On this day — 26 October
165 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 26 October during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Sergeant William Henry Bolton
- Sergeant Geoffrey Rainsford Brocklehurst
- Pilot Officer Charles George Broome
- Sergeant James Mitchell Dall
- Sergeant Douglas William Elcome
- Flight Sergeant Victor William Gadsdon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie Harrad
- Sergeant Robert Holder
- Corporal Oliver Henry Selby Holland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Storey Howson
- Sergeant Keith Reginald Humphrey
- Sergeant Hywel Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Frank Knight
- Sergeant Horace Cecil Loadsman
- Sergeant James Gwyn Loveluck
- Flying Officer Archie Macrury
- Sergeant George Leslie Middleton
- Air Corporal Owen
- Sergeant Denis Isiah Pallett
- Pilot Officer William Blair Pattullo
- Corporal John Vincent Pearce
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Peascod
- Sergeant William Ronald Perrin
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Mervyn Simpson
- Pilot Officer Peter Henderson Slater
- Pilot Officer Alexander Stevenson
- Sergeant Frank Douglas Walter
- Sergeant Kenneth Ernest Young
1941
- Sergeant Edward Whybrow Andrews
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Joseph Baker
- Sergeant Edward John Beard
- Sergeant Logan Carmon Bentley
- Flying Officer Thompson Neville Digby Boyd
- Flight Sergeant Douglas John Carmichael
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Robert Chappell
- Sergeant Stanley Jerome Connell
- Sergeant David Young Nurse Crosby
- Corporal George Ian Frederick Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Arthur Dawes
- Pilot Officer Arthur Edward Day
- Sergeant Donald Sutherland Fisk
- Corporal Jack Heath Fountain
- Pilot Officer Mark Fairweather Gibson
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Gladen
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Wreford Griffiths
- Sergeant Victor John Hale
- Sergeant Eric Haste
- Flight Sergeant Harry Higginson
- Sergeant Lloyd George Horsfall
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Wilberforce Horsfield
- Sergeant William Joseph Huth
- Sergeant Allister Nelson Irving
- Sergeant Patrick Earl (pat) Lacey
- Pilot Officer Alan Lodge
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Ritz
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Robson
- Pilot Officer Jack Rollinson
- Pilot Officer Harry Rose
- Pilot Officer Clyffurde George Randall Saunders
- Flight Sergeant William Taylor Shaver
- Sergeant Barney Walker Shelnutt
- Sergeant Hoyt Leslie Steadman
- Sergeant Leonard Stock
- Pilot Officer Ronald Clarke Symes
- Sergeant Francis Harry Patrick Tolley
- Pilot Officer Frank William Wade
- Flight Sergeant William Walker
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Arthur Abbott
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Owen Brian
- Leading Aircraftman Keith Dooks Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman John Franklin Carr
- Corporal Clifford Thoralf Christopherson
- Leading Aircraftman Wesley Bruce Danielson
- Flying Officer Haraldur Johannes Davidson
- Sergeant Lance George Davis
- Lieutenant Ernest Gerald Dustow
- Warrant Officer Theodulle Elsi Nicolas Dyon
- Lieutenant Alex Thomas Duffield Farr
- Lieutenant Harold Clifford Francis
- Sergeant Stanley Walter Fry
- Flying Officer Keith Ronald Gardener
- Flying Officer Walter Garriock
- Flight Sergeant Stewart Burton Gitsham
- Sergeant Roy James Hamilton
- Lieutenant Arthur Dale Hinton
- Flight Sergeant John Howells
- Lieutenant Johnston
- Corporal Michael James Kasey
- Lieutenant Leisegang
- Sergeant Selwyn Keith Loveday
- Sergeant Jan Machalek
- Leading Aircraftman Bernard Edward Malone
- Flying Officer Herbert Charles Nette
- Sergeant David Noble
- Pilot Officer Charles Edwin Ody
- Flying Officer John Frederick Osborne
- Leading Aircraftman Vincent Ford Peebles
- Sergeant Sydney Ronald Maldwyn Pugh
- Sergeant Eric Charles Ringham
- Flying Officer Robert Wrey Simpson
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Vernon Sparkes
- Sergeant Robert Brian Stoddart
- Flight Lieutenant Keith Stuart Strode-penny
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Swann
- Leading Aircraftman Phillip John Tennant
- Flight Sergeant Ivor Ernest Van Graan
- Sergeant Ronald Edward Elliott Vickery
- Leading Aircraftman William Vincent George Wigmore
- Pilot Officer Robert Wilson Yuill
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Nevil William Armstrong
- Flight Sergeant Vernon Claude Arnold
- Corporal Horace George Bowers
- Flight Sergeant Henry Chambers
- Flying Officer Alfred James Chandler
- Pilot Officer Maurice Gaston Emile Coutanceau
- Flight Sergeant Hillyar Raymond Crust
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Ebenezer Albert Furze
- Flight Sergeant Edward Bruce Gillespie
- Leading Aircraftman Eustace Illingworth Goodrich
- Flying Officer Charles William Hamann
- Flying Officer Robert Shirley Haney
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Austin Hardy
- Flying Officer Noel Henry Knight-brown
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Leckey
- Sergeant Alfred Barish Levene
- Sergeant Cyril Raymond Macgregor
- Pilot Officer George Charles Marshall
- Flying Officer Stephen Henry Martin
- Sergeant Roland Morgan
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Oswald Olson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Ernest Penny
- Flying Officer Donald Zalva Pile
- Flight Sergeant Donald Edwin Ripper
- Warrant Officer Class II George Arnold Shanks
- Sergeant William Harold Southgate
- Corporal John Henry Tait
- Sergeant Barry Howard Thompson
- Flying Officer Walter Allison Wallace
- Flying Officer Harry Patrick Willson
- Corporal George William Leonard Witherington
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Wright
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Johnston Wright
1944
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Bousfield
- Flight Sergeant Edward Thomas Brightwell
- Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
- Warrant Officer Peter William Byers
- Group Captain Charles Lennox Gilbert
- Sergeant Wilson Henfrey
- Sergeant William James Hetherington
- Flying Officer James Burleigh Hill
- Sergeant John Hills
- Warrant Officer Ernest Frederick Hore
- Leading Aircraftman George Leo Lafleur
- Sergeant Harold Edwin Mauger
- Corporal William George McCormick
- Flight Sergeant James Alexander Pedersen
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Plaister
- Sergeant Russell Trevor Robbie
- Flying Officer Donald Edward Walker