On this day — 8 October
168 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 October during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Pilot Officer Harold John Akroyd
- Sergeant Gordon Ellis Ancliffe
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Blaylock
- Sergeant Walter James Brett
- Pilot Officer Desmond Crighton Brown
- Corporal Frederick Harold Brown
- Pilot Officer Frank William Buckland
- Sergeant Sydney Chambers
- Pilot Officer George Henry Corbett
- Flight Lieutenant Stewart Farquharson Coutts-wood
- Sergeant John Robinson Farrow
- Pilot Officer Clarence Carnegie Milne Gauldie
- Pilot Officer Harold Ingham Goodall
- Pilot Officer Douglas Hastings
- Flying Officer Cyril Clifford Hicks
- Wing Commander John Harvey Hutchinson
- Pilot Officer Albert Frederick Jefferys
- Sergeant Ralph Alexander Walter Keeling
- Flying Officer Leonard Thomas Kinchin
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Lawley
- Pilot Officer James Benham Mackill
- Wing Commander Stephen McKeever
- Aircraftman 1st Class Garfield Maurice Pring
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Philip Rudden
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Frederick Rusk
- Sergeant Arthur Thomas Shackleford
- Flying Officer Patrick Duart Sharp
- Sergeant Joseph Desmond Sheils
- Sergeant Ernest David Stapleton
- Sergeant Cecil Edwin Eric Virgo
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Harry Wakelam
- Sergeant George Wyndham Walker
- Sergeant Rufus Arthur Ward
- Sergeant Wilfred Philip Whetton
- Sergeant Dennis Wilfred Wordsworth
- Sergeant Robert Bett Mirk Young
1941
- Sergeant Arthur Winston Beynon
- Leading Aircraftman Harry George
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred Aaron Hoyle
- Pilot Officer Maxwell Irvine-brown
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Anderson Knudson
- Flight Lieutenant Andrew B. Mamedoff
- Pilot Officer Hugh Harrison McCall
- Air Sgt. Obs. Ben Ross Stevenson
- Leading Aircraftman David Robert Wallace Stiven
- Pilot Officer Roy Neal Stout
- Leading Aircraftman Sydney Sunderland
- Air Sergeant Van Zyl
- Pilot Officer William Joseph White
- Flight Sergeant John Malcolm Wilde
1942
- Sergeant Douglas Wilson Armstrong
- Sergeant Robert Oliver Barrett
- Pilot Officer Charles Berry
- Sergeant Vladislav Brecka
- Flying Officer Cecil Lionel Broad
- Pilot Officer Hugh Adam Campbell Rose Cameron-rose
- Flying Officer Ewart Vincent Chandler
- Sergeant John Elliott Coombs
- Leading Aircraftman John Adrian Deedman
- Sergeant Benoit Desmarais
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Henry Frederick Diprose
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Franks
- Lieutenant Gaylard
- Sergeant John Robert Weldon Grant
- Flying Officer Jack Edwin Frank Griffin
- Corporal John Thomas Hayes
- Leading Aircraftman George Bates Hemingway
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Rushton Hickling
- Pilot Officer Graham Claude Norton Hill
- Flight Sergeant Albert Hoy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward William Jones
- Pilot Officer George William Knowles
- Flying Officer Thomas James Albert Long
- Flying Officer Cecil John Trewelyan Mason
- Flying Officer Jack Campbell McFarlane
- Flight Sergeant Henry Lyons Middlemast
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Christie Milne
- Flying Officer Edward Duerden Neal
- Lieutenant Pieterse
- Sergeant Harry Pointon
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Joseph Ribbands
- Warrant Officer Ronald Norman Bilton Scott
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Shackell
- Corporal Stanley Thomas Stevens
- Pilot Officer Sidney Whitfield
- Sergeant Archibald Gordon Willman
- Sergeant Grahame Albert Cregeen Wood
- Pilot Officer Henry Raymond Woodman
1943
- Sergeant Derrick John Edwin Adams
- Corporal Ivan Alderson
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney William Allan
- Flight Sergeant Evan Macdonald Anderson
- Flying Officer Frank George Arliss
- Sergeant Arthur Bailey
- Sergeant Robert Allan Barr
- Flying Officer James Hope Begg
- Pilot Officer Stanley Philip Benge
- Flying Officer Donald Terence Burrows
- Flight Sergeant Edward Eugene Chalk
- Warrant Officer Class I George Hamilton Cockburn
- Sergeant Leslie Felix Collins
- Warrant Officer Class I Victor Emile Cook
- Sergeant Harold Cox
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Arthur Curnow
- Sergeant Robert John Darby
- Flight Sergeant Frank Harry Dennis
- Sergeant Eric Stanton Foskett
- Sergeant James Hall
- Flying Officer Garnet Henry Hamilton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Harrison
- Flight Lieutenant Clarence Gordon Hill
- Sergeant Cecil John Hole
- Pilot Officer Alfred William Howl
- Sergeant James Arthur Johnson
- Sergeant Alfred William Jones
- Sergeant Derek Vaughan Joyes
- Squadron Leader Trevor John Rayner Lawman
- Flight Sergeant Frederick John Linden
- Leading Aircraftman John Ambrose Loasby
- Pilot Officer Arthur Mair
- Sergeant William George Martin
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Roberts Mattless
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Malcolm McGregor
- Flight Sergeant John George McInnes
- Flying Officer James William Morton
- Flying Officer George William Mosley
- Sergeant Thomas Bernard Nugent
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald George Outlaw
- Flying Officer Harold Mason Parker
- Corporal Sidney James Parkins
- Sergeant Thomas John Pounder
- Sergeant Ralph Pratt
- Flight Lieutenant John Albert Puttock
- Sergeant John Vernon Rees
- Flight Sergeant William Alexander Robertson
- Sergeant William James Sadler
- Sergeant Percy Shaw
- Sergeant John Laverton Silver
- Pilot Officer James Ian Simpson
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Torrance Sims
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Nelson Slapp
- Flight Sergeant Glen Frank Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Philp Smith
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Smith
- Flying Officer Ernest Ronald Stead
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Douglas Steels
- Sergeant James Stonehouse
- Leading Aircraftman William Swenson
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Tibbles
- Sergeant Philip John Walsh
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Benjamin Loos (ben) West
1944
- Squadron Leader Edwin Donald Bath
- Corporal Howard Davies
- Squadron Leader George Harold Hammock
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Benjamin Jameson
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Johnson
- Pilot Officer Joseph Lewis Oliver
- Warrant Officer John Robert Powell
- Lieutenant Stewart
- Flying Officer Richard Joseph Heuston Strantzen
- Leading Aircraftman William Daniel Thomas
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Willis