On this day — 26 August
258 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 26 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Lawrence Austin
- Sergeant Barrie Baker
- Sergeant John Hawes Balmer
- Pilot Officer Gilbert Louis Bayliss
- Pilot Officer Leonard William Bennett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Collier
- Sergeant William John Cheshire Corker
- Sergeant Thomas George James Cranston
- Sergeant George Middleton Dickson
- Flying Officer Robert Lesley Edwards
- Sergeant Alexander Gibson
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Watson Glass
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick George Holmes
- Flying Officer Frank Macdonald Hunter
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Love
- Pilot Officer Ronald Stanley Magee
- Sergeant Walter Maxwell
- Sergeant Sidney Ellis Meades
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Osborn Ernest Milway
- Sergeant Frederick Henry Newson
- Flying Officer Stanley Clifton Pendred
- Sergeant Marmaduke Ridley
- Sergeant Charles Peace Riley
- Sergeant Eddie Andreas Hals Riley
- Sergeant Denis Frederick Shaller
- Sergeant James Scott Smith
- Pilot Officer Joseph Colin Smitheram
- Sergeant Royston Charles Edward Stiles
- Squadron Leader Frank George Ralph Thomas
- Leading Aircraftman David George Underhill
- Pilot Officer Frank Kinnersley Webster
1941
- Sergeant Tom Appleby
- Sergeant Stuart George Bastin
- Sergeant Omer Wilbur John Bishop
- Sergeant Hubert Bonnett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Andrew Buckham
- Aircraftman 1st Class Horace Bucknell
- Sergeant Stanley Burdon
- Leading Aircraftman Max Haslehurst Chiverton
- Sergeant Wallace Howard Cole
- Flight Sergeant Basil Douglas Davies
- Sergeant Alexander Ronald James Dick
- Pilot Officer George Bannatyne Dunn
- Sergeant John Davidson Duthie
- Sergeant William Fisher
- Pilot Officer Thomas Raymond Fyles
- Sergeant Reginald James Greenough
- Sergeant Alan Peter James Grundy
- Sergeant Ronald Hamilton
- Flying Officer Michael James Carr Harwood
- Sergeant Walter Brendan Healy
- Leading Aircraftman Rudolph Bernard Herland
- Sergeant Michael Christopher Hind
- Sergeant Clifford Henry Jacka
- Sergeant John Douglas Johnston
- Sergeant Ivan Leslie Jones
- Pilot Officer John Reginald Arthur Jones
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Charles Judd
- Sergeant Gordon Knight
- Wing Commander Francis Alfred George Lascelles
- Flight Sergeant Noel Lusher
- Sergeant John Patterson Macilwaine
- Sergeant John Francis Edgar Maltby
- Squadron Leader Alan Cresswell Martin
- Sergeant Alfred Albert Matthews
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Gordon May
- Sergeant Alan Mitchell
- Leading Aircraftman Vincent Chester Steward Newman
- Sergeant Alex Stanley Oman
- Flight Sergeant William John Ordway
- Sergeant Thomas Parkinson
- Sergeant Roland Joseph Fidele Perras
- Pilot Officer Ernest William Harry Phillips
- Pilot Officer Harold Quilliam
- Pilot Officer William Frederick Race
- Pilot Officer Reginald Robert Reynolds
- Pilot Officer Robert Elmer Robinson
- Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Runcorn
- Sergeant Ronald John Scott
- Sergeant Edward Charles Shea
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Raymond Shuttleworth
- Sergeant Gilbert Vincent Smith
- Pilot Officer Eric Wilfred Swarsbrick
- Sergeant Charles Clinton Topping
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Pollock Weir
- Flight Sergeant George Albert Whipps
- Sergeant Hugh Vernon Wilkinson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Arthur Willoughby
- Flying Officer William Wright
- Sergeant Donald Frederick Youldon
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Lemuel Walter Beddowes
- Sergeant Bruce Clifford Burke
- Squadron Leader William Joseph Carr
- Pilot Officer Ian Douglas Colquhoun-thomson
- Sergeant Clifford Harry Cornish
- Sergeant David Neil Cullen
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Eric Dobson
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Dukes
- Leading Aircraftman Andrew Forrester
- Leading Aircraftman Timothy Henry Fox
- Flight Sergeant Harold William Gregory
- Leading Aircraftman Gilvary Kimmond Hamilton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Edmund Frank Hart
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Jackson
- Sergeant Donald William Jennings
- Pilot Officer James Frederick Kelly
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Gilbert Keslake
- Corporal Raymond Leigh
- Corporal Harold John Manson
- Pilot Officer James Alexander Manson
- Leading Aircraftman James McVicar
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Emrys Morgan
- Flying Officer John Edgar Mosher
- Flying Officer Dudley Gerald Newman
- Sergeant Edward Cecil Perkins
- Sergeant Robert Pontin
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Bruce Reid
- Leading Aircraftman Laurence William Roper
- Flight Sergeant Morris Ezra Shaw
- Corporal Robin Gregory Shaw
- Corporal Frederick William Shenton
- Leading Aircraftman John Dale Wawn
- Sergeant Gordon Balmoral Willcocks
- Sergeant Alan Donald Woods
- Pilot Officer George Dean Woolrich
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas York
1943
- Lieutenant Abramowitz
- Flight Sergeant Frank Edward Adams
- Sergeant Thomas Reginald Armstrong
- Sergeant Rex Boulton
- Flight Sergeant John Glen Brislan
- Sergeant Norman Conway Brown
- Flight Sergeant Basil Elliott Clark
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Terrance Cooper
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Crowe
- Sergeant Brian Gray Donbavand
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Douglas Drewe
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Duckworth
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Wayland Early
- Flight Sergeant Eric Claude Marcus Eaton
- Sergeant Jack Henry Farmer
- Flying Officer Colin Scott Ferguson
- Sergeant Arthur Hollis Green
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Greenwood
- Leading Aircraftman William Groves
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Hyland Harvey
- Sergeant Stanley George Hipperson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Reginald Trevor Hudson-bell
- Sergeant Richard Hughes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leo John Kenny
- Sergeant Alec Percy King
- Flying Officer Keith Nesbitt Laing
- Squadron Leader Herbert Keith Laycock
- Sergeant Thomas Leonard Keith Lindsay
- Flying Officer Richard Lund
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gerald De Burgh McCann
- Sergeant Wesley Earl McDonald
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Gracey McKenzie
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Cedric McLenahan
- Sergeant William John Miller
- Sergeant Dugald Maccoll Morton
- Corporal Leslie Alec Mugridge
- Sergeant Ernest Munsterman
- Leading Aircraftman John Archibald Nelson
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond O'Connor
- Sergeant Alfred Phethean
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Frank Pick
- Sergeant Frank Plows
- Sergeant Wallace Gard Prout
- Flight Sergeant Frank Ridge
- Pilot Officer George William Ritchie
- Flight Sergeant Robert Charles Scott
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Hjalmer Sanford Sellgren
- Sergeant Kenneth Gordon Soutar
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil James Southwell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Bruce Squelch
- Sergeant John Peter Taylor
- Flying Officer Stanley George Wallis
- Sergeant Philip Walmsley
- Flying Officer Calvin Watson
- Flight Sergeant Edward Howard Weeks
- Squadron Leader Sydney Wickenden
- Flying Officer Frank Porter Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Bertram Cecil Woodroofe
- Corporal Henry Woods
1944
- Pilot Officer Alexander John Anderson
- Pilot Officer Howard Francis Anderson
- Pilot Officer Richard Stockdale Barker
- Pilot Officer David Russell Barnard
- Flight Sergeant Albert Norman James Billing
- Squadron Leader Walter Douglas Wilberforce Bird
- Flight Sergeant James Attewood Boatswain
- Flying Officer Vernon Harry Bolton
- Flight Sergeant Reginald John Bucirde
- Flight Sergeant Norman George Albert Burges
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Rodger Church
- Flying Officer Darrell Owen Connolly
- Flight Sergeant James Ross Court
- Flying Officer Norman Edward Cousins
- Pilot Officer Raymond Benjamin Ede
- Warrant Officer Raymond Firth
- Flying Officer James McVeigh Flood
- Flying Officer Elton Eugene Freeman
- Flying Officer John Alexander Glenn
- Sergeant Dennis Albert Godden
- Flying Officer Francis Edward Good
- Flying Officer Harold Robert Good
- Pilot Officer Hugh Brannan Hamilton
- Squadron Leader James Albert Hanway
- Warrant Officer John Reginald Harvey
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Norman Henderson
- Pilot Officer William John Hope
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Maurice Howes
- Flying Officer Kenneth Millett Hutchins
- Pilot Officer Alvin Roy Jackson
- Flying Officer Irving Jack Kirschner
- Pilot Officer Edward Kisilowsky
- Pilot Officer Frank Kohut
- Lieutenant Daniel Krynauw
- Flying Officer Arnold Wilfred Larsen
- Flying Officer James Standish Leigh
- Flying Officer Jack Allan Linklater
- Flight Sergeant Walter John Manley
- Flying Officer George William McCartney
- Pilot Officer Harold Lloyd McKay
- Sergeant James Crawford McMurtrie
- Flying Officer William Arthur Milner
- Lieutenant Christian Johannes Mouton
- Pilot Officer Ross Bell Nairn
- Flight Sergeant William George Norton
- Sergeant Donald Montague Paterson
- Flight Sergeant Kevin Ambrose Pavey
- Pilot Officer James Alfred Perdue
- Flight Sergeant Paul Peters
- Flying Officer Norman Harry Port
- Flying Officer William Ross
- Sergeant Raymond Joseph Sander
- Pilot Officer Maurice Savage
- Pilot Officer Stephen Simm
- Flying Officer Elwood Oscar Smith
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Joseph Smith
- Pilot Officer Victor Stear
- Flying Officer Malcolm Joseph Steel
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Stenhouse
- Leading Aircraftman Alan John Stormont
- Flying Officer Norman Edward Trusty
- Sergeant Harry Twell
- Warrant Officer James Lionel Tupuae Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Noel Herbert Wood
1945
- Squadron Leader Charles Arbuthnot Crombie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric John Griffiths
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Reginald Horton
- Lieutenant Colonel Starfield
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Paul Witts