On this day — 17 January
277 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 January during the Second World War.
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Francis Barr
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Blagrove
- Sergeant David Brand
- Leading Aircraftman Marshal Brandreth
- Corporal Frank William Butler
- Corporal James Byrne
- Sergeant Dudley Roy Cluett Cannell
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Gordon Comyn
- Air Mechanic Raymond Davis
- Pilot Officer Joseph Adrien Deschamps
- Flying Officer Charles William Doggett
- Air Mechanic Faragher
- Leading Aircraftman David Fowkes Fardon
- Corporal Frederick John Cook Fife
- Sergeant Richard Harry Freeman
- Pilot Officer William Fullerton
- Corporal James William Gascoyne
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Bernard Goatly
- Corporal Daniel Regis Gordon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Hancock
- Flying Officer Anthony Russell Hill
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Hornsby
- Sergeant Donald Vaughan House
- Corporal John Stansfield Hughes
- Corporal Gordon Wingrove Hunt
- Sergeant Clifford Roy Kemp
- Sergeant Henry Frederick Lander
- Wing Commander David Pellow Lascelles
- Flying Officer James Robert Law
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard Charles Lawrence
- Sergeant James Henry Lee
- Sergeant John Liddell
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas McFaul
- Flight Lieutenant John Stuart Dixon Miles
- Corporal Charles John Murphy
- Sergeant Jack Nash
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Joseph Nash
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Peck
- Corporal Harry Read
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Alan Rivers
- Sergeant Eric Gilbert Robertson
- Corporal Walter Robert Salmon
- Leading Aircraftman David Mountford Sharp
- Pupil Pilot Siddle
- Pilot Officer Robert William Sloan
- Pilot Officer Philip Joseph Strong
- Sergeant George Tattersall
- Flight Sergeant John James George Wells
- Sergeant Arthur George Stafford White
- Sergeant Edward Michael Williams
1942
- Flight Sergeant John Cedric Addy
- Sergeant Joseph Henry Arch
- Pilot Officer Alexander Charles Argent
- Sergeant Edgar John Barrett
- Flight Sergeant Edward Michael Fraser Bearcroft
- Sergeant Wilfred Roy Beeton
- Sergeant Edward Blacklaw
- Sergeant Bertie Bowring
- Flight Lieutenant David Burton Bradley
- Pilot Officer Derek Malcolm Browne
- Pilot Officer Jaromir Broz
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon John Carpenter
- Flight Sergeant Richard Collins
- Sergeant Cyril Reginald Collinson
- Pilot Officer Leslie Ernest Cook
- Pupil Pilot Boyd Cooper
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Culley
- Sergeant Ronald Dow
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Frederick Edwards
- Squadron Leader Charles Evans Elliot
- Pilot Officer George Thomas Ellis
- Sergeant Geoffrey David Evenett
- Sergeant Andrew John Noble Fry
- Sergeant Paul Arthur Gale
- Squadron Leader Francis Joseph Gracey
- Sergeant Edwin Thomas Griffith
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Frederick Gurr
- Pilot Officer Greville Lloyd Hesketh
- Flying Officer John Clarke Huston
- Sergeant Frederick Ralph Isaacs
- Warrant Officer Wilfred John Jewell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Ronald Johnston
- Pupil Pilot Kearns
- Squadron Leader Walter Bernard Keddy
- Squadron Leader Gordon Stanley Laming
- Corporal William Clyde Lindsay
- Sergeant Francis Joseph Lloyd
- Pilot Officer Alan John Low
- Sergeant Herbert Gordon Lunan
- Squadron Leader John Noel Mahler
- Sergeant Walter James Mankelow
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Weeley March
- Sergeant Rudolf Masek
- Flight Sergeant George Joseph Masse
- Sergeant John Mayes
- Sergeant James McCarley
- Flight Sergeant Edward Carroll McManaman
- Corporal David McNeilly
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Monro
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Joseph Monserez
- Leading Aircraftman Maxwell Verdun Neylon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Otter
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Robins
- Sergeant Kenneth Stanley Rogers
- Sergeant Joseph Henry Rogerson
- Sergeant Arthur Wilson Savage
- Flying Officer James Frank Hayden Stevens
- Leading Aircraftman Wllliam Edwin Stone
- Sergeant William John Sullivan
- Sergeant Jindrich Svoboda
- Pilot Officer Ronald Wilkins Taylor
- Sergeant James Thomas Thom
- Pilot Officer James Douglas Waddell
- Sergeant Frederick Archibald Walker
- Sergeant Evan Frederick Webb
- Sergeant Malcolm Hunter Welch
- Sergeant Robert William Westcott
- Sergeant Frederick Ernest Williams
- Sergeant Arthur Roy Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Jack Stephen Richards Woolnough
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Geoffrey (ron) Absalom
- Air Mechanic Adams
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Rockliffe Adcock
- Sergeant Francis Bernard Andrews
- Sergeant James Sidney Atkin
- Sergeant James Henry Bakewell
- Sergeant Derrick John Ball
- Sergeant Leslie James Bond
- Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Braybrook
- Leading Aircraftman James Bolland Burd
- Sergeant Eric Archibald Owen Campbell
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Russel Chaplin
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Addison Clegg
- Captain Cecil Lawrence Cousins
- Sergeant Hamilton Cowan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Picton Davies
- Air Commodore Desmond Herlouin De Burgh
- Sergeant Joe Herbert Wejies De Silva
- Sergeant Douglas Robertson Dewar
- Flight Sergeant Norman Patrick Drury
- Flying Officer James Gilbert Duffill
- Sergeant Jack Eastwood
- Flying Officer Tom Montague Falls
- Wing Commander John Clarke Fee
- Pilot Officer Bruce McKenzie Ferguson
- Flight Sergeant Iain Fraser
- Warrant Officer Harry Lewis Gill
- Flying Officer Michael John Glover
- Pilot Officer David Alan Gold
- Flight Sergeant Charles Albert Gruchy
- Sergeant Gavin McMurray Hair
- Sergeant Bernard Hannaway
- Warrant Officer Stanley John Hart
- Flying Officer Robert Harvie
- Pilot Officer Esmond Peter Heinrich
- Flight Sergeant William Douglas Henderson
- Flying Officer Gordon Sidney Jeffreys
- Pilot Officer Leslie Jenkinson
- Sergeant Harold Victor Lamb
- Sergeant William Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Derek John Lock
- Flight Lieutenant Herbert James Martin
- Sergeant Joseph Martin
- Flying Officer Victor Lewis Martin
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Donald McColl
- Pilot Officer William Austin McMullan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Mear
- Flight Sergeant Solomon Miller
- Warrant Officer Class II John Alwin Moore
- Leading Aircraftman George Purves Mould
- Flying Officer Angus Mackay Murray
- Sergeant George Albert Newman
- Sergeant Phillip Joseph Newman
- Sergeant Lister Noble
- Sergeant Fred Nuttall
- Flight Sergeant Harold Wendell Phillips
- Pilot Officer Albert Harry Piggs
- Sergeant Ronald William Read
- Squadron Leader Douglas Oscar Rohde
- Sergeant Fred Raithby Scargall
- Sergeant Thomas Robert Doake Shirley
- Corporal Robert Pringle Short
- Sergeant Ewen Edward John Sillitoe
- Pilot Officer Allister McLean Skinner
- Sergeant Kenneth Edward Slade
- Flying Officer William Thomas Wright Smithson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Andrew Douglas Speed
- Pilot Officer Alfred William Stevenson
- Warrant Officer John Hunter Stevenson
- Sergeant Frederick Alexander Sullivan
- Flying Officer Michael Joseph Sunstrum
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Gwilyn Thomas
- Sergeant Donald George Thomas
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Gordon Thompson
- Sergeant Arthur Donald Tidmarsh
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Traynor
- Sergeant Harry Reginald Wakley
- Sergeant John Charles Warburton
- Sergeant John Ward
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Warman
- Flying Officer Christopher Anthony Watts
- Sergeant Ronald Waudby
- Flying Officer Philip Kenneth Woodsend
- Pilot Officer James Woolford
- Sergeant John Henry Worrow
- Flying Officer Peter Charles Zoephel
1944
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Mervyn Andersen
- Flight Sergeant Ronald David Anthony
- Flight Sergeant Frank Harold Appledore
- Corporal Edward Stanley Ayrey
- Pilot Officer Francis Stephen Baird
- Flight Sergeant Robert James Carter
- Corporal Horace Cashmore
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ivan Sydney Cooper
- Flight Sergeant Peter William Hedley Crickmay
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Francis Doepel
- Warrant Officer Class II George Andrew Flood
- Flying Officer William Francis
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd George Freeman
- Flight Sergeant John Francis Cokayne Frith
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond John Goff
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Davies Goodwin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Lindsay Hewett
- Corporal Donald Christie Hodgkinson
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Ross Hore
- Corporal Eldon Wyn Hughes
- Leading Aircraftman Leo Archibald Kitching
- Sergeant Joseph Maurice Andre Adelin G. Lanis
- Flight Lieutenant Owen John Currie Mason
- Flight Sergeant George Alphonsus McGilvray
- Pilot Officer William Yule McNeil
- Sergeant Thomas Beeby Murray
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Ignatius O'Dwyer
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Panting
- Flying Officer Ernest Pennington
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert Llewellyn Phillips
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Westley Pringle
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas George Savage
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Charles Edward Stewart
- Flying Officer Douglas William Thomas
- Pilot Officer Thomas Davidson Thomson
- Sergeant Reginald Toach
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Turner
- Flight Sergeant Brian John Vesty
- Flying Officer Robert Archie Wilkins
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Ritchey Wood
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard John Woolven
1945
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Albert Atkinson
- Squadron Leader Hedley Beattie
- Flight Lieutenant Terence Douglas Blewett
- Warrant Officer Class I Hugh Conway Blizard
- Flying Officer John Henry Crone
- Lieutenant Currie
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Thomas Devall
- Air Mechanic Hiatt
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Oliver Jenkins
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Sackville Jenkins
- Air Mechanic Jordan
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Kitchen
- Lieutenant Klatzkin
- Flying Officer Merlin Leigh Matkin
- Flying Officer Terrance Valleau McKee
- Air Mechanic McLoughlin
- Flight Sergeant Roy Thomas O'Reilly
- Flight Sergeant Roderick Philip Quinn
- Pilot Officer Lex Maitland Riordan
- Lieutenant Sarson
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Munro Skuthorp
- Flying Officer Frank Paul Trautman
- Lieutenant Viljoen
- Flight Sergeant Robert John White
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Frederick Wilcox
- Flying Officer John Stanley Wilson
1946
- Squadron Leader Jack Kelvin Lancaster
- Corporal Charles Daniel O'Donnell
- Squadron Leader Patrick Philip Troughton-smith