On this day — 8 November
365 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 November during the Second World War.
1939
- Pilot Officer Ian St. John Beere
- Pilot Officer Desmond Charles Reid Carter
- Sergeant Eric James Cole
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest Duff
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Norman Marston Eyres
- Sergeant Rex Mitchell
- Pilot Officer Douglas Haig Robertson
- Pilot Officer Augustine Harold Jervis Ryan
- Sergeant Arnold Vernon Strong
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Wade
1940
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Northy Biggs
- Flying Officer Arthur Vivan Knight (gerry) Chaffey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Percy John Deebank
- Pilot Officer Frederick Philip Fry
- Pilot Officer George Edward Goldsmith
- Sergeant Harry Cyril Grove
- Flight Lieutenant Mark Tyzack Kirkwood
- Flying Officer Peter Mallalieu
- Leading Aircraftman John George McDowell
- Sergeant George McGeoch
- Sergeant Norman Richards Miller
- Sergeant John Edgar Murphy
- Sergeant Anthony Durrant (tony) Page
- Pilot Officer Frank Sydney Roberts
- Sergeant George Shafto Wilson
1941
- Pilot Officer James Cecil Alcuin Allchin
- Sergeant James Henry Atkin
- Sergeant Lloyd James Atkins
- Flight Sergeant Charles Harold Bell
- Sergeant John William Bell
- Leading Aircraftman Mordechai Bergmann
- Pilot Officer Noel Edwin Bishop
- Sergeant Raymond Boucher
- Sergeant Ronald Arthur Bramley
- Sergeant Clifford Robert Bronson
- Sergeant Edward Owen Brooks
- Pilot Officer Douglas Edwin William Brown
- Sergeant Robert Brown
- Sergeant Vincent Leigh Brown
- Sergeant Ronald Owen Bryant
- Sergeant Thomas Roland Buckley
- Squadron Leader Christopher Bushell
- Sergeant Donald Cameron
- Sergeant Arthur Vincent Carpenter
- Sergeant John Edwin Chadwick
- Sergeant William Martin Chambers
- Sergeant Andrew Harry Theodore Cook
- Sergeant Tom Copsey
- Pilot Officer Herbert Roy Crowe
- Sergeant Stanley William Dane
- Sergeant James Marcus D'Arcy
- Sergeant Albert Charles Arthur Davis
- Pilot Officer Ken Raymond Ernest Denkman
- Sergeant Amos Richard Albert Dexter
- Squadron Leader Peter George Scott Dickenson
- Sergeant Richard Dundas
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Edison Elliott
- Sergeant Hywell Evans
- Sergeant Sidney George Thomas Farman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Farwell
- Sergeant Sidney John Fenson
- Sergeant Norman Fenton
- Pilot Officer Desmond Charles Firth
- Pilot Officer Ralph Owen Foster
- Flight Sergeant Fritz Henrik Frolich
- Pilot Officer Walter John Frost
- Sergeant Robert Walters Gardner
- Sergeant John Gibson
- Sergeant Edwin Frederick Gresham
- Sergeant Ian Hamilton
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Hubert Harrison
- Sergeant Sydney Albert Hart
- Sergeant Kenneth Harwood-smith
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Lawrence Dennis Hassan
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Brodie Herd
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Alexander Higgins
- Pilot Officer Donald Kinnear Hodge
- Sergeant John Lemuel Holloway
- Sergeant William Arthur Hopkinson
- Air Sergeant Hurley
- Sergeant Alfred Edward Hyder
- Sergeant Charles Colin Hynam
- Sergeant Peter Arthur Ingram
- Sergeant Michael Stanley Jacobs
- Sergeant Peter Johnstone
- Sergeant Sidney James Holroyd Jones
- Flight Sergeant Montague Leslie Josling Keam
- Sergeant John Edward Kehoe
- Sergeant Ronald Douglas Killin
- Sergeant Walter King
- Sergeant Victor Frank Douglas Kirk
- Sergeant Victor George Knighton
- Pilot Officer Peter Lockhart Lander
- Pilot Officer Carleton Thompson Lane
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Leslie Langley
- Sergeant George Edward Reid Latimer
- Sergeant Harold Leake
- Sergeant Patrick Ian Leeman
- Sergeant Emerson Master Leftly
- Pilot Officer John Lindsay
- Sergeant Frederick William Manners
- Sergeant Sir Charles Thomas Hewitt Mappin
- Sergeant William Massey
- Sergeant Reginald Charles Matthews
- Pilot Officer George Marshall McCombe
- Sergeant George William McDonald
- Flying Officer Bruce Gordon McIver
- Sergeant Alan McKillop
- Sergeant Graham Alexander McLeod
- Pilot Officer Arthur Leonard Miller
- Sergeant William Miller
- Sergeant Douglas Edgar Mills
- Sergeant Bernard John Monk
- Sergeant John Herbert Moody
- Sergeant James William Cooper Morris
- Sergeant Stanley Gordon Mullenger
- Sergeant Cyril Murch
- Sergeant Peter Arnold Norris
- Sergeant Geoffrey Sidney Nunn
- Pilot Officer John Alfred Nutt
- Sergeant Clifford William Onions
- Sergeant Derek Gordon Pack
- Sergeant William Frederick Parsons
- Sergeant John Charles Pengelly
- Flight Sergeant Owen Fraser Pickell
- Pilot Officer Gordon Harold John Pickering
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Peter Dovey Price
- Sergeant David Roe Pritchard
- Flight Lieutenant Gerald Cowes Pryor
- Flying Officer Charles Buckingham Randall
- Sergeant James Henry Reid
- Sergeant Abraham Faure Robertson
- Sergeant Thomas Rogers
- Sergeant Douglas Rowley-blake
- Pilot Officer Bruce Buchanan Percival Roy
- Pilot Officer Robert Leslie Owen Ryder
- Sergeant Ernest Johnston Sargent
- Warrant Officer Christopher Arthur Saunders
- Sergeant Arnold Scott
- Sergeant Horace Sell
- Pilot Officer David Albert Simpson
- Pilot Officer Francis Leonard Smith
- Pilot Officer Merlin Kelmer Solheim
- Flight Sergeant Christopher Stanley
- Sergeant Philip Henry Stanton
- Flight Sergeant James Allison Steeves
- Sergeant Isadore Stein
- Sergeant Harold Frederick Stentiford
- Sergeant Donald Stronach
- Sergeant Svatopluk Stulir
- Pilot Officer George Edward Sweeney
- Sergeant George McAra Thain
- Sergeant Cyril David Thomas
- Sergeant Eric Rees Thomas
- Sergeant Robert Ferguson Thompson
- Sergeant Arthur Anthony Thomson
- Sergeant Samuel Thomson
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Thorley
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Monckton Tuckfield
- Flying Officer Douglas Byrd Van Buskirk
- Sergeant Bernard Wallwork
- Sergeant Cecil Walton
- Sergeant Gilbert Terence Webb
- Warrant Officer Class II West
- Sergeant Neville Jack Weston
- Pilot Officer Gordon Whitaker
- Flight Sergeant David Richard White
- Sergeant John Stephen Wilson
- Sergeant Thomas Young Wyllie
1942
- Sergeant Kenneth Thomas John Adams
- Sergeant Raymond Gwilym Gwyn Anthony
- Flying Officer Horace Montague Beck Arney
- Flying Officer William Gustave Barrett
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Henry Batten Wilkins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Beckett
- Sergeant Arthur Reuben Billington
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Booth
- Sergeant Edwin Maurice Bowery
- Sergeant John William Bowes
- Sergeant Ronald Herbert George Bowkett
- Pilot Officer Douglas James Bradshaw
- Pilot Officer Ronald Hollis Bramwell
- Sergeant Sydney Gibbs Brooking
- Sergeant Frank Adrian Broom
- Pilot Officer William Lysle Buchanan
- Flight Sergeant Mark Francis Carlin
- Sergeant Noel Briggs Collins
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Francis Cross
- Sergeant Nichol Curd
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Hugh Currie
- Sergeant Arnold Ernest Davies
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Arthur Davis
- Sergeant Ronald Granville Evison
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Bruce Finley
- Flying Officer Raymond Hamilton Foote
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon James Foreman
- Sergeant Mathias Aaron Goldstein
- Squadron Leader David Benjamin Gray
- Flying Officer John Sangster Greig
- Pilot Officer George Cruise Griffin
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Leonard Grimes
- Sergeant Thomas William Grisedale
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Graham Marcus Hale
- Pilot Officer George Albert Hamman
- Flying Officer William George David Harber
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cedric Lawrence Heaton
- Flight Sergeant Martin Randolph Hehir
- Sergeant Cyril Sydney Herbert Hill
- Sergeant Richard Francis Hill
- Sergeant Joe Holderness
- Sergeant John Edward Humphreys
- Sergeant Ronald Durance Hustler
- Sergeant Glyn Jones
- Sergeant Terence Aloysius Keech
- Sergeant Frank Ernest Kirby
- Flying Officer Harry Lincoln Lethbridge
- Warrant Officer Class II Douglas Dunbar Low
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ian Mackenzie
- Flying Officer Kenneth Alexander Mackenzie
- Flight Sergeant Ian Dugald Maclean
- Flying Officer Douglas Russell Manley
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Henry Mather
- Flying Officer Alexander Currie McCrady
- Pilot Officer Arthur Joseph McDonald
- Flying Officer Alfred Leslie McEwen
- Sergeant John McGauchie
- Warrant Officer Class II James Patrick McGrath
- Sergeant Carl William Milton
- Flying Officer Peter Mould
- Sergeant Allan Ivan Mugford
- Flight Sergeant Walter Owen
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Raymond Parker
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Gard Pearce
- Sergeant Robert Charles Perchard
- Flying Officer Roy Maxwell Quarendon
- Sergeant Kenneth Dean Rawson
- Pilot Officer Edward Elmer Robbins
- Flight Sergeant Claude Besnard Sautelle
- Flight Sergeant George Gerhard Sawatzky
- Sergeant Edward Henry Seares
- Flying Officer Eric Owen Shardlow
- Air Corporal Alfred Short
- Sergeant Frederick Victor Smith
- Pilot Officer Frank Stanyon Snelling
- Sergeant Charles Kenneth St. John
- Flight Sergeant Robert White Stockton
- Sergeant Ernest Stott
- Sergeant James John Taaffe
- Sergeant Leslie Lawson Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Hilgrove Pridgin Teale
- Sergeant William David Thomas
- Sergeant Frederick Leonard Tidball
- Air Mechanic Jacobus Viljoen
- Sergeant Roy Ernest Werren
- Flying Officer Alaric Rupert Samuel White
- Sergeant Frederick George White
- Sergeant David John Wicks
- Sergeant Herbert Richard Willacy
- Squadron Leader Frank Cameron Willis
- Sergeant Frederick James Windram
- Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Woodhouse
1943
- Aircraftman 1st Class Theodore Frederick Bamkin
- Warrant Officer Class II Carl Martin Berg
- Flying Officer Frederick Avery Beyer
- Lieutenant Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman Henry John Canard
- Flying Officer William Clarkson
- Warrant Officer Class II John Harrison Cowieson
- Warrant Officer Class I Mandel Max Epstein
- Sergeant William Gavin
- Sergeant Thomas Norman Gibson
- Sergeant Leslie Collier Grant
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Amedee Grenier
- Pilot Officer William John Halfpenny
- Flight Sergeant Anthony George Hall
- Warrant Officer Reginald Alfred Harding
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert Leslie Hart
- Sergeant Leslie John Hill
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Andrew Hoagg
- Sergeant John Hodge
- Wing Commander Ralph Royden Ings
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Norman Jarvis
- Sergeant James Aikman Johnstone
- Flying Officer Nigel Louis Keeble
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Basil Laing
- Sergeant Charles Edwin Roy Lane
- Sergeant John Hedgley Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Vivian Love
- Pilot Officer Robert Flemming Lowther
- Flying Officer Douglas Victor Mansell
- Sergeant Eric John Mills
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Edward Palmer
- Sergeant Geoffrey Oswald Payne
- Sergeant Andrew Frederick Peart
- Flight Sergeant Roland Jack Pebody
- Sergeant John Rae
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Coates Redmond
- Pilot Officer Charles Henry Robbins
- Sergeant Douglas John Roberts
- Sergeant Phillip Grenville Roberts
- Air Sergeant Arthur Lawrence Rosenberg
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Owen Schultz
- Sergeant Peter Seager
- Flying Officer Harold Oskar Seifert
- Warrant Officer Class I Howard William Shaver
- Flight Sergeant Keith McRae Smith
- Pilot Officer Alan Richard Stewart
- Warrant Officer Roy Swift
- Sergeant Lawrence William Swindells
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Geoffrey Elliott Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Laurence James Thompson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Oswald Walmsley
- Flying Officer Harley George Waugh
1944
- Pilot Officer William Wallace Eugene Anderson
- Lieutenant Christian Gresse Boshoff
- Corporal John Lawrence Bowden
- Pilot Officer Clarence William Arthur Britton
- Warrant Officer David Forbes Clare
- Flying Officer William Wilfred Cook
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Wallace Cooke
- Flying Officer Bruce Sherwood Corbett
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Edward Nelson Crouch
- Flight Sergeant John Michael Hugh Delaney
- Pilot Officer Charles Knowlton Douglass
- Sergeant William Drozdiak
- Pilot Officer Michael Walter Warren Duley
- Pilot Officer William Alexander Edmonds
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Joseph Farrell
- Sergeant Harold Lawson Fernstrom
- Flight Sergeant William Max Freeman
- Warrant Officer Class I Michael Edmund Gallagher
- Sergeant James Frederick Gazzard
- Air Mechanic Charles George Green
- Flight Sergeant Jeffrey James Grieve
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Julien Helling
- Sergeant John Spurgeon Hood
- Flying Officer Leslie Markland Hough
- Corporal George Innes
- Flight Sergeant Keith Edward Jeffery
- Pilot Officer Arthur Thomas Keeping
- Corporal William Henry Lucas
- Flight Sergeant Charles Bede Mackay
- Pilot Officer Donald Alexander Maclaren
- Aircraftman 1st Class Daniel Thomas Macneil
- Flying Officer Arthur Wallace Spencer Maggs
- Sergeant William Lawrence Mather
- Corporal Hubert Edward Mathews
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Douglas Nelson
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick William Parsons
- Pilot Officer Victor Winston Partridge
- Flight Sergeant Gerald William Henry Patterson
- Corporal Claude Sanderson
- Flying Officer Andrew Sharp
- Warrant Officer Francis Edward Smallhorn
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey William Stone
- Flying Officer John McArthur Taylor
- Sergeant Athol White
1945
1946
- Warrant Officer Oswald Anthony Armstrong
- Squadron Leader Noel Dan Hallifax
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Henry Price
- Leading Aircraftman John Thomas Wells