On this day — 18 August
473 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 18 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant John Norman Bilton
- Pilot Officer John Wellburn Bland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Claude Carlton
- Sergeant Robert White Clapperton
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Dudley Pierce Connors
- Sergeant David Wesley Dennis
- Sergeant Leonard Northwood Guy
- Sergeant Bruce Hancock
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Barton Harris
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Hawley Harrison
- Sergeant Redvers Percival Hawkings
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Holroyd
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Arthur Charles Howe
- Flying Officer Richard Hugh Antony Lee
- Corporal Philip Meyrick Long
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Henry Lovett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Henry Malivoire
- Sergeant Dudley Malcolm Peter McGee
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Gordon Moverley
- Flight Lieutenant George Edward Newton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sydney Thomas Philbrick
- Leading Aircraftman Matthew Edmund Porter
- Pilot Officer John Basil Ramsay
- Sergeant William Leslie Smith
- Pilot Officer Neville David Solomon
- Corporal Henry Durrell Starck
- Flight Lieutenant George Edward Bowes Stoney
- Aircraftman 1st Class Roy Tapner
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Hugh Turrell
- Pilot Officer William Brian Wheelwright
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Claude Malcolm Yorke
1941
- Sergeant Frederick William Appleby
- Sergeant Norman William Berg
- Sergeant Antony Dennis Warden Clay
- Sergeant George Albert Cowell
- Sergeant David Emrys Davies
- Pilot Officer William Ellis
- Sergeant James Stanley Fazakerley
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Easton Geesdale
- Sergeant Lothian Julyan George
- Sergeant Graham Edwin Hann
- Sergeant John Richard Gell Harvey
- Leading Aircraftman Victor Albert Jowers
- Sergeant Richard David Jury
- Pilot Officer Henry Law
- Sergeant John Roland Lee
- Pilot Officer John Christian Lynn
- Sergeant Sydney Arthur Maguire
- Sergeant Edward William McBarnet
- Sergeant Michael Joseph McCullough
- Pilot Officer Michael Isaac Archibald Mendoza
- Air Mechanic Obree
- Flight Sergeant Peter Francis Barclay Orwin
- Sergeant Robert Elliott Ramsay
- Sergeant Kenneth Charles Shearing
- Sergeant Vernon Arkwright Stevens
- Sergeant Walter Bradbury Sykes
- Leading Aircraftman Sammy Walter Townsend
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ivor Trim
- Sergeant John Webber
- Sergeant Alexander Macgregor Wilson
- Sergeant Louis Gerald Wright
1942
- Pilot Officer Kivell Harold William Alderton
- Sergeant William Charles Bacon
- Sergeant Alfred Ronald Beaven
- Flight Lieutenant Karel Becvar
- Sergeant William Beeley
- Sergeant Charles Black
- Pilot Officer Earl Herbert Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
- Sergeant Bobbie De Savary Burns
- Pilot Officer John Donald Cadell
- Pilot Officer Richard Albert Castell
- Flight Sergeant Charles Howard Cobbett
- Sergeant Arthur Collins
- Sergeant William Edwin Collins
- Aircraftman 1st Class Derrick Frederick Curtis
- Sergeant Alexander Shaw Dewar
- Sergeant Stanley Downing
- Sergeant Jaromir Drmelka
- Flight Sergeant Allan James Edwards
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Arthur Elliott
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Samuel Elsey
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Albert Emberson
- Aircraftman 1st Class James McMillan Fernie
- Sergeant Andrew Fleming
- Sergeant Ernest Norman Galloway
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Cyril Gibbin
- Sergeant Adrian Harold Cooper Gill
- Flight Sergeant John Gillies
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Arthur Goss
- Sergeant Leslie Douglas Graves
- Sergeant Hubert Guy
- Pilot Officer Bruce Hamilton Hay
- Corporal Josef Ivancik
- Sergeant James Struthers Jones
- Sergeant William Henry Jones
- Sergeant Joseph Jordan
- Sergeant William James Justice
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Knox Keen
- Sergeant Richard Kerry
- Leading Aircraftman Warren Milton Kirkby
- Flight Sergeant Charles Campbell Lee
- Leading Aircraftman John Alfred Lefurgey
- Flight Sergeant Jan Leng
- Flight Sergeant Alexander James Linden
- Pilot Officer Alexander Edward Macgregor
- Sergeant John Anderson Macpherson
- Flying Officer John Mactaggart
- Warrant Officer Thomas McBride
- Flight Sergeant Herman Joseph Michael McDonnell
- Pilot Officer Robert Perrin McLaren
- Pilot Officer John Anderson McLean
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Haig Methven
- Pilot Officer William Adam Miller
- Sergeant Arthur Murray
- Flight Sergeant David Stanley Neal
- Leading Aircraftman John Ronald Scott Orbell
- Corporal Albert Edward Pickersgill
- Sergeant Godfrey William Pickworth
- Flying Officer Maxwell Boyer Poole
- Leading Aircraftman Archibald Campbell Reed
- Flight Sergeant Robert Leslie Sinclair Ritchie
- Pilot Officer Peter Thomas Robilliard
- Pilot Officer Douglas William Rowe
- Pilot Officer Bruce Astor Schaefer
- Flight Sergeant Arthur George Schwager
- Sergeant John Anthony Sharp
- Sergeant Frantisek Sipula
- Sergeant John Skipsey
- Sergeant Vladimir Sobotka
- Pilot Officer James Ronald Fairbank Soutar
- Pilot Officer Charles Edwin Stotesbury
- Sergeant Percival George Henry Strudwick
- Pilot Officer James Barry Lahey Sullivan
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Ffolliott Sydes
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Peter Symes
- Sergeant Eugene Sydney Thomas
- Sergeant Pavel Tofel
- Sergeant John Adrian Rolt Triscott
- Sergeant Hector John Wakeman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick White
- Sergeant John William Whitehead
- Flight Sergeant Charles Alexander Whiteside
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Arthur Whiting
- Sergeant John Charles Williams
1943
- Sergeant Alfred Ramsay Aldridge
- Flight Sergeant David Colin Brodie Angus
- Sergeant Oswald Morgan Atkins
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Baker
- Flying Officer Stanley Alfred Baldwin
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Marshall Banks
- Flying Officer Charles Lawrence Barbezat
- Sergeant Sydney Barnes
- Sergeant Tom Brown Barrie
- Sergeant Joseph Henry Bassett
- Flying Officer Harold Ockenden Batchelor
- Leading Aircraftman Lionel Kendall Bates
- Flight Sergeant John Martin Batterton
- Flight Sergeant Eloi Joseph Emile Beaudry
- Sergeant George William Bentley
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Roy Biggs
- Flight Sergeant Winston Woolley Blackmore
- Sergeant George Blyth
- Pilot Officer Joseph Maurice Leopold Bouvier
- Pilot Officer Thomas John Bowling
- Pilot Officer John Charles Bradey
- Pilot Officer Robert Bradley
- Pilot Officer Francis Joseph Desmond Brady
- Sergeant Adam Cubie Brand
- Sergeant Thomas Brocklehurst
- Sergeant Bromley John William Brown
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Allan Brown
- Flying Officer Cecil Gilbert Bruton
- Flight Sergeant Norman William Buchanan
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Edward Burbidge
- Pilot Officer Reginald Kenneth Buxton
- Flight Sergeant Charles Ross Byers
- Pilot Officer John Duncan Skelton Cable
- Pilot Officer William Donaldson Caldwell
- Sergeant Archibald Thomas Wilson Campbell
- Pilot Officer Robert McMillan Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Philip John Capon
- Flying Officer George Ralph Carpenter
- Flying Officer Harry Lascelles Carr
- Sergeant Dennis John Carrington
- Flying Officer Ronald George Carter
- Sergeant Stephen Joseph Cassell
- Sergeant Alfred Charles Richard Chapman
- Sergeant Stanley Chapman
- Sergeant Robert Hilliard Chisnell
- Sergeant Norman Will Hilton Clark
- Flight Sergeant John Clarke
- Flight Sergeant Archibald Sidney Clegg
- Warrant Officer Class II Walter Leonard Cogger
- Flying Officer Victor Denis William Collins
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Lorne Colquhoun
- Flight Sergeant George Ronald Connor
- Flying Officer Audrey Stanley Cooke
- Sergeant Hubert William Cooke
- Leading Aircraftman Trefor Nicholas Cooke
- Sergeant Jack Cooper
- Sergeant John Joseph Corbett
- Sergeant Douglas Graham Cox
- Wing Commander Leslie Crooks
- Flight Sergeant Richard Crossley
- Flying Officer Leonard James Crouch
- Flight Sergeant Donald Stanyon Croxford
- Flight Sergeant Mieczystaw Czajkowski
- Warrant Officer Class II James William Dally
- Leading Aircraftman Denis Daly
- Flight Sergeant William Arthur Davies
- Sergeant Frederick Peter Davis
- Sergeant Robert Douglas Deugard
- Sergeant William Disley
- Sergeant Arnold Dixon
- Sergeant David Albert Henry Dixon
- Pilot Officer Richard John Robert Docker
- Pilot Officer Theophilus Dos Santos
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Drake
- Pilot Officer William John Drew
- Sergeant David Easton
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Francis English
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon William Neil Fanson
- Pilot Officer Derrick Fielden
- Warrant Officer Class I Charles Phillip Fitzpatrick
- Warrant Officer Denis Flanagan
- Sergeant James Leonard Fletcher
- Sergeant Reginald Fowlston
- Sergeant Clarence Bedbrook Francis
- Sergeant Ernest George Francis
- Sergeant John Francis
- Sergeant Leslie Frank Freeman
- Flying Officer Lawrence Fullerton
- Sergeant David Albert Galloway
- Flying Officer Malcolm Dennis Reginald Game
- Flight Sergeant Francis Beesley Garrett
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Gordon Douglas Gawthrop
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Arthur Gibbs
- Sergeant John Kevin Gilvary
- Flight Sergeant William Edwin Gimby
- Pilot Officer Peter Mylrea Goldsmith
- Sergeant Kenneth Frank Goode
- Sergeant Donald Goulden
- Sergeant Henry James Graham
- Sergeant John Graham
- Sergeant Thomas Graham
- Sergeant Walter Paul Greatz
- Sergeant William Henry Greaves
- Sergeant Walter George Green
- Sergeant Frank Grey
- Flight Sergeant Robert Grundy
- Lieutenant Handley
- Pilot Officer Reginald Clifford Harding
- Flight Sergeant Harold Harries
- Sergeant Thomas Arthur Harris
- Sergeant George Billing Hasdell
- Flight Sergeant Willard Melvin Haugen
- Sergeant Sydney Percival Hawkes
- Sergeant Lawrence Charles (laurie) Hayward
- Sergeant John James Victor Heal
- Corporal Charles Edward Healam
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Mervyn Heard
- Sergeant Leslie James Henley
- Flying Officer William Noel Hill
- Sergeant John Carmichael Hislop
- Sergeant Ernest Honeybill
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Ronald Hornsey
- Flight Sergeant Peter John Horsham
- Sergeant Leslie Pinnington Howard
- Flight Sergeant Alfred John Howes
- Sergeant John Thomas Hubbard
- Sergeant Colin Frederick Hudson
- Flying Officer William Hughes
- Sergeant George Humble
- Sergeant Walter Henry Humphrey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Jackson
- Flying Officer Brynley James
- Sergeant Stanley William James
- Sergeant Timothy Henry Russell James
- Flight Sergeant Roland Wedge Jaques
- Flight Sergeant John Orville Jerome
- Pilot Officer Gregg McIntyre Johnston
- Flight Sergeant James Alexander Johnston
- Flight Sergeant John Thomas Jopling
- Flight Sergeant Robert Carson Jordan
- Sergeant Daniel Kennedy
- Flying Officer Leslie George Kennett
- Pilot Officer Clarence Gordon Kirchin
- Flight Sergeant James Lawrence Lamb
- Sergeant Frederick John Lane
- Flight Sergeant Jean Paul Claude Lapointe
- Sergeant Richard Laughton
- Sergeant Clarence Norman Lee
- Flight Sergeant James Alan Leighton
- Sergeant Thomas Marshall Leonard
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Maurice Lewis
- Pilot Officer James Melford Lewis
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Thornhall Baldur Lifman
- Sergeant David Allen Lloyd
- Pilot Officer Arthur John Echlin Long
- Sergeant Peter Lowe
- Sergeant Leonard Lucas
- Sergeant Hugh Caven Macaninch
- Pilot Officer John Francis Bell Macintyre
- Flight Sergeant Donald Malcolm Macpherson
- Pilot Officer Hedley Robert Madgett
- Pilot Officer Cecil Walter Alvin Manning
- Warrant Officer Class II Edward Reginald Marks
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Peter Marsh
- Corporal Arnold Alfred Marson
- Sergeant Robert Grigor McCallum
- Sergeant Leonard Frank McDermott
- Wing Commander Irwin John McGhie
- Flying Officer Harry Starkey McIntyre
- Sergeant Orville Malcolm McIntyre
- Sergeant Mervin George McKibbon
- Pilot Officer Donald John McNeill
- Pilot Officer Peter Oswald McSween
- Sergeant Frederick Meaker
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Graeme Medhurst
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Morwick Meldrum
- Sergeant Norman Rhine Mitchell
- Sergeant Peter William (pepe) Mitchell
- Sergeant William Arthur Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Harold Urbin Morris
- Flight Sergeant Merton Barnabas Murphy
- Sergeant Leonard Myers
- Flight Sergeant William Bonar Ness
- Sergeant John James Newbon
- Flying Officer Francis Dunsford Norton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Nutter
- Pilot Officer Peter Joseph O'Donnell
- Pilot Officer Owen Arthur O'Leary
- Sergeant Norman Henry Orford
- Flying Officer Donald Hugh Orr
- Pilot Officer Stanley George Palk
- Sergeant Thomas Alan Pargeter
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Francis Parker
- Sergeant Dennis Parkin
- Flight Lieutenant Martyn Hope Parry
- Pilot Officer Alfred John Pearce
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Thomas Pekin
- Flying Officer Albert Joseph Perkins
- Sergeant William Philip
- Flying Officer Phillip Henry Phillips
- Pilot Officer Frederick James Piper
- Flying Officer Fred Plant
- Flying Officer Lionel George Popperwell
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Fabien Power
- Pilot Officer Leslie Prendergast
- Flying Officer Elmont Gasper Prest
- Sergeant Henry Price
- Leading Aircraftman Albert John Pryor
- Sergeant Ifor Wyn Pugh
- Sergeant Arthur Purrington
- Flying Officer Frederick Ronald Charles Pusey
- Flying Officer Peter Pynisky
- Sergeant William Henry Quance
- Pilot Officer Peter Roland Raggett
- Sergeant Ernest Charles Ramm
- Flying Officer Harry John Randall
- Squadron Leader Alfred Sydney Raphael
- Sergeant Arthur William Ready
- Sergeant Reginald Herbert Reay
- Sergeant James Douglas McGill Reid
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Isidore Ronald Roland Renaud
- Sergeant James Crawford Duncan Riddell
- Flight Sergeant Roberts
- Flying Officer George Creighton Robinson
- Pilot Officer Harry Robinson
- Pilot Officer William James Rooke
- Sergeant Henry Francis Roza
- Pilot Officer Samuel Ivan Rudkin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Alan Sandiford
- Flying Officer Frederick Saunders
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Wynne Scammell
- Sergeant Leslie Harry Scholey
- Sergeant Laurence Henry Sefton
- Sergeant John Hatfield Shaw
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Shaw
- Sergeant Frank Edward Shefford
- Flight Sergeant Shepperson
- Flight Sergeant John Francis Sheridan
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Dalton Shuttleworth
- Flight Sergeant George Bernard Silvester
- Lieutenant Simpson
- Flight Lieutenant Hickson William Skinner
- Squadron Leader Fraser Burstock Slade
- Sergeant Walter Slater
- Sergeant Robert William Slaughter
- Sergeant Granville Smith
- Pilot Officer Henry Maxwell Smith
- Sergeant John Beaty Lamson Smith
- Sergeant Vivian Smith
- Pilot Officer Arthur William Avis Souter
- Flying Officer Peter John Sparkes
- Flying Officer Howard Ivan Spiers
- Flying Officer Noel William Springer
- Pilot Officer Victor George Stabell
- Sergeant Cecil Stancliffe
- Sergeant Edwin James Christopher Stiles
- Sergeant William John Stiles
- Sergeant Ronald Amos Charles Martin Stringer
- Flying Officer Ronald Ross Swinson
- Pilot Officer Alan Henry Thompson
- Warrant Officer Class I Ford Arnold Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Lyle Harold Thompson
- Sergeant Ronald Ernest Thompson
- Flight Sergeant David Thornton
- Sergeant Alan Tice
- Squadron Leader Richard Nevil Todd-white
- Pilot Officer Thomas Edwin Tomlin
- Pilot Officer Thomas Tonkin
- Sergeant Clifford William Torbett
- Warrant Officer Class II John Lewis Troman
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Trotter
- Sergeant Thomas Underdown
- Flight Sergeant Robert Urquhart
- Pilot Officer Alfred Newton Vidler
- Sergeant John Reuben Vint
- Pilot Officer John James Wakefield
- Flight Sergeant John Isidore Wallner
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Stanley Walter
- Sergeant Richard Charles Walton
- Flying Officer John Michael Warren
- Sergeant John Gwilyn Watkins
- Sergeant Kenneth Ernest Watson
- Pilot Officer John Weaver
- Sergeant John Scott Webb
- Sergeant Thomas Neville Weston
- Sergeant Francis Willetts
- Sergeant Cyril Percy Williams
- Sergeant Frederick Stanley Williams
- Flying Officer James Reid Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Stewart Wood
- Sergeant George Wood
- Sergeant Dennis Alfred Young
1944
- Warrant Officer Ronald John Henry Adcock
- Flight Sergeant Herman Backler
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Batt
- Pilot Officer Robert Arthur Brett
- Pilot Officer Gordon Alan Bullock
- Flying Officer George Cameron
- Flight Sergeant Ian Campbell
- Flying Officer John Spencer Colville
- Sergeant William Frank Cooper
- Flying Officer Ronald James Currie
- Flying Officer Robert Withington Easton
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Ernest Fairfield
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Haig Gross
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd L. Johnston
- Flying Officer Ronald Hudson Le Grow
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert Samuel Lyle
- Sergeant Leonard Maiden
- Pilot Officer Alan James McLay
- Flying Officer John Alexander Neilson
- Group Captain John Alexander Powell
- Flying Officer Walter Bigelow T. Rosen
- Flying Officer Robert Seigler
- Flying Officer George Harold Sharpe
- Flying Officer William Joseph Shearstone
- Flying Officer Frederick Herbert Watts
- Flight Lieutenant Matthew Wood
1945
- Warrant Officer Eric Ferdinand Carlson
- Sergeant Michael James Green
- Flight Sergeant Robert Henry Lacey
- Flying Officer Roydon Hubert McLeod
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Sanderson