On this day — 8 September
252 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 September during the Second World War.
1939
- Pilot Officer Bruce Innes Clifford-jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Charles Hilsdon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh M. McGreevy
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Thomas Price
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Purdie
- Pilot Officer Harold Rosofsky
- Pilot Officer The Hon. Peter George Alex St. Clair-erskine
1940
- Sergeant Robert Edward Aldridge
- Sergeant Alexander Horatio Nelson Appleford
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Edward Kitchener Barnaby
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Howard Bartlett
- Sergeant Stanley Keable Booth
- Sergeant Vincent Christopher Brooke
- Sergeant William Hogg Cassells
- Pilot Officer Henry Morton Christopher
- Sergeant Gerald Lawrence Clayton
- Flying Officer Alexander William Locke Cobbe
- Sergeant John Malcolm Cockburn
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Coish
- Sergeant Murray Blair Conacher
- Sergeant Charles William Cooke
- Sergeant William Wilson Crooks
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Sharpe Currie
- Flying Officer Robert Guy Cuthbert
- Sergeant Cyril James Day
- Flying Officer Ian Humphrey Dolman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Donald
- Sergeant Edwin Duffield
- Sergeant Ronald Samuel Fletcher
- Sergeant Herbert Gresford Gledhill
- Sergeant Stanley Charles Grant
- Pilot Officer Robert Gladstone Hall
- Sergeant Robert Anderson Jerritt
- Pilot Officer John Leeming Leeds
- Sergeant Alfred Charles Martin
- Pilot Officer James Maxwell McCausland
- Sergeant James McKee
- Flight Lieutenant Esmond John Palmer
- Sergeant John Bernard Philpott
- Sergeant John Dermot Randall
- Sergeant Dennis Hanby Rees
- Sergeant Michael Rees
- Flying Officer William John Moir Scott
- Sergeant Edward Denis Sheldrick
- Sergeant Robert Nettleton Spencer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Sturton
- Sergeant Gordon Taylor
1941
- Sergeant Robert Allan
- Sergeant William Hamilton Anderson
- Sergeant William Ronald Balls
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Banks
- Sergeant Albert Edward Barrett
- Sergeant Frank George Barrett
- Sergeant Dudley Cecil Bass
- Sergeant Frederick Alphonsus Baty
- Sergeant Robert Charles Baumber
- Sergeant Robert Henry Beattie
- Sergeant John Brown
- Sergeant Leonard Tyne Chapman
- Sergeant Howard Bevan Clark
- Sergeant George Alfred Cook
- Sergeant Peter Barnard Corbett
- Sergeant Thomas Reginald Byron Corrie
- Pilot Officer Roy Le Masurier Cox
- Flight Sergeant Albert Douglas Foch Craig
- Wing Commander Grahame Lawrence Cruickshanks
- Flight Sergeant Norman Hinton Davies
- Squadron Leader Philip Francis Davies
- Squadron Leader William Davies
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Charles Dorrington
- Squadron Leader Peter Francis Edinger
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Stephen Baddesley Ensor
- Flying Officer William Esplen
- Flight Lieutenant Keith James Falconer
- Sergeant Ivor Roderick Fraser
- Sergeant Ian Patrick McHaffie Gordon
- Pilot Officer Frank Gordon Hart
- Sergeant Richard George Hill
- Sergeant Rowland Bertram Dunstan Hill
- Pilot Officer Frederick James Hogan
- Sergeant Walter George Honey
- Sergeant Ivan Jackson
- Sergeant Cyril Douglas James
- Sergeant Alexander Anthony Jessup
- Flight Sergeant John Gerald O'Hara Keating
- Flight Sergeant Walter Basil Lowe
- Sergeant Alan Scotland Macdonald
- Sergeant Horace Mann
- Squadron Leader Alexander Mathieson
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Joseph Matkin
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Joseph McKenna
- Sergeant Henry Merrill
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Dennis Moss
- Sergeant Russell Johnston Mountier
- Sergeant John Lionel Nyman
- Flight Sergeant George Dixon Oliver
- Sergeant Arthur Norman Page
- Sergeant John Plant
- Sergeant Cecil Mervyn Pratt
- Sergeant John Alfred Reynolds
- Sergeant Frank Richardson
- Sergeant Bernard Walter Robbens
- Flight Sergeant Peter Alfred Roberts
- Sergeant John Leslie Rodwell
- Flying Officer David Albert Alton Romans
- Sergeant Jack Cyril Saich
- Sergeant John Gordon Selley
- Flight Sergeant Herbert David Platten Sleath
- Sergeant William Edward Stayte
- Sergeant Alfred Frederick Suckling
- Sergeant Jesse Taylor
- Sergeant Eric Trott
- Sergeant Robert Wilkin
- Sergeant Robert Willis
- Pilot Officer Leslie Charles Ross Wilson
- Sergeant John Patrick Wood
- Sergeant Cedric Warren Woolgar
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Shaw Bolton Younger
1942
- Sergeant Douglas Abberley
- Sergeant Stanley Joseph Berry
- Sergeant Dennison Pierce Broomfield
- Sergeant William Charles Budd
- Sergeant James Cuthbert Burgon
- Sergeant Reginald William Catlin
- Pupil Pilot Victor Cockcroft
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Crabb
- Sergeant Alan James Craig
- Pilot Officer Dalis George Davies
- Sergeant Leslie Stuart Davies
- Aircraftman 1st Class Allen Robert Dowton
- Flight Sergeant Jemuel Richard Edwards
- Flight Sergeant Ivor Farrell
- Sergeant Henry Thomas Farrer
- Pilot Officer Edgar William Thomas Gibbs
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Gill
- Flight Sergeant William Graham
- Flight Sergeant John Dow Granger
- Pilot Officer Eric Lindon Hall
- Sergeant James Herbert Hall
- Sergeant Laurence George Harvey
- Pilot Officer Francis Wilbert Henderson
- Flying Officer John James Holloman
- Lieutenant Kelly
- Sergeant Robert Niven Lamond
- Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Lanceley
- Sergeant Stanley Paul Lister
- Warrant Officer Louis Lothian
- Warrant Officer Claude Simpson Maxfield
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Llewellyn Morgan
- Sergeant John Taylor Murray
- Flight Sergeant John Eric Nicholson
- Flying Officer Kenneth John Rich
- Pilot Officer Arnold Robson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard George Rose
- Flight Sergeant John Arthur Rowley
- Sergeant Cecil Richard Rundle
- Leading Aircraftman Gerald Francis Ryan
- Sergeant Horace Shepherd
- Sergeant Harry Sherwood
- Sergeant Stephen James Smitheram
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Leonard Stevens
- Warrant Officer Alfred Norman Thompson
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Hampden Tippetts-aylmer
- Flying Officer Francis John Trumble
- Sergeant Leonard Daniel Vince
- Flying Officer Leslie Walter Waters
- Sergeant Alfred Stephen White
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Thomas Wilkinson
- Sergeant James Williams
- Flight Sergeant Brian Howard Helps Wilson
- Sergeant Frank Wood
- Flight Sergeant George Reginald Yeates
1943
- Flying Officer Robert Edwin Baker
- Flight Sergeant Henry Kenneth Bartlett
- Sergeant James Baxter
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Charles Bellingham
- Sergeant Alexander Weatherall Bentley
- Flying Officer George Edward Bilke
- Warrant Officer Alan Longland Brigden
- Flight Sergeant Alfred William Buxton
- Corporal Robert Carswell
- Warrant Officer Class I Wesley Percival Coleman
- Warrant Officer Thomas Kenneth Cooper
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alan Russell Copeland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Leslie Ronald Crossley
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Alfred Joffre Daldy
- Flight Sergeant Peter Gerald Dobson
- Sergeant Charles Dove
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Ernest Elkington
- Flying Officer Norman Hathway Gale
- Pilot Officer Richard James Gerrett
- Pilot Officer Horace Palmer Gordon
- Sergeant Alfred Charles Goss
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Greenwood
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Griffin
- Flying Officer Ivor Clarence Hatcher
- Pilot Officer Frank David Holdsworth
- Sergeant Dennis Vivian Humberston
- Flying Officer George Kay
- Sergeant Normand Kidd
- Corporal James Bruce Kieran
- Flying Officer Wilfred King
- Sergeant Walter Henry Lawrence
- Sergeant John Leeming
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Georges Jean Legault
- Flying Officer Lynnton Ainsley Martin
- Sergeant Albert Leslie Mellor
- Flying Officer Ian Robert Menzies
- Sergeant Charles James Edward Moody
- Sergeant George Donald Hector Morrow
- Flight Sergeant George Wilson Murtagh
- Flying Officer Cyril Jesse Payne
- Leading Aircraftman George Polson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cecil James Jones Rees
- Sergeant Bernard Martin Semark
- Sergeant William Shepherd
- Captain W J (stevie) Sivewright
- Aircraftman 1st Class Austin Smith
- Sergeant George Ernest Smith
- Flying Officer Leslie Frederick Smith
- Sergeant Gerald Sweeney
- Pilot Officer William Leslie Topp
- Sergeant Louis Vaughan-harrison
- Sergeant Norman Leslie Wachter
- Sergeant Francis George Wells
- Pilot Officer Marcus Cedric Wettenhall
- Sergeant William Stephen Whalley
- Sergeant William Arthur Widdowson
- Flying Officer John Robert Wilcox
- Pilot Officer Ralph Henry Williams
- Flight Sergeant James Edward Wintie
- Flying Officer Raymond Woodford
1944
- Pilot Officer George Churchard
- Warrant Officer Thomas William Coburn
- Pilot Officer William Neville Daniel
- Flying Officer Russell David Durling
- Flight Lieutenant John Edward Goddard
- Flight Sergeant William Hashim
- Flight Sergeant Noel Whitmarsh Hawkins
- Sergeant Albert Coulthurst Jones
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Fraser Logie
- Flying Officer Denis Llewellyn Loveridge
- Sergeant Robert Harold Moorcroft
- Pilot Officer Donald Carr Odell
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Donovan Potter
- Flight Lieutenant Paul Edward Willoughby