On this day — 21 February
369 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 21 February during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Rex Chapman
- Sergeant Leslie Charles Cond
- Pilot Officer David Whittier Coysh
- Flying Officer Noel Hawxby
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Hill
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Frederick Johnson
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Glyn Jones
- Flying Officer Basil Allen Mortimer
- Corporal Stanley Owen Slater
1941
- Pilot Officer William Keith Anderson
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Harry Montague Barrat
- Sergeant John Lawrence Baxter
- Flying Officer William Bird
- Flying Officer Ronald Charles William Broad
- Sergeant Andrew Moore Brodie
- Flying Officer Marvin Kitchener Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Albert Carroll
- Lieutenant John Jacobus Coetzer
- Pilot Officer Robert James Dufty
- Pilot Officer Arthur James Falconer
- Corporal Leslie Flanagan
- Sergeant John Stanley Gilders
- Sergeant David George Grimmett
- Lieutenant Bernard Sydney Mordaunt Hamilton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Charles Heaps
- Sergeant Harry Thomas Hellier
- Flying Officer Ian Stuart Henderson
- Flying Officer Alban Gordon William Hough
- Pilot Officer Reginald Claude Hyett
- Sergeant William Pryce Jinks
- Flying Officer Lionel George Hosford Kells
- Sergeant John Rennie King
- Leading Aircraftman Lloyd George Lee
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert James Livermore
- Pilot Officer James Grant Maccoubrey
- Sergeant William Holland Macleod
- Sergeant Fred May
- Sergeant Donald Alexander McKenzie
- Sergeant William Donald Morrison
- Pilot Officer Anthony Vincent Muir
- Pilot Officer George Connell Muir
- Air Sergeant Nieman
- Sergeant James Patrick Redmond
- Flying Officer Arthur Alexander Scott
- Sergeant Vaclav Skrivanek
- Squadron Leader Edward Ulric Guerin Solbe
- Pilot Officer John Reynolds Spiers
- Sergeant James Stewart
- Sergeant John Etheridge Valler
- Sergeant Robert Williams
1942
- Sergeant Donald George Allen
- Sergeant Peter Derek Bishop
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Ernest John Blyth
- Flying Officer Peter Michael Bonn
- Sergeant Clarence Leslie Broadfield
- Flight Sergeant Charles Douglas Grant Brown
- Sergeant John Allan Burrage
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Bustard
- Flying Officer James Frederick Colthrup
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Knyvett Coupland
- Flying Officer James Geen Courtney
- Sergeant Thomas William Coy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ivor Douglas Crockett
- Pilot Officer Robert Crozier
- Pilot Officer Arthur Timothy Daly
- Sergeant John James Davey
- Sergeant Frank Henry Denton
- Sergeant Thomas George Evans
- Sergeant Eric Milne Chalmers Fahmy
- Sergeant Edward Lloyd Fiske
- Leading Aircraftman James Graham
- Pilot Officer John Bryan Green
- Sergeant Henry Charles Hadley
- Sergeant William Miller Hatfield
- Flying Officer Christopher Alexander Hawkins
- Sergeant Reginald Frank William Hirst
- Pilot Officer Bruce Hutchinson
- Sergeant David Graham Hutchison
- Sergeant George Charlton Jobling
- Corporal Robert McLaren Justice
- Sergeant Colin Douglas McAskill
- Sergeant Malcolm Dalton McDonald
- Sergeant Harold Gregory McKean
- Sergeant Peter Frank Monk
- Sergeant John Richard Moody
- Sergeant Ernest Graham Oakley
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Oliver
- Sergeant Frederick Douglas Orgar
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Fred Parkin
- Flight Sergeant Roy Livingstone Pitkin
- Sergeant Charles George Ridgewell
- Sergeant George Crawford Robertson
- Sergeant Roy Rowley
- Sergeant Colin Robert Scott
- Flight Lieutenant David McLellan Stewart
- Sergeant John Robert Worwood
- Sergeant Norman Duke Wright
1943
- Flying Officer Robert Harvey Annells
- Sergeant Frederick John Armstrong
- Flight Sergeant George Arnold
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Allan Barton
- Sergeant Ivan Harry William Baulf
- Flight Sergeant Warwick Hilson Beaver
- Leading Aircraftman George Albert Bedford
- Sergeant Richard Frederick Bell
- Flying Officer Sydney John Cornes
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Crompton
- Lieutenant Dallamore
- Flight Sergeant Robert Curtis Davie
- Sergeant John Philip Duffy
- Warrant Officer Norman Smith Forrester
- Sergeant Gordon Victor Wilfred Giles
- Sergeant William John Ernest Glenn
- Sergeant Frederick Gotheridge
- Sergeant William John Hart
- Squadron Leader Kenneth Illingworth
- Leading Aircraftman Bernard Francis Jenkins
- Flight Sergeant Albert John Jenner
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Charles Kemsley
- Sergeant Leslie John King
- Flight Sergeant Eric Thomas Harold McClean
- Sergeant Roy Victor McLean
- Flight Sergeant Norman Archibald McMillan
- Flight Sergeant Frank James O'Donohoe
- Sergeant Albert Edward Osguthorpe
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Norman Pagan
- Sergeant Benjamin Frederick John Parker
- Sergeant George William Patey
- Flying Officer Walter Norman Pleasance
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Harold Sellar
- Flying Officer Carl John Shagena
- Flying Officer James Hamilton Simpson
- Sergeant Frederick John Skeeles
- Sergeant Benjamin Warren Turner
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Park Tytler
- Flight Sergeant Hamilton Walker
- Sergeant Basil Talbot White
- Flight Sergeant Basil Herbert Yarwood
1944
- Flight Sergeant Robert William Ackerman
- Sergeant Terence Clifton Akeroyd
- Flying Officer Thomas Ralston Atkinson
- Pilot Officer John Humphreys Baird
- Pilot Officer John Arthur Bartholomew
- Sergeant Christopher Richard Batchelor
- Sergeant Reginald William Bodsworth
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Ellis Brayshaw
- Sergeant Albert Leonard Brittain
- Flight Sergeant James Roy Bryant
- Flight Sergeant James John Campbell
- Sergeant Alfred Austin Carless
- Pilot Officer William John Chambers
- Sergeant Albert Chappell
- Flight Sergeant Ian Clark
- Flying Officer Francis Allan Cleveland
- Flight Sergeant David Isadore Cohen
- Sergeant Frederick Samuel Coote
- Lieutenant Cowen
- Sergeant Leonard Neil Cromwell
- Flight Sergeant William Lawrence Daniels
- Warrant Officer Class I De Groot
- Air Mechanic De Klerk
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert James Dickie
- Flight Sergeant John Arthur Dietman
- Sergeant John Philip Downs
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Duckworth
- Flight Sergeant William Garfield Duncan
- Sergeant Walter Victor Lawrence Edwards
- Flight Sergeant John Andrew Ellery
- Flying Officer Arthur Hubert Ellis
- Flight Lieutenant Roderick Stanley (derick) Emerson
- Warrant Officer Evert
- Sergeant Alfred Frederick Fitton
- Sergeant Carl Patrick Fitzner
- Sergeant Felix Fitzsimmons
- Pilot Officer William Forrest
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Norman Gerrard
- Warrant Officer Albert Grange
- Pilot Officer Graham Athol Grant
- Sergeant Richard William Gray
- Sergeant Walter Richard Hales
- Pilot Officer Ronald Halperin
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Arthur Hamilton
- Sergeant Frank Albert Charles Harris
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Percival Hayles
- Sergeant William Edward Haywood
- Flying Officer William Norman Hegy
- Flying Officer Brian Hill
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Robert Hookway
- Sergeant Frederick Ernest Hosgood
- Flight Sergeant Burton Dix Howard
- Sergeant Elwyn Rees Hughes
- Sergeant George Hulley
- Lieutenant Hurry
- Sergeant Geoffrey Alan Jonas
- Sergeant George Henry Jones
- Flying Officer Martin Jerome Keogh
- Flying Officer Patrick Kinsella
- Flying Officer Ross K. Laut
- Flight Sergeant Edward Hurtle Lawrie
- Pilot Officer Peter McDonald Macintyre
- Pilot Officer Harold Charles Leeton Mackintosh
- Warrant Officer James Braithwaite Mandall
- Sergeant Charles Harry Marsh
- Sergeant Harry William Marshall
- Leading Aircraftman Kevin Kenneth Massey
- Sergeant John Emmanuel McCarthy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Melville Philip McDermott
- Flight Lieutenant Patrick Joseph McGuire
- Sergeant Ronald Melton
- Flying Officer James Moffat
- Pilot Officer Roy William Moody
- Flight Sergeant Denis Arnold Morling
- Squadron Leader Andrew Muir
- Sergeant Illtyd Melville Mulcuck
- Flight Sergeant Albert Joseph Newell
- Pilot Officer Patrick Eric Norman Nice
- Sergeant Eric Charles Nott
- Flight Sergeant John Howie Paton
- Flight Lieutenant Basil Oliver Petrides
- Sergeant Peter James Vincent Pitcher
- Flight Sergeant John Gorringe Pollard
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Arthur Powell
- Sergeant Medrie Peter Proteau
- Sergeant Peter Dearnley Rawson
- Sergeant John Charles Lewis Reed
- Sergeant Albert Edgar Reeve
- Flying Officer Tohunga Richard Riwai
- Sergeant Donald Robinson
- Sergeant Gerard Patrick Roche
- Sergeant Edward John Rowe
- Leading Aircraftman William Frederick Rudgley
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Vincent Russell
- Flying Officer Peter Cecil Ryde
- Lieutenant Shepherd
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Slater
- Sergeant Arthur Edward James Sleven
- Flight Sergeant Owen Preston Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Norman Cecil Snowdon
- Sergeant Arthur Llewellyn Steward
- Flight Sergeant Angus Roderick Graham Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Gladstone Myers Storey
- Flight Sergeant John Sinclair Sutherland
- Flight Sergeant Stephen Tatai
- Corporal Walter Patrick Terry
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Vivian Tibballs
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Toft
- Sergeant James Tomlinson
- Warrant Officer Class I Ungerer
- Flight Sergeant John Richard Upperton
- Sergeant Harold Valentine Vaughan
- Pilot Officer Allan Halford Waite
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Ward
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Walter Wood
- Flight Sergeant William Kenneth Wood
- Flying Officer Irwin Worth
- Pilot Officer Alfred Edgar Wright
- Flight Sergeant Alan Geoffry Young
1945
- Sergeant Walter Absalom
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Abner Amzalak
- Pilot Officer Nels Peter Helin Anderson
- Flying Officer Peter Gordon Anderson
- Warrant Officer Class II Andersson
- Flight Lieutenant Abel Baker
- Wing Commander Maurice William L'Isle La Valette Baker
- Pilot Officer Harold Lester Ball
- Flying Officer Albert John Beck
- Flying Officer Laurence Allen Blaney
- Flying Officer James Arthur Bleich
- Flight Sergeant Bryant Braddock
- Flying Officer Herbert Thomas Campbell
- Pilot Officer Roy Campbell
- Flying Officer Bernard Maxwell Clegg
- Flying Officer Alfred Joseph Combaz
- Flying Officer George Elliott Creswell
- Flying Officer Henry Raymond Dart
- Pilot Officer Hugh Augustine Davey
- Flight Sergeant Jim Boyce Davey
- Warrant Officer Robert Alexander Denholm
- Warrant Officer Class II John Arthur Dickson
- Pilot Officer Walter Sydney Dickson
- Flight Sergeant William Joseph Doherty
- Flying Officer Edwin Essenburg
- Group Captain Anthony Caron Evans-evans
- Flying Officer Murray Norman Firth
- Flight Sergeant Leopold Orie Foisy
- Wing Commander William Alexander Forbes
- Flight Sergeant William Gordon Frost
- Warrant Officer Cyril John Gallagher
- Flight Sergeant John Gardiner
- Flying Officer William James Gilmore
- Flight Sergeant Francis Edwin Gould
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Lyle Grahame
- Warrant Officer Class II Maurice Emerson Granbois
- Flying Officer Gerald Lee Halsall
- Pilot Officer Donald Hanna
- Flight Sergeant Oliver Harding
- Pilot Officer Douglas Anderson Henderson
- Flight Lieutenant David Walter Hill
- Pilot Officer Louis Edward Hoffman
- Pilot Officer Alvin John Hunter
- Flying Officer Richard John Ingham
- Lieutenant Kane
- Flight Sergeant Robert Emmett Kearney
- Pilot Officer John Walter Kopp
- Warrant Officer Class I Kruger
- Pilot Officer John Richard Kubin
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Henry Living
- Flight Sergeant Robert Campbell Macnicoll
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Stidston Maguire
- Flight Lieutenant John Goodwin Maguire
- Flying Officer William Brown Mallen
- Flying Officer William Patrick Maloney
- Warrant Officer Michael James Mathers
- Flight Lieutenant John Carson McAllister
- Pilot Officer Eric Joseph Frank McCarthy
- Flying Officer Gordon Theodore McCauley
- Pilot Officer Edward John McClarty
- Pilot Officer Ashley Alexander McDonald
- Warrant Officer Class I John Bruce McGovern
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Creighton McKeown
- Pilot Officer Alan John McLeod
- Flying Officer Colin William McMillan
- Flight Sergeant James Joseph McNeil
- Pilot Officer Wells Gibb Mendenhall
- Flying Officer John Robert Moffatt Mills
- Flight Lieutenant Corson Stewart Moir
- Flight Sergeant Harold Allan Neal
- Pilot Officer Edric Stephen Neil
- Flight Lieutenant William Francis Neubeck
- Pilot Officer Francis Edwin Newman
- Flight Sergeant Franklyn Hayward Paterson
- Flying Officer Wilfred Nicholson Patterson
- Flying Officer Edwin Frederick Patzer
- Flying Officer Lawrence Roy Pedersen
- Pilot Officer John Pennington
- Flying Officer Terence Benedict Phelan
- Pilot Officer Wilfred James Phillips
- Lieutenant Potgieter
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Alex Potter
- Flying Officer Colin John Pope Ramsey
- Warrant Officer Ian Rennison
- Flight Sergeant Cavan Beadon Robinson
- Flying Officer William Desmond Ross
- Flying Officer John Arnold Russell
- Flight Lieutenant Donald McWilliam Sanderson
- Flying Officer George Harry Percival Shephard
- Pilot Officer John Robert Shepley
- Pilot Officer Donald Edison Sherman
- Pilot Officer Robert John Simpson
- Flying Officer Edward Percival Smith
- Flying Officer Reginald Bertram Smith
- Pilot Officer Ward Rex Southcott
- Sergeant Samuel James Stephens
- Pilot Officer Ralph Raymond Stuart
- Flight Sergeant Edward Thomas Sumner
- Flying Officer Sydney Clifton Swift
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Anthony Swihura
- Flying Officer Sydney Alexander Tafler
- Flight Sergeant Richard James Takle
- Pilot Officer Briar Sibbald Thompson
- Flying Officer John Willard Thompson
- Lieutenant A. Macd. Thomsen
- Air Mechanic Matthew A. S. Tyler
- Pilot Officer William Wallace Wagner
- Pilot Officer John Mackay Wallace
- Flying Officer Lester Webster
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Mark Wood
- Flying Officer Hector Stevenson Young