On this day — 31 August
412 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 31 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman John Stanton Adair
- Pilot Officer Raymond Andre Charles Aeberhardt
- Sergeant John Thomas Beesley
- Sergeant Lionel Louis Benjamin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Charles Bodimeade
- Sergeant Henry Albert Bolton
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Albert Briggs
- Wing Commander Edward Cecil Theodore Edwards
- Pilot Officer James Jackson Finlay
- Pilot Officer Robert Michael Goldstone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Hall
- Aircraftman 1st Class Norman Horace Hateley
- Sergeant Matthew Hill
- Sergeant Ralph Henderson Goff Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Kavanagh
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Thomas William Leman
- Sergeant Frederick John Leonhardt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Lowe
- Pilot Officer Gerard Hamilton Maffett
- Sergeant Aubrey Ernest Owles
- Sergeant Andrew Liggat Peddie
- Pilot Officer John Frederic Sydney Pritchard Price
- Sergeant Roly Frederick Roberts
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Robinson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth William Sando
- Aircraftman 1st Class George William Scott
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrence Christie Scott
- Leading Aircraftman John Skelding
- Pilot Officer Robert Alwyn Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class George William Snowden
- Squadron Leader Harold Morley Starr
- Pilot Officer Jaroslav Sterbacek
- Sergeant John Leonard Sugden
- Sergeant Harold Arthur Tune
- Flight Lieutenant Percy Stevenson Weaver
- Flying Officer Edgar John Wilcox
- Sergeant Leslie Arthur Williams
1941
- Sergeant Ben Akrigg
- Sergeant George Gilbert Bensley
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Bond
- Pilot Officer Johannes Carolus Bosch
- Air Mechanic August Burmeister
- Sergeant William Morrant Cadney
- Sergeant Victor Laurence Carine
- Sergeant John Alexander Dallas Clark
- Sergeant William Brown Clark
- Sergeant Robert James Collier
- Sergeant Frank Dacey
- Air Mechanic Dewar
- Sergeant Reginald Thomas Dodd
- Flight Sergeant David George Forbes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Sydney Foulger
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Thomas Gayer
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Wilfred Gray
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Harry
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Ray Holt
- Pilot Officer William Robert Hughes
- Sergeant Norman Jarvis
- Sergeant Thomas Kaye
- Sergeant Gerald Charles Sommerville Leach
- Sergeant Paul James Lewis
- Sergeant Leslie Gabriel McCormack
- Squadron Leader James Russell McWhirter
- Sergeant Everard Harvie Mills
- Flight Lieutenant Roy Mottram
- Sergeant Claude Lambert Naylor
- Pilot Officer Patrick Richard Owen
- Flying Officer Reginald Davidson Parker
- Flight Sergeant Philip James Robertson Pratt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Burdett Prest
- Sergeant Douglas Lewin Rhodes
- Sergeant Ronald Benjamin Russell
- Corporal Trevor Russell
- Pilot Officer William James Sears
- Wing Commander Roderick Harvey Spencer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Arthur Sullivan
- Sergeant Geoffrey Ledfrie Rees Sulman
- Sergeant Harry Gilbert Tonks
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Charles Turner
- Sergeant Peter Timothy Vowles
- Aircraftman 1st Class Keith Mervyn Ward
- Sergeant James Fitzgerald Wolff
- Leading Aircraftman John Curtis Wood
- Pilot Officer Peter Guy Campbell Wood
1942
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Gordon Herbert Arnot
- Leading Aircraftman Alan Brown
- Sergeant James Bryce
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Alfred Burman
- Sergeant Brian Corran
- Sergeant George Cunningham
- Leading Aircraftman Clare Denton
- Pilot Officer Maurice Dunn
- Sergeant Alan Charles Dyte
- Pilot Officer George William Henry Evans
- Sergeant Frederick Fowler
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Goldfarb
- Sergeant Maxwell John Goldsworthy
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Vernon Courtney Gould
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Horace Hacksley
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Arthur Harfield
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel Raymond Heal
- Sergeant Roy Walter John Hisson
- Second Lieutenant Leith
- Sergeant Phillip Daniel Martin
- Pupil Pilot Mills
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Colin Frostick Mole
- Sergeant Alwyn Perrett
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Ashby Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Michael John Summers
- Pilot Officer William Douglas Taylor
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Terwilliger
- Flying Officer Walter Thornley
- Sergeant George Walter West
- Sergeant William Whalley
- Flight Sergeant William Ernest Wilson
1943
- Flight Sergeant John Amos Albert
- Pilot Officer Clarence Howard Anderson
- Squadron Leader Cyril Anekstein
- Squadron Leader Edward Robert Myddleton Appleton
- Sergeant Percy Arch
- Sergeant Maurice Atkinson
- Sergeant Stanley Ernest Baber
- Warrant Officer Class I Carl George Baker
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Harold Baldwin
- Flight Lieutenant John Michael Barkla
- Sergeant Thomas Barnett
- Sergeant Edward Bartlett
- Sergeant Frank Arthur Bartlett
- Sergeant Eric Nigel Nicholson Beldon
- Sergeant Stanley George Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Henry Berry
- Sergeant Thomas Ivan Betts
- Sergeant Ronald Douglas Binks
- Warrant Officer Paul Birch
- Sergeant Arthur Reginald Bish
- Sergeant Ronald Geoffrey Blood
- Flight Lieutenant Arnold Booth
- Flight Sergeant Michael Joseph Bovaconti
- Flight Sergeant Ernest William Bower
- Warrant Officer Class II John Alexander Box
- Pilot Officer Jack Bradford
- Sergeant Victor Thomas Bradley
- Sergeant William John Breen
- Sergeant Lester Jack Duncan Bristow
- Sergeant Derek Guy Brock
- Pilot Officer Edward James Brown
- Pilot Officer Seymour Villiers Brown
- Flight Sergeant William Joseph Browne
- Sergeant Wallace Bruce
- Flight Sergeant William Edward Bryden
- Pilot Officer Charles Sidney Burgess
- Sergeant Harold Butler
- Flight Sergeant Bernard John Buxton
- Sergeant George Byers
- Warrant Officer Class II Clement Bernard Cahill
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Archibald Campbell
- Sergeant Thomas Cornelius Cassidy
- Flight Sergeant John Arnold Chappell
- Sergeant Robert Alexander Chorley
- Flying Officer William Henry Clague
- Sergeant James Sidney Clenton
- Flight Sergeant Vincent Alton Francis Cleveland
- Leading Aircraftman William John Cochrane
- Sergeant Edward Colbert
- Pilot Officer Derek Collins
- Sergeant John Collins
- Sergeant Peter Robert Collins
- Sergeant Ronald George Collins
- Flying Officer Eric John Cook
- Pilot Officer John Corcoran
- Sergeant Edwin Noel Corney
- Pilot Officer Leslie John Victor Cotton
- Flight Sergeant Robert George Cotton
- Sergeant Godfrey Denis Cox
- Pilot Officer Walter Herbert Cross
- Warrant Officer Malcolm Cunningham
- Flying Officer Max Howard Davies
- Sergeant Philip Thomas Davies
- Sergeant Richard Harvey Day
- Flight Sergeant Eric Ernest Deverell
- Sergeant Frank Charles Dryden
- Flight Lieutenant Bertram Ernest Dye
- Sergeant John Travers Eccleston
- Flight Sergeant Ivan Aubrey Eliot
- Sergeant Peter Arthur Frank Elliot
- Sergeant Royston Hazeldine George Ellis
- Sergeant Harry Eli Elphick
- Sergeant William David Evans
- Sergeant William Herbert Evans
- Sergeant Leon John George Field
- Warrant Officer Alexander Douglas Finlayson
- Sergeant Phillip Owen Fletcher
- Pilot Officer Ralph Stanley France
- Sergeant Robert Anton Fraser
- Pilot Officer Norman Roscoe Frazer
- Pilot Officer Albert Eric Barley Freeman
- Corporal William Charles Henry Friend
- Sergeant Patrick Gerard Furlong
- Flight Sergeant Newton Hasalby Fuss
- Leading Aircraftman William Spurrier Gardiner
- Flight Sergeant Frank Ernest Gee
- Pilot Officer John Cecil Giles
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Campbell Gofton
- Sergeant John Gordon Golden
- Flight Sergeant Robert Wallace Gollogly
- Sergeant Thomas Ivor Goodwin
- Flight Sergeant Colin Ross Gordon
- Pilot Officer Samuel John Gordon
- Flying Officer John Goulding
- Flight Sergeant Roderick Walter Gray
- Sergeant Richard Frederick Grove
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Farley Guest
- Warrant Officer Gilbert Eric Hall
- Sergeant John Hallsworth
- Flight Sergeant Athol Asher Harlem
- Sergeant Arthur Harris
- Sergeant John Leonard Harwood
- Flight Sergeant Darcy Leslie Conrad Haub
- Flight Sergeant John Lawrence Hendry
- Pilot Officer Henry Wilson Heron
- Pilot Officer John Hickling
- Sergeant Cecil Charles Holden
- Flying Officer Kenneth Holme
- Sergeant William Hadley Horrigan
- Flying Officer Maurice William Howard
- Sergeant Robert Hunter
- Sergeant Patrick Irwin
- Flying Officer Ivan Andrew Isfeld
- Flight Sergeant Kensington Campbell Jackson
- Flying Officer George Jarvis
- Sergeant Jack Jennings
- Flight Sergeant Jacob Jensky
- Pilot Officer Bernard Walter Jobling
- Sergeant Alan David Johnstone
- Flight Sergeant John James Jones
- Pilot Officer Philip Michael Jordan
- Flight Sergeant William Bailes Julian
- Flying Officer Derrick Lionel Paul Justice
- Sergeant John Kenneth Keele
- Flying Officer Gerard Michael Keogh
- Pilot Officer Lloyd Wilson Kerr
- Sergeant Herbert Edward Kilburn
- Pilot Officer Thomas Jeffrey Leadley
- Pilot Officer Francis Henry Leaver
- Sergeant Geoffrey Lee
- Sergeant Leslie Letts
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Lewis
- Sergeant Idris Llewellyn
- Sergeant Frederick John Lucas
- Flight Sergeant John Lynch
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Cameron Maclennan
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Edward Manners
- Sergeant Thomas Daniel McCann
- Flight Sergeant Murton Lawrence McClay
- Flight Sergeant Ronald McKillop
- Flight Sergeant James Barber McLachlan
- Flight Sergeant Ian Nichol McLaren
- Warrant Officer Class II John James McLean
- Sergeant Ronald Lawrence Measor
- Pilot Officer Frederick Gerard Metcalfe
- Warrant Officer Class II Franklin Middleton
- Sergeant Thomas George Moore
- Sergeant Harry Moran
- Pilot Officer Clifford Erich Musto
- Sergeant William George Mycock
- Sergeant Ronald Harry Nash
- Sergeant John Herbert Naylor
- Flight Lieutenant George Newsham
- Sergeant Joseph Noar
- Flying Officer Terence Donovan (terry) O'Boyle
- Sergeant Walter George Onion
- Sergeant Oliver John Overington
- Flight Sergeant Victor Trevor Parkin
- Sergeant Derek Parsons
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Cayless Patrick
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Payne
- Sergeant Geoffrey George Payne
- Sergeant Alec Henry Peadon
- Sergeant Alan Raymond Pearce
- Flight Sergeant James Edward Pendleton
- Warrant Officer Class II Vincent Thomas Perdue
- Sergeant Charles Eric Petre
- Warrant Officer Class II Bland Joseph Pierce
- Warrant Officer Class II Harold Cruse Pithie
- Sergeant Douglas Gordon Jackson Powell
- Warrant Officer Richard William Pratt
- Sergeant Eric Alfred Richard Preston
- Sergeant Francis George Pryde
- Sergeant Harold Allen Queen
- Flying Officer Robert Gorman Rainford
- Pilot Officer Leslie McDonald Rawlings
- Flying Officer George Patrick Read
- Sergeant Arthur Alfred Reeves
- Flight Sergeant Eric John Roberts
- Warrant Officer Class II Robertson
- Flying Officer Frederick Neal Robertson
- Flight Sergeant Edward Thomas Samuel Rowbottom
- Sergeant Anthony Francis Saunders
- Sergeant Eric Saunders
- Sergeant John Savukevitch
- Sergeant Paul William Shale
- Flying Officer John Lloyd Shattock
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Robert Short
- Pilot Officer Joseph Henry Short
- Sergeant Trevor Silcock
- Flying Officer Ernest Ian Smallfield
- Sergeant Leonard George Smart
- Flight Sergeant Mervin John Smart
- Flying Officer Harold Smith
- Sergeant James Smith
- Sergeant John Thomas Smith
- Sergeant Kenneth William Smith
- Flying Officer Anthony Edward Snell
- Flight Sergeant Edmund Giles Anson Sotheron-estcourt
- Sergeant Mervyn Stacey
- Flying Officer Robert Stewart
- Sergeant John Calderhead Bruce Strang
- Pilot Officer Frank Street
- Squadron Leader Antony Charles Letteblere Stuart
- Pilot Officer Jack Sutherst
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Sutton
- Sergeant John Thomas
- Sergeant Stanley Thorogood
- Wing Commander John Gordon Towle
- Flying Officer Victor Patterson Upton
- Pilot Officer George Pierre Cornelius Vandekerckhove
- Sergeant Cyril Mitchell Veale
- Sergeant Leslie James Wakerell
- Sergeant John Patrick Wall
- Sergeant George Wallace
- Sergeant Emanuel Wallen
- Flight Sergeant Terrence Watters
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Bice Wearne
- Pilot Officer Frederick Thomas Weston
- Sergeant Jack Adam Whetton
- Sergeant Ernest Alfred White
- Pilot Officer Raymond Christmas White
- Sergeant Ralph Wildbore
- Pilot Officer Ronald William Wildman
- Sergeant Henry Gordon Williams
- Sergeant William Philip Williams
- Pilot Officer John Ivor Winchurch
- Flying Officer Clarence William Woods
- Sergeant Dennis George Yardley
- Flight Sergeant George Louis Yensen
- Pilot Officer Alan Edward Young
- Pilot Officer Stanford Grant Young
- Flight Sergeant Donald Zander
1944
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Arthur Abbott
- Flight Sergeant Paul Druce Arthur
- Sergeant William Seymour Barton
- Flying Officer Robert Henry Beddoe
- Flying Officer James Ralph Beveridge
- Flight Sergeant Peter Gorbell Bignell
- Pilot Officer William Henry Billing
- Sergeant Frederick David Bristow
- Flying Officer William Wallace Brown
- Flying Officer Walter John Calverley
- Sergeant Murray Gordon Casey
- Flight Sergeant Rex Coates
- Leading Aircraftman Edward James Cook
- Flight Sergeant Terence Roy Dent
- Flying Officer Norman Evan Paul Douglas
- Lieutenant Field
- Warrant Officer Samuel Albert Folbigg
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Willis Gaines
- Flight Sergeant Bevil Milton Glover
- Sergeant Donald Gordon Grant
- Pilot Officer Linley Joseph Grey
- Lieutenant Wermer Richard Alex Grosse-rasgado
- Pilot Officer Lorne Stanley Guernsey
- Pilot Officer Frederic Cuthbert Harman
- Flight Sergeant William Edward Hathaway
- Pilot Officer James Reid Hawkins
- Flight Sergeant John Parr Ion
- Flight Sergeant Norman Thomas James
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Reginald Jamieson
- Sergeant Curtis Jutzi
- Warrant Officer Robert Le Gay Brereton
- Pilot Officer Wendell Lyall Long
- Flying Officer Robert Denver Macduff
- Flying Officer William Alexander Maclennan
- Flight Lieutenant Michael Kidston McGuire
- Flight Sergeant Allan David McIntyre
- Sergeant Douglas McLean
- Flight Sergeant Lyell Arvie McMillan
- Flying Officer Robert Bruce Melville
- Warrant Officer George Henry Middleton
- Flying Officer William Cosgrave Miller
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Stuart Parsons
- Lieutenant Patterson
- Pilot Officer George William Pharis
- Flying Officer James Kennedy Reid
- Flight Sergeant David Henry Ryan
- Flying Officer Donald Arthur Ryerse
- Flying Officer Francis Sayles
- Pilot Officer Peter Charles Siddall
- Wing Commander Alan Francis Moir Sisley
- Corporal John Patrick Hoare Strachan
- Lieutenant Sidney Crispin Street
- Sergeant Edward Thompson
- Pilot Officer Vukovic
- Flight Sergeant Frederic Murray Walker
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Westhead
- Pilot Officer Bruce Gordon Wilkinson
1945
- Flying Officer Harry George Walter Batcheler
- Sergeant Harold Osmond Membrey
- Lieutenant Coenrad Mertz