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.
Royal Air Force
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