On this day — 15 August
325 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 15 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Samuel Adams
- Flying Officer Christopher John Drake Andreae
- Leading Aircraftman Bertram Ash
- Corporal George Bage
- Sergeant John Barlow
- Sergeant Henry Bowers
- Pilot Officer Maurice Simon Henri Charles Buchin
- Sergeant John Burrow
- Sergeant Thomas Patrick Joseph Byrne
- Pilot Officer Francis Walter Cale
- Pilot Officer Peter Woodruff Comely
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred George Couling
- Squadron Leader William George Allen Coulson
- Sergeant Douglas Borthwick Cowie
- Sergeant Harold Davies
- Pilot Officer Albert Percival Davis
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Sydney Daws
- Sergeant Anthony Kyle Dawson
- Leading Aircraftman John William George Dell
- Corporal Victor Eric Down
- Flying Officer Basil Mark Fisher
- Sergeant Arthur Martin Froud
- Sergeant Peter Kevin Garvey
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Harland Halley
- Sergeant Derrick Wilson Halton
- Sergeant Frederick Bernard Hawley
- Pilot Officer Cecil Henry Hight
- Sergeant Claude Lionel Geoffrey Hood
- Leading Aircraftman George Dean Hulse
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Edward Hurley
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Stanley Hussey
- Flying Officer Roy Hoole Immelman
- Pilot Officer James Thomas Johnston
- Squadron Leader Terence Gunion Lovell-gregg
- Pilot Officer Robert Butler (bobbie) Macgregor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bernard William Mills
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Eric New
- Sergeant John Barrie O'Brien
- Sergeant Roy O'Donnell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Offord
- Sergeant Henry Rolls
- Sergeant Frederick Leece Smith
- Flying Officer William Alan Stenhouse
- Sergeant Laurence Paul Stubberfield
- Flying Officer Stanley Powell Swensen
- Sergeant Richard Albert William Tait
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Taylor
- Sergeant Harold Edward Tyldesley
- Pilot Officer Bernard Naylor Whittle
- Aircraftman 1st Class John William Morgan Windle
1941
- Sergeant David Henry Allan
- Sergeant Cecil George Alway
- Sergeant Alexander Ian Pryce Anderson
- Sergeant George Edward Bagshaw
- Sergeant Henry Harvey Molyneux Barton
- Sergeant Edward Peter Beckwith
- Sergeant Alfred Ronald Bell
- Pilot Officer Wadya Wellesley Bell-towers
- Sergeant Wallace Llewellyn Berry
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon Fred Cyril Brown
- Leading Aircraftman William Bullock
- Sergeant Douglas Alan Butterfield
- Sergeant Dennis Arthur Clabburn-detrez
- Sergeant James Charles Cottingham
- Leading Aircraftman James Currie
- Sergeant Peter John Davey
- Flying Officer Murray Charles Davies
- Sergeant John Frederick Blair Dawson
- Sergeant Stephen Philip Donoghue
- Pilot Officer Jeffrey Drewsen
- Sergeant Ronald Walter Duke
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Oliver Eden
- Sergeant Michael Oakley Fisher
- Pilot Officer George Howard Fleming
- Sergeant Michael Gerard Garner
- Sergeant Francis Gill
- Flight Sergeant Norman Gray
- Sergeant Peter Ryland Griffin
- Sergeant Jack Halls
- Sergeant Douglas Erle James Hampson
- Sergeant Kenneth Harrison
- Sergeant Robert Stephen Herring
- Sergeant Maxwell Alexander Hipkins
- Sergeant David Allen Downer Hoare
- Sergeant Harold Kay
- Flying Officer Paul John Wallace Keely
- Sergeant James Henry Keen
- Sergeant James Kyle
- Sergeant Arthur Bennet Lesley
- Flight Sergeant Keith Francis Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Louis Edward David Lindsay
- Pilot Officer Ronald Lisle
- Leading Aircraftman Harry William Long
- Sergeant Charles James Matthews
- Sergeant William Henry McAdam
- Sergeant Arthur Robert McEldon
- Sergeant Howard Torrens McQuigg
- Flying Officer Arthur Page Mitchell
- Sergeant John Patrick Molloy
- Sergeant Gordon Alexander Munro
- Sergeant James Gibson Park
- Sergeant Anthony Peter Perry-keene
- Sergeant Denis Edgar Phare
- Sergeant Richard Thomas Philp
- Sergeant Gerald Keith Powell
- Sergeant Peter Prosser
- Sergeant Edward Henry Reels
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Norman Richardson
- Flying Officer Hubert Jack Roe
- Flight Sergeant Rogers
- Aircraftman 1st Class Emmanuel Solomon Samuels
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Rex Samways
- Sergeant Kenneth Randolph Sewell
- Sergeant Derrick Robert Sherwin
- Sergeant Ronald William John Smalldon
- Sergeant Keith Ernest Smith
- Pilot Officer Harold Sorensen
- Sergeant Frank Percy Stamp
- Pilot Officer Peter Howard Standfast
- Sergeant Edwin Stansfield
- Sergeant Frank Stephens
- Sergeant Joshua Ernest Stott
- Sergeant Ronald Taylor
- Flight Sergeant John Douglas Timms
- Sergeant Stanley Charles Tottle
- Pilot Officer Ernest Wakefield
- Sergeant Alan Wakeford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie William Welham
- Sergeant Gerald Francis Westoby
- Flying Officer James Alexander Whitecross
- Sergeant Frank Brian Harris Wildgoose
- Pilot Officer Winston Claude Wilson
1942
- Lieutenant Boyd
- Leading Aircraftman Harold M. Butler
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Gordon Cameron
- Sergeant Leslie Albert Clark
- Sergeant Stanley Coates
- Air Mechanic Cornwall
- Flying Officer Geoffrey William Downe
- Aircraftman 1st Class Oswald Emery
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Richard Fenn
- Sergeant Alan Fisher
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Scott Gaskill
- Sergeant Bernard Bryn Goodall
- Leading Aircraftman Christopher William Greenaway
- Pilot Officer Alfred William Groves
- Flight Sergeant John Herbert Hodsell
- Sergeant Edwin William Edgar Jones
- Sergeant Donald Jowett
- Sergeant Geoffrey Hugh Lawrence
- Sergeant John Luxford
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Kenneth Morgan
- Flying Officer George Bernard Penman
- Flight Sergeant Harold Verne Schofield
- Flight Sergeant Morris William Shapir
- Flight Sergeant George Bruce Simpson
1943
- Sergeant Gordon Arthur Angwin
- Flight Sergeant David George Aubrey
- Pilot Officer Alfred Alexander Balcombe
- Sergeant Michael Stanley Barnard
- Flight Sergeant Richard John Henry Barron
- Flying Officer Arthur Valentine Bary
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Alexander Henlen Bascombe
- Warrant Officer Alan Lennox Bathurst
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Brian Biddulph
- Sergeant William Michael Bladen
- Flying Officer John Sculthorpe Blunt
- Sergeant Daniel David Boyd
- Sergeant Kenneth Thomas Brentnall
- Flying Officer Edwin Swayne Brenton
- Flying Officer Arthur Brown
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Buckland
- Sergeant Ronald Bernard Bull
- Warrant Officer Colin Blair Campbell
- Flying Officer James Richard Carswell
- Leading Aircraftman Michael Denis Collins
- Flying Officer Sydney John Congdon
- Sergeant Ronald John Copeman
- Flight Sergeant Michael Costello
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Cullen
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Cullen
- Sergeant William George Henry Dadge
- Sergeant Frederick Ronald Davies
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Alfred Davies
- Flying Officer Earl Willard Dickinson
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Henry Dipple
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Dowds
- Flying Officer Tom Downing
- Warrant Officer John Henry Dugan
- Pilot Officer Ian Stoddart Dunbar
- Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Dunford
- Flying Officer Louis Durbin
- Flying Officer Edgar Lloyd Fairweather
- Pilot Officer Vincent Bernard Joseph Finn
- Flying Officer Adam Fisher
- Flight Sergeant William Harrison Garbutt
- Flying Officer Kenneth Gibson
- Wing Commander Cosme Lockwood Gomm
- Flying Officer Kenneth Adrian Gough
- Pilot Officer Edward Alexander McDougall Grange
- Sergeant John Herbert Greaves
- Sergeant Donald Bertram Green
- Sergeant James John Griffin
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Harold Gunders
- Flight Sergeant Colin George Hamilton
- Sergeant Norman Martin Hansford
- Sergeant John Reginald Harrison
- Flying Officer Kenneth Harrison
- Sergeant Christopher Wren Henry Heels
- Sergeant Stanley Eric Hillman
- Sergeant Raymond George Hinton
- Flight Sergeant Clyde Albert Ikin
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Hedley Jackson
- Leading Aircraftman Albert George John
- Sergeant Ernest Llewellyn Jones
- Flight Sergeant John Bruce Lamb
- Sergeant Kenneth Edward Lamond
- Pilot Officer Conrad Larnach
- Flying Officer Richard Thomas Edwin Latham
- Flying Officer Arthur Bebbington Long
- Squadron Leader Alexander Stewart Macintyre
- Flying Officer Roderick Alexander Mackenzie
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Roy Patrick Mackenzie
- Sergeant John Maden
- Sergeant Richard Major
- Sergeant Kenneth Edward Marriott
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas William Edward Marshall
- Flight Lieutenant Sidney George Matkin
- Aircraftman 1st Class James John McCarthy
- Flight Sergeant Eric Stuart McCuaig
- Warrant Officer Lancelot Loxton McKenny
- Flight Sergeant Neil Douglas McLean
- Pilot Officer James Henry Miller
- Sergeant Arthur William Monk
- Sergeant Desmond John Nettle
- Sergeant John Alfred Ernest Newland
- Flying Officer Roderic David Bell Noble
- Sergeant Eric Stanley Raymond Norgrove
- Flying Officer James Warren O'Hara
- Sergeant Henry Joseph Oliver
- Sergeant Gordon Duncan McMahon Owen
- Sergeant John Martland Parr
- Pilot Officer James Burges Paterson
- Sergeant Peter Oliver Pearson
- Pilot Officer Robert William Peters
- Flying Officer Charles Albert Phelps
- Flying Officer Thomas John Phillips
- Flight Sergeant Francis Pollard
- Sergeant Arthur Patrick Power
- Pilot Officer Henry Nigel Pritchard
- Flying Officer Alfred Henry Reardon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Patrick Michael Regan
- Flying Officer William Harold Richards
- Flying Officer Alexander William Robertson
- Sergeant Harry Joseph Shaw
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Garnet Simpson
- Flight Lieutenant John Small
- Sergeant Lloyd Spurr
- Flying Officer Derek Percy Stephens
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Stewart
- Flight Lieutenant John McDowall Sullivan
- Flight Sergeant Roy John Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Royston Charles Clifford Taylor
- Flying Officer Frederick Thomas Thornley
- Flight Sergeant John Trotter
- Flight Sergeant John Edward Walden
- Sergeant Alexander Whatmore
- Flying Officer James Whyte
- Flying Officer Robert Alfred Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Watson Wise
- Flight Sergeant Ross Vivian Woolhouse
1944
- Lieutenant Peter Herbert Andrews
- Flying Officer Bruce Richard Banfield
- Warrant Officer Murray Alexander Baxter
- Flight Sergeant Marcus Bensley
- Pilot Officer Donald McFarlane Bowe
- Lieutenant Branch-clark
- Flying Officer Douglas Walter Brown
- Pilot Officer John Barry Cleaver
- Lieutenant Cedrick Arthur Cooke
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Di Pesa
- Flight Sergeant Nathan Dlusy
- Flight Sergeant Robert James Douglas
- Lieutenant Keith Fairweather
- Pilot Officer Roderick William Fulton
- Air Mechanic Garrow
- Second Lieutenant Hamilton
- Flying Officer Mervyn Edgar Hamilton
- Pilot Officer Robert Cecil Harden
- Lieutenant Grattan Chesney Hooey
- Pilot Officer William Hough
- Warrant Officer Ronald Edward Jackson
- Sergeant Walter Komer
- Lieutenant Lavery
- Lieutenant Lawson
- Warrant Officer Class I Leroy Hart Ludington
- Lieutenant Male
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Lyall Mercer
- Warrant Officer Class II Meyer
- Group Captain Anthony Oliver Molesworth
- Flying Officer William Harold Morrison
- Warrant Officer Class I O'Keefe
- Warrant Officer Ernest Henry John Page
- Lieutenant G B Pitt
- Pilot Officer Philip Charles Revell
- Flying Officer Ronald Shaw Rowson
- Flight Lieutenant William Benedict Sargent
- Warrant Officer Class I Reginald Walter Stafford
- Pilot Officer Vernon Cleveland Stordy
- Lieutenant Stott
- Flying Officer William Auld Swinton
- Warrant Officer Frederick Leonard Taylor
- Flying Officer Anton Nicholas Unser
- Captain Van Rensburg
- Flight Lieutenant Stewart Kitchener Walker
- Pilot Officer Alick Watt
- Pilot Officer Gordon Edward Whyte
- Pilot Officer Percy Alexander Whyte
- Squadron Leader George Albert Wilkins
- Flying Officer Thomas Benedick Wood
- Warrant Officer Class II Ben Nevis Woods
1945
- Flying Officer Edmund Henry Lee
- Leading Aircraftman Lucien Marcel Soubliere
- Flying Officer George Albert Syle