On this day — 17 February
164 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 February during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Frederick John Raymond Bigg
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Orchard
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Martin Thompson
- Sergeant William Barnard Woods
1941
- Sergeant Irvine Horace Adkins
- Flight Lieutenant John Clifford Boulter
- Leading Aircraftman Quentin Burl Chace
- Pilot Officer Edward Jack Coleman
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Brandon Cremer
- Flight Sergeant William Ibbotson
- Sergeant Leonard Thomas Jerey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Richard Lount
- Flight Lieutenant Michael John Colvie Marks
- Sergeant Arthur Maelor Owen
- Sergeant Alfred Emile Regimbal
- Sergeant Horace Teeton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Donald Clarence Want
- Pilot Officer Leonard James Winbolt
1942
- Warrant Officer Nathaniel Arnold
- Sergeant William Leonard Ashplant
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Bradley
- Sergeant John Bernard Brady
- Pilot Officer Leonard Edward Gordon Buck
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Thomas Buckingham
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Frederick Culf
- Sergeant Isaac Henry Cunningham
- Sergeant Cyril Caradoe Davies
- Sergeant Cyril Raymond Dickeson
- Pilot Officer Cecil Coope Dickson
- Sergeant Frederick Dutton
- Leading Aircraftman James William Ellis
- Flying Officer John Angus Ferguson
- Sergeant William John Thomas Flagg
- Sergeant Hylton Carlyle George
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Barrington Giles
- Flight Sergeant Arthur William Goulding
- Pilot Officer Leonard Walter Charles Gregory
- Sergeant Percy John Havelock Hamlin
- Leading Aircraftman Allan Russell Hansen
- Flight Sergeant John Clarke Harris
- Sergeant Peter Harrison
- Sergeant David Hewitt
- Sergeant Alexander Livingstone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert McKee
- Sergeant George William McRae
- Sergeant Mark Molyneux
- Sergeant Whyant William Morton
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Pearson
- Flying Officer Philip Rowland Pollock
- Flight Lieutenant James Walter Potter
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Frank Pruce
- Pilot Officer Lloyd Norwood Sarles
- Flight Sergeant Eric Benjamin George Sedgwick
- Leading Aircraftman William Russel Shaw
- Pilot Officer Denis Potter Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Malcolm George Steed
- Pilot Officer Phillip George Stote
- Sergeant Alan Leslie Strang
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Thomas Thornton
- Flight Sergeant Billie Albert Tonks
- Sergeant Robert Litchfield Tresidder
- Sergeant James Henry Ware
- Sergeant Raymond George Edward Whale
- Sergeant John Watson Yost
1943
- Sergeant Thomas Johnstone Anderson
- Sergeant Stanley William Charles Cannell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Henry Caswell
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Gerald Hudson Chalk
- Flight Lieutenant Stuart Gordon Collins
- Sergeant James Muir Cousin
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Knowles Dearden
- Sergeant David Dunnett
- Corporal Ernest Sydney Freeman
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Joseph Hannan
- Pupil Pilot Harris
- Sergeant Francis Walter Heaton
- Sergeant Harry Hoyle
- Flying Officer Bernard John Hull
- Sergeant Gordon Hendy James
- Sergeant Lionel Edwin James
- Flight Sergeant Norman Ernest Kilvert
- Sergeant Gordon William Knox
- Leading Aircraftman Harvey Franklin Lawrence
- Sergeant James Bunce Lewis
- Sergeant William David Llewellyn
- Warrant Officer Class I Louw
- Sergeant John Joseph McCrohan
- Warrant Officer Class I Harvey Donald Muirhead
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Nixon
- Sergeant James Vincent O'Neill
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas William Page
- Sergeant Eric Lyndon Rayner
- Sergeant Henry Walter Stanley
- Leading Aircraftman Morgan David Thomas
- Flying Officer John Aragon Townsend
- Sergeant Thomas Walker
- Flying Officer Keith Forrester Wandless
- Pilot Officer Thomas William Dennis White
- Flying Officer Alfred Ernest Woodley
1944
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Charles Anderson
- Pilot Officer Harry Ashworth
- Sergeant Derek Austin
- Warrant Officer Class I Thomas Barlow
- Sergeant Basil Baxter
- Sergeant Alfred Bayliss
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Rufus Henry Beard
- Flight Sergeant Eric Edward Betteridge
- Flight Sergeant Kevin Joffre Bingham
- Sergeant William Boyle
- Sergeant Eon Arthur Cairns
- Corporal George Henry Dalton
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Joseph Driscoll
- Leading Aircraftman Boyne Hogan Dunphy
- Sergeant Andrew William Fletcher
- Flying Officer Richard George Gilmour
- Flying Officer Alan Douglas Hilton Gray
- Leading Aircraftman William Grindey
- Flying Officer Kevin Richard Guiton
- Sergeant John Hall
- Sergeant Gilbert Douglas James Hanlon
- Sergeant George Charles Hawkins
- Flying Officer Victor John Hillman
- Corporal Edmund Horler
- Leading Aircraftman Vernon Stanley Howarth
- Flight Sergeant Maurice John Hargrave Jerrard
- Flying Officer James Clifton Keighley
- Sergeant Donald Hedley Knight
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Geoffrey Long
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth John Lusty
- Flying Officer Kenneth William Lyon
- Warrant Officer George Marsh
- Flight Sergeant Alan Firth Mason
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Ernest McGilvery
- Flight Sergeant Rex John McGowan
- Flying Officer Eric Norman McLeod-nibbs
- Sergeant Hubert James Morgan
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Edward Peter Pillinger
- Flying Officer Herbert Gordon Portman
- Leading Aircraftman Robin Arthur Percivall Pott
- Flying Officer Arthur William Powell-wiffen
- Sergeant Kenneth Robert Reader
- Leading Aircraftman William Claude Roberts
- Sergeant Edward Sydney Sayer
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Schofield
- Sergeant Robert Samuel Scott
- Leading Aircraftman Walter George Shadbolt
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Andrew Stewart
- Pilot Officer Leonard Herbert Teer
- Sergeant Sidney Thompson
- Pilot Officer Leslie Williams
1945
- Lieutenant Aberdein
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Brian Brundrett Barnett
- Flying Officer Arnold Hall Bulmer
- Lieutenant James Fry Leslie Burnard
- Pilot Officer Donald Gordon Campbell
- Pilot Officer Leonard Harry Chester
- Corporal Arthur Edward Guy
- Air Mechanic Waldermar H. Jorgensen
- Flight Lieutenant John Collinson Liddiard
- Flying Officer Murray Scarr
- Sergeant Noah Anthony Timmins
- Flying Officer Robert Burns Trout