On this day — 23 January
216 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 23 January during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Herbert Barlow
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Leslie Billing
- Sergeant David John Peter Bradley
- Flight Lieutenant Dennis Brian Brooks
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Leslie Auckland Dods
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Edwin Fitznewton
- Sergeant Alec Raymond Hooker
- Leading Aircraftman John Saunders McMartin
- Leading Aircraftman John Hitchings Morgan
- Sergeant Herbert Pilling
- Sergeant George Delos Pomeroy
- Flying Officer Christopher Roy Stanton Rich
- Leading Aircraftman Albert William Robinson
1942
- Pilot Officer Fergus Alister Allan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Amoore
- Leading Aircraftman Lancelot Murray Anderson
- Sergeant Victor Reginald Baker
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Walter Banks
- Sergeant Anthony Edward Carter
- Sergeant Francis Lindsay Cunningham
- Sergeant George Owen Emery
- Sergeant Irvin Gagne
- Flying Officer Lloyd George
- Air Corporal Cyril Goldschmidt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur John Gosney
- Air Mechanic Gutstadt
- Sergeant Garnet Allenby Hawkins
- Second Lieutenant Guilford Clarence Ralph Jenkins
- Flying Officer James Andrew McIntosh
- Leading Aircraftman John William Thomas Nelson
- Sergeant Sydney Ralph Noon
- Second Lieutenant Harold Ortlepp
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Stuart Palmer
- Sergeant Philip Pantoock
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph William Partington
- Flight Lieutenant David John Colin Pinckney
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Stephenson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Phillip James Tarbuck
1943
- Flying Officer Malcolm Wilfred Baxter
- Warrant Officer Douglas Charles Bell
- Sergeant Eric Berry
- Sergeant Arthur Sanderson Blagden
- Sergeant James Edward Brewster
- Pilot Officer Alfred Edward Brown
- Flight Sergeant Alfred George Greenwood Brown
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Burns
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Ernest Campbell
- Sergeant John Vincent Conlon
- Flying Officer James Ian Craig
- Sergeant Henry Dennis Dawes
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Frank Dimmock
- Sergeant Peter Douglas Fowler
- Squadron Leader Herbert Selwyn Giddings
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Marsden Higham
- Squadron Leader Geoffrey Francis Jackson
- Lieutenant Tom Jennings
- Flight Lieutenant James Geddes Johnston
- Flying Officer Bernard Wilson Kearney
- Pilot Officer Henry Bruce Lawrence
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey William Lean
- Corporal Douglas John Le Masurier
- Sergeant Dudley St. John Lidiard
- Flying Officer Clarence James Harold Loft
- Sergeant Mark Lupton
- Flight Sergeant James Maguire
- Flying Officer William Ernest Norman Maxwell
- Pilot Officer Philip William McCarthy
- Sergeant Padraig De Valera McMahon
- Pilot Officer Stuartson Charles Methven
- Sergeant Donald William Miles
- Flight Sergeant Garth Gibson Mills
- Sergeant Gilbert Frank Mitchell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Moses
- Sergeant Alan George Holroyd Nichols
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Alexander Norriss
- Sergeant William Frederick O'Beirne
- Sergeant Francis O'Neill
- Flight Sergeant John Lewis Owen
- Sergeant Roy Percival
- Sergeant Jack Dale Perrett
- Leading Aircraftman John Keith Rutherfurd
- Pilot Officer William Clive Salmond
- Sergeant Frederick Henry Saunders
- Sergeant James William Schofield
- Sergeant John Henry Sheppard
- Flying Officer Sam Chester Shusterove
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Arthur Simpson
- Flying Officer Leonard John Skinner
- Sergeant Samuel Smith
- Corporal Albert Thistlethwaite
- Pilot Officer Merwyn Ronald Thompson
- Sergeant Bernard Torrance
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Samuel Venn
- Sergeant Stephen George Vials
- Leading Aircraftman John Stanley Walker
- Flying Officer Leonard Arthur West
- Pilot Officer Bayden Bala Williams
- Flight Sergeant Robert Wrigglesworth
- Sergeant Henry Wilfred Yates
1944
- Flying Officer Vladimir Adamic
- Warrant Officer Frank Ash
- Flight Sergeant Paul Kenneth Ernest Bennett
- Sergeant Geoffrey Arthur Blake
- Leading Aircraftman David Isaac Blok
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Cyril Boyd
- Flight Sergeant John Richard Bradshaw
- Flight Sergeant John Smith Brand
- Sergeant Kenneth Henry Brittle
- Sergeant Robert William Burton
- Sergeant Arthur Harold Campbell
- Sergeant Edward George Cane
- Sergeant Stuart Allan Carr
- Aircraftman 1st Class Claud Ronald Bond Cawley
- Sergeant Albert Arthur Clark
- Flight Sergeant Fred Clarkson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alan James Clemson
- Sergeant George Fitzgerald Couse
- Flying Officer Keith Kipling Cox
- Sergeant Keith Cushing
- Flying Officer Frederick Edgar Dawson
- Flight Sergeant James Joseph Farrell
- Sergeant Norman Fisher
- Sergeant Ellis Robert Gawler
- Sergeant John William Gibb
- Sergeant Laurence Wilfred Gransden
- Flying Officer Roy William Grosser
- Flying Officer Norman Glyn Gzowski
- Flying Officer John Howard Hannibal
- Sergeant Lyal Harvey
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Aaron Haylett
- Sergeant Edward Heaton
- Sergeant Donald Parr Hewitson
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Ignatius Hogan
- Flying Officer Eric William Holford
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Arthur Honey
- Corporal William Grenville Morvan Hughes
- Sergeant Dennis James Hurley
- Sergeant Frederic Lewarne Eric Hussey
- Flying Officer Richard Balmain Hutchison
- Flying Officer William Jenkinson
- Flying Officer George Peter Johnston
- Sergeant James Johnston
- Flying Officer Kenneth Stanley Judd
- Flying Officer John Morrice Keay
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Lee
- Flight Sergeant Mathew Livingston
- Flight Sergeant Fred Whitten Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant Miro Peter Marketo
- Flying Officer John Reginald Markey
- Flying Officer Cameron Livingston McNeil
- Sergeant William Meikle
- Leading Aircraftman William Alexander Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Neil Montgomery
- Flight Sergeant Gordon William Oakley
- Flying Officer Wilfred Preston
- Sergeant David Ramsay
- Sergeant Edward Robert Richardson
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth James Roberts
- Flight Sergeant James William Robertson
- Leading Aircraftman Warren Russell Rodgers
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Richard Rogers
- Sergeant Donald Sanderson
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Sawle
- Flying Officer Clarence Loree Scott
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Shipard
- Flying Officer Kenneth Ferris Smith
- Flight Sergeant John Stanley Spriggs
- Sergeant William Leslie Stockford
- Flight Sergeant Leo Crampton Taylor
- Warrant Officer Colin Samuel Temby
- Sergeant Leslie Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Leon John Thyer
- Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Joyce Upshall
- Sergeant Michael Frederick Reynold Walters
- Sergeant Henry Charles Walton
- Sergeant William Henry Wareham
- Major William John Wheeler
- Flight Sergeant John Anderson Whyte
- Flight Sergeant James Williams
- Sergeant Rhys Williams
- Sergeant William George Wyatt
1945
- Warrant Officer Evelyn Bruce Baile
- Flying Officer Hugh Sterling Barton
- Squadron Leader Edward Weyman Blenkinsop
- Pilot Officer Joseph Eloi Bohemier
- Lieutenant Boyd
- Flight Sergeant Bennie Edward Buckner
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Byers
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Manton Christensen
- Corporal James Howard Cook
- Flying Officer Leslie Charles Cooke
- Flight Sergeant William James Cornes
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Davis
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth William Edwards
- Captain Enslin
- Leading Aircraftman Loris Charles Epps
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Guy Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Stanley Gay
- Flight Sergeant Graham Neil Head
- Warrant Officer Jack Holt
- Lieutenant Janse Van Rensburg
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Edgar Jones
- Sergeant David Knox Kyle-little
- Flight Sergeant Noel Patrick Martin
- Sergeant Harold Parkinson
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Pontt
- Pilot Officer Kenwyn Howard Richards
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Ernest Sadler
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Arthur William Stevenson
- Pilot Officer Leonard King Teitzel
- Corporal William Thomas
- Flying Officer Ivan James Vincent Wallace
- Flying Officer Richard Basil Webb
- Air Mechanic Wellen