The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cares for the cemeteries and memorials of the First and Second World Wars and provides the ‘official’ site of remembrance.  However, there are many other places that people can be remembered.  Many communities and organisations erected war memorials – these could take many forms, and sometimes do include lists of names.  The Imperial War Museum has a good collection of unveiling programmes from war memorials built in the years after the First World War, and also a good collection of photographs of these memorials held in the Photograph Archive.  The United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials is compiling a list of all memorials in the country.  The origins of the project lay in recording and protecting the various monuments, as many of these were being vandalised, lost and neglected.  It is hoped that funding will be found to enable the project to develop and list the names of those who died.  Click here to find out more about the UKNIWM, and to check what memorials might exist for a particular town, regiment or organisation.

Rolls of honour are a written form of war memorial that might take the form of a published book, handwritten manuscript or framed list of names.  There are a number of published rolls of honour for the Royal Air Force in the First and Second World Wars:

First World War

Royal Flying Corps 'Per Ardua Ad Astra': (Military Wing): Casualties and Honours during the War of 1914-17 compiled by Captain G L Campbell; assisted by R.H. Blinkhorn (Picture Advertising Company, London, 1917)
 
The Sky their Battlefield: Air Fighting and the Complete List of Allied Air Casualties from Enemy Action in the First War: British, Commonwealth, and United States Air Services 1914 to 1918 by Trevor Henshaw (Grub Street, London, 1995)
ISBN 0-898697-30-2
 
Airmen Died in the Great War 1914-1918: the Roll of Honour of the British and Commonwealth Air Services of the First World War compiled by Chris Hobson (J B Hayward and Son, Suffolk,1995)
ISBN 0-871505-81-X 
 
Cross of Sacrifice. Volume 1: Officers who Died in the Service of British, Indian and East African Regiments and Corps 1914-1919 by S D and D B Jarvis (Roberts Medals, Reading, 1993)
ISBN 1873058-26-8  
 
Cross of Sacrifice. Volume 2: Officers who Died in the Service of the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Marines, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force, 1914-1919 by S D and D B Jarvis (Roberts, Reading, 1993)
ISBN 1873058-31-4
 
Cross of Sacrifice. Volume 4: Non-commissioned Officers, Men and Women of the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and Empire who Died in the Service of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force, 1914-1921: including the Commonwealth Navies and Air Forces by S D and D B Jarvis (Roberts, Reading, 1996)
ISBN 1-873058-41-1
 
A Contemptible Little Flying Corps: being a Definitive and Previously Non-existent Roll of those Warrant Officers, N.C.O.'s and Airmen who Served in the Royal Flying Corps prior to the Outbreak of the First World War by I McInnes and J V Webb (London Stamp Exchange, London, 1991)
ISBN 0-948130-98-9

Second World War

Royal Air Force Bomber Command losses of the Second World War: [5  volumes] by W.R. Chorley (Midland Counties Publications, Leicester, 1992-2003)
 
Royal Air Force Coastal Command losses of the Second World War by Ross McNeill (Hinckley, Leicestershire : Midland Publishing, 2003) 
ISBN 1-85780-128-8 (pbk.). Vol. 1. Aircraft and crew losses 1939-1941      
 
Royal Air Force Fighter Command losses of the Second World War: operational losses: aircraft and crews, 1939-1945: [3 volumes] by Norman L.R. Franks (Leicester: Midland Publishing, 1997-2000
ISBN 1-85780-055-9 (pbk.). Volume 1 : 1939-1941    
ISBN 1-85780-075-3 (pbk.). Volume 2 : 1942-1943    
ISBN 1-85780-093-1 (pbk.). Volume 3 : Air Defence Great Britain, 2nd Tactical Air Force, and Fighter Command : 1944-1945
 
Official records of RAF casualties and aircraft losses during the Second World War and from 1945 onwards, are held by the Ministry of Defence, Air Historical Branch, Building 266, Bentley Priory, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 3HH. These records are not open to the public and enquires must be made by letter only.  Details will only be released to former RAF personnel or to their surviving next of kin. 
 
The Department of Research and Information Services at the Royal Air Force Museum, Grahame Park Way, London NW9 5LL holds several series of official casualty records but although detailed these records are not complete.