On this day — 13 August
445 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 13 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Douglas Ronald Aldom
- Sergeant George Cyril Ankers
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward George Askew
- Flying Officer Harold Milne Aspen
- Corporal William Frank Bateman
- Sergeant Augustus Spencer Beeby
- Sergeant Alfred Edward Boland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Booth
- Sergeant Hugh Herman Boulter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Burrows Brawley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Patrick Brereton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Harding Brett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Frederick Brooker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Edwin Brookes
- Sergeant Ronald John Buckley
- Sergeant Denis William Butler
- Pilot Officer Illtyd Thomas Holden Carson
- Corporal Albert Harold Cassely
- Leading Aircraftman William Collerton
- Pilot Officer Thomas Johnson Cranidge
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Joseph Crosdale
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William James Crote
- Pilot Officer Thomas Cedric Cundill
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Frank Dancaster
- Sergeant Gordon Davies
- Group Captain Edward Peverell Meggs Davis
- Corporal George Deeley
- Pilot Officer Francis George Hurleston Dench
- Sergeant Joseph Langley Dewhurst
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Richard Emberson
- Pilot Officer Donald Edwin Gardener
- Pilot Officer Maurice Hardy Gillingham
- Sergeant Thomas Eckford Girvan
- Flying Officer Richard Lindsay Glyde
- Sergeant Angus Nigel Gray
- Pilot Officer Felix Stafford Gregory
- Pilot Officer Earl Robert Hale
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Stanley Heayes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred Victor Hedges
- Sergeant Leo Charles Rowland Hill
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Edward Hitchcock
- Sergeant Hervey Cecil Rowan Hopwood
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Mervyn Edwin Johns
- Sergeant David Lloyd Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Alan Jones
- Squadron Leader Norman Clifford Jones
- Flying Officer Frederick Arthur Henry Lambart
- Wing Commander Edward Collis De Virac Lart
- Squadron Leader Louis De Lorme Leder
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Leonard
- Flight Sergeant William Henry George Loham
- Squadron Leader James Henry Lowe
- Sergeant Henry James Marsh
- Aircraftman 1st Class James McDonald
- Sergeant Henry Algernon Gascoyne Miller
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Leslie Milligan
- Flight Sergeant George Percy Moore
- Sergeant Leslie Edwin Moores
- Sergeant Archibald Finlayson Morrison
- Sergeant Robert McCrindle Morrison
- Sergeant Donald Patrick Morrissy
- Pilot Officer Arthur Donald Mountstephen
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Lionel John Alfred Munks
- Sergeant Kenneth Walter Neaverson
- Sergeant Philip Purchall Norris
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald O'Kelly
- Squadron Leader Dennis Clare Oliver
- Sergeant Ralston George Oliver
- Corporal John Frederick Palmer
- Pilot Officer Douglas Alfred John Parfitt
- Sergeant Arthur Homer Patchett
- Corporal John Idris Price
- Sergeant Peter Berry Fairweather Pryke
- Sergeant Douglas Oswald Rewa
- Sergeant William Harry Lindsey Richards
- Sergeant Sims Robinson
- Flying Officer Ellis Henry Ross
- Sergeant Kenneth Anthony Sayer
- Sergeant Edgar Enoch Scrase
- Pilot Officer Harry Christie Sheldon
- Pilot Officer Michael Anthony Sims
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John William Stewart Smith
- Sergeant William Barrie Taylor
- Sergeant Charles Edward Thrower
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Tuohy
- Sergeant Edward Victor Turner
- Sergeant Kenneth Victor Turner
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Ward
- Pilot Officer Richard Frederick Wiesener
- Pilot Officer Clive Warrington Wigley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Brinley Williams
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cecil Wright
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Victor Wright
- Sergeant Leslie Reginald Youngs
1941
- Sergeant Richard George Fane Aldersley
- Sergeant James Allen
- Sergeant Cecil Austin
- Flight Sergeant William Edward Barrett
- Sergeant Hugh Forster Barron
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Beattie
- Sergeant Tom Bell
- Sergeant John James Berry
- Flight Sergeant George Robert Birt
- Leading Aircraftman Colin Paget Blair
- Corporal Phillip George Bradley
- Sergeant Norman Frederick Brotherton
- Sergeant Lorne Edwin Brown
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Victor Edwin Canton
- Sergeant Albert Edward Coakes
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Robert Cotterell
- Sergeant Gerald Cox
- Sergeant Alfred Critchlow
- Sergeant Harry George Dickson
- Pilot Officer Victor Digby Durham
- Sergeant Bernard George Evans
- Sergeant Henry Gaunt Gibbon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cecil Goring
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Halfpenny
- Sergeant Arthur Noel Hampson
- Sergeant Edward Roy Harcourt
- Sergeant George Knowsley Henson
- Flight Sergeant Tom Herrington
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Sanders Hilton
- Sergeant Edward Peter Hogan
- Sergeant Rodney Charles Holyman
- Pilot Officer John Douglas Edward How
- Sergeant Ronald Edward Cornwell Hudson
- Sergeant Ralph Keighley
- Sergeant Dennis Louis James Lawrence
- Sergeant John Archdale Lennard
- Sergeant Eric Lewin
- Sergeant Robert Macnab
- Sergeant William Maxwell
- Sergeant Stanley Charles Mayes
- Flight Sergeant John McHale
- Sergeant Reginald James McInnes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William McMahon
- Sergeant Arthur William Morgan
- Sergeant Henry Gordon Norman Morison
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Morley
- Sergeant Gerald Morris
- Sergeant Alexander Thompson Niven
- Sergeant Desmond Joseph Nolan
- Pilot Officer John Jephson Nottidge
- Sergeant Ronald Ramsay Passmore
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Gordon Phillips
- Sergeant John Porthouse
- Flight Sergeant Charles Augustus Leonard Powell
- Pilot Officer Edward Arthur Reeman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Wilson Reid
- Sergeant Leslie George Alfred Roberts
- Air Sergeant Ross
- Corporal John Lawrence Short
- Sergeant G. B. (don) Smith
- Flying Officer William Michael Ronald Smith
- Flight Sergeant Norman Joseph Spicer
- Sergeant Robert Bowie Strachan
- Sergeant Melvin Caspar Tagseth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Joseph Talbot
- Squadron Leader George Richard Taylor
- Sergeant Guy Trevor Taylor
- Sergeant Philip Thacker
- Sergeant John Trevor Wallace
- Corporal John Mercer Ward
- Flight Sergeant Charles William Albert Wells
- Flight Sergeant James Gardner Simpson West
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Ernest Wheeler
- Sergeant Clarence Emerson Whitfield
- Flight Sergeant William Woods
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Young
1942
- Sergeant James Alexander Adamson
- Sergeant Lester John Blackmore
- Sergeant Richard Barry Blockley
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Kenneth George Bowrey
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Stanley Brandon
- Leading Aircraftman Maxwell Bray
- Warrant Officer Class II Bernard Anthony Brophy
- Flight Sergeant Robert Athol Buntine
- Sergeant Seymour Clare
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Mackenzie Clark
- Flying Officer William Alexander Clegg
- Flight Sergeant Walter Richard Samuel Cornish
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Burton Craig
- Pilot Officer Glyndwr Dawkins
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Lester Douglas
- Leading Aircraftman George William Ellis
- Flight Sergeant Norman Douglas Fairclough
- Sergeant William Arthur Fergie
- Sergeant William Gordon Foale
- Sergeant Harry Donald Fox
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Garmory
- Aircraftman 1st Class Willard Field Garton
- Sergeant Roy Helyar
- Sergeant Tom William Hirst
- Sergeant Allen Holland
- Pilot Officer Victor Dennis James
- Pilot Officer David Joseph Jay
- Sergeant Donald Templeman Jeans
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Jones
- Second Lieutenant Richard Laughton Joyner
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Forster Kane
- Flight Sergeant Derek Rowland Lord
- Flight Sergeant John Martin Mantell
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Gordon Martin
- Sergeant Reginald James Mayne
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth McAusland
- Sergeant Lewis Kershaw McMichael
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Barnes Parkhill
- Sergeant Reuben Maurice Plummer
- Second Lieutenant Posener
- Sergeant Arthur Owen Potts
- Sergeant Jack Preston
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Gaunt Price
- Sergeant Cedric Racine
- Sergeant Charles Eric Raison
- Pilot Officer Ian Ralston
- Sergeant Terence Shoesmith
- Flying Officer William Shovlin
- Pilot Officer Carl Edward Smith
- Pilot Officer Joseph Harry Smith
- Sergeant Ronald David Smith
- Flight Sergeant William Norris Smith
- Flight Sergeant William Edmund Somerville
- Sergeant Adam Innes Steel
- Pilot Officer John Lee Sturgess
- Flight Sergeant John Harold Tanner
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Henry Watson
- Sergeant Donald Henry Whiting
- Sergeant Walter Page Laing Wood
1943
- Pilot Officer Robert Peter Townend Akeroyd
- Sergeant John Andrew Bacon
- Sergeant Henry Louis Hubert Bainton
- Air Mechanic Petrus Bekker
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Curd Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Bertram Billing
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Reid Bourne
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Bower
- Warrant Officer Class II Cornelius Alfred Brennan
- Flight Sergeant William John Brown
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Edmund Burgess
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Henry Butterfield
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur John Clark
- Flight Sergeant John Ronald Clark
- Warrant Officer Ernest James Clinch
- Sergeant John Stanley Cole
- Sergeant Kenneth James Cork
- Pilot Officer Walter Craig
- Flying Officer Wilbur James Dowling
- Pilot Officer Bruce Colin Dreaver
- Flight Sergeant James Eyval Duff
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald William Dufton
- Lieutenant Dugmore
- Sergeant Kenneth Harry Francis
- Sergeant Leslie Fraser
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Eric Fuller
- Sergeant Frederick John Gallantree
- Flying Officer David Taylor Galt
- Flight Sergeant Wharton Owen Gaze
- Sergeant William Brownlie Gilchrist
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Isaac Gold
- Corporal John Leopold Gomm
- Warrant Officer Ray Marston Goode
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Edward Goodsell
- Flying Officer James Charles Grainger
- Sergeant Myrddin Gray
- Sergeant Malcom Griffiths
- Sergeant Raymond Hadley
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Charles Hainsworth
- Flight Sergeant John Patrick Hall
- Flight Lieutenant Irvine Margetts Hamilton
- Flight Sergeant Albert Douglas Harris
- Sergeant Sydney Charles Hasler
- Sergeant Gerald Wynter Hawkes
- Flying Officer Alan Joseph Fairfield Hay
- Sergeant Ronald Henshaw
- Flying Officer Raymond De Lannoy Holden
- Flying Officer Frank Wilfred Holland
- Flying Officer John Dunsmore Hotson
- Pilot Officer Henry Charles Hoyne
- Warrant Officer Class II Allan Andrew Johnston
- Sergeant David Vincent Jones
- Sergeant John Kenneth Kirk
- Sergeant John Geoffrey Knight
- Flight Sergeant Albert Lane
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Frank Lawrence
- Pilot Officer Ivor Rees Lewis
- Sergeant Herbert Walter Lilley
- Sergeant Jack Saul Lockwood
- Flight Sergeant Charles Douglas Leslie Longson
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Charles Ludgater
- Sergeant Leslie Thomas Christian Maddaford
- Warrant Officer Class I Thomas Main
- Pilot Officer Frederick George Matthews
- Sergeant James McAdam
- Flying Officer William Bryden McGinn
- Warrant Officer Harold Arthur Miller
- Leading Aircraftman John Donald Mohring
- Sergeant Hugh Graham Montgomery
- Flight Sergeant David Hugh Morgan
- Sergeant James William Neal
- Pilot Officer Steven Noble
- Flight Sergeant Harry Nuttridge
- Sergeant Henry George Ott
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Stanley Pearson
- Flight Sergeant Charles Edward Prince
- Flight Lieutenant Beverley Wayne Pritchard
- Flying Officer Kenrick Wyville Rawlins
- Flight Sergeant Alistair Frederick Rose
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Albert Rundle
- Sergeant Donald Ruston
- Flight Sergeant Russell George Salter
- Flight Sergeant Edwin John Sarra
- Sergeant William Frederick Oliver Sayle
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Martyn Shannon
- Pilot Officer Eric Gordon Sheil
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth McDonald Simpson
- Flying Officer Macdonald Smith
- Pilot Officer Mitchell Smith
- Flying Officer Peter William Stokes
- Flying Officer Harold Melville Tarver
- Flight Lieutenant Allison George Tatton
- Flying Officer Charles Arthur Tindall
- Flying Officer Nicholas John Tuchtie
- Sergeant George Ian Turnbull
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Kelvin Turner
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Malcolm Valentine
- Warrant Officer William Roland Walters
- Sergeant Louis Stanley Watson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Burnett Watson
- Sergeant Edgar Robert Howard Widdows
- Flying Officer Gordon Francis Wood
1944
- Flight Sergeant John Alfred Adams
- Flight Sergeant William Ronald Andrew
- Pilot Officer John French Andrews
- Flying Officer John Bilbe
- Pilot Officer Joseph Patrick Birmingham
- Flight Sergeant Eric Alan Bock
- Flying Officer Charles Stewart Bogle
- Flying Officer Kenneth Brayne
- Flight Lieutenant William Wood Lindsay Brown
- Flight Sergeant Irvin Gordon Thomas Brownlee
- Flying Officer Robert James Burns
- Flight Sergeant John Kean Burnside
- Pilot Officer Henry Andrew Burt
- Flying Officer John Harold Busby
- Flight Sergeant Roy Wallace Butler
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Sutton Camier
- Lieutenant F. Russell Campbell
- Pilot Officer Orville Francis Compton
- Sergeant John Macdonald Craig
- Flight Lieutenant Paul Augustus Cranmer
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Hume Cronyn
- Flight Sergeant Paul Anthony Crowley
- Lieutenant Cruickshank
- Flight Sergeant Donald Harvey Culverson
- Flight Sergeant George Donald Currey
- Flight Sergeant Charles Ernest Currie
- Pilot Officer Harvey Gordon Davey
- Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Ward Davies
- Flying Officer Leonard Laurence Deed
- Pilot Officer Charles James Dempster
- Flight Lieutenant Stewart Leigh Dennis
- Warrant Officer Arthur William Denton
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas George Depew
- Pilot Officer Alfred John Dickinson
- Flying Officer Donald William Dunham
- Flight Sergeant Charles Herbert Edwards
- Flying Officer Arthur Harvey Eldridge
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Henry Etherton
- Flight Sergeant Marcus H. Feldman
- Flight Sergeant Noel Wilkinson Gadsden
- Warrant Officer Robert William Francis Gallagher
- Pilot Officer Leo Patrick Galvin
- Lieutenant Gater
- Sergeant Cyril Stanley Gilbert
- Pilot Officer John Grieve Gordon
- Pilot Officer Kevin Francis Grogan
- Pilot Officer Sydney Jack Guiver
- Pilot Officer Peter Gulevich
- Pilot Officer William Lane Harris
- Pilot Officer Alfred Henry Harvey
- Flying Officer Douglas Leslie Haynes
- Air Corporal Phillip Hirschowitz
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Alan Hopkins
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Wentworth Hore
- Pilot Officer Vernon Leicester Humphrey
- Flying Officer Geoffrey James Munro Johnstone
- Flying Officer Edward Daniel Birch Jolley
- Flying Officer John Gregory King
- Pilot Officer John Lawrie
- Leading Aircraftman Bertram Lee
- Flying Officer Owen Scott Macphillamy
- Flying Officer Ernest Owen Walter McConnel
- Flight Sergeant Douglas William McConville
- Flight Sergeant Robert Browning McCormack
- Sergeant Robert McCudden
- Flying Officer Roger Eugene George McCurdy
- Flight Lieutenant James Neil McDonald
- Pilot Officer Raymond Albert James McDougall
- Flight Sergeant William James McIntosh
- Flying Officer Rodney James Mellowship
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Douglas Moffatt
- Flying Officer Noel Harvey Moysey
- Pilot Officer Henry Arthur Murphy
- Flying Officer John Frank Gordon Murray
- Flight Lieutenant Nelson Lorin Myers
- Flight Sergeant Robert Anthony Nalty
- Pilot Officer Arthur Francis Nevin
- Flying Officer Norman Owen
- Flying Officer Gordon Pead
- Flying Officer John Joseph Pearson
- Pilot Officer Douglas Waldo Peers
- Warrant Officer Francis McLeod Percy
- Pilot Officer Benjamin Ramsden
- Sergeant Frank Henry Reeve
- Sergeant Edward Mansel Roberts
- Pilot Officer Charles Anthony Roberts
- Pilot Officer Henry Frederick Roome
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Rudge
- Flight Sergeant Keith Paul Samson
- Flight Sergeant Michael Sawry
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Thomas Scott
- Flight Sergeant John Keith Scott
- Flight Sergeant John Lourdes Shortal
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Sinclair
- Flying Officer William Reginald Smith
- Flying Officer James Edward Spraggett
- Flight Sergeant Harold Edward Squibb
- Sergeant Peter Robert Stafford
- Flying Officer Gerald McLaughlin Taylor
- Sergeant William Marshall Thomas
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard Ormond Tugwell
- Flying Officer Stephen Ambrose Vasiloff
- Squadron Leader George Peter Vickers
- Flight Sergeant William Ivon Warrington
- Pilot Officer Charles Victor Ross Wigley
- Sergeant Leonard Wilson
- Pilot Officer George York
- Flying Officer Eric Walter Young
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Edward Young
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Gordon Farrar
- Air Corporal Gabriel Friedman
- Squadron Leader Edward Davies Suter