On this day — 28 August
525 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 28 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Maruice Angell
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Clifford Vacy Ash
- Sergeant Jack Bann
- Pilot Officer Noel John Victor Benson
- Sergeant Leonard Edgar Bettis
- Corporal George Roland Bruford
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Henry Cox
- Pilot Officer James Dellow
- Squadron Leader Duncan Campbell Dunlop
- Sergeant Harry Dunnington
- Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Edwards
- Pilot Officer William Edward Fitzpatrick
- Pilot Officer Richard Haviland Haviland
- Pilot Officer Henry Michael Hoadley
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Mortimer James
- Pilot Officer Charles Edward Johnson
- Pilot Officer Peter Lewis Kenner
- Leading Aircraftman Clarence Roy Liebke
- Pilot Officer Michael Ernest Brian Macassey
- Pilot Officer Donald Kennedy Macdonald
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Edward Mason
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Moon
- Sergeant Francis Joseph Rosbotham
- Sergeant Robert Charles Turner
- Pilot Officer David Whitley
1941
- Flight Lieutenant James Okeden Alexander
- Flight Lieutenant Brian Cotter Bloor
- Sergeant William Fred Bodkin
- Pilot Officer Cyril Keith Bowen
- Sergeant George Hosford Bradley
- Sergeant Raymond Frank Brian
- Flight Sergeant John Lionel Briggs
- Flight Sergeant George Brittain
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald James Brown
- Flying Officer Albert Henry Collins
- Sergeant Howard Stanley Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Harold George Dicker
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Alexander Dixon
- Sergeant Alan Matthew Dorey
- Pilot Officer Tudor Gwynn Edwards
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Arthur Ford
- Sergeant Kenneth Ivor Gilbert
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Charles Glockler
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Victor Grimble
- Sergeant Frank Grove
- Pilot Officer Stanley Frederick Maude Gunnis
- Flight Sergeant Alexander James Hardy
- Sergeant Frank Harker
- Sergeant Kenneth Hayes
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Howard
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Francis Hunt
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Ambrose Johnson
- Squadron Leader Walter John Lawson
- Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Letchford
- Pilot Officer William Moody Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant Dennis John Mackan
- Sergeant Spencer Mallen
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Joseph Graham Marshall
- Flight Sergeant William Haggan Morley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Newnham
- Pilot Officer Frank Kerr Orme
- Sergeant John Albert Parker
- Flying Officer Noel Carrol Pettit
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Henry Albert Pickering
- Pilot Officer Douglas John Ritchie
- Sergeant Allan Arthur Cecil Shaddick
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick Joseph Anthony Shannon
- Squadron Leader Richard Ashton Shuttleworth
- Sergeant Raymond Jervis Somerfield
- Sergeant Cecil William Strutt
- Flight Sergeant Frank Tweedale
- Leading Aircraftman John Stanfield Watson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Francis Wattis
- Pilot Officer Jack Wesley Weir
1942
- Sergeant Rhys Maelgwyn Alexander
- Sergeant Edward Charles Allen
- Flight Sergeant Arnold Herbert Amlin
- Sergeant Robert Hugh Ashwell
- Sergeant Norman Sargeant Ball
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Barton-smith
- Pilot Officer Edward Beale
- Sergeant Eric Albert Berrett
- Sergeant Thomas Bickers
- Pilot Officer Byron Stanley Biden
- Sergeant John Bingham
- Pilot Officer Ronald Albert Bingham
- Pilot Officer George Stanley Bishop
- Flight Sergeant Barriemore Smallwood Blundall
- Lieutenant Nigel Barclay Boyd
- Pilot Officer Edward Arthur Rutherford Briant
- Pilot Officer Thomas Deathers Brown
- Flight Sergeant David Ellis Brownlee
- Sergeant Charles Herbert Brummitt
- Sergeant Graham Francis Bush
- Lieutenant Leonard Adam Carnovski
- Sergeant Leslie George Carr
- Flight Sergeant Archie Ernest Caton
- Sergeant Eric William John Chaldecott
- Warrant Officer Class II Lionel Greer Chaston
- Flight Sergeant Allen Frederick Christie
- Sergeant Frank Donald Chudleigh
- Flight Lieutenant George Lionel Clack
- Flight Sergeant Norman Austin Clare
- Sergeant Sydney Frank Clark
- Sergeant Henry Clay
- Flight Sergeant Roger Albert Clement
- Flying Officer Albert Cook
- Sergeant Geoffrey Edric Coombes
- Sergeant Ellis Victor Cope
- Sergeant William David Cowe
- Sergeant John David Craig
- Sergeant Francis Rodney Cummins
- Sergeant James Edward Dalton
- Pilot Officer Errol Thomas Paterson Dalzell
- Flight Sergeant Richard Maxwell Darling
- Sergeant Goronwy Wynne Davies
- Flight Sergeant John Richard Davies
- Flying Officer William Dillon
- Sergeant Reginald Patrick Dobson
- Sergeant Walter Duncombe
- Sergeant George Edward Dunn
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Murray Edwards
- Sergeant Frank Henry Edwards
- Flying Officer Richard Douglas Elrington
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Carl Empey
- Sergeant Harold John Endley
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Evans
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Arthur Evans
- Pilot Officer Charles De Cardonnel Findlay
- Flight Sergeant Allan Kilshaw Fish
- Flight Sergeant Dickenson Fletcher
- Flight Sergeant James Douglas Follett
- Sergeant Colin William Free
- Flight Lieutenant James Rothwell Frith
- Pilot Officer Derek Gill
- Warrant Officer Class II Edmond William John Gilson
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Graham
- Flight Sergeant George Armstrong Gray
- Sergeant Herbert Gregson
- Pilot Officer John Anthony Gruber
- Sergeant Francis Norman Hadley
- Sergeant Victor Arthur Hamon
- Sergeant Eric Noel Hare
- Flight Sergeant Alan Harker
- Flying Officer Eric John Harris
- Sergeant Kenneth Hawthorn
- Sergeant Philip William Hearne
- Flight Sergeant Claude Harvey Hincks
- Sergeant Denis Patrick Hogan
- Sergeant Stuart Cecil Holden
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Holmes
- Sergeant Eric Armstrong Hooker
- Pilot Officer Percival Gerald Hopkins
- Sergeant Robert Howat
- Sergeant Frank Leslie James
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Vincent James
- Flight Sergeant Athol Herbert Jennings
- Sergeant David Alan Vaughan John
- Sergeant Albert Edward Johnson
- Pilot Officer Melvin Florin Johnson
- Pilot Officer David John Jones
- Sergeant Leslie Leathen Jones
- Pilot Officer Rowland Thomas Jones
- Sergeant Frank Ernest Kearns
- Pilot Officer Charles William Keddy
- Flight Sergeant John Joseph Kincaid
- Flight Sergeant Leonard John Lawler
- Flight Sergeant Victor George Lawrence
- Flight Sergeant Donald McLellan Leitch
- Flight Sergeant Edward George William Lewis
- Sergeant Sydney Lloyd
- Flying Officer John Lowrie
- Sergeant John Outram Ludgate
- Sergeant Leonard Herbert Macefield
- Sergeant Vincent J. Mackey
- Pilot Officer Douglas Henry Macnaughton
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Pendleton Francis L. T. Magruder
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Maitland
- Warrant Officer Terence Michael Manning
- Sergeant John Alexander Brock Marshall
- Sergeant Joseph Potton Martin
- Sergeant Herbert Sydney McCartney
- Pilot Officer John McCubbin
- Sergeant Roderick McGregor
- Warrant Officer Class II Gerald Lewis McKenna
- Sergeant Douglas Spencer McNeil
- Sergeant John George Mellor
- Flight Sergeant Terris Haggie Miller
- Sergeant Albert Mills
- Pilot Officer James Arthur Johnston Milne
- Flight Sergeant Norman Rae Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Donald Edward Morgan
- Flight Sergeant Jon (john) Robert Morrow
- Flight Sergeant John Walter Mortimer
- Sergeant Leonard Edward Moss
- Sergeant Francis Arnold Winter Nice
- Sergeant Alfred Norton
- Air Sergeant Frans Gysbert Olivier
- Flight Lieutenant Andrew Francis Atterbury Osborn
- Sergeant Arthur Graham Oswin
- Flight Sergeant James Douglas Parkinson
- Sergeant John Patch
- Flight Sergeant James Paterson
- Sergeant Jose Jean Gustave Renee Patry
- Pilot Officer Eric Courtenay Patterson
- Sergeant Gerald Victor Payne
- Sergeant William Dudley Peirce
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Henry Philipson
- Sergeant Garfield James Phillips
- Pilot Officer Kenneth James Pierpoint
- Sergeant Frederick George Edward Pierson
- Sergeant Charles Robert Podmore
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Louis Osias Primeau
- Flying Officer Donald Carr Pritchard
- Pilot Officer Raymond John Purser
- Sergeant Brian Quinn
- Pilot Officer Walter Lewis Quinn
- Sergeant John Ramsey
- Sergeant Alwyne Edward Rees
- Flight Sergeant Max Feindel Robbins
- Flight Sergeant Harry Edward Roberts
- Sergeant John Victor Robinson
- Sergeant Thomas Harry George Robinson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Rooney
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Ross
- Sergeant Miles Rowbottom
- Sergeant Dan Rowles
- Sergeant Peter Siegfried Sharman
- Sergeant William John Sharpe
- Sergeant Peter Hugh Shulver
- Flying Officer Walter Allen Skelton
- Sergeant Hugh Richard Skinner
- Flight Sergeant Glen Allen Smith
- Sergeant James Arthur Smith
- Warrant Officer John George Smith
- Sergeant William Edleston Spooner
- Sergeant Edward James Stansfield
- Sergeant David Hayward Steele
- Flying Officer Russell Henry Suckling
- Sergeant Murray Swann
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Oswald Syme
- Flight Sergeant Edward Frederick Talbot
- Pilot Officer Frederick John Taylor
- Sergeant Hugh Cowan Taylor
- Flying Officer Norman Allan Taylor
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert Lloyd Telfer
- Sergeant Leslie Mellor Tetley
- Sergeant Charles Herbert Thompson
- Flight Sergeant John William Todd
- Flight Sergeant Patrick William Tucker-feltham
- Sergeant Victor Arthur Tunbridge
- Wing Commander John Despard Twigg
- Warrant Officer Fred Rupert Varrick
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Wakefield
- Sergeant Gerald Walder
- Sergeant Albert William Waller
- Sergeant Donald Walter Wallis
- Sergeant Francis Augustine Weaver
- Sergeant Squire Arbuthnott Webster
- Flight Lieutenant James Whitham
- Sergeant Norman Seymour Wilding
- Sergeant John Bennett Wilkes
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Cuthbert Wilkinson
- Flight Lieutenant John David Willis
- Sergeant George Hunter Wilson
- Sergeant Herbert Vincent Winch
- Flight Sergeant Bertram Arthur Wolstencroft
- Flight Sergeant Peter Karil Zaparynuk
1943
- Sergeant William Walter George Addison
- Flight Sergeant Billie Albert Anderson
- Warrant Officer Leonard Wilson Aspden
- Sergeant Donald John Atkinson
- Sergeant Douglas Bailey
- Flight Sergeant Martin Bailey
- Sergeant Benjamin Joseph Barton
- Sergeant James Andrew Beck
- Sergeant Wendelin Bernard Bettin
- Sergeant Kenneth Jack Bevis
- Corporal Frank Bickers
- Flying Officer Alfred John Birtles
- Sergeant Stanley George Bond
- Flight Sergeant Donald George Booth
- Pilot Officer Augustine Brannigan
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Jack Bridger
- Flying Officer Ronald Arthur Buckman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Derek Burkinshaw
- Sergeant George Charles Burton
- Pilot Officer James Ian Francis Byrne
- Pilot Officer Donald John Cameron
- Flight Sergeant John Edward Cameron
- Flying Officer Peter Carling
- Flight Sergeant Charles Gordon Carrington
- Sergeant William Albert Carson
- Sergeant Norman Alfred Pinxton Chew
- Sergeant Albert Brinley Clark
- Flying Officer Harold Arthur Clark
- Sergeant Albert Clarke
- Pilot Officer John Yorke Clarke
- Sergeant Eric Wilfred Clayton
- Sergeant George Victor Cook
- Sergeant Harry Coupe
- Flight Sergeant Bryan Stephen Cox
- Sergeant Stephen George Coyne
- Flight Lieutenant Earle Grant Crockett
- Flying Officer Clifford Frederick Cropper
- Sergeant Thomas Raymond Crowther
- Sergeant Cyril Bertram Crummey
- Sergeant Patrick Joseph Crummey
- Sergeant John Richard Culshaw
- Sergeant John Curson
- Sergeant William Madine Dalzell
- Sergeant Lancelot Walter Davies
- Flight Sergeant Noel Michael Davis
- Flying Officer John Brian Day
- Sergeant Victor Alfred Deacock
- Sergeant Ronald Williams Dobbins
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Reginald Dobson
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Shurrock Dodson
- Flight Sergeant James Patrick Donnelly
- Sergeant Victor Alfred Drayton
- Sergeant William Duncanson
- Sergeant William Henry Duroe
- Leading Aircraftman Mostyn Vaughan Eckert
- Sergeant Cyril Bert Edwards
- Sergeant Frank Eeles
- Sergeant George Reginald Elks
- Pilot Officer Albert Edward Emans
- Flight Sergeant Albert James Fairall
- Sergeant Arthur Maurice Finfer
- Sergeant Dennis William Firth
- Sergeant Edward William Fitch
- Pilot Officer Arthur Marcus Fitzgerald
- Sergeant William Frearson
- Flight Sergeant William Fillmor Freeze
- Flight Sergeant Keeble Charles French
- Flying Officer James Clifford Frizzell
- Sergeant Norman Richard Gauntlett
- Sergeant Hector McNeill Gill
- Flying Officer Melville Ross Good
- Sergeant John Goodwin
- Sergeant Hugh Alexander Gordon
- Sergeant Frank Hustler Gould
- Sergeant Robert Graham
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Elvett Gregory
- Flying Officer William Victor Gregson
- Sergeant Kelsall George Gunn
- Sergeant Jack Phillip Hague
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Henry Hallam
- Flight Sergeant Jack Thomas Hamer
- Flight Sergeant James Valentine Hardiman
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Hardman
- Sergeant Douglas Owen Hargreaves
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Frederick Harris
- Sergeant Arthur Roy Harrup
- Sergeant Herbert Thomas Hathaway
- Sergeant Walter Crampton Havercroft
- Warrant Officer Class II Warren St. Clair Hebb
- Sergeant George Markham Heppinstall
- Sergeant Ronald Fassnidge Higgs
- Flight Sergeant Frank Douglas Higham
- Sergeant Robert Hindmarch
- Sergeant William Elder Hogarth
- Sergeant Harry Keith Hollidge
- Sergeant Ronald William Holmes
- Flight Sergeant Peter Rowland Humphries
- Flying Officer Edward Hyett
- Sergeant Irvine Illingworth
- Pilot Officer Frank Eric Impey
- Sergeant Frank Jackson
- Pilot Officer Griffith Llewellyn Jenkins
- Sergeant Harold Jennings
- Sergeant Philip Henry Johnson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Arthur Johnson
- Flight Sergeant George Karcza
- Flight Sergeant Edward Kelloway
- Sergeant Jack Kemm
- Sergeant Donald William Kemp
- Sergeant John Leigh Kemp
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Kerlin
- Flying Officer Robert Michael Kildea
- Flying Officer Graham King
- Flight Sergeant Milton Ray Ledgett
- Flying Officer Paul Albert Levy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Alfred Lewitt
- Leading Aircraftman George Frederick Lodge
- Flight Sergeant Alan Frederick Loxton
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Augustine Lynch
- Sergeant Walter Stanley Lynn
- Sergeant Samuel Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant William Mackillop
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Major
- Sergeant Hugh Millett Male
- Sergeant Donald George Malley
- Sergeant Richard Coombe Mason
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Keith Matthews
- Pilot Officer Herbert Francis Maughan
- Leading Aircraftman James Joseph McAleer
- Flying Officer Hugh John McCulloch
- Flight Sergeant Thomas William Newport McGrath
- Pilot Officer Alexander Aloyisius McGregor
- Sergeant George McGregor
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Charles McKenzie
- Flying Officer John Alexander Mactavish McLeish
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Wilson McTernaghan
- Sergeant Maurice Meakin
- Sergeant Gordon Edward Melvin
- Pilot Officer Leslie Frank Merricks
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Lillie Mitchell
- Flying Officer Neville Sladen Mitchell
- Sergeant Sydney James Mitchell
- Sergeant John Edward Hipwell Morton
- Flight Lieutenant Guy Leslie Mott
- Sergeant Richard Patrick Michael Mullarkey
- Sergeant Daniel Joseph Mullen
- Flying Officer John Nesden
- Pilot Officer John Arthur Cyril Newman
- Flight Sergeant John Francis Nichols
- Pilot Officer Samuel Norris
- Sergeant Stanley John Oakley
- Pilot Officer Thomas Rex Odgers
- Sergeant John Leivers Oldershaw
- Pilot Officer Roy Eric Olive
- Flying Officer Richard Herbert Orr
- Sergeant David Elwyn Owen
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Painter
- Flight Sergeant Barton Thomas Eric Parker
- Pilot Officer Raymond Stanley Payne
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Pearson
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Perry
- Flying Officer Victor Charles Peters
- Warrant Officer Charles Phillips
- Flight Sergeant Keith Balfour Phillips
- Sergeant John Ernest William Pimm
- Sergeant Geoffrey Leonard Plume
- Sergeant Cyril Herbert Pratt
- Sergeant Stephen Preston
- Sergeant Douglas John Purcell
- Sergeant Leonard Rees
- Flight Sergeant Roland Ernest James Rees
- Flying Officer Andrew Murray Reith
- Sergeant Robert Renfrew
- Warrant Officer Class II John William McLeod Renwick
- Sergeant Leslie Thomas Reynolds
- Sergeant Harry Reginald Jack Richardson
- Sergeant George Rippingale
- Flight Sergeant John Sydney Rippon
- Flight Lieutenant Oliver Brock Robertson
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Rodgers
- Sergeant Douglas Alexander Ross
- Sergeant Alec Joseph Ruffle
- Pilot Officer Frederick Richard Sanderson
- Sergeant Frederick George Scarr
- Sergeant Edward Kenneth Sears
- Sergeant James Seddon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles William Sharp
- Sergeant Thomas Pender Shelmerdine
- Sergeant Eric George Shepherd
- Flight Sergeant James Seaforth Silver
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Harold Silvester
- Sergeant David Skinner
- Sergeant Gordon Sproat
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Sturtridge Steer
- Pilot Officer John Bede Polding Stevens
- Pilot Officer Thomas Norman Stockdale
- Flying Officer Thomas Henry Tabberer
- Sergeant Albert Tasker
- Sergeant Alexander George Templeton
- Sergeant George Louis Terry
- Sergeant John Thomas
- Sergeant William Charles Marcus Thomas
- Leading Aircraftman Leon Laing Thompson
- Flight Sergeant William Harrison Thompson
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Frank Thould
- Sergeant Henry Albert Toomey
- Flight Sergeant Jack Charleton Tucker
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Charles Turp
- Flying Officer Romeo Dominick Louis Vietto
- Flight Sergeant Walter Philling Ward
- Flight Sergeant George Richard Marr Warren
- Sergeant Harry Edwin Warren
- Sergeant Charles Francis Webb
- Flying Officer John Richard Welch
- Flight Sergeant Edward Bryan Headlam Wells
- Sergeant Percival Jack Wenmoth
- Sergeant Arthur Herbert Whetton
- Sergeant Thomas William Albert Wilkes
- Flight Sergeant Walter Ian Leslie Wilkes
- Sergeant Enoch Jones Williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Wilson
- Sergeant Samuel James Wilson
1944
- Lieutenant Alexander
- Flying Officer Louis Walter Allan Bauer
- Flight Sergeant Peter Giblin Caddy
- Warrant Officer Class I Creux
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Edmond Darby
- Leading Aircraftman Loyd Anson Gray Dunbar
- Flying Officer George Johnston Geggie
- Corporal Laurence Harnett
- Flight Sergeant John Dennis Jarvis
- Flight Sergeant Jack Muir Knight
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Ernest Latham
- Corporal Norman Richard Morris
- Captain John Frederick Munro
- Warrant Officer Victor William Arthur Pivott
- Flying Officer Albert Wesley Ross
- Warrant Officer Class I Milton Eldon Soules
- Pilot Officer Wilmot Arthur Sparks
- Leading Aircraftman James David Syme
- Flight Sergeant James Thomas
- Lieutenant Roy David M. Van Der Spuy
- Lieutenant Welman
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Edward Wigley
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Yabsley
- Flying Officer Stanley Charles Youl
- Flying Officer William Marlin Young
1945
- Warrant Officer George Hay Batchelor
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Angus Ellen
- Flight Lieutenant Samuel Charles Hellard
- Lieutenant Gordon Hepburn
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hymie Irving Rivkin
- Warrant Officer Richard Frederick Sumner