The following is a list of pilots and other aircrew who flew during the Battle of Britain, and were awarded the Battle of Britain Clasp[1] to the 1939–45 Star by flying at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit of the Royal Air Force or Fleet Air Arm during the period from 0001 hours on 10 July to 2359 hours 31 October 1940.[2] [3]
In 1942, the Air Ministry made the decision to compile a list from records of the names of pilots who had lost their lives as a result of the fighting during the Battle of Britain[4] for the purpose of building a national memorial. This became the Battle of Britain Chapel at Westminster Abbey, which was unveiled by King George VI on 10 July 1947.[5] The Roll of Honour within the Chapel contains the names of 1,497 pilots and aircrew killed or mortally wounded during the Battle.[6]
Nothing was done officially, however, to define the qualifications for the classification of a Battle of Britain airman until 9 November 1960. AMO N850, published by the Air Ministry, stated for the first time the requirements for the awarding of the Battle of Britain Star, and listed the 71 units which were deemed to have been under the control of RAF Fighter Command.[7]
In 1955 Flt Lt John Holloway, a serving RAF officer, began a personal challenge to compile a complete list of "The Few". After fourteen years of research Flt Lt Holloway had 2,946 names on the list. Of these airmen, 537 were killed during the Battle or later died of wounds received.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust, founded by Geoffrey Page, raised funds for the construction of the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne near Folkestone in Kent. The Memorial, unveiled by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on 9 July 1993, shares the site with the Christopher Foxley-Norris Memorial Wall on which a complete list of "The Few" is engraved.[8]
More recently, the Battle of Britain Monument on the Victoria Embankment in London was unveiled on 18 September 2005 by Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The idea for the monument was conceived by the Battle of Britain Historical Society which then set about raising funds for its construction. The outside of the monument is lined with bronze plaques listing all the Allied airmen who took part in the Battle.[9]
| Name | Rank | Nationality | Sqn during Battle | Awards | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oaks, Trevor Walter | Sgt | NZ | 235 Sqn | |||
| O'Brian, Peter Geoffrey St.George | Flt Lt | CAN | 152 & 257 Sqns | DFC*, ADC, OBE | Died 15 April 2007[10] | |
| O'Brien, Joseph Somerton | Sqn Ldr | BR | 92 & 234 Sqns | KIA 7 September 1940 | ||
| O'Byrne, Peter | Sgt | BR | 73 & 501 Sqns | Died 13 June 1998 | ||
| O'Connell, Anthony | Fg Off | BR | 264 Sqn | Died 17 December 1976 | ||
| O'Leary, Arthur Alexander | Sgt | BR | 604 Sqn | DFC, DFM | Died 21 April 1987 | |
| O'Malley, Derek Keppel Coleridge | Fg Off | BR | 264 Sqn | KIA 4 September 1940 (Pilot)[11] | ||
| O'Meara, James Joseph | Plt Off | BR | 64, 72 Sqns & 421 Flt | DSO, DFC* | Died 1974 | |
| O'Neill, Desmond Hugh | Fg Off | BR | 611 & 41 Sqns | KIFA 11 October 1940: Mid-air collision with Sgt L R Carter; bailed out but parachute failed aged 25; son of Lt Col Edward M. M. & Ethel M. O'Neill of Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland; husband of Muriel O'Neill. Buried in Streatham Park Cemetery, Surrey, Square 7A, Grave 12104. | ||
| O'Neill, John Anthony | Flt Lt | BR | 601 & 238 Sqns | DFC | Died May 2008 | |
| Oelofse, Johannes Roelof Stephanus | Plt Off | SA | 43 Sqn | KIA 8 August 1940 | ||
| Odbert, Norman Cyril | Sqn Ldr | BR | 64 Sqn | OBE | ||
| Offenberg, Jean Henri Marie "Pyker" | Plt Off | BEL | 145 Sqn | KIFA 22 January 1942 | ||
| Ogilvie, Alfred Keith "Skeets" | Plt Off | CAN | 609 Sqn | DFC | Later bailed out and taken POW 9 January 1941 | |
| Oglivie, Donald Bruce | Plt Off | BR | 601 Sqn | Captured November 1943 and made POW | ||
| Ogilvy, Charles Alexander "Alastair" | Flt Lt | BR | 610 Sqn | DFC | (30 November 1915 – 1995) Last name to be added to the Battle of Britain London Monument[12] | |
| Oldfield, Trevor Guest | Sgt | BR | 64 & 92 Sqns | KIA 27 September 1940[13] (Pilot) | ||
| Olesen, Wilfrid Pallasen | Plt Off | BR | 607 Sqn | Died 6 July 1950 | ||
| Olenski, Zbigniew | Fg Off | POL | 234 & 609 Sqns | KW | Died 20 June 1970 | |
| Olewinski, Boleslaw | Sgt | POL | 111 Sqn | KIA 3 November 1940 | ||
| Olive, Charles Gordon Chaloner | Flt Lt | AUS | 65 Sqn | DFC | Died 1987 | |
| Oliver, George Dixon | Sgt | BR | 23 Sqn | KIA 8 September 1941[14] | ||
| Olver, Peter | Plt Off | BR | 603 Sqns | DFC | Shot down, captured and taken POW 11 June 1943; Surviving aircrew Died 14 February 2013 | |
| Ommanney, Rupert John | Sgt | BR | 229 Sqn | KIA 12 February 1942 | ||
| Orchard, Harold Charles | Sgt | BR | 65 Sqn | KIA 5 February 1941 (Pilot) | ||
| Orgias, Eric | Plt Off | NZ | 23 Sqn | KIA 25 September 1940 aged 25 when as part of the crew of Blenheim L8369 it stalled and crashed on approach to landing near Stourbridge.[15] | ||
| Ortmans, Victor Marcel M "Vicky" | Plt Off | BEL | 229 Sqn | Captured and made POW 21 October 1941, KIFA 8 August 1950 | ||
| Orzechowski, Jerzy | Plt Off | POL | 607 Sqn | VM, KW**, DFC | Died 1988 in Canada. | |
| Osmand, Alexander Gordon | Plt Off | BR | 3 & 213 Sqns | KIA 20 October 1943 | ||
| Ostaszewski-Ostoja, Piotr | Fg Off | POL | 609 Sqn | KW**, DFC | Died 1965 London | |
| Ostowicz, Antoni | Fg Off | POL | 145 Sqn | KW* | MIA 11 August 1940 | |
| Overton, Charles Nevil "Teeny" | Fg Off | BR | 43 Sqn | DFC | ||
| Owen, Arthur Edward | AC | BR | 600 Sqn | KIA 24 July 1941 | ||
| Owen, Henry | Sgt | BR | 219 Sqn | |||
| Owen, William Gethin | Sgt | BR | 235 Sqn | DFC | ||
| Oxspring, Robert Wardlow "Bobby" | Flt Lt | BR | 66 Sqn | DFC**, AFC | Died 8 August 1989 |
| Name | Rank | Nationality | Sqn during Battle | Awards | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page, Anthony Durrant "Tony" | Sgt | BR | 111 Sqn | KIA 8 November 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Page, Alan Geoffrey | Plt Off | BR | 56 Sqn | OBE, DSO, DFC* | Died 3 August 2000. | |||
| Page, Arthur John | Sgt | BR | 257 Sqn | KIA 24 October 1941 (Pilot) | ||||
| Page, Cyril Leslie | Flt Lt | BR | 234 Sqn | |||||
| Page, Vernon Douglas | Sgt | BR | 610 & 601 Sqns | DFC | ||||
| Page, Wilfrid Thomas | Sgt | BR | 1 Sqn | KIA 16 November 1943 (Malta) | ||||
| Pain, John Francis | Plt Off | BR | 32 Sqn | Died 12 September 1980 | ||||
| Paisey, Frederick George | Sgt | BR | 235 Sqn | DFC | ||||
| Palak, Jan | Sgt | POL | 303 & 302 Sqns | VM, KW**, DFC | Died 1987 Bath UK | |||
| Palliser, George Charles Calder "Titch" | Sgt | BR | 43 & 249 Sqns | DFC, AE | Died 25 September 2011 | |||
| Palmer, Norman Nelson | Sgt | BR | 248 Sqn | KIA 8 February 1942 | ||||
| Palusinski, Jerzy Hipolit | Plt Off | POL | 303 Sqn | VM, KW | Died 1984 UK | |||
| Pankratz, Wilhelm | Flt Lt | POL | 145 Sqn | KW | MIA 12 August 1940 | |||
| Pannell, Geoffrey Charles Russell | Sgt | NZ | 3 Sqn | DFC, CdeG | Born Christchurch, New Zealand 22 August 1913. Commissioned August 1941; transferred to reserve January 1946; retired July 1962. Died Christchurch, 3 May 1980 | |||
| Parke, Thomas Robert Verner | Sub Lt (FAA) | BR | 804 NAS | KIA 7 July 1941 | ||||
| Parker, Denis Keith | Sgt | BR | 66 Sqn | |||||
| Parker, Kenneth Bruce | Sgt | BR | 64 & 92 Sqns | KIA 15 October 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Parker, Thomas Campbell | Plt Off | BR | 79 Sqn | OBE | ||||
| Parker, Vincent | Plt Off | BR | 234 Sqn | Crashed taken as POW 15 August 1940; KIFA 29 January 1946[16] | ||||
| Parkes, William Bert | Sgt | BR | 501 Sqn | |||||
| Parkin, Eric Gordon | Plt Off | BR | 501 Sqn | Died 23 July 2008 | ||||
| Parkinson, Cecil | Sgt | BR | 238 Sqn | WIA 20 July 1940; Died 21 July 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Parnall, Denis Geach | Flt Lt | BR | 249 Sqn | KIA 18 September 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Parnall, Stuart Boyd | Plt Off | BR | 607 Sqn | KIA 9 September 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Parr, Douglas John | Sgt | BR | 29 Sqn | KIA 7 November 1941 | ||||
| Parr, Leslie Alfred | Sgt | BR | 79 Sqn | Died 1986 | ||||
| Parrott, Dennis Thomas | Fg Off | BR | 19 Sqn | KIA 22 June 1941 (Pilot) | ||||
| Parrott, Peter Lawrence | Fg Off | BR | 145 & 605 Sqns | DFC, AFC | Retired as a Wg Cdr in 1965 | |||
| Parrott, Reginald James | Sgt | BR | 32 Sqn | KIA 5 May 1941 (Pilot) | ||||
| Parry, Emlyn | AC2 | BR | 23 Sqn | KIA 28 May 1943 (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) | ||||
| Parry, Montague Edward | Sgt | BR | 604 Sqn | |||||
| Parsons, Claude Arthur | Sgt | BR | 66 & 610 Sqns | KIA 20 August 1941 | ||||
| Parsons, Edwin Ernest | Sgt | NZ | 23 Sqn | Died 4 October 1977, | ||||
| Parsons, John Graham | Sgt | BR | 235 Sqn | |||||
| Parsons, Philip Trevor | Fg Off | BR | 504 Sqn | KIA 2 October 1942 (Pilot) | ||||
| Paszkiewicz, Ludwik Witold | Fg Off | POL | 303 Sqn | VM, KW, DFC | KIA 7 September 1940 | |||
| Paszkiewicz, Konrad Jozef | Fg Off | POL | 303 Sqn | VM, KW** | Born 29 November 1920, Gorzkowice, Poland; discharged in 1948; died 29 May 2001 (aged 80) at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England.[17] | |||
| Paterek, Edward | Sgt | POL | 302 & 303 Sqns | KW | MIA 28 March 1941[18] | |||
| Paterson, Brian "Blinkers" | Sub Lt (FAA) | BR | 804 NAS | |||||
| Paterson, James Alfred | Flt Lt | NZ | 92 Sqn | MBE | KIA 27 September 1940 (Pilot); Posthumously awarded the MBE on 1 January 1941 for services in France during May 1940 (Battle of France).[19] | |||
| Patrick, Leon Fred | Sgt | BR | 222 Sqn | |||||
| Patston, Arthur George | Sgt | BR | 604 Sqn | |||||
| Patten, Hubert Paul Frederick | Fg Off | BR | 64 Sqn | Died 24 December 2002.[20] | ||||
| Patterson, Leonard John | Sgt | BR | 501 Sqn | KIA 28 November 1940 | ||||
| Patterson, Peter John | Mid (FAA) | BR | 242 Sqn | KIA 20 August 1940 | ||||
| Patterson, Norris Henry | Sub Lt (FAA) | BR | 804 NAS | KIA 22 December 1941 (HMS Audacity) | ||||
| Patterson, Robert Lawson | Plt Off | BR | 242 Sqn | MIA 18 July 1940 | ||||
| Pattinson, Aberconway John Sefton | Fg Off | BR | 616, 23 & 92 Sqns | KIA 12 October 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Pattison, John David | Fg Off | CAN | 1 RCAF Sqn | |||||
| Pattison, John Gordon | Fg Off | NZ | 266 Sqn | DSO, DFC, CdeLd'H | Died 11 September 2009[21] [22] | |||
| Pattison, Kenneth Clifton | Sgt | BR | 611 Sqn | WIA 13 October 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Pattullo, William Blair | Plt Off | BR | 151, 249 & 46 Sqns | WIA 26 October 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Paul, Frank Dawson | Sub Lt (FAA) | BR | 64 Sqn | WIA 30 July 1940 | ||||
| Pavitt, Harold John | Sgt | BR | 235 Sqn | Died 1972 | ||||
| Pavlu, Otto | Sgt | CZ | 1 Sqn | KIA 28 April 1943 | ||||
| Payne, Alec Dawson | Sgt | BR | 610 Sqn | Died 16 December 2010.[23] | ||||
| Payne, Roy Ainley | Plt Off | BR | 602 Sqn | |||||
| Payne, Reginald Irving | AC2 | BR | 23 Sqn | 1909–1940 KIA 25 September 1940 when as radio operator/air gunner of Blenheim L8369 it stalled and crashed on approach to landing near Stourbridge. | ||||
| Peachment, Charles Barton Gower | Plt Off | BR | 236 Sqn | Retired as a Sqn Ldr in 1947; Died 1979 | ||||
| Peacock, Dennis Charles | Sgt | BR | 605 Sqn | KIA 15 September 1942 | ||||
| Peacock, Reginald John | Fg Off | BR | 235 Sqn | DFC | KIA 5 February 1943 (North Africa) | |||
| Peacock, William Albert | Sgt | BR | 46 Sqn | MIA 11 September 1940 | ||||
| Peacock-Edwards, Spencer Ritchie | Plt Off | BR | 253 & 615 Sqns | DFC | Died 1983 | |||
| Pearce, Leonard Harold Borlase | Sgt | BR | 32 & 615 Sqns | KIA 9 April 1941 | ||||
| Pearce, Peter Griffin | Sgt | BR | 600 Sqn | KIA 15 December 1941 | ||||
| Pearce, Roy | Sgt | BR | 29 Sqn | |||||
| Pearce, William John | Sgt | BR | 236 & 23 Sqns | KIA 5 November 1941 | ||||
| Pearcy, Dennis Jack | Sgt | BR | 219 Sqn | KIA 15 November 1940 (Air Gunner) | ||||
| Pearman, Stanley James | Plt Off | BR | 141 Sqn | |||||
| Pearse, Leslie Lewis | Sgt | BR | 236 Sqn | |||||
| Pearson, Dennis Edward | Sgt | BR | 236 Sqn | |||||
| Pearson, Geoffrey Wilberforce | Sgt | BR | 501 Sqn | KIA 6 September 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Pearson, Philip | Sgt | BR | 238 Sqn | KIA 29 May 1942 (Egypt) | ||||
| Pease, Arthur Peter | Plt Off | BR | 74 Sqn & 603 Sqns | KIA 15 September 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Peebles, William | Sgt | BR | 235 Sqn | KIA 7 May 1941 | ||||
| Peel, Charles David | Fg Off | BR | 603 Sqn | MIA 17 July 1940 | ||||
| Peel, John Ralph Alexander | Sqn Ldr | BR | 145 Sqn (CO) | DFC | ||||
| Pegge, Constantine Oliver Joseph | Plt Off | BR | 603 Sqn | DFC* | Died 9 May 1950[24] | |||
| Pemberton, David Alwyne | Sqn Ldr | BR | 1 Sqn (CO) | DFC | KIA 3 November 1940 | |||
| Penfold, Paul Eric | Plt Off | BR | 29 Sqn | |||||
| Penfold, William David | Sgt | BR | 236 Sqn | |||||
| Penford, Vernon William Rex | Flt Sgt | BR | 23 Sqn | Died 1976 | ||||
| Pennington, Denis Arthur | Plt Off | BR | 263 & 245 Sqns | DFC | ||||
| Pennington-Leigh, Alan William | Flt Lt | BR | 232 & 248 Sqns | KIA 1 June 1943 (Singapore) | ||||
| Pennycuick, Bruce | Sgt | BR | 236 Sqn | |||||
| Percy, Hugh Harold | Plt Off | BR | 264 Sqn | KIA 22 May 1944 | ||||
| Perkin, Frederick Stanley | Sgt | BR | 73 Sqn & 421 Flt | Died 1988 | ||||
| Perrin, Georges Camille | Adjutant | Free FR | 615 & 249 Sqns | Died 1981 | ||||
| Perry, Harry Thomas | Sgt | BR | 23 Sqn | KIA 30 October 1940 | ||||
| Peters, George Charles Boyce | Fg Off | BR | 79 Sqn | KIA 29 September 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Peterson, Otto John | Plt Off | CAN | 1 Sqn RCAF | KIA 27 September 1940[25] (Pilot) | ||||
| Pettet, Alexander Henry | Plt Off | BR | 248 Sqn | MIA 13 December 1940 | ||||
| Pettit, Henry William | Sgt | BR | 605 & 1 Sqns | KIA 2 February 1941 | ||||
| Pexton, Richard Dunning | Fg Off | BR | 615 Sqn | DFC, AFC | ||||
| Pfeiffer, Jan Piotr | Plt Off | POL | 257 & 32 Sqns | MIA 20 December 1943 | ||||
| Philipart, Jacques Arthur Laurent | Plt Off | BEL | 213 Sqn | KIA 25 August 1940 when he was shot down in Hurricane V7226, Philipart baled out into the sea and was killed. | ||||
| Phillip, James | Sgt | BR | 25 Sqn | KIA 17 May 1942 | ||||
| Phillips, Austin | AC | BR | 604 Sqn | |||||
| Phillips, Ernest Russell | Plt Off | BR | 25 Sqn | KIA 14 February 1941 (Pilot) | ||||
| Phillips, Norman Taylor | Flt Sgt | BR | 65 Sqn | KIA 8 August 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Phillips, Randall Frederick Prenter | Sgt | BR | 602 Sqn | Died 28 March 1998 | ||||
| Phillipson, John Ross | Sgt | BR | 604 Sqn | DFC | KIA 5 January 1943 (Wireless Operator/Observer) | |||
| Philo, Robert Ferguson | Plt Off | BR | 151 Sqn | |||||
| Piatkowski, Stanislaw | Plt Off | POL | 79 Sqn | KIA 25 October 1940 | ||||
| Pickering, James | Sgt | BR | 64 Sqn | AFC | ||||
| Pickering, John Harcourt | Plt Off | BR | 66 Sqn | KIA 15 March 1942 (Pilot) | ||||
| Pickering, Tony Garforth | Sgt | BR | 32 & 501 Sqns | MID,AE | Died 4 April 2016 | Aged 70 years of age | True, genuine and a modest hero to Britain (Pilot) | |
| Pickford, James Thomas | Sgt | BR | 604 Sqn | |||||
| Pidd, Leslie | Sgt | BR | 238 Sqn | KIA 15 September 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Pigg, Oswald St John | Fg Off | BR | 72 Sqn | KIA 1 September 1940 (Pilot) | ||||
| Pilch, Edward Roman | Plt Off | POL | 302 Sqn | VM, KW* | KIA 20 February 1941 | |||
| Pilkington, Alfred | Sgt | BR | 23 Sqn | |||||
| Pilkington-Miksa, Wlodzimierz Janusz | Plt Off | POL | 303 Sqn | VM, KW**, DFC | Flew as Wlodzimierz Miksa during the war. | |||
| Pinckney, David John Colin | Fg Off | BR | 603 Sqn | KIA 23 January 1942 | ||||
| Pinfold, Herbert Moreton | Flt Lt | BR | 56 Sqn (CO) | Died 19 October 2009 | ||||
| Pinkham, Philip Campbell | Sqn Ldr | BR | 19 Sqn | AFC | KIA 5 September 1940 (Pilot) | |||
| Pípa, Josef | Sgt | CZ[26] | 43 Sqn | CdeG, MC*** | Died 2 January 1977.[27] | |||
| Piper, Arthur Howard | Sgt | BR | 236 Sqn | DFC | ||||
| Pippard, Harold Alfred | Plt Off | BR | 29 Sqn | |||||
| Pippet, John Gilbert | Fg Off | BR | 64 Sqn | KIA 23 February 1941[28] | ||||
| Pisarek, Marian | Fg Off | POL | 303 Sqn | VM IV & V, KW***, DFC | MIA 29 April 1942 | |||
| Pitcher, Paul Brooke | Fg Off | CAN | 401 Sqn | MiD | ||||