On this day — 27 August
292 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 27 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Charles John Arthur
- Sergeant Lewis Duthie Campbell
- Sergeant Hughie William Carter
- Sergeant Ralph Cyril Rupert Cox
- Sergeant Harold Herbert George Howard
- Sergeant Norman Reid Johnston
- Squadron Leader Eric Lawrence Moxey
- Pilot Officer John Hugh Keith Parvin
- Sergeant Eric Alfred Ringwood
- Sergeant Frank Cyril Sawyer
- Pilot Officer Timothy Norman Smyth
- Sergeant Joseph William Stephenson
- Sergeant John Thomson
- Sergeant Harry Williams
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond George Anderson
- Sergeant James Eric William Ballard
- Flight Sergeant Edward William Berriedale-johnson
- Corporal Frederick Binks
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Bloor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas John Buckle
- Sergeant Peter James Bull
- Sergeant Arthur Aspinall Catton
- Sergeant Noel Anthony John Clifford
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Frederick Davis
- Leading Aircraftman Dougall
- Sergeant Walter Thomas Douglas
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward James Dowle
- Chaplain The Rev. Percy Gordon Duff
- Sergeant Lincoln John Ellmers
- Sergeant Reginald Pascoe Sydney Grenfell
- Air Mechanic Lawrence Healy
- Sergeant Frank Stephen Richard Heard
- Leading Aircraftman Anthony Ralph Herbert
- Pilot Officer Aubrey Abraham Horne
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Oliver Hughes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Benonie Jones
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Burgess Little
- Flight Sergeant Hedley Ronald Main
- Flight Lieutenant John Claverly Martin
- Flight Sergeant Henry Menary
- Flying Officer William Arthur Middleton
- Sergeant Harry Press Dee Morgan
- Flight Sergeant William Alexander Oastler
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Painter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter Charles Perkins
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Livingston Robertson
- Sergeant Ernest Harvey Roff
- Sergeant Thomas Scott Royan
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Jack Aworth Sale
- Pilot Officer John Mannington Sayers
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Frederick Switzer
- Sergeant Harold Tweedie
- Flight Sergeant Brian Yeadon
1942
- Sergeant Noel Gordon Bass
- Sergeant Allan William Baxter
- Sergeant James Bellinger
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Ronald Bird
- Sergeant Ronald James Blenkarn
- Sergeant Archibald Charles Blogg
- Sergeant Alfred Kenneth Bonser
- Sergeant Charles James Broomhead
- Flight Sergeant George Thirlwell Brown
- Flight Sergeant Charles Wesley Buchner
- Sergeant Marcus Heppell Burtt
- Sergeant William James Bushell
- Pilot Officer Robert William Byers
- Pilot Officer Martin Joseph Julien Charlier
- Sergeant Herbert Clegg
- Flight Sergeant Robert Arthur Colehan
- Squadron Leader Raymond Noel Collins
- Flight Sergeant James Cecil Colter
- Sergeant Alexander James Coto
- Leading Aircraftman Brian Cross
- Sergeant Geoffrey Charles Clifton Davis
- Second Lieutenant Denys De Klerk
- Pilot Officer Raymond Harold Dunckley
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Evans
- Flight Sergeant Jack Ellwood Evans
- Pilot Officer Harry Fallas
- Sergeant Harold Forshaw
- Pilot Officer John Wheelhouse Frazer
- Sergeant John Edward Gallon
- Sergeant Keith Goodfellow
- Flight Sergeant Robert Reid Gray
- Pilot Officer Peter Hayes
- Sergeant Gilbert Hebblethwaite
- Flight Lieutenant Maurice Henry Holder
- Sergeant Williams Richard Hopkins
- Sergeant Glyndwr Hughes
- Sergeant Warren Wallace Jarrett
- Sergeant Louis Arthur Jones
- Sergeant Jack King
- Pilot Officer Jack Leewarden
- Pilot Officer John William Longhurst
- Sergeant Cyril Lyle
- Sergeant Edward William Margetts
- Pilot Officer Dennis Stanley Masur
- Pilot Officer William May
- Sergeant Alastair Gordon Gillies McBain
- Pilot Officer William Ronald Berryman McCarthy
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Robert McDonald
- Sergeant Edwin Raymond McMullen
- Sergeant Gordon Francis Medhurst
- Pilot Officer Noel Millidge
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles William Morgan
- Pilot Officer Nigel Hall Moxey
- Sergeant Robert James Munro
- Pilot Officer Stuart Munro
- Pilot Officer Alexander Norman
- Flight Sergeant Eric O'Hara
- Flying Officer Alfred Henry Paget
- Flying Officer Frank Edward Parsons
- Flying Officer Frederick Charles Pinfold
- Pilot Officer Michael Robert Piper
- Pilot Officer Franklyn Richard Samuel Pye
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Turnbull Relph
- Sergeant Michael Hardwick Riddell
- Sergeant Douglas Bruce Ruggles
- Flight Sergeant Henry Millen Russell
- Sergeant Robert Charles Santley
- Flight Sergeant Michael Gordon Savage
- Pilot Officer Thomas Patrick Scanlan
- Leading Aircraftman Pierre Schumann
- Sergeant Kenneth Seddon
- Warrant Officer Ernest William Shadbolt
- Pilot Officer Charles Peter Shaw
- Sergeant Frederick Valentine Herbert Shepherd
- Flying Officer Alan Raymond Skone
- Sergeant Colin Hugh Mackenzie Smith
- Pilot Officer Gerald Cecil William Stone
- Flight Sergeant Joseph William Stuart
- Flying Officer John Frederick Summers
- Sergeant Leonard Sutherland
- Sergeant Gordon Peter Taylor
- Pilot Officer John Riley Thornton
- Pilot Officer Vincent Charles William Trowbridge
- Sergeant Eric Tupholme
- Squadron Leader Peter St. George Bruce Turnbull
- Sergeant Henry Thomas Augustus Turner
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Charles Viney
- Pilot Officer Edgar Whitaker
- Leading Aircraftman Roy William White
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Allen Wilson
1943
- Warrant Officer Harold Anderson
- Flying Officer Kenneth Arthur
- Flight Sergeant Peter Chadwick Bartle
- Pilot Officer Francis Wilson Bateman
- Sergeant Robert Peter Belsey
- Corporal Frederick George Bennett
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Henry Blampied
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Nelson Bowler
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Brookman
- Flying Officer John Charles William Bruce
- Squadron Leader Louis Richard Conway Cartwright
- Sergeant William Thomas Cheropita
- Corporal Henry Edward Conway
- Flying Officer John Patrick Custance
- Warrant Officer Class I Neil Maxwell Dalton
- Sergeant Denis Allen George Edwards
- Leading Aircraftman Cuthbert William Cyril Ellis
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Fleming
- Sergeant Peter Angelo Fricker
- Leading Aircraftman John Douglas Gardiner
- Sergeant Samuel Gilliland
- Flight Sergeant James William Gowans
- Flying Officer William Henry Graham
- Leading Aircraftman Lewis Grant
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald David Griffith
- Flying Officer Dallas George Harris
- Sergeant Walter Henry Harris
- Sergeant Hugh Patrick Henry
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Herbert Higgs
- Flying Officer Henry Reginald Holloway
- Sergeant Clarence Harold Jacotine
- Warrant Officer Raymond George Jesty
- Sergeant Robert Henry Johns
- Flying Officer Percy Hallowes Wray Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Kenneth Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert Lee
- Flying Officer William Watson Locke
- Leading Aircraftman Iain Charles Fordyce Macgregor
- Flying Officer Donal Patrick Magee
- Flying Officer John Paterson McDonell
- Squadron Leader Colin Metcalf
- Flight Lieutenant Ralph Mount
- Aircraftman 1st Class Samuel Murphy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Henry Naughton
- Warrant Officer Class I Donald Frank Newcombe
- Sergeant Gordon Norman Ninness
- Flight Sergeant Francis Arthur Noonan
- Corporal Vincent C. O'Donnell
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Dennis Wilfred Parsons
- Pilot Officer William Walton Pattinson
- Flying Officer John Marquis Rankin
- Flying Officer Donald William Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Ross
- Flying Officer Paul Geoffrey Scorer
- Sergeant William Edward Seckington
- Squadron Leader Cuthbert William Prideaux Selby
- Sergeant Raymond Frederick Stainsby
- Flying Officer Ian Frederick Stamper
- Flying Officer Robert Henry Stanwell
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Edward Stocker
- Leading Aircraftman John Brough Tarrant
- Sergeant James Taylor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Albert Venables
- Flight Sergeant Robert Reginald Waddell
- Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
- Captain Walter Wells
- Sergeant George Rogerson Wheatley
- Flying Officer Jack Edwin Thomas Wilkinson
- Sergeant John Peter Williams
- Squadron Leader John Ellis Willson
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Yealland
1944
- Sergeant Clifford Charles Addems
- Flight Sergeant Walter Henry John Barnes
- Pilot Officer William Samuel Baxter
- Flying Officer John Bell
- Flying Officer Hugh Geoffrey Bickerton
- Flying Officer Royden Garfield Bradley
- Pilot Officer Howard Charles Braun
- Squadron Leader James Hardie Brown
- Flight Sergeant William Clyde Brown
- Pilot Officer William Stewart Bryans
- Flying Officer James Gordon Cahir
- Warrant Officer William John Carrier
- Flying Officer Gavin Keith Henry Christensen
- Flight Lieutenant Austin Thomas Clark
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick James Dee
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Douglas Dyer
- Flight Sergeant Colin John Falconer
- Pilot Officer Wilfred James Fingland
- Pilot Officer David Ralston Fisher
- Flight Sergeant John Ernest Fitzgerald
- Flying Officer Gustaf Flegel
- Flight Lieutenant William Elmslie Frew
- Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray
- Flying Officer Frank Sidney Hawkes
- Flying Officer Donald Fraser Holder
- Flying Officer Ian Cameron Hutcheson
- Flight Sergeant Allen Stewart Jackson
- Pilot Officer Leonard Knut Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Noel Richard Keys
- Warrant Officer Clyde Leonard King
- Flight Sergeant William Arthur Dugald A. Knight
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Lawrence Knobloch
- Pilot Officer William Arthur Langrill
- Pilot Officer Harold William Lugg
- Flight Sergeant Donald James McAllister
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward McCormick
- Flying Officer Thomas Neil McCurdy
- Pilot Officer Burton McLauchlin
- Pilot Officer Robert Hudson McNabb
- Flight Lieutenant Leighton John Montgomerie
- Flight Lieutenant William John Moran
- Flying Officer Frank Kenneth Morley
- Pilot Officer Frank Ernest Morton
- Flight Sergeant Raymond James Mullins
- Flight Sergeant Poraumati O'Callaghan
- Flight Sergeant Trefor Roebeck Glandon Owen
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Ronald Raymer
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Coates Reay
- Flying Officer Thomas Gifford Robb
- Pilot Officer Heathcote George Round
- Leading Aircraftman John Edward Roussy
- Flying Officer Alfred Gordon Russell
- Flying Officer James Balfour Russell
- Flight Sergeant Jacob Schafer
- Flight Sergeant Edward Robert Sharp
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Eugene Sylvio Sigouin
- Flight Lieutenant William Bagley Smaill
- Flight Sergeant Richard Nathaniel Smith
- Pilot Officer Max Stern
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Joseph Taylor
- Pilot Officer Keith George Tennent
- Air Mechanic Willam Van Straaten
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Haig Watts
- Flight Sergeant Athol Grant Webber
- Pilot Officer Jack White
- Flight Lieutenant Burton Keith Wiley
- Pilot Officer Tom Yates
1945
- Flight Sergeant Brian John Eaton
- Warrant Officer John Campbell Higgins
- Flight Sergeant Henry Neville Lord
- Flying Officer Hamish Duncan Macfarlane
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Kenneth Priest
- Flying Officer John Thomas Walton