fairney
- Flying Officer Robert Samuel Forestell
- Warrant Officer Wilfred Gaughran
- Pilot Officer Harry Glass
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Harold Golding
- Flight Sergeant Frank Goszka
- Flight Lieutenant James Donald Blanchard Hall
- Pilot Officer Robert Blakeman Hemmings
- Pilot Officer Arthur Vernon Herbert
- Pilot Officer Ronald John Wilson Hey
- Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
- Flying Officer John Barclay Hurlburt
- Flying Officer Philip Alan Ingrey
- Flying Officer Thomas A. Jackman
- Flying Officer Leslie Kidd
- Flying Officer David Gethen Lane
- Warrant Officer Dennis McGrevy
- Flying Officer Alexander McInnes
- Flying Officer Peter William Merrick
- Flight Sergeant Graeme Morrison Miller
- Pilot Officer Donald Murray
- Pilot Officer George Vernon Bently Patterson
- Pilot Officer Winston Spencer Moyses Phillips
- Sergeant Arthur Thelfall Power
- Flying Officer Ian Crichton Robbie
- Flying Officer John Matches Robertson
- Flight Lieutenant Francis James Rolston
- Flight Sergeant Edward John Ryan
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Albert Roland Schryer
- Flying Officer William Thomas Shannon
- Flying Officer Frederick George Stowell
- Pilot Officer Lorston Boss Syme
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth John Taubman
- Flying Officer Jack Taylor
- Flying Officer Wilburn Macmilne Taylor
- Pilot Officer Norman Nelson Usherwood
- Captain Jacobus Francois Van Der Westhuizen
- Squadron Leader Kenneth George John Wakefield
- Flying Officer Bruce Douglas Walker
- Sergeant George Glenny Wardle
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Horace White
- Squadron Leader Noel Vincent Blundell Whitehouse
- Flight Lieutenant Murray Gray Wilson
- Leading Aircraftman William Daniel Holloway Woodman
- Flying Officer Bernard Hartley Wrenshall
1945
- Squadron Leader Richard Desmond Browne
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Harold Ching
- Flying Officer Richard Gregson
- Leading Aircraftman James Adrian Holdstock
- Leading Aircraftman Martin Joseph Oneson
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey William Schaffer
- Flight Lieutenant Charles William Smith