On this day — 20 August
197 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 20 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Henry Albert Crocker
- Lieutenant Gideon Johannes De Greef
- Air Sergeant Mornie Andre Du Plessis
- Sergeant John Henry George
- Leading Aircraftman Bernard Arthur Haines
- Pilot Officer Paul Edwin Osborne Jago
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Ord
- Pilot Officer Bruce Reynolds
- Sergeant John Astil Wilson-law
- Corporal John Herbert Wintle
1941
- Sergeant George Edwards Buckley
- Flight Sergeant Cyril George Burchardt
- Flight Lieutenant William Westbrooke Burton
- Sergeant Eric Laurence Cash
- Sergeant Stanley Clough
- Pilot Officer James Dugald Gould
- Sergeant Aubrey V. Hunt
- Sergeant Ivan Walter Robert Ilsley
- Sergeant Harry Ellse Johnson
- Second Lieutenant Fairbanks Koen Johnston
- Air Mechanic Labuschagne
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Crosbie Marshall
- Flight Sergeant David John Muir
- Flight Sergeant Claude Arthur Parsons
- Pilot Officer Jack Goode Rogers
- Sergeant Evan John Thomas
- Pupil Pilot Troye
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Walters
- Flight Sergeant John Michael Wheatley
- Sergeant Frank Williams
- Sergeant Keith Moore Woodhead
1942
- Sergeant Charles Aitken
- Sergeant Harold Allen
- Sergeant Peter Allen
- Warrant Officer Eliner Knud Alfred Andersen
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Denham Frederick Armstrong
- Pilot Officer Denis Henry Battrick
- Sergeant Thomas Lindsay Boland
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Bradshaw
- Sergeant John Brown
- Sergeant Albert Edward Burkitt
- Air Mechanic John Alan Carroll
- Sergeant Keith John Chandler
- Sergeant Hiley Rhys Davies
- Pilot Officer James Richard Dudley
- Pilot Officer John Oliver Eva
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Ford Fisher
- Flight Sergeant William Haslett Frank
- Sergeant Leslie Hargrave
- Pilot Officer John Henry Harrad
- Sergeant Alfred John Philip Howe
- Sergeant John Allen Hudson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Inglis
- Sergeant Robert McHeilage Jack
- Corporal James Hall Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Harold Kelly
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Percival Knight
- Sergeant George Donaldson Leslie
- Sergeant Richard Henry Linton
- Pilot Officer James Ferguson Mackie
- Pilot Officer John Emmett Madson
- Flight Sergeant James Joseph Major
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Henry Mayfield
- Pilot Officer George McAuley
- Pilot Officer Francis McCreavy
- Flight Sergeant Athol Ian McDonogh
- Aircraftman 1st Class Archie McKay
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph John Moss
- Sergeant George Leonard Arthur Neale
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Nettle
- Sergeant Eric Nettleton
- Flight Sergeant James William Newman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Frederick George Padfield
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Henry Perowne
- Pilot Officer Francis Ratcliffe
- Flight Sergeant Brian Williams Roberts
- Pilot Officer Ifor Glyn Thomas Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Hector Robitaille
- Flying Officer Eugene Victor Roy
- Flight Sergeant John Adam Sparks
- Sergeant Eric Featherstonhaugh Stanley
- Sergeant George Stead
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Edgar Stevens
- Flight Sergeant Richard Charles Stuart
- Flight Sergeant Donald Gordon Taylor
- Sergeant Arthur Kay Taylor-thomas
- Pilot Officer Edwyn Tonge
- Sergeant Gerald Osmond Tyler
- Flight Sergeant William Macdonald Vacheresse
- Warrant Officer Class II Van Der Westhuizen
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Wale
- Sergeant Vivian John Watson
- Corporal Thomas William Watts
- Flight Sergeant Frank Williams
- Sergeant Stanley McDonald Wilson
- Pilot Officer Thomson Lawrie Wilson
- Pilot Officer John Woods
1943
- Sergeant Ronald Burnip Allen
- Sergeant Phillip Sydney Barnett
- Warrant Officer Desmond Robert Birt
- Sergeant Stanley Borrill
- Sergeant Bernard Charles Louis Boyd
- Sergeant Lancelot Brewis
- Flight Sergeant Robert Sidney Brothwell
- Warrant Officer Class I James Harold Clancy
- Warrant Officer Roy Arnold Clark
- Sergeant Albert Moore Cowgill
- Flying Officer Robert Carl Dalgleish
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Edwards
- Sergeant John Erskine
- Sergeant Ronald Sidney Facey
- Flight Sergeant Charles Stanley Field
- Flying Officer Victor Bowring Field
- Pilot Officer Douglas Richard Ford
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Samuel Fox
- Sergeant Hugh Lloyd Griffiths
- Sergeant Charles Haddock
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Hallas
- Flight Sergeant Colin Cecil Oliver Hellyer
- Flying Officer Gordon Wallace Hirtle
- Sergeant Leonard Jack Hopkins
- Flight Lieutenant John Mitchell Inglis
- Sergeant George Meada Jackson
- Flying Officer Maurice Purkiss Johnson
- Flight Sergeant William Robert Lewis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Lindley
- Warrant Officer David Norman Lowe
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Mallon
- Sergeant Francis James Manley
- Sergeant John Marsh
- Sergeant Albert James Mason
- Leading Aircraftman James McEwan
- Flight Lieutenant Malcolm William McGregor
- Flight Sergeant David Martin Menzies
- Flight Sergeant John Christopher Milliken
- Sergeant Charles George Robert Moll
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Morgan
- Sergeant Ronald Sydney Naylor
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Herbert Norton
- Flight Sergeant Dennis William O'Leary
- Pilot Officer Arthur Harold Peters
- Flight Sergeant George Augustus Ridge
- Flight Lieutenant Edwin Ronald Brooke Roberts
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Robjohns
- Flight Sergeant Frederick James Ross
- Sergeant Jack Chester Roulston
- Lieutenant Roux
- Flight Sergeant Bryant Frederick Sedgley
- Flight Lieutenant John Cecil Smith
- Sergeant James Malcolm Snowden
- Sergeant Alfred Douglas Stafford
- Flying Officer Joseph William Sturdy
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Sutherland
- Sergeant Clive George Taylor
- Flying Officer Douglas William Bulpin Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Archibald Mitchell Todd
- Sergeant Ernest Townsend
- Wing Commander Gerald Evan Wallace
- Flight Sergeant David Walters
- Sergeant James Waugh
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Smith Williams
1944
- Flying Officer Sydney Philip Aldridge
- Flying Officer Norman Kitchener Baird
- Pilot Officer Joseph Laurent Willie Bilodeau
- Sergeant George Arthur Bryant
- Sergeant Thomas Briton Carey
- Flight Lieutenant Basil Gordon Collyns
- Flight Sergeant Evan Bertram Davies
- Warrant Officer Arthur Francis Dunstan
- Flight Sergeant Surtees Elliott
- Pilot Officer John Thomas Naldrett Frost
- Sergeant Robert Bruce Gillespie
- Major Ralph Hubert Francis Howarth
- Pilot Officer Ivan Russell Johnson
- Lieutenant Kevin Aloysius Kelly
- Captain Jan H. G. Klompje
- Flight Lieutenant Wilbur Lange
- Warrant Officer Arthur John Owen Leo
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Brian Marshall
- Captain Malcolm John Colin McIntyre
- Lieutenant Mockford
- Sergeant Paul Emery Normandeau
- Flying Officer Jack Andrew Olsen
- Leading Aircraftman Leo Pigeon
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Alexander Ross
- Lieutenant Salmond
- Flying Officer David Oliphant Stewart
- Pilot Officer Leo Sarsfield Tobin
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Hartley Ward
- Flying Officer John Thomson Waugh