On this day — 18 December
337 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 18 December during the Second World War.
1939
- Flying Officer Douglas Bellamy Allison
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Gaufrey Wearmouth Appleby
- Flying Officer John Edgar Atkinson
- Flying Officer Donald Charles Ephraim Bailey
- Sergeant Maurice William Barrington-taylor
- Leading Aircraftman John Arundel Barstow
- Corporal Reginald Thomas Black
- Pilot Officer Alistair Hugh Richmond Bourne
- Flying Officer Michael Franklin Briden
- Sergeant John Archibald Brister
- Pilot Officer William Stanley Francis Brown
- Flying Officer John Thomas Irvine Challes
- Sergeant Albert Coe
- Leading Aircraftman Gurth Ernest Cox
- Leading Aircraftman Alex Morrison Dickie
- Pilot Officer Matthew Infield Drawwater
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William James Ellis
- Sergeant Thomas Henry English
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Kitto Fearnside
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Parker Fitzgerald
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alan Gordon Foster
- Leading Aircraftman Albert George Goodenough
- Squadron Leader Archibald John Guthrie
- Sergeant Richard Robin Hammond
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander Maxwell Hill
- Sergeant Thomas William Holley
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Vaughan Horner
- Flying Officer John Gaskell Howard
- Squadron Leader Ian Victor Hue-williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter Thomas Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Josias Melville Fletcher Key
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard John King
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred William Walter Lane
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Isaac Davidson Leighton
- Flying Officer Oliver John Trevor Lewis
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Lilley
- Pilot Officer Eric Francis Lines
- Pilot Officer Fred Norman Lines
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Lowe
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Leo Marlin
- Sergeant Frank Michael Mason
- Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Musgrave McInnes
- Sergeant Alister Raymond Norris
- Sergeant Bertie Joseph Pickess
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Malcolm George Polhill
- Pilot Officer Michael Radcliffe
- Sergeant Valentine Henry Garner Richardson
- Pilot Officer Clair Neil Robinson
- Corporal Wilson Robinson
- Pilot Officer Roderick Menzie Ross
- Sergeant Leslie Alfred Sheppard
- Leading Aircraftman John Humble Sinton
- Flying Officer James Heggie Cumming Speirs
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Arthur Stock
- Corporal Frederick James Taylor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander Telfer
- Flying Officer Arthur Telford Thompson
- Sergeant Alfred John Tilley
- Sergeant Joseph Buglasi Adamson Turnbull
- Sergeant Harold Walter Tyrrell
- Flying Officer Vaughan Williams
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Clifford Walker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter John Warren
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Moorehouse Watkins
- Pilot Officer Stanley Macdonald Wickham
- Pilot Officer Ian Richardson Wilson
1940
- Sergeant Leslie James Alesbury
- Flying Officer John Reginald Bellerby
- Sergeant William Edwin Herbert Boast
- Sergeant Rupert James Bowden
- Aircraftman 1st Class Keith Thomas Ellison
- Pilot Officer Arthur Rex Goode
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Halls
- Sergeant Ralph Gerald Hart
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Leslie Holt
- Sergeant Dennis George How
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Jones
- Flying Officer Steven Paget
- Sergeant Leonard James Peachey
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Ethelbert Pebody
- Sergeant Henry Eric Postill
- Pilot Officer Arthur Patnell Pritchard
- Sergeant Paul Victor Renai
- Sergeant George Sigsworth
- Sergeant William Tubberdy
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Smith Robertson Aitken
- Flight Sergeant Walter Merrill Baker
- Sergeant John Francis Bente
- Sergeant Harold Bischlager
- Sergeant Ronald Thomas Bray
- Flying Officer Gordon Bunce
- Pilot Officer Roland Niall Chancellor
- Sergeant Thomas Clarke
- Sergeant John Robert Conn
- Sergeant Alexander Gray Craig
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gower Dandy
- Flying Officer Alex Thomas Darling
- Sergeant Gordon Henry Norman Davey
- Pilot Officer Charles Richardson Digges
- Pilot Officer Nicholas Frederick Durban
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Exelby
- Sergeant George Gardiner Fell
- Sergeant David Ferguson
- Squadron Leader Roger Gatty Forshaw
- Sergeant Michael Terence Garfin
- Sergeant Malcolm Howard Genney
- Flight Sergeant Jack Lloyd Gibson
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Phillip Goulding
- Flight Sergeant Albert George Graves
- Flight Lieutenant Gilbert Gresley Heathcote
- Sergeant Morton Ralph Heinish
- Sergeant Harry William George Hewitt
- Sergeant Leslie Hogg
- Flight Lieutenant Francis William Hordern
- Sergeant Kenneth Ainslie Jeffreys
- Flight Sergeant Leslie William Jones
- Sergeant Frank Young Downie Kerr
- Flying Officer Robert Frank (bob) Murphy
- Flight Sergeant William Henry O'Neill
- Sergeant Patrick George Osman
- Sergeant Roger Pierson Owen
- Sergeant Richard Henry Dampier Palmer
- Flight Lieutenant Bernard Parnell
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Alfred Pendrill
- Sergeant David Glass Penman
- Flight Sergeant Jack Peters
- Sergeant Kenneth George Proctor
- Sergeant John Henry Martin Pulford
- Flight Sergeant James Lloyd Ruthven
- Sergeant Robert Shearer
- Pilot Officer Charles Leslie Smith
- Pilot Officer Neville George Stokes
- Lieutenant Stone
- Sergeant Maurice Anthony Sullivan
- Sergeant Frank Joseph Sunley
- Sergeant Kenneth Roy Taylor
- Sergeant Towns
- Pilot Officer Michael Bolleurs Van Heerden
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Wheatley
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Wooldridge
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Alan Wright
- Sergeant Terence Patrick Wright
1942
- Pilot Officer Peter Rowland Ackernley
- Sergeant Richard Talbot Andrew
- Flight Lieutenant John Charles Atkinson
- Sergeant Kenneth Reeve Bancroft
- Sergeant Albert Montague Boam
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Mark Broadhurst
- Sergeant Donald Arthur Brown
- Pilot Officer James Edward Bunt
- Corporal Edward Charles Cooper
- Pilot Officer Frederick Andrew Couper
- Leading Aircraftman William John Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Thomas Devalle
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Stewart Donald
- Sergeant Henry William Manfred Downard
- Flight Sergeant Fred Fairhurst
- Sergeant Clifford Alexander Farrimond
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Thomas Fieldhouse
- Flight Sergeant William Forrest
- Sergeant Ford John Franklin
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Raymond Furness
- Leading Aircraftman Brian Metcalfe Gates
- Flight Sergeant William Joseph Ginger
- Pilot Officer Vernon Neville Gwyer
- Flight Lieutenant George Alan Haig
- Flight Sergeant James Martin Harrison
- Flight Sergeant James George Hebdon
- Flying Officer Cyril Griffith William Henderson
- Flight Sergeant Baden Powell Hobbs
- Flight Sergeant John Ronald Holmes
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie John Horne
- Sergeant David Trevor Howard
- Sergeant William Francis Irwin
- Flying Officer William Paul Janssens De Varebeke
- Pilot Officer Harold Alfred Stephen Jeffries
- Flying Officer Alaric Jickling
- Leading Aircraftman William Walker Johnson
- Flight Sergeant William Leak
- Sergeant John George Liney
- Pilot Officer Colin Campbell Maccoll
- Flight Sergeant John Stewart Macks
- Sergeant Albert Patrick Mahony
- Flight Sergeant Alan Frank Martin
- Sergeant Francis Martin
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Macdonald Martin
- Flight Sergeant Ian Malcolm James McGavin
- Flight Sergeant L. Edwin Francis McKenna
- Pilot Officer Sidney Charles McLellan
- Flight Lieutenant George Moir
- Sergeant William Cecil Morgan
- Sergeant Edward Neafsey
- Flight Sergeant Norman John Newall
- Warrant Officer Patrick Harland Noney
- Pilot Officer Gerald Temple Odlin
- Sergeant James Cornelius O'Neill
- Pilot Officer William Turner Pickles
- Pilot Officer William Frank Rains
- Sergeant John Mason Reilly
- Flying Officer Percy William Rowling
- Pilot Officer Henry William Joseph Smith
- Sergeant Fredrick Henry Steward
- Flight Sergeant John Milton Stilson
- Flight Sergeant Russell William Strode-penny
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Taylor
- Lieutenant Cresswell F. (peter) Thompson
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Basil Thompson
- Flying Officer Charles William Walker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Frederick Waugh
- Warrant Officer Class II John Victor Welsh
- Corporal Edward John William Wheeler
- Sergeant Leslie Cornelius Wheeler
- Flying Officer John Williams
- Flight Sergeant George Edwin Woodcock
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Young
1943
- Flight Sergeant Charles Albert Mark Barber
- Warrant Officer James William Beale
- Flight Sergeant Charles Whitfield Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Clifford William Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Eric Piggott Botting
- Lieutenant Boyd
- Captain Brown
- Warrant Officer Frederic Raymond Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Joseph Carroll
- Pilot Officer Neil Procter Chapman
- Leading Aircraftman John Collins
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Joseph Cook
- Flying Officer Reginald Robert Terance Crump
- Sergeant William Henry Cryer
- Flying Officer Paul Joseph De Charmoy
- Leading Aircraftman Durrant Vern Dunlop
- Flying Officer Raymond John Elderfield
- Pilot Officer Samuel Evans
- Lieutenant Giraudeau
- Flight Lieutenant Hector Bertram Gray
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Gray
- Sergeant Kenneth Ronald Halliday
- Flying Officer Norman Edmond Hanna
- Sergeant Edmund Albert Hooker
- Sergeant William Peter Houston
- Sergeant Samuel Hughes
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Robert Hunt
- Flying Officer Edward James Jay
- Flying Officer Stanley Kidd
- Pilot Officer Fred Calder Macqueen
- Flying Officer Clarence Wilfred Mannett
- Flight Sergeant Francis McPhee
- Flying Officer Stuart Wilfred Morton
- Flying Officer Hendrik Lodewijk Mosselmans
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stewart Semple Neil
- Flying Officer Edmond St. John Brendan O'Callaghan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Oldcorn
- Sergeant Alfred Edward Oulds
- Pilot Officer William Roland Parks
- Flying Officer Hugh Douglas Pawson
- Sergeant Edwin Roylance Phillips
- Flying Officer Melvin Henry Ramsay
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Robinson
- Flight Sergeant Neil Colin Ross
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles Scott
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Jack William Semmens
- Warrant Officer Class I Smith
- Flying Officer Vernon Maurice Sparkes
- Sergeant Henry Leonard Thompson
- Corporal Thomas Tierney
- Lieutenant Trotter
- Warrant Officer Class I Van Der Vyver
- Flying Officer Glenn Edgar Weir
- Flight Lieutenant John Eric Wood
- Sergeant David Hartnoll Wright
1944
- Sergeant Chester Edward Anderson
- Flying Officer Leslie William Beer
- Flying Officer Kenneth Edwin Harold Bennett
- Flying Officer Joseph Wilfrid Laurier F. Bernier
- Pilot Officer Alfred Goodman-wells Blayney
- Pilot Officer Duncan Stewart Brown
- Flight Lieutenant David Graham Buchanan
- Pilot Officer Robert Wentworth Byrnes
- Flying Officer Robert Leslie Cann
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Adamson Curry
- Flying Officer Joseph Raymond Jean Marie Desmarais
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Divitcoff
- Pilot Officer Joseph Edward Lawrence Dubois
- Flight Sergeant Percy Alfred Ewins
- Pilot Officer Edward Joseph Farrell
- Flying Officer Gordon Edmund Bruce Forbes
- Flying Officer Edward George Fox
- Sergeant Staniforth Saywell Galvin
- Pilot Officer Raymond Charles Gauthier
- Flight Sergeant Matthys M. Gerryts
- Pilot Officer James Vallance Grant
- Pilot Officer James William Green
- Pilot Officer Horace William Harler
- Pilot Officer Harvey
- Warrant Officer Thomas Francis Higgs
- Flying Officer Douglas Hitchcock
- Flight Sergeant John Murray Irvine
- Flight Sergeant Thomas George Jacobs
- Pilot Officer Leslie Homer Janzen
- Pilot Officer Allan Edward Kurtzhals
- Pilot Officer Joseph Rosaire Jean Charles Labrecque
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Rene Lariviere
- Pilot Officer William Hewison Leese
- Leading Aircraftman William Macgregor
- Flight Sergeant Ian Francis Macrae
- Flight Lieutenant Brian Minden Madden
- Flight Lieutenant Paul Allan Cornell Maeder
- Flying Officer Gilbert Horace March
- Flight Sergeant William Russell McAuliffe
- Flight Sergeant Angus Murdock McPhail
- Flight Sergeant George Thomas Miller
- Flying Officer James Henderson Ogilvie
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon William Olafsen
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Maurice Paradis
- Flight Lieutenant James Murray Parrott
- Flying Officer Samuel Henry James Pearce
- Pilot Officer Ernest Ashley Rhude
- Sergeant John Ernest Robert
- Flying Officer William Francis Scott
- Sergeant John Christopher Smart
- Pilot Officer James Duncan Smith
- Second Lieutenant Stork
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Danford Westphal
- Flying Officer Gordon Douglas Wilson
- Pilot Officer Stanley Ernest Zadorozny
1945
- Air Mechanic Bakkes
- Corporal William Henry Connor
- Flying Officer Roger Jean Marie Joseph Dagenais
- Flying Officer William Reginald Fee
- Wing Commander Joseph Kemper
- Flying Officer Thomas Gordon Munro
- Corporal John Alfred Norwich
- Flying Officer Kenneth Frank Study
- Flight Lieutenant William Archie Young