On this day — 16 August
275 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 16 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Clarence Anscombe
- Corporal George Atkinson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard Ernest Austin
- Pilot Officer Nigel Greenstreet Bowen
- Pilot Officer Dennis Owen Matthew Browne
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Quentin Charlton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur William Collins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Coutts
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Michael Ferriss
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Gainey
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin David Giles
- Sergeant John Draper Gwynne
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Short Happel
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Oliver Hewlett
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur John Hoare
- Sergeant William Arthur Hughes
- Leading Aircraftman Andrew Joseph Hurley
- Pilot Officer Martyn Aurel King
- Pilot Officer Joseph Emile Paul Laricheliere
- Flying Officer Peter Charles Everett Lay
- Corporal Walter Harry Lewis
- Leading Aircraftman Terence Joseph Mortimer
- Sergeant William Campbell Munro
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Phillips
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest Neville Pitt
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Lee Pyman
- Leading Aircraftman Gerald Robert Raymond
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward John Saunders
- Sergeant Martin Michael Shanahan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jonathan Sheasby
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Anthony Grant Steed
- Corporal Allan James Stewart
- Flying Officer Roy Wylde Turnbull
- Sergeant Robert Leslie Wake
- Sergeant Owen James Weeks
- Squadron Leader Rodney Levett Wilkinson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Terence Yates
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Archibald Bruce Young
1941
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Ambrose
- Sergeant Sydney Douglas Baldachin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Henry Bolwell
- Sergeant Cyril Anderson Booty
- Pilot Officer Joseph Francois Yves Albert Boulanger
- Sergeant Harold George Boulter
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Henry Bourne
- Sergeant John Francis Cash
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert Thomas Cole
- Sergeant Oswald Mosley Connors
- Pilot Officer Douglas Lindsay Cropper
- Pilot Officer John Michael Ewan Daniels
- Flying Officer James Howard (jimmy) Emmerson
- Sergeant Donald Crosby Fowler
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Hall
- Pilot Officer Thomas Lunson Hayston
- Sergeant Ivor Howard Arthur Henderson
- Flying Officer Harold Basil Lincoln Hough
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Houghton
- Leading Aircraftman George Howsam
- Pilot Officer Edwin John Lamb
- Flight Sergeant Michael John Leahy
- Sergeant Harold Lewis Learning
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Mair
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Francis Mills
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Ronald Morgan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander Mundie
- Pilot Officer Patrick Joseph Murphy
- Sergeant Harold Needle
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Benjamin William Page
- Pilot Officer Oliver Peter Plunkett
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Richard Reader
- Pilot Officer Robert George Simpson-hayward
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Smith
- Leading Aircraftman David Gerald Walker
- Leading Aircraftman Hector Frank Wilkins
- Flight Sergeant Peter Williams
- Sergeant Thomas Grahame Wood
1942
- Sergeant Thomas Barker
- Sergeant William George Bate
- Flight Sergeant John Lawrence Douglas Brophy
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Brown
- Flying Officer George Hector Burkett
- Flight Lieutenant John Sommerville Cardell
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Alfred Chislett
- Flying Officer John Edward Coates
- Flight Sergeant James Daniel O'Leary Cooney
- Sergeant Alexander Milne Craig
- Flight Sergeant James Warren Cullen
- Sergeant John Anthony Dent
- Sergeant John Dundas Dickie
- Sergeant Patrick John Ellis
- Sergeant William Henry Fardoe
- Sergeant Robert Ian Darg Forsyth
- Sergeant William Alfred Glover
- Warrant Officer George Goldsborough
- Flight Sergeant Murray Edward Greer
- Flight Sergeant John Magwood Henry
- Sergeant Charles Albert Holmes
- Sergeant Harry Leonard Jewell
- Pilot Officer Godfrey Rees Jones
- Flight Sergeant George Robert Knapp
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Lee
- Flying Officer A. James (jim) Marsh
- Pilot Officer Andrew Maxwell
- Sergeant John McArthur
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas McBeath
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Davis McCallum
- Sergeant Alfred Henry McKenzie
- Sergeant William Brodie McVicar
- Sergeant Edwin Mitchell
- Sergeant John De Medici Nelson
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Charles Newlove
- Sergeant Alfred Joseph Pankhurst
- Sergeant Thomas Bowman Phillips
- Sergeant David Pullinger
- Sergeant Thomas Allen Reid
- Sergeant Arthur Roddam
- Sergeant Alfred John Russell
- Flying Officer Eric Tom Sellick
- Flying Officer George Flight Sellick
- Sergeant Stanley Spencer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Raymond Spencer
- Pilot Officer George Lawson Staniar
- Flight Sergeant Norman James Sutherland
- Sergeant Frederick Cyril Graham Tate
- Flying Officer Kenneth Terry
- Sergeant Norman Tomlin
- Sergeant Stanley Topham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roland Frederick (jim) Umney
- Sergeant John Herbert Westgate
- Sergeant Robert Charles Montague White
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Williams
- Flight Sergeant John Arthur Williams
1943
- Sergeant Reginald Frederick Andrews
- Warrant Officer Albert Peter Bates
- Leading Aircraftman Peter George Black
- Sergeant Thomas William Blundell
- Flight Lieutenant John Oliver Bostock
- Pilot Officer Harry Leo Bradden
- Sergeant Arthur Bromby
- Sergeant Charles Edward Brook
- Sergeant Arthur William Samuel Bundy
- Sergeant John Joseph Butler
- Sergeant Ronald Carlon
- Sergeant Edward Causer
- Pilot Officer Stanley Frank Chudzik
- Sergeant Harry Clement
- Sergeant Richard Clifford
- Flying Officer Fred Clough
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Cogman
- Sergeant Albert Stanley Collins
- Sergeant Manassah Cox
- Flight Sergeant Robert Ashworth Crawshaw
- Sergeant Basil George Crisp
- Sergeant John Charles Cunningham
- Sergeant Gordon William Davidson Dean
- Flight Lieutenant Baron Jean Michel P. M. G. De Selys Longchamps
- Sergeant Malcolm Dobbie
- Sergeant George Edgar Downton
- Sergeant Stanley Eastwood
- Sergeant William Arnot Ewart
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ralph Edwin Fawcett
- Wing Commander Augustus Rodney Gibbes
- Flight Sergeant Fenwick Moseley Gilkeson
- Pilot Officer Leslie Warren Gospel
- Sergeant Ernest Alfred Hall
- Sergeant William John Hargreaves
- Squadron Leader Peter Norman Harris
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Henry Haskins
- Squadron Leader Gordon Ernest Hawkins
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Edgar Hayter
- Sergeant Herbert Hedge
- Sergeant Adrian Bernard Heyes
- Flying Officer Philip William Hisgrove
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Victor Hobbs
- Squadron Leader William Arden Hogg
- Sergeant Gordon Stanley Holloway
- Sergeant Arthur Hulmes
- Sergeant Archie Edwin Huntingford
- Pilot Officer Albert George Innes
- Sergeant Ronald James
- Flying Officer Fredrick Harold Jenkins
- Sergeant Stanley Reginald Johnson
- Leading Aircraftman Christopher Walter Kelly
- Pilot Officer Gavin John Kerr
- Sergeant Arthur James King
- Sergeant Jack Kirkman
- Flying Officer Jack Ledgard
- Sergeant Jack Edmond Lovewell
- Sergeant Alan George Luxford
- Sergeant Frederick David Mason
- Flying Officer Ernest Henry McCormack
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Hector McFarlane
- Sergeant Cyril McGinnity
- Sergeant Neville James Meen
- Sergeant Malcolm Stephen Miller
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gerald Thomas Netherway
- Flying Officer Arthur Joseph Organ
- Flying Officer Harold Maurice Park
- Pilot Officer Robert George Pearcey
- Sergeant Ronald Leslie Perske
- Sergeant Walter Bell Pettet
- Flight Sergeant Joseph David Pigeau
- Sergeant James Charles Pratt
- Pilot Officer Raymond Victor Procter
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Edward Rance
- Flight Sergeant Alan Douglas Riordan
- Sergeant Derrick John Rose
- Sergeant Peter Miller Hamilton Salmond
- Warrant Officer Class I Norman Gerhard Schultz
- Flight Sergeant Robert Alexander Leslie Scott
- Flight Sergeant Wilber Joseph Shaver
- Flying Officer Allan Bishop Smith
- Pilot Officer Jack Smithers
- Pilot Officer Norman Smyth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Leonard Dennis Springate
- Squadron Leader Daryl Maxwell Sproule
- Pilot Officer Ronald Steer
- Flight Lieutenant John Rutherfford Sterne
- Sergeant David John Stokes
- Flying Officer Robert Philpot Swallow
- Flight Sergeant Colin William Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Ewart Turl
- Flying Officer John George Turnbull
- Flying Officer Frederick Harold Viney
- Sergeant Hugh Rudell Warren
- Squadron Leader John Russell Watson
- Flying Officer David John Webster
- Flying Officer George William Webster
- Sergeant Henry Francis Webster
- Sergeant Patrick John Whelton
- Sergeant James Stanley White
- Flight Sergeant Neville Bruce Whitta
- Sergeant Robert William Wilcockson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John James Williams
- Flying Officer Peter Yeates Williams
1944
- Flight Sergeant Bruce George Harold Robert Bean
- Pilot Officer Frank Bradley
- Warrant Officer Dennis Cecil Burman
- Pilot Officer Dean Gordon Charlick
- Flying Officer Jacques Oliver Clerc
- Sergeant Charles Cletheroe
- Flight Sergeant Gaetan Gerard Collard
- Lieutenant Denis James Williams Compton
- Warrant Officer Class II De Jonge
- Lieutenant De Klerk
- Flight Sergeant Albert Wilson Farrer
- Flight Sergeant Francis John Geddes
- Warrant Officer William Arthur Graham
- Warrant Officer Class II James Howard Inch
- Flight Sergeant Robert Ian Maxwell King
- Flying Officer Harry Harvey Lively
- Flight Sergeant John Winning Moffat
- Warrant Officer Jack Finlay Moore
- Flight Lieutenant John Archibald Wynn Morgan
- Flying Officer John Alexander Peterson
- Warrant Officer Douglas Malcolm Quarendon
- Pilot Officer Mortimer Regenstreif
- Squadron Leader John Leonard Scott
- Flying Officer Thomas Stephens
- Pilot Officer Courtney Raymond Stewart
- Warrant Officer Class II Walker
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Eskdale Wallace
- Sergeant Barney Pouheke Warbrick
- Warrant Officer Class I Webster
- Lieutenant Weinrich
- Flight Sergeant Keith Charles Wright
1945
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Kevin Clausen
- Flight Sergeant James Alfred Green
- Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Simond Joubert
- Sergeant Ralph Marley Potts
- Leading Aircraftman James Edward Werstine