"We do not want to be remembered as heroes, we only ask to be remembered for what we done....that's all"
"I regard it as a privilege to fight for all those things that make life worth living - freedom, honour and fair play"

The Battle of Britain aircrew that are still known to be surviving are listed below. This list was supplied by the Battle of Britain Fighter Association in 2007 so it will not be completely up to date. While every effort has been made to delete those names that are known to have passed away since this list was compiled, it is still possible that this list still contains names of aircrew that are no longer with us. If you observe a name listed below that you definately know has passed away could you please notify administration immeadiately.

Nominal Roll Current as supplied by the Battle of Britain Fighter Association August 2007
All listings are by Rank; Initials; Name; Decorations; Squadron; Now living in; Aircraft type.

A
Flight Lieutenant Charles Aindow, 23 Squadron, Cambridgeshire, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant Alexander Appleford, 66 Squadron, Cambridgeshire, Spitfires.
Squadron Leader Dennis 'Tage' Armitage, DFC, 88, 266 Squadron, Lincolnshire, Spitfires.
B
Flight Lieutenant George Baird, from New Zealand, 248 Squadron, London, Blenheims.
Flying Officer Frederick Barker, DFM, 264 Squadron, Essex, Defiants.
Wing Commander 'Paddy' Barthropp, DFC, AFC, 602 Squadron, West Sussex, Spitfires.
Group Captain Leonard Bartlett, DSO, 17 Squadron, Perth, Australia, Hurricanes.
Wing Commander Robert Barton DFC&Bar, 249 Squadron, Canada, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Alan Bennison, AE, New Zealander, 25 Squadron, Essex, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant Benjamin Bent, DFC, 25 Squadron, Essex, Blenheims.
Wing Commander Archibald McNeill Boyd, DSO, DFC, 600 Squadron, Kent, Blenheims.
Air Commodore Peter Brothers, CBE, DSO, DFC, 32 Squadron, Kent, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Bernard Brown, New Zealander, 610 Squadron, Kent, Spitfires.
Squadron Leader Maurice Brown, AFC, 611 Squadron, Cambridgeshire, Spitfires.
Pilot Officer Norman McHardy Brown, 41 Squadron, Kent, Spitfires.
Mr Robert Brown, 604 Squadron, Kent, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant Alan Burdekin, AE, JP, 600 Squadron, Kent, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant ‘OV’ Owen Burns, 235 Squadron, Norfolk, Blenheims.
C
Flight Lieutenant Gerald Carthew, 253, 85,145 Squadrons, Canada, Hurricanes.
Pilot Officer Joseph Chamberlain, 235 Squadron, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant William Terence Clark, DFM, 219 Squadron, North Yorkshire, Blenheims.
Squadron Leader Douglas Gerald Clift, 79 Squadron, Kent, Spitfires.
Flight Lieutenant William James Corbin, DFC, 610 Squadron, Kent, Spitfires.
Air Commodore James Baird Coward, AFC, 19 Squadron, Australia, Spitfires.
Flight Lieutenant Michael Ernest Croskell, 213 Squadron, Cambridgeshire, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Wallace Cunningham, DFC, 19 Squadron, Cambridgeshire, Spitfires.
D
Squadron Leader Peter Leslie Dawbarn, 17 Squadron, Shrewsbury, Hurricanes.
Mr Herbert David Denchfield, 610 Squadron, Kent, Spitfires.
Wing Commander Robert Francis Thomas Doe, DSO, DFC, 234 Squadron, Yorkshire, Spitfires.
Flight Lieutenant John Knight Down, 616 Squadron, North Lincolnshire, Spitfires.
Squadron Leader Peter Derrick McLeod Down, 56 Squadron, Essex, Hurricanes.
Group Captain Billy Drake, DSO, DFC, 213 Squadron, Cambridgeshire, Hurricanes.
Wing Commander Peter William Dunning-White, DFC, AE, 145 Squadron, West Sussex, Hurricanes.
E
Flight Lieutenant Eric Ralph Edmunds, New Zealander, 245 Squadron, East Lothian, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Charles Edwards, AE, 600 Squadron, Kent, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant Frank Richard Charles Elger, 248 Squadron, North London, Blenheims.
Wing Commander John Francis Durham Elkington, 1 Squadron, West Sussex, Hurricanes.
Air Commodore John Lawrence Wemyss Ellacombe, CB, DFC, 151 Squadron, Suffolk, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Stanley Emeny, New Zealander, 264 Squadron, Essex, Defiants.
Squadron Leader William Alexander Coote Emmett, 25 Squadron, Essex, Blenheims.
Air Commodore Harold Evans, 236 Squadron, Blenheims.
F
Wing Commander Paul Caswell Farnes DFM, British, 501 Squadron, Hurricanes.
Sergeant Hubert Luiz Flower, 248 Squadron, Derbyshire, Blenheims.
Wing Commander Robart William Foster, DFC, AE, 605 Squadron, West Sussex, Hurricanes.
Wing Commander John Connell Freeborn, DFC, 74 Squadron, Essex, Spitfires.
G
Group Captain, John Rushton Gard'ner, New Zealander, 141 Squadron, Scotland, Defiants.
Squadron Leader Alan Antill Gawith, DFC, New Zealander, Scotland, Defiants.
< b>Flight Lieutenant Reginald Clive Gosling, 266 Squadron, Lincolnshire, Spitfires.
< b>Flight Lieutenant Trevor Gray, 64 Squadron, , Spitfires.
Warrant Officer Frederick William Woodridge Green, 600 Squadron, Kent, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant William James Green, 501 Squadron, Bristol, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant John Peter Bowtell Greenwood, 253 Squadron, Australia, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Albert Edward Gregory, DFC, AE, 219 Squadron, North Yorkshire, Blenheims.
H
Group Captain Richard Cummins Haine, DFC, 600 Squadron, Kent, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant Peter Raymond Hairs, MBE, 501 Squadron, Bristol, Hurricanes.
Squadron Leader John Stewart Hart, 54 & 602 Squadrons, British Columbia, Spitfires.
Wing Commander Thomas Norman Hayes, DFC, 600 Squadron, Kent, Blenheims.
Squadron Leader James Chilton Francis Hayter, DFC, 605 Squadron, New Zealand, Hurricanes.
Sgt Leopold Heimes, 235 Squadron, Belgium, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant Gordon Arthur Hewett, 607 Squadron, United States, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Gerald Arthur Holder, 236 Squadron, Oxfordshire, Blenheim.
Squadron Leader John Browning Holderness, Rhodesian, 1 Squadron, Zimbabwe, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Laurence Edward Hooper-Smith, AE, 234 Squadron, Jersey, Spitfires.
Flight Lieutenant William Robert Kent Hughes, DFC, AE, 23 Squadron, Cambridgeshire, Blenheims.
Flight Sergeant Douglas John Hunter, 29 Squadron, Britain, Blenheims.
I
Squadron Leader Thomas Clifford Iveson, DFC, AE, 616 Squadron, North Lincolnshire, Spitfires.
J
Flight Lieutenant Richard Leoline Jones, 64 Squadron, London, Spitfires.
K
Wing Commander Terence Michael Kane, 234 Squadron, Yorkshire, Spitfires.
Mr John 'Bugs' Keatings, 219 Squadron, Yorkshire, Blenheims.
Squadron Leader Raymond Alan Kellow, 213 Squadron, Cambridgeshire, Hurricanes.
Squadron Leader Robert Austin Kings, 238 Squadron, St Eval, Hurricanes.
L
Colonel Henry Gaston Lafont, French, 615 Squadron, Paris, Hurricanes.
Mr Keith Ashley Lawrence, DFC, 234 Squadron, Canada, Spitfires.
Squadron Leader Graham Leggett, 615 Squadron, London, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Robin Lucas, 141 Squadron, Defiants.
Squadron Leader Kenneth Roy Lusty, 25 Squadron, Essex, Blenheims.
M
Wing Commander Kenneth William MacKenzie, DFC, AFC, AE, 501 Squadron, Leicester, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Arthur Edward Makins, 247 Squadron, Devon, Gladiators.
Squadron Leader Ludwik Martel, 54, 603 Squadrons, Wimbledon, Spitfires.
Squadron Leader Roy Andrew McGowan, 46 Squadron, New Zealand, Hurricanes.
Pilot Officer James Cosmo Melvill, 264 Squadron, Hurricanes.
Wing Commander George Holmes Melville-Jackson, DFC, 236 Squadron, Spain, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant John Charles Merrett, AE, 235 Squadron, Norfolk, Blenheims.
Squadron Leader Jocelyn "Joce" George Power Millard, AE, KSG, 1 Squadron, West Sussex, Hurricanes.
Group Captain Arthur Montagu-Smith, DL RAF Ret’d, 264 Squadron, Essex, Defiants.
Wing Commander Roger Edward Guy Morewood, 248 Squadron, London, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant Maurice Hewlett Mounsdon, 56 Squadron, Spain, Hurricanes.
N
Wing Commander Thomas Francis Neil, DFC, AFC, 249 Squadron, Yorkshire, Hurricanes.
Squadron Leader Douglas Benjamin Fletcher Nicholls, DFC, 151 Squadron, Suffolk, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Dennis Hugh Nichols, 56 Squadron, Essex, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant John Norwell, AFC, 54 & 41 Squadrons, England, Spitfires and Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Reginald Charles Nutter, DFC, 257 Squadron, Canada, Hurricanes.
O
Wing Commander Peter Olver, DFC, 611 Squadron, Cambridgeshire, Spitfires.
Group Captain John Anthony O'Neill, DFC, 601 Squadron, Exeter, Hurricanes.
P
Flight Lieutenant George Charles Calder Palliser, DFC, 249 Squadron, Australia, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Eric Gordon Parkin, 501 Squadron, Bristol, Hurricanes.
Squadron Leader Tony Garforth Pickering, 501 Squadron, Bristol, Hurricanes.
Group Captain Herbert Moreton Pinfold, 56 Squadron, Essex, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Harry Arthur Robin Prowse, 266 Squadron, Brazil, Spitfires.
R
Squadron Leader Christopher John Henry Riddle, 601 Squadron, Exeter, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Hugh Joseph Riddle, 601 Squadron, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Denis Norman Robinson, 152 Squadron, Northumberland, Spitfires.
Wing Commander Jack Rose, CMG, MBE, DFC, 32 Squadron, Kent, Spitfires.
Wing Commander Blair Dalzell Russel, DFC and BAR, DSO, 1(RCAF) Squadron, Quebec, Canada, Hurricanes.
F/Lt Anthony Gerald Russell, 43 Squadron, West Sussex, Hurricanes.
S
Flying Officer Tadeusz Sawicz, DFC, KW, 303 Squadron, Canada, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Raymond Frederick Sellers, AFC, 46 Squadron, Lincolnshire, Hurricanes.
Wing Commander Edward Brian Bretherton Smith, DFC, 610 Squadron, Kent, Spitfires.
Wing Commander Norman Henry Jackson Smith, DFC, 235 Squadron, Norfolk, Blenheims.
Flying Officer Leonard Smith, 219 Squadron, Australia, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant Ronald Henry Smyth, DFC, 111 Squadron, London, Hurricanes.
Flight Lieutenant Henry Sprague, 3 Squadron, Canada, Hurricanes.
Squadron Leader Basil Gerald ‘Stapme’ Stapleton, DFC, South African, 603 Squadron, Prestwick, Spitfires.
Flight Sergeant William Ronald Stevens, DFM, 23 Squadron, Northamptonshire, Blenheims.
Warrant Officer H G Stewart, 236 Squadron, Blenheims.
Wing Commander Sir Kenneth Maxwell Stoddart, KCVO, KStJ, AE, JP, LLD, 611 Squadron, Cambridgeshire, Spitfires.
Wing Commander Richard Gordon Battensby Summers, OBE, OStJ, AFM, 219 Squadron, Yorkshire, Blenheims.
Wing Commander George William Swanwick, AE, 54 Squadron, Essex, Spitfires.
Lieutenant Commander John Humphrey Charlesworth Sykes, RN Ret’d, 64 Squadron, London, Spitfires.
T
Flight Lieutenant Alexander Hendry Thom, DFC, FRICS, 79 Squadron, South Wales, Hurricanes.
Captain Antony Robert Fletcher Thompson, DFC, JP, 249 Squadron, Yorkshire, Hurricanes.
Group Captain Peter Douglas Thompson, DFC, 605 Squadron, Spain, Hurricanes.
Wing Commander Thomas Thomson, 213 Squadron, Yorkshire, Hurricanes.
Mr Thomas William Townshend, 600 Squadron, South Africa, Blenheims.
U
V
W
Squadron Leader Michael Terry Wainwright, AFC, 64 Squadron, London, Spitfires.
Warrant Officer James Ian Bradley Walker, New Zealander, 600 Squadron, New Zealand, Blenheims.
Flight Lieutenant William Louis Buchanan Walker, 616 Squadron, Lincolnshire, Spitfires.
< b>Squadron Leader Patrick H. V. Wells, 249 Squadron, Hurricanes.
Squadron Leader Geoffrey Harris Augustus Wellum, DFC, 92 Squadron, London, Spitfires.
Group Captain John William White, MBE, 3 Squadron, Scotland, Hurricanes.
Mr Robert White, 235 Squadron, Norfolk, Blenheims.
Air Commodore Stanley Charles Widdows, CB, DFC, 29 Squadron, Guernsey, Blenheims.
Flying Officer Kenneth Astill Wilkinson, 616 Squadron, London, Spitfires.
Group Captain Allan Richard Wright, DFC, AFC, 92 Squadron, West Sussex, Spitfires.
Y
Squadron Leader Derek Sydney Yapp, DFC, 245 Squadron, Yorkshire, Hurricanes.
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THE QUOTES ON OUR BANNER

"We do not want to be remembered as heroes, we only ask to be remembered for what we done....that's all"
W/C Robert "Bob" Doe British 234 & 238 Squadrons Fighter Command

"I regard it as a privilege to fight for all those things that make life worth living - freedom, honour and fair play"
Pilot Officer William "Bill" Millington Australian 79 & 249 Squadrons Fighter Command

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