On this day — 8 December
249 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 8 December during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Reginald Albert Attfield
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest William Bourne
- Leading Aircraftman Daniel William Anthony Britto
- Sergeant Francis Arthur Buckle
- Corporal Clifford Denis Coghlan
- Sergeant Owen Deehan
- Air Mechanic Josias Alexander John De Kock
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Thompson Elliott
- Flying Officer Leon Arthur Hood
- Sergeant William Desmond Ingrams
- Sergeant William Victor Knight
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Henry McNally
- Flying Officer Robert Trevor Mulligan
- Leading Aircraftman James Henry Poole
- Pilot Officer Malcolm James Preece
- Sergeant Cyril James Smith
- Sergeant Jack Arthur Waters
1941
- Sergeant William Brian Allan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Alfred Arnold
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Glanville Baker
- Pilot Officer James Arthur Barclay
- Sergeant Harold Edward Barklay
- Sergeant Geoffrey Barnes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas John Barrah
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Frederick Barton
- Sergeant Albert Bess
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Trevor George Beynon
- Sergeant Frank Kert Calcutt
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Lewis Clarke
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Charles Reginald Clemo
- Sergeant Jeffrey Cyril Coldrey
- Pilot Officer John Ronald Coleman
- Flying Officer Kenneth Crossley Cooke
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Costigan
- Flight Sergeant Donald Alexander Court
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Craven
- Sergeant William John Cuming
- Warrant Officer Allan David Cuthbert
- Leading Aircraftman Andrew Gordon Ednie
- Sergeant John Marsh Emery
- Sergeant Edwin George Enright
- Corporal Neville Lawrence Ernst
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Desmond Leslie James Evans
- Flying Officer Stephen Guye Hawksworth Fawkes
- Leading Aircraftman Hugh Finn
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Hamon
- Sergeant Thomas Hollas Hardisty
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis Gordon Hassall
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred John Headland
- Leading Aircraftman Austin Charles Hearn
- Sergeant Graham John Hedges
- Sergeant Arthur Hemming
- Corporal John Gofton Hetherington
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Heyworth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis Donald Hill
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Hubert Hill
- Sergeant Richard Eric Hirons
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Hubbard
- Sergeant Robert Johnston
- Flight Lieutenant John Graham Leighton Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Kempson
- Pilot Officer Ian Murray Kydd
- Sergeant Gordon Percival Francis Langdon
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Henry Lawrence
- Sergeant Harold Benjamin Lee
- Sergeant Victor Lawrence Lloyd
- Pilot Officer Whitmore Alexander Bailey Logan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Wallace Magee
- Sergeant Charles Martin
- Leading Aircraftman Charles James Matheson
- Leading Aircraftman Edward McAllister
- Leading Aircraftman Andrew Ralph Meldrum
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Leonard Musgrove
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Samuel Henry Noakes
- Corporal Eric John O'Donnell
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Robert Peterson
- Sergeant John Herbert Pilley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alec Charles Popely
- Pilot Officer Ralph Geoffrey Prior
- Leading Aircraftman James Pryor
- Flight Sergeant Robert Joseph Henry Pyle
- Flight Lieutenant John Christopher Ramshaw
- Flight Lieutenant Nelson Prior Reid
- Sergeant Ronald McKenzie Rhodes
- Leading Aircraftman Irvin Riley
- Pilot Officer Thomas Kenneth Robinson
- Sergeant Norman Francis Rowe
- Corporal Kenneth Patrick Sexton
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald John Sheward
- Sergeant George Cyril Shores
- Aircraftman 1st Class Keith Mighell Sidey
- Flying Officer Ronald Hewitt Siggins
- Flying Officer Lincoln James Sloan
- Corporal John Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Spry
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Squires
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Kenneth Stephens
- Sergeant William George Taylor
- Sergeant Charles Leonard Alex Thompson
- Sergeant Ralph Tollett
- Flight Lieutenant Owen Vincent Tracey
- Sergeant Thomas Edward Tressam
- Sergeant David Ward Walters
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Felix William Walton
- Sergeant Leonard Watson
- Sergeant Ronald Arthur Webb
- Squadron Leader George Patrick Westropp-bennett
- Sergeant Garet Sidney White
- Sergeant Michael Ransford Willows
- Pilot Officer Thomas McSkimming Wilson
- Leading Aircraftman William Meiklem Wilson
- Wing Commander Charles Mervyn Windsor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Milton Wood
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie William Yea
1942
- Sergeant Henry Charles Adkins
- Sergeant Cyril George Adnams
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Allan
- Leading Aircraftman Rowland Hugh Archer
- Sergeant William Aitken Baillie
- Wing Commander Francis George Levett Bain
- Sergeant Eric Bance
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Bellin
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Cecil Beves
- Sergeant Jochemus Johannes Blignaut
- Sergeant Roy Boardman
- Sergeant Frederick Ernest Arthur Box
- Sergeant James William Brotherston
- Sergeant George Danskin Findlay Buchan
- Warrant Officer Basile Ronald Martin Burnham
- Leading Aircraftman Kent Bligh Bussell
- Sergeant John Eskrett Charker
- Sergeant John Alfred Clough
- Sergeant Denis Coford
- Sergeant Francis George Crapp
- Sergeant Frank Craven
- Sergeant Philip Wedgwood Ditchburn
- Sergeant Vincent Thomas Drew
- Sergeant William Howard Ellis
- Flying Officer Robert Leslie Ewert
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Ford
- Sergeant Leonard Percy James French
- Flying Officer Michael Harvey Good
- Flight Sergeant David William Gordon
- Sergeant Clifford Roy Grandfield
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Carruthers Haig
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Harold Harris
- Pilot Officer Christopher William Higgins
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Hills
- Sergeant Walter Hingley
- Sergeant Stanley John Holmes
- Flight Sergeant Stephen Holroyd Hopkinson
- Sergeant William Neville Hopwood
- Flight Sergeant George Derek Hudson
- Sergeant William Stanley Hughes
- Sergeant Cornelius Michael Hurley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Hutchinson
- Flying Officer Laurence Theodore Izzard
- Sergeant Stanley Laurence Jay
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Theodore Kelley
- Sergeant Brian John Ketchell
- Flying Officer Harry Kinder
- Flight Lieutenant Alistair Bannerman Lennie
- Sergeant Charles Richard Long
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Ames Massey
- Sergeant Daniel Patrick McAleese
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Caldwell McLean
- Sergeant Douglas Arthur Milligan
- Corporal Joseph Arthur Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Hatton Murray
- Flight Lieutenant David Andrew Nicoll
- Flying Officer Geoffrey O'Connell
- Sergeant Richard George Oliver
- Sergeant William Osborn
- Sergeant Ivor Glynn Parry
- Sergeant William Charles Parry
- Leading Aircraftman Kingsley Wilfred Milroy Perera
- Pilot Officer John Philp
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Francis Poleykett
- Warrant Officer Class III Francis Paul Quinn
- Sergeant Cyril Edward Raggett
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Cecil Sharp
- Sergeant Robert Skelton
- Sergeant Nepia Stewart
- Sergeant John Lind Strachan
- Sergeant William Thomas Taylor
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Raymond Henry Travell
- Flying Officer Charles Neville Turnbull
- Sergeant Egbert Julian Waterman
- Pilot Officer Robert Sims Watson
- Sergeant Fraser Hutchinson Watt
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Herbert Wells
- Flight Sergeant John Eli Westfield
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Herbert William White
- Sergeant Haydyn Taliesin Williams
- Sergeant Robert Henry Williams
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Glenville Williams
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Carl Edmund Barker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Henry Belfield
- Corporal Allan John Boyce
- Leading Aircraftman Michael James Brennan
- Corporal Ronald Sidney Coleman
- Flight Sergeant George Frederick Cornish
- Sergeant Richard Stanley Dalton
- Sergeant Neville Edward Davis
- Flying Officer Harold Wood Duckitt
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Alexander Dufton
- Flight Sergeant Hamilton
- Flight Sergeant John Hamilton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Clifford Hill
- Leading Aircraftman Hector Hyndman
- Aircraftman 1st Class James William Johnson
- Flying Officer Douglas Leeke
- Lieutenant Leonard Wentworth Lovell-wright
- Lieutenant David William Luke
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Guildford Mainwaring-ellerker-onslow
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Frederick Marsden
- Warrant Officer Class II Peter James Martin
- Aircraftman 1st Class John George Roald Mitchell
- Leading Aircraftman Newberry Guy Thomason Murray
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Rae
- Flight Sergeant Trevor John Russell
- Flying Officer Cecil Julien Steele
- Corporal Lawrence Frederick Thompson
- Pilot Officer John Lawton Thornton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Humphrey Daniel Trapp
- Flying Officer Darl Neilson Turner
1944
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Joseph Bennett
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Murray Buchanan
- Flight Sergeant Walter James Ellen
- Warrant Officer Frank Herbert Hardman
- Flight Sergeant Colin Arthur Lee Haslam
- Flying Officer Arthur David Hone
- Flying Officer Kenneth James Hovenden
- Pupil Pilot Charles Howes
- Pilot Officer Kevin Charles Loe
- Flying Officer Horace Keith Lyle
- Pilot Officer James Joseph Alexander McFadyen
- Flying Officer Mate Alexander Milich
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Francis Pontey
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Norman Rose
- Pilot Officer Robert Thomas Thompson
- Corporal James Popple Warren
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Gilbert Willett
- Flight Lieutenant Donald John Wilson
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Irwin Rutledge
- Leading Aircraftman Rowland Hill Watt
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Wylie