Allingham was the oldest ever surviving member of any of the British Armed Forces and the oldest surviving veteran of the First World War. He was the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland, the last surviving member of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and the last surviving founding member of the Royal Air Force (RAF).

Armitage joined the Royal Air Force as an apprentice at RAF Halton in 1947.

Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1988 before retiring in 1990.

Served in the Women's Royal Air Force, where she worked in a drawing office dealing with operational maps

     Wing Commander John Robert Baldwin, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar AFC was a British Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve officer and the top scoring fighter ace flying the Hawker Typhoon exclusively.

     He went missing presumed killed in March 1952 during the Korean War while on officer exchange with the USAF, flying a North American F-86 Sabre

Air Chief Marshal Percy Ronald Gardner Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon, GBE, CB, CVO, DSO, RAF (30 August 1904 – 8 February 1979) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the mid-20th century. He was a squadron, station and group commander during World War II and the fifth Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps after the War. He was awarded a US Distinguished Flying Cross in December 1946 and the American Bronze Star Medal also in 1946

The Earl graduated from Cranwell in December 1924 and was posted as a pilot to No 4 Squadron RAF in the rank of Pilot Officer, he retired from the RAF on 6 February 1964.

When Britain entered World War II, Bossard joined in the Royal Air Force and fought in the Middle East Theatre. He gained an officer's commission with a false résumé. Eventually, Bossard was transferred to a radar unit, where he had become a Flight Lieutenant by 1946. Bossard taught briefly at the Air Service College before the Ministry of Aviation offered him a post as an assistant signals officer. He was eventually promoted to the position of staff telecommunications officer.

In the Second World War, he first flew Spitfires with No. 65 Squadron RAF in Britain, based in Scotland. He joined No. 93 Squadron RAF, flying over Sicily in 1943, where he was mentioned in despatches. He returned to England in 1944 as an instructor and was later a flight commander, returning to active service with No. 602 Squadron RAF in September 1944. On 18 March 1945, he took part in a daring daylight raid on the Shell-Mex building in The Hague, which was the HQ for V1 and V2 attacks. The commander, Max Sutherland, received a bar to his DFC and the other four pilots, including Baxter, were mentioned in dispatches.

He joined the RAF to serve in World War II: saw action at Dunkirk and later served in North Africa, Italy and Austria, narrowly escaping from being shot in France. He was demobilised in 1946.

Michael Bentine CBE (26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996) was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons.

In World War II he volunteered for all services when the war broke out (the RAF was his first choice owing to the influence of his father's experience), but was rejected because of his father's Peruvian nationality

He was called up for service in the RAF. He was appearing in a Shakespearean play in doublet and hose in the open-air theatre in London's Hyde Park when two RAF MPs marched on stage and arrested him for desertion. Unknown to him, an RAF conscription 
notice had been following him for a month as his company toured.

Once in the RAF he went through flight training. He was the penultimate man going through a medical line receiving inoculations for typhoid with the other flight candidates in his class (they were going to Canada to receive new aircraft) when the vaccine ran out. They refilled the bottle to inoculate him and the other man as well. By mistake they loaded a pure culture of typhoid. The other man died immediately, and Bentine was in a coma for six weeks. When he regained consciousness his eyesight was ruined, leaving him myopic for the rest of his life. Since he was no longer physically qualified for flight, he was transferred to RAF Intelligence and seconded to MI9 a unit that was dedicated to supporting resistance movements and help prisoners escape. His immediate superior was the Colditz escapee Airey Neave.

Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor

Served in the RAF (1944–1947) as a navigator. Burton's eyesight was too poor for him to be considered pilot material.

Gerald Theron Campion (23 April 1921, Bloomsbury, London, England – 9 July 2002, was an English actor best-known for his role as Billy Bunter in a 1950s television adaptation of books by Frank Richards.

Served as a wireless operator with the RAF in Kenya during second world war.

He briefly joined the Royal Air Force in 1948, being offered a permanent commission but turning this down in favour of a swift return to civilian life.

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George;  born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.

Charles spent time in the navy and air force. After Royal Air Force training that he requested and received during his second year at Cambridge, on 8 March 1971 the Prince flew himself to the Royal Air Force College Cranwell to train as a jet pilot. After the passing out parade in September of that year he then embarked on a naval career.

Among the honours he received as a bomber pilot is the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. After the war, he became a charity worker, setting up the Leonard Cheshire Disability as well as other philanthropic organisations.

Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician from 1941–1946. He proposed a satellite communication system in 1945 which won him the Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Gold Medal in 1963

She had been an Officer of the British Royal Air Force, and retired from competing in the skeleton in order to return to her previous profession

Ronald Balfour "Ronnie" Corbett, OBE (born 4 December 1930) is a Scottish/British actor and comedian of Scottish and English parentage who had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the British television comedy series The Two Ronnies.

National Service with the RAF,  during which he was the shortest commissioned officer in the British Forces

Served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander.

Served in Royal Air Force during World War II

Squadron Leader Neville Frederick Duke DSO, OBE, DFC & Two Bars, AFC, FRAeS,Czech War Cross (11 January 1922 – 7 April 2007) was a British Second World War fighter pilot. He was the top Allied flying ace in the Mediterranean Theatre, having shot down at least 27 enemy aircraft, and was acknowledged as one of the world's foremost test pilots after the war. In 1953, he became holder of the world air speed record when he flew a Hawker Hunter F Mk3 at 727.63 mph over Littlehampton in the UK.

He started working as an auctioneer and estate agent before attempting to join the Fleet Air Arm on his 18th birthday. He was rejected and joined the RAF instead as a cadet in June 1940.

He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. His Dakota was shot down at Arnhem in 1944, resulting in his sustaining facial injuries requiring plastic surgery — he disguised the traces with the huge handlebar moustache that later became his trademark. He was a member of the Guinea Pig Club.

In World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force, training as a sergeant radio operator and gunner and serving with No. 76 Squadron RAF under the command of Leonard Cheshire.

Group Captain Donald "Don" Osborne Finlay, DFC, AFC (27 May 1909 — 18 April 1970) was a British athlete and Royal Air Force officer.

He joined the RAF in 1935, and during World War II initially flew Spitfires with No. 54 Squadron RAF during the Battle of Britain before being wounded and later commanding No. 41 Squadron. He was promoted to the rank of Wing Commander in August 1941, becoming 11 Group Engineering Officer. He received the DFC in June 1942. His victory tally flying fighters was 4 and 2 shared destroyed, 3 and 1 shared damaged.

He then commanded No. 608 Squadron RAF, flying Lockheed Hudsons in the Middle East in 1943. In 1945 he commanded 906 Wing in Burma, being awarded an AFC. He became a Group captain in 1950. He was stationed for much of his time at RAF Acklington, whose chapel contains a recently dedicated stained glass window to honour him. As a Group Captain he was posted to No. 1 School of Technical Training, RAF Halton, as Senior Technical Training Officer.

He was conscripted into the RAF at the age of 19. Would have liked to have become a pilot but did not want to conscript for eight to ten years, so became a teleprinter operator, sending signals all over the world which he did for two and a half years.

At the start of World War II, George returned to active military service at the rank of Rear Admiral, briefly serving on the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty. In April 1940, he transferred to the Royal Air Force. He temporarily relinquished his rank as Air Vice-Marshal (the equivalent of Rear Admiral) to assume the post of Staff Officer at RAF Training Command in the rank of Air Commodore.

Halpenny served in the Royal Air Force Police in specialist units, often overseas, but after being wounded, and instead of coming out of the RAF, he moved across to the RAF Police (RAFPD) on Special Security Duties (Atomic & Chemical Weapons) SS, and was part of a special RAF military police unit on Special Duties and in the Nuclear Division, that was responsible for the protection of the nuclear weapons that the V-bombers were to use in time of war

In 1942, during World War II, Hancock served in the RAF Regiment.

During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant

Kenneth Horne (27 February 1907 – 14 February 1969) was an English comedian and businessman.

Shortly before the Second World War, Horne enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on a part-time training scheme. He was commissioned as an acting Pilot Officer, and on the outbreak of war he served in the RAF full time.  In between carrying out his RAF duties, Horne formed a concert party from his friends and colleagues.  On the strength of this he was invited by the BBC to take part in a programme for the armed forces, Ack-Ack, Beer-Beer (the title taken from the then-current phonetic alphabet), which he compered. It eventually ran to 324 episodes.  Within a year, Horne was promoted to Squadron Leader, and in 1943 he was posted to the Air Ministry in London with the rank of Wing Commander.

Shortly before World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force as a volunteer reservist where he learned the basics of electronics and radar.

National service in the Royal Air Force 1955 – 57

George Henry Hutchinson (October 31, 1929–1996) was a professional footballer who played for Huddersfield Town, Sheffield United, Tottenham Hotspur, Guildford City, Leeds United, Halifax Town & Skegness Town.

He served in the RAF during National Service and was stationed at Ballykelly in Northern Ireland & RAF Cosford and was a PTI

Peter Michael Imbert, Baron Imbert CVO QPM (born 27 April 1933) was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service from 1987 to 1993

Peter spent his National Service in the Royal Air Force Police

He was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in September 1917 and posted back to England for flight training.

He stayed with the RAF until 1927, retiring with the rank of Flying Officer .

He played club rugby for Northampton while based at RAF North Luffenham and represented the Royal Air Force at rugby union.

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia,

In August 1922, Lawrence enlisted in the Royal Air Force as an aircraftman under the name John Hume Ross. He was soon exposed and, in February 1923, was forced out of the RAF.
He changed his name to T. E. Shaw and joined the Royal Tank Corps in 1923. He was unhappy there and repeatedly petitioned to rejoin the RAF, which finally readmitted him in August 1925.
He continued serving in the RAF based at Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, specialising in high-speed boats and professing happiness, and it was with considerable regret that he left the service at the end of his enlistment in March 1935.

He served in the Royal Air Force and intelligence services during World War II, including serving as an Intelligence officer with the Long Range Desert Group. He trained in South Africa as a pilot, but eyesight problems forced him to drop out. He eventually ended up in North Africa as Cipher Officer for No. 260 Squadron RAF and was with it through Sicily and Italy. Additionally, he has mentioned (including in his audio commentary on the Lord of the Rings DVD) serving in Special Operations Executive. Lee retired from the RAF after the end of the War with the rank of Flight Lieutenant.

Spent two years in the Royal Air Force

Daniel Maskell, broadcaster, tennis player, coach, born London 8 April 1908, died Redhill Surrey 10 December 1992

During the war served as a rehabilitation officer in the RAF.

Dan Maskell was appointed OBE for his services as a squadron leader when as the rehabilitation officer, first at Torquay, then at Loughborough, he helped many an injured airman back into flying. In 1982 he was promoted CBE for his service to tennis.

He joined the RAF in 1944 and completed his navigator training in Canada just as the war ended.

He was an RAF squadron leader during World War II

Monkhouse completed his national service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1948.

In the Second World War Moore lied about his age in order to join the RAF and from 1940 until 1945 he served as a navigator in RAF Bomber Command, reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant.

Frank Muir joined the Royal Air Force during World War II and became a photographic technician, being posted to Iceland.

During his national service Murphy played rugby union for the Royal Air Force, frequently playing for an Air Force team the same week as playing rugby league for St. Helens.

Denis Mostyn Norden CBE (born 6 February 1922) is a former English comedy writer and television presenter.

His writing career began in the Royal Air Force during World War II, when he wrote for troop shows.

Completed his National Service in the Royal Air Force

Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades.

During World War II Pleasence was initially a conscientious objector, but later changed his stance and was commissioned into the Royal Air Force, serving with 166 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command. His Avro Lancaster was shot down on 31 August 1944 during a raid on Agenville. He was taken prisoner and placed in a German prisoner-of-war camp, where he produced and acted in plays. He would later play Flight Lt. Colin Blythe in The Great Escape where much of the story takes place inside a German POW camp.

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, in 1939, Reader was commissioned into the Royal Air Force as an intelligence officer. For his services to the Royal Air Force, he was awarded an MBE in 1943.

After the outbreak of World War II he joined the RAF. He failed to get into aircrew because he had a serum albumin disorder and he was told he might black out at high altitudes. He became a wireless mechanic instead and went on to teach radio procedures at RAF Cranwell.

During World War II Sellers was an airman in the Royal Air Force, rising to corporal

Smith interrupted his studies during the Second World War and joined the Southern Rhodesia Air Force. After completing his flight training, he was seconded to the rank of Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force

John Brian "George" Statham, CBE (17 June 1930, Gorton, Manchester – 10 June 2000, Stockport, Greater Manchester) was one of the leading English fast bowlers in 20th-century English cricket.

Statham joined the Royal Air Force for his national service. He was based at Stafford and would return home at weekends to play cricket.

He represented the British and Irish Lions on the 1974 tour to South Africa

Billy encouraged the 1974 Lions to sing ,'O flower of Scotland', as a morale raiser before games. Now sung as the Scottish anthem before internationals.

Served in Royal Air Force as a PTI

He served in the RAF as a mechanic before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from which he was later expelled

Eric Sykes, CBE (born 4 May 1923) is an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career has spanned more than 50 years.

He joined the Royal Air Force during World War II and qualified as a wireless operator with the rank of Leading Aircraftman.

During four years of National Service he flew Meteor and Vampire jets and had to break open the cockpit canopy of a burning Mosquito aircraft to escape from it.

He was born in 1924 in Llanelli and educated at Winchester College. He signed up for the RAF in 1942 at the age of eighteen and went to the United States where he trained as a pilot flying Stearman biplanes. He joined Bomber Command in 1944, flying Stirlings and Lancasters, transferring a year later to Transport Command.

After the War he joined the King's Flight, piloting George VI and other members of the Royal Family. Then in 1949-50 he taught at the Empire Flying School and the Royal Air Force College Cranwell.

Trubshaw then went to Malaya when he was given permission to leave the RAF (Flight Lieutenant Trubshaw retired from the RAF at his own request on 21 May 1950.) to take up a role as test pilot for Vickers Armstrongs, where he remained for 30 years; he became chief test pilot in 1960, and director of test flights from 1966. Trubshaw worked on the development of the Valiant V-bomber, the Vanguard, the VC10, and the BAC One-Eleven, all of which he test flew.

Frederick Sewards ("Fred") Trueman OBE (6 February 1931 – 1 July 2006) was an English cricketer, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers in history

Trueman undertook his National Service in the Royal Air Force at RAF Hemswell in Lincolnshire. At that stage, "the RAF was probably less hierarchical than Yorkshire County Cricket Club, and he coped with the vagaries of service life rather better than he did with the Yorkshire committee".

Trueman's identity in the RAF was AC2 F S Trueman 2549485. He was later promoted to AC1

He is a former Royal Air Force pilot

Served in the Royal Air Force during his national service.

After leaving school Whitcombe joined the Royal Air Force as a Physical Training Instructor

Kenneth Wolstenholme DFC & Bar (17 July 1920 – 25 March 2002) was the football commentator for BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s, most notable for his commentary during the 1966 FIFA World Cup which included the famous phrase "some people are on the pitch...they think it's all over....it is now!", as Geoff Hurst scored England's fourth goal

Wolstenholme started his career as a journalist with a newspaper in Manchester, before joining the RAF, and from 1941 onwards flew 100 missions over Germany and won the DFC and bar as a bomber pilot. Based at RAF Great Massingham in Norfolk, he flew Blenheims with 107 Sqn, before joining Bomber Command's 8 Group Pathfinders flying Mosquitos.

National Service in the Royal Air Force from 1955 to 1957

In 1971 he left teaching and joined the R.A.F. and became a Wing Commander, coaching the RAF and British Combined Services on their joint tour to New Zealand with British Police in 1988