On this day — 21 August
217 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 21 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Corporal John Anderson
- Sergeant Jack Stephen Brennan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Albert Cole
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Kennedy
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Edward George Mason
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dudley David Philip
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Percy Sutton
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie William Frederick Taylor
1941
- Sergeant Ernest Osborne Adams
- Sergeant John Ahern
- Sergeant Leonard Henry Barraclough
- Pilot Officer William Roy Bloyce
- Sergeant Derrick John McKenzie Bush
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Frederick Chapman
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Thomas Clark
- Sergeant Gordon Alfred Crowther
- Pilot Officer Perry Byard Detlor
- Sergeant David Michael Victor Peter Devereux
- Flying Officer Arthur Guy Evill
- Pilot Officer William Francis Woodward Foster
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Wallace William Gange
- Air Sergeant B. McD Gerrand
- Second Lieutenant Goodwin
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas James Gordon
- Pilot Officer Peter Francis Ralph Graham
- Sergeant Rupert Henry Grattan-doyle
- Flight Sergeant William Percival Joseph Hancox
- Sergeant Henry Stanley Harrison
- Sergeant Ian Colin Hay
- Pilot Officer Peter John Horniman
- Sergeant William Kay
- Sergeant John Arthur Charles King
- Air Sergeant Bernard Eric Lea
- Sergeant Ralph Marshall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur William Mills
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Mills
- Leading Aircraftman Albert John Murton
- Sergeant James Edwin Mylchreest
- Sergeant Kenneth Eric Newman
- Pilot Officer Frank Henry Oakley
- Pilot Officer Brian Patrick O'Dowd
- Air Sergeant Oosthuizen
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold George Pitts
- Sergeant Ernest Walter Pollard
- Sergeant Woodrow Raine
- Leading Aircraftman John Frederick Richard
- Pilot Officer Francis William Selfe
- Pilot Officer Edward George Sharp
- Pilot Officer Philip Shelley
- Sergeant John Michael Simmons
- Pilot Officer John Allan Vesey Stockley
- Major Truter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Whitaker
- Sergeant Edgar Allen Clutton Williams
- Sergeant Norman George Williams
1942
- Sergeant Robert Ainslie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Stephen Bamber
- Flight Sergeant Colin Hervey Barrow
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Leon Bennett
- Squadron Leader John Christopher Blyth
- Sergeant Cecil Jacques Bond
- Sergeant Noel Francis Boxwell
- Warrant Officer Class II Roy Harris Bradley
- Flight Sergeant William Brown
- Flying Officer Derek Vaughan Bullock
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Edmondson Carruthers
- Sergeant Frank Sidney Clarke
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Harold Davidson
- Flying Officer Michael Francis Dear
- Flight Sergeant Calvin Daniel Dixon
- Leading Aircraftman William W. Douglas
- Sergeant Stanley Edmund Downs
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Easterling
- Leading Aircraftman John Francis Eckersley
- Sergeant William Ross Edeson
- Flight Sergeant John Farrimond
- Pilot Officer Stanley Winter Faull
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Fillingham
- Sergeant Frank Gillard
- Pilot Officer William Gilmour
- Pilot Officer Albert Benjamin Gomperts
- Group Captain Harry King Goode
- Pilot Officer Harvey Carlisle Maxwell Goodwin
- Sergeant Walter Herbert Gould
- Sergeant Dudley Howard Harris
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Hartley
- Sergeant Malcolm Stevenson Haynes
- Pilot Officer Alan Macdonald Henderson
- Sergeant Raymond Tom Higgins
- Sergeant Charles Humphrey
- Sergeant Leonard Allen Insall
- Sergeant Francis John James
- Sergeant Peter Edward James Jenkins
- Sergeant John Llewelyn
- Pilot Officer Paul Clark McGillicuddy
- Sergeant Ivan Victor McQuay
- Sergeant Arnolous Bothma Meyer
- Sergeant James Murphy
- Pilot Officer Isaac Charles Newell
- Sergeant Lawrence Henry Nicholson
- Sergeant Patrick O'Brien
- Flying Officer Kenneth Stanley Oldfield
- Sergeant Francis Michael O'Reilly
- Sergeant Leslie George Peacock
- Corporal William Charles Robert Pearson
- Sergeant Norman Podmore
- Sergeant John Macdonald Rankin
- Pilot Officer Harry Churchill Reynolds
- Sergeant Royston Dudley Rich
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Ernest Robertson
- Sergeant John Beaton Robertson
- Flying Officer Owen James Sanderson
- Warrant Officer Ronald Thomas Frederick Saunders
- Sergeant Harry Doidge Searle
- Sergeant John Arthur Sharpe
- Sergeant Dennis Roy Simpson
- Sergeant Colin Smith
- Corporal Denver Hubert Squires
- Pilot Officer Alan Mills Stewart
- Pilot Officer Albert Wyndham Stilwell
- Sergeant Harry Gordon Stubbs
- Sergeant Thomas William Taylor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Elvy Taylor
- Pilot Officer Gerald Leslie Tudor
- Sergeant Denis Armstrong Wapshott
- Sergeant Arthur James Ward
- Sergeant John Henry Webb
- Warrant Officer Charles Edward Wordsworth
- Sergeant George Ernest Smyth Wren
- Pilot Officer Harry Waldo Yielder
1943
- Flying Officer Alfred Monro Barnard
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Edwin Bell
- Flying Officer Thomas Anthony Bishop
- Wing Commander Jindrich Breitcetl
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Langlois Butler
- Sergeant Josef Felkl
- Flight Lieutenant Frantisek Fencl
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Joseph Gardiner
- Flying Officer Robert Stanley Graves
- Sergeant Leonard Herbert William Green
- Flight Sergeant John Francis Hady
- Flight Sergeant Josef Halada
- Sergeant Ronald William Hughes
- Flying Officer Frederick Gordon Ingham
- Warrant Officer Vilda Jaks
- Sergeant George Oliver Leadbeater
- Flying Officer Vivian Charles Leithhead
- Flying Officer Lewis John Lyne
- Pilot Officer Dugald (dougie) Maciver
- Sergeant Leslie Marshall
- Flight Sergeant James Alexander Mawson
- Flight Lieutenant John McCrory
- Warrant Officer Cornelius Cameron McDougall
- Flying Officer Peter John McGarvey
- Sergeant Robert Sinclair Moncrieff
- Flight Sergeant Frank Louis Mortimer
- Pilot Officer Emilian Mrazek
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alan Arthur Olney
- Flying Officer Edward Pavelka
- Sergeant Victor Herbert Pears
- Flight Sergeant Michal Pizur
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Sydney Pocock
- Leading Aircraftman William Frank Smith Ridout
- Pilot Officer Bruce Henry Webb Stevens
- Corporal Edwin Keith Sutherland
- Flying Officer Louis Phillip Theriault
- Flight Sergeant Alan Jeffrey Walford
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Alfred Williams
- Sergeant Kenneth Renwick Wyse
1944
- Flying Officer Robert Byron Bingham
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Leslie Boyd
- Flight Sergeant Roy Vincent Boyd
- Flying Officer James Henry Bringloe
- Warrant Officer Class I James Carswell
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Erroll Chamberlain
- Pilot Officer James Harold Nimmo Cleminson
- Pilot Officer William Hugh Cockburn
- Warrant Officer Matthew Crowe
- Warrant Officer Class I Francis William Darragh
- Corporal William Rodger Dickson
- Flying Officer Walter Reginald Eaglestone
- Pilot Officer Herbert Ronald Wilkinson Fox
- Lieutenant Gordon
- Warrant Officer Harold Gower
- Squadron Leader David Donald Spence Grant
- Warrant Officer Clement Thistleton Halpin
- Flying Officer Harold Tudor Haynes
- Flight Sergeant Douglas James Heath
- Sergeant Ernest Henley
- Flying Officer John Henry Hudson
- Flight Lieutenant Andrew Harold Adelbert McBain
- Wing Commander John Gordon McNeill
- Sergeant James Walton Mitchell
- Flying Officer John Webber Mitchell
- Lieutenant Mollett
- Sergeant Richard Cecil Morrison
- Pilot Officer Frank Willis Moss
- Lieutenant Russell
- Lieutenant Salant
- Squadron Leader Albert John Smith
- Lieutenant Stanbury
- Flight Lieutenant George Everette Steel-davies
- Warrant Officer Alwyn Terence Till
- Pilot Officer Arthur James Venn
- Pilot Officer Donald Stuart Whiting
- Squadron Leader Brian Edmund Wilmot
- Pilot Officer Thomas Earl Wiltse
1945
- Flight Sergeant Floyd Arthur Duench
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard Keith Harris
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Laird
- Pilot Officer George Grey Lindley
- Flight Sergeant Arnold Alexander Lockyer
1946
- Corporal Herbert James Berry
- Flying Officer Charles Cecil Harland
- Flight Sergeant Joseph O'Reilly
- Squadron Leader Henri Louis Racicot