On this day — 12 August
341 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 12 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Richard Abel
- Sergeant Robert Staveley Aitchison
- Pilot Officer Dennis Garth Ashton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Edward Holliday Barker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry George Arthur Beales
- Pilot Officer Walter Keith Beeston
- Pilot Officer Robert Wilfred Garth Beley
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Herbert Bell
- Pilot Officer John Body
- Leading Aircraftman Anthony Ernest Kirby Briggs
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Henry Chilcott
- Pilot Officer John Allison George Chomley
- Sergeant Ronald Joseph Cocks
- Sergeant Dudley Howard Downs
- Corporal Eric Stanley Ginns
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold William Hale
- Pilot Officer John Howard Harrison
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Fergus Hill
- Sergeant Stanley Denys Hill
- Sergeant Geoffrey Mortimer Hogan
- Corporal Reginald Walter Hollister
- Pilot Officer Ridley Elgood Houseman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Milman Langdon
- Flying Officer Mervyn Stephen Matthews
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric William May
- Corporal Edward Burnside McColl
- Leading Aircraftman Gerald McElrea
- Pilot Officer John Garland Miller
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Howard Mole
- Sergeant Hamilton James O'Gorman
- Flying Officer William Fairbank Parkinson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Reed
- Leading Aircraftman George Leslie Savage
- Sergeant John James Scott
- Pilot Officer Douglas Clayton Shepley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alex James Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis John Starr
- Sergeant Sidney George Stuckey
- Sergeant James Henry Swift
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Henry Mitchell Syme
- Sergeant Geoffrey Norman Wilkes
- Flight Lieutenant Latham Carr Withall
1941
- Corporal Norman Amys
- Sergeant John Albert Anderson
- Flight Sergeant George Henry Appleyard
- Sergeant Kenneth Victor Attew
- Sergeant Ernest Bainbridge
- Pilot Officer Frederick Hill Beemer
- Pilot Officer Ronald Peter Bell
- Air Mechanic William Bell
- Sergeant George Benton
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Knight Gibson Boyce
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Percival Blewitt Bray
- Pilot Officer John Lennox Calvert
- Flight Sergeant Nevill Southwell Cardell
- Sergeant Cyril Harry Chandler
- Sergeant John Charles Grant Christie
- Pilot Officer Hugh Maxwell Clark
- Pilot Officer James Wilmot Corfield
- Corporal Francis Edwin Cork
- Sergeant Edward Cullen
- Sergeant Albert Charles Cutler
- Sergeant Peter Edward Hay Dangerfield
- Sergeant Evan Aneurin Davies
- Pilot Officer Colin James Day
- Sergeant William Donald Revell Ellis
- Pilot Officer Courtney Claude Orwin George
- Leading Aircraftman John Henry Gregg
- Sergeant Ernest William Hall
- Sergeant Arthur Thomas Hatton
- Flight Lieutenant George Alexander Herbert
- Pilot Officer John Francis Hunt
- Sergeant Harry Ingleby
- Flight Lieutenant Gwilym Ivor Lewis
- Sergeant Jack Richard Littlefield
- Pilot Officer Bernard Frederick West Matthews
- Sergeant Thomas Edward McGeragle
- Sergeant Robert James McGregor
- Leading Aircraftman Antonin Mikolas
- Pilot Officer Dennis Clive Moore
- Corporal William James Moore
- Flight Sergeant Harold Bryan Olson
- Sergeant David Frederick John Phillips
- Sergeant George Marchant Porter
- Pilot Officer Graham Cooper Rolland
- Pilot Officer Alexander Charles Rossiter
- Pilot Officer Foster William Jack Scott
- Sergeant Frant Seda
- Sergeant John Stead
- Pilot Officer Malcolm Thomas Kershaw Walkden
- Pilot Officer Walter Edgar Anthony Wand
- Air Mechanic Watson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Wells
- Sergeant John Lenden West
- Sergeant Douglas Joseph Wheatley
- Sergeant George Desmond White
- Pilot Officer Arthur Lionel Alfred Williams
- Pilot Officer Maurice Frederick Williams
- Sergeant Dennis Arthur Wilson
- Sergeant Sidney Wintersgill
- Flight Sergeant Jack Cecil Woods
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Young
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Stewart Young
1942
- Flight Sergeant Thomas William Sheridan Addison
- Sergeant John Warren Badley
- Sergeant Henry Lewis Baker
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Smith Barclay
- Flying Officer Roger Phillip Barker
- Pilot Officer Derrick John Harry Beaton
- Flight Sergeant Paton Bell
- Sergeant John Walter Benn
- Flight Sergeant Charles George Bentley
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Alfred Betts
- Sergeant Joel Bogard
- Pilot Officer Felix Paget Boswell
- Sergeant Leonard Charles Bray
- Sergeant Harold Brown
- Sergeant James Eden (jim) Browning
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Lloyd George Buchanan
- Sergeant Peter Busby
- Flight Sergeant Robert Cameron
- Sergeant Stanley Arthur Carter
- Flight Sergeant Robin William Caskey
- Sergeant Ronald Cust Cockayne
- Sergeant David Charles Collins
- Sergeant Alexander Cooke
- Flight Lieutenant James Stewart Coulter
- Pilot Officer Philip Dawson
- Flight Lieutenant Laurence St. George Dobbin
- Sergeant Peter John Donoghue
- Sergeant Gordon William Draper
- Sergeant Thomas Fitzpatrick
- Sergeant Ronald Fletcher
- Warrant Officer David Wyndham Fry
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Gordon Stewart Garling
- Flight Sergeant Wallace Mallory Gartside
- Pilot Officer Alfred Leslie Gaskin
- Flying Officer William Gengos
- Flight Sergeant William George Gittings
- Sergeant Derek Humphrey Glover
- Pilot Officer David Gray
- Sergeant Henry Alfred Leslie Green
- Pilot Officer Bernard Edward Grein
- Sergeant Ivor Brinley Griffiths
- Wing Commander Neville Anthony Roy Halliday
- Sergeant John Bentley Hammond
- Sergeant Sidney Edward Thomas Harcourt
- Flight Sergeant Fred Victor Harker
- Pilot Officer Roy Bertram Harris
- Sergeant Morris David Hart
- Sergeant Harold Wilfred Hazell
- Sergeant Thomas Henderson
- Flight Sergeant Ronald George Renauf Hodges
- Flying Officer Robert Cyril Hodgson
- Leading Aircraftman Phillips Holmes
- Sergeant Ronald William Edward Holmes
- Flight Sergeant Alvin Marvin Hornseth
- Sergeant Sidney James Hucklesby
- Sergeant Eric Henry Hulatt
- Sergeant Arnold Wentworth Hyson
- Sergeant William Gordon Lloyd Inglis
- Sergeant Howard James
- Sergeant William Patrick James
- Sergeant Jack Leslie Jury
- Sergeant Philip Reginald Kenny
- Flying Officer Donald Arthur Kingston
- Sergeant John Herbert Kirby
- Lieutenant Kitchin
- Pilot Officer Albert John Knell
- Pilot Officer Anthony Joseph Labella
- Flight Sergeant Guy Langford
- Flying Officer David Laurenti
- Pilot Officer Charles Stephen Lenover
- Flight Sergeant John Manley Lowe
- Warrant Officer Class II William Everett Lunan
- Pilot Officer Graham Watson Macallister
- Leading Aircraftman John Clement Macintyre
- Sergeant Victor Stephen Marsh
- Sergeant Patrick McCann
- Flight Sergeant William Alfred Delmore McCausland
- Sergeant Geoffrey Browning McCloy
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Miller
- Sergeant Terence Alfred Mills
- Sergeant Alan Sydney Milton
- Sergeant John Arnold Mitchell
- Sergeant William Richard Morris
- Flight Sergeant Robert William Moss
- Sergeant Donald Emslie Murray
- Pilot Officer William Nisbet
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Nixon
- Sergeant Stanley Obbard
- Sergeant Athol Louis Opas
- Sergeant Alec Lawrence Osborne
- Sergeant Orthin Vaughan Owen
- Pilot Officer Alan Pattison
- Sergeant John Alister Pearl
- Sergeant John Peart
- Flight Sergeant Terrence Barnes Pepper
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Herman Plate
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Norman Rains
- Sergeant William Alfred Ramsey
- Flight Sergeant Robert Riddell
- Flight Sergeant Nelson Raymond Rowe
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Haig Rushton
- Sergeant Francis Alfred Scotland
- Flight Sergeant Henry Wright Shepherd
- Pilot Officer William Richard Simpson
- Sergeant Arthur John Frederick Sims
- Pilot Officer James Gethings Stewart
- Sergeant David Henry Stinchcombe
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Steven Taberner
- Pilot Officer Charles Frederick Taylor
- Sergeant Jess Taylor
- Sergeant John Holman Taylor
- Sergeant William Paul Taylor
- Sergeant Kenneth Richard Toller
- Sergeant Raymond Douglas Tree
- Sergeant George Turner
- Sergeant Charles Leonard Unsworth
- Sergeant Jack Unwin
- Sergeant Alexander Ashcroft Waldie
- Sergeant Robert John Warring
- Flight Sergeant David Maitland Watts
- Sergeant Dennis Hubert Weston
- Sergeant Philip Seymour Williams
- Corporal William Williams
- Sergeant John Wright
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Mervyn Charles Arkell
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred George Atkinson
- Pupil Pilot John Barford
- Sergeant Geoffrey James Broughton
- Warrant Officer Class I Donald Alexander Joseph Cameron
- Sergeant Henry Cameron
- Sergeant Dennis Alfred Cardy
- Sergeant Harry Denzil Chapman
- Pilot Officer Gordon Harvey Clarke
- Leading Aircraftman David Cooper
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Arthur Cox
- Sergeant George Robert Cutter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Crawford Docherty
- Sergeant Kenneth Neville Donald
- Warrant Officer Edmund Daniel Fogden
- Warrant Officer Class I Allan Gerald Foster
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Percy Gale
- Flight Lieutenant Harley Godwin
- Flight Sergeant Charles Green
- Flying Officer Jermyn Samuel Greengrass
- Flight Sergeant Frank Norman Hamood
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Harper
- Corporal John Harrington
- Sergeant Cyril Harrison
- Warrant Officer Class I Thomas Bamburgh Hunter
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Hutton
- Flight Sergeant Lionel Francis Jackson
- Corporal Leslie Ronald Jarvis
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon William Vasey Keedle
- Flight Sergeant Russell Ross Keeler
- Warrant Officer Charles Godfrey Kendall
- Pilot Officer Leslie Frank Lawley
- Flying Officer William Lester
- Sergeant John Russell Luxton
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Maitland
- Flight Sergeant Harold Stuart Martin
- Sergeant Anthony Lawrence Mason
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Verdun May
- Pilot Officer Bryan Stanley McCann
- Leading Aircraftman Bryn Morgan
- Sergeant Kenneth Ernest Moulding
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Gordon Muggleton
- Flight Sergeant Aubrey Robert Murray
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon Henry Newman
- Leading Aircraftman Lynden Charles Noble
- Leading Aircraftman James Parkes
- Sergeant George William Payne
- Flying Officer Stanley Linwood Pettingale
- Sergeant Ronald William Richardson
- Sergeant Paul Edward Antoine Roy
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Arthur Russell
- Sergeant Alec Cecil Samuel
- Warrant Officer Henry Scoresby Shepherd
- Lieutenant Geoffery Shuttleworth
- Warrant Officer John Francis Simmons
- Flying Officer Edwin Earle Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Smith
- Sergeant Ronald Thornton
- Sergeant William Travis
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Wilkinson
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Kenneth Williams
- Flight Sergeant William Victor Bryan Winchester
- Sergeant Richard Gordon Woosnam
1944
- Flight Sergeant Kevin Kenny Abrams
- Flying Officer Allen
- Flying Officer William Andrews
- Group Captain Charles Henry Appleton
- Pilot Officer Cecil Axford
- Pilot Officer Earle Edward Baker
- Flying Officer William John Bentley
- Lieutenant Eric Bestwick
- Flight Lieutenant Theordore Alexander Bugg
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Hubert Cato
- Flying Officer Alexander Robert Craine
- Flight Lieutenant Evan Campbell Devine
- Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
- Lieutenant Geoffrey Wigton Dibb
- Air Mechanic Dolby
- Pilot Officer William Elvin
- Pilot Officer John Reginald Forrest
- Second Lieutenant D'Urban Godlonton
- Flying Officer Francis Carlyle Goring
- Flying Officer Robert Bavin Graham
- Sergeant Edwin Donald Hawkins
- Flying Officer Whelan Fallon Hazard
- Warrant Officer Class I John William Heavner
- Flight Sergeant Haig Douglas Johnston
- Flying Officer Ronald Olaf Moen
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Neville Muirson
- Pilot Officer Cyril Desmond Mulcahy
- Flight Sergeant John Francis Phillips
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Harry Pye
- Flying Officer George Talbot Schwalm
- Sergeant Robert Douglas Sharp
- Flight Sergeant Allan Benjamin Talbot
- Pilot Officer Eric Stanley Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Wallace Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Edward Leonard Thomson
- Lieutenant Dennis Hubert Tully
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm John Turner
- Leading Aircraftman Howard Edward Tyler
- Air Mechanic Van Rhyn
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Allen Weeks
- Flying Officer Roy Thomas Wilkinson
- Flight Sergeant John Herbert Wright
1945
- Warrant Officer Kieran Connolly
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Garfield Evans
- Squadron Leader Joseph Clifford Farrer
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Harry Lynch
- Sergeant Charles Carson Massingham
- Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Ashwin Morris
- Flight Lieutenant William Evans Thomas