On this day — 23 February
189 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 23 February during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Gerald Breese
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Watley Turner Head
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Ledsham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert James Mackenzie
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Parkes
- Leading Aircraftman Andrew Roberts Sutcliffe
- Leading Aircraftman Frederic Arthur Webster
1941
- Air Mechanic Adamson
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Bevan
- Sergeant George Leslie Bland
- Sergeant John Stuart Dukes
- Sergeant John Henry (jack) Eades
- Pilot Officer Malcolm Alexander Esplen
- Sergeant Ronald Henry Gray
- Pilot Officer Alan David Petrie Hewison
- Leading Aircraftman Robert George Hewlett-whitaker
- Pilot Officer Norman Howkins
- Squadron Leader Cyril Sydney Kemp
- Sergeant Kenneth Kennard
- Flying Officer Emanuel Krajina
- Sergeant Alan Lloyd
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald John Mallett
- Sergeant Edwin Joseph Milton
- Pilot Officer Peter Moody
- Leading Aircraftman Roger Frederick Newman
- Pilot Officer John Gilbert Pippet
- Leading Aircraftman William Harry Shortt
- Sergeant Thomas Herbert Melvin Simmonds
- Sergeant David William Montague Thomas
- Sergeant Jack Fisher Wallace
1942
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Percy Norman Bangay
- Pilot Officer Donald Roy Beardall
- Sergeant Frantisek Bohnisch
- Flight Sergeant Jack Bradbury
- Pilot Officer Ernest William Bright
- Sergeant Esmond Elliott Browne
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Leslie Calton
- Sergeant Patrick Russell Cooper
- Sergeant Frederick Coulson
- Sergeant Robert Dudley Cullingham
- Sergeant Leopold Thomas Philippe Delorme
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Laurence Dent
- Flight Lieutenant Eric John Durston
- Flight Sergeant Irwin James Eady
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Edwin Foster
- Sergeant Charles Arthur Frost
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Montrose Gray
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Neville Griffiths
- Warrant Officer Class II Norman Stanley Hall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Bertram Patrick Hamilton-hunter
- Pilot Officer Willard Eugene Madden
- Sergeant Keith Martin McBride
- Flying Officer Frederick William Robert Newcomb
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Frank Perkins
- Sergeant John Edward Purdue
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Cyril Robinson
- Sergeant Samuel Murray Rodgers
- Corporal Alexander Profit Rutherford
- Sergeant Alan John Stotter
- Pilot Officer David George West
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gerald Lloyd Spencer Whichello
- Sergeant John Duncan Drummond White
- Corporal Alfred James Willis
- Flying Officer Brian Albert Willis
1943
- Sergeant William Victor Charles Alston
- Flight Sergeant James Chandler
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Gordon Chittock
- Sergeant Frederick Merville Christmas
- Flight Lieutenant John William Coates
- Sergeant William Day
- Flight Sergeant David Phillip Doak
- Sergeant Robert Gratrex
- Flying Officer Richard Alexander Heywood
- Sergeant Ernest Hill
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Robert Humphries
- Pilot Officer Albrecht Maxwell Jensen
- Flight Sergeant Albert Jowers
- Flying Officer Charles Desmond Kenwrick-cox
- Flight Sergeant Vincent Harold Knutson
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Thom Lindsay
- Leading Aircraftman George Longden
- Sergeant Frank Ronald Marples
- Warrant Officer Class I James Dickinson Massey
- Air Mechanic Mathey
- Flight Sergeant Norman Henry Maul
- Flight Sergeant Hubert Brindle McCreery
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Herbert Graham Nash
- Sergeant Arthur Norbury
- Flight Sergeant Francis Reginald Oldrieve
- Pilot Officer Robert Finlay Peterson
- Sergeant Peter Derek Rumsam
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Scott
- Sergeant Robert Scott
- Wing Commander Clifford George Skinner
- Sergeant Ralph Spencer
- Sergeant George Bowman Stewart
- Flight Sergeant John Bernard Sullivan
- Leading Aircraftman David Nesia Thomas
- Flight Lieutenant George Norman Thompson
- Sergeant Hugh Karl Marx Thomson
- Flying Officer Leslie Edward Triplett
- Sergeant George Wilfred Turley
- Sergeant Sidney George Twine
- Flying Officer Peter Radcliffe Ward
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Shirley Walker Watts
1944
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Edward Allitt
- Flying Officer Robert Barr
- Warrant Officer Thomas Atkinson Beatey
- Flight Sergeant Frank Robertshaw Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Robert Bewsher
- Sergeant Harold Elliott Blackett
- Aircraftman 1st Class John William Boon
- Leading Aircraftman Lindsay William Chalmers Bowman
- Sergeant Trevor Barkley Boyd
- Pilot Officer Ronnie George Cassidy
- Warrant Officer Class I James Armistice Castle
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Albert Dinham
- Flight Sergeant William John Donaldson
- Squadron Leader Howard Elsey
- Sergeant Frederick James Everitt
- Sergeant William Kenneth Fletcher
- Flight Lieutenant Francis James Fraser
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Bonham Griffiths
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Hardy
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Douglas Houghton
- Flying Officer Frederick Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney John Lovelock
- Wing Commander Robert Ewart Xavier Mack
- Squadron Leader Charles Beresford Marshall
- Wing Commander Victor Edwin Maxwell
- Corporal John Archibald McLaren
- Flying Officer Harry Dwain Merkley
- Flight Sergeant David Nelson
- Pilot Officer Ernest William O'Donnell
- Lieutenant Peachey
- Warrant Officer Class II George Delson Pettes
- Flight Lieutenant Richmond Hampton Pugh
- Warrant Officer Dudley Royce Rayner
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Arthur Richardson
- Sergeant Eric Rosher
- Captain Ross
- Lieutenant Seaton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jim See
- Sergeant Henry John Selway
- Flight Sergeant Royston Harry Sharp
- Sergeant Francis Robert Simmons
- Warrant Officer Class I Spargo
- Aircraftman 1st Class Melville Elvet Thomas
- Flight Lieutenant Bertram Cecil Townsin
- Warrant Officer Class I Van Alphen
- Leading Aircraftman George Albert Vose
- Warrant Officer Jack James Mount Ward
- Flight Sergeant John Williams
- Warrant Officer Ronald Eustice Wilson
- Sergeant John Dominic Wyrzykowski
1945
- Flying Officer Donald William Bateman
- Flight Sergeant Henry Thomas Batten
- Flight Sergeant Thomas George Campbell
- Flight Lieutenant William Mackie Constable
- Flight Sergeant William Remington Cookson
- Pilot Officer Leo Patrick Curtin
- Leading Aircraftman Kellems Richards Davey
- Sergeant John Joseph Drake
- Sergeant John Gower Evans
- Pilot Officer Alan Noel Fletcher
- Flying Officer Clifford Wesley Hall
- Flying Officer Allan Edward Hayes
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Henry Hockley
- Flying Officer Gordon Albert Hoggard
- Pilot Officer James Alastair Howard
- Flight Sergeant Ross John Hugh Johnstone
- Flight Sergeant Donald Elmer Le Liever
- Warrant Officer John James Lord
- Flight Sergeant Grantham Stanhope Maclaine
- Sergeant Alan Murray McKay
- Flying Officer Lawrence Herbert McLeod
- Flight Lieutenant Murray Robert McQuillan
- Flight Lieutenant William Hewitt Power Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Dallas Joseph Paterson
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Franklin Robb
- Flight Sergeant Wesley Grenfell Roberts
- Flying Officer William Charles Thomas Robinson
- Leading Aircraftman Marcus Rosalky
- Flying Officer Brian George Sherry
- Sergeant J. McDonald Sinclair
- Pilot Officer Roy Tyldesley Sowter
- Major Edwin Swales