On this day — 25 February
378 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 25 February during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Pilot Officer Edward Ariss Alexander
- Sergeant Alan James Allcorn
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Johnson Atkinson
- Sergeant Joseph Goodwin Butcher
- Sergeant Leslie Charles Butcher
- Sergeant Joseph Maccrae Chambers
- Sergeant Leo Frank De Roeck
- Pilot Officer David Noel Harper
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Benjamin Holdstock
- Sergeant Harry Albert Howarth
- Sergeant Frank Frederick Jefferies
- Sergeant Alexander Edwards Laing
- Leading Aircraftman Lloyd Ross Lancaster
- Sergeant Earle Kenneth Lindsay
- Sergeant Bernard Martin Mansfield
- Flight Lieutenant Timothy Roderick Manson
- Sergeant William Frederick McEwan
- Sergeant William McIntosh
- Aircraftman 1st Class Benedikt Pohner
- Sergeant John Royal Crossley Pratt
- Sergeant William Henry Prest
- Pilot Officer John Kenneth Churchill Ralston
- Flight Lieutenant Allen Fairhurst Riddlesworth
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh Alan Roberts
- Pilot Officer William John Shirtcliffe
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Walter Short
- Sergeant Bennie Jay Smith
- Squadron Leader Austin Luis Hugo Solano
- Pilot Officer Donald Arthur Stanley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charlie Wright
- Leading Aircraftman Jaroslav Zavadil
1942
- Flying Officer Charles Ronald Archibald
- Pupil Pilot Beukes
- Sergeant James Joseph Burke
- Wing Commander Peter John Campbell Canney
- Squadron Leader Geoffrey James Ian Clennell
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Augustine Dobbyn
- Sergeant Alan Richard Brett Durie
- Sergeant Dudley Harnett Dyson
- Sergeant Arthur Peter Roy Hargrave
- Sergeant Roy Gordon Harkins
- Pilot Officer William Keith Johnson
- Sergeant Frank Porter Kirkby
- Pilot Officer Eric William Knowles
- Leading Aircraftman Ashley Lorne Little
- Pupil Pilot Alfred Lucas
- Sergeant Raymond Corlett Madge
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward James Mannell
- Sergeant John Charles McNamara
- Sergeant Arnold George McNeil
- Sergeant Sidney John Rex Parsons
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Eynon Powell
- Sergeant Harold Philip Tew
- Sergeant Aubrey Lawson Thornton
- Sergeant Alfred William Todman
- Corporal David Connell Urquhart
- Sergeant Colin Geoffrey Veal
- Pilot Officer Harold Nigel Vincent
- Sergeant Alan Barton Watson
- Sergeant Wong Chuk Kong
1943
- Flight Sergeant James Banks
- Sergeant Thomas Bertram Barfoot
- Leading Aircraftman Hugh Watson Biddulph
- Sergeant Arthur Clarence Blaber
- Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Bray
- Leading Aircraftman James Scott Cavill
- Flying Officer Albert Dudley Chivers
- Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd William Clark
- Flight Sergeant Norman George Clark
- Sergeant Kenneth Owen Court
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Joseph Curtin
- Sergeant William Ricard Davies
- Sergeant John Dudley
- Flying Officer Jack Dudley Edwards
- Flight Lieutenant William Alexander Stevenson Elder
- Sergeant Edmund Blake Farren
- Sergeant John Stanley Fayle
- Sergeant Peter Noel Fellowes
- Flying Officer Frederick Thomas Fromm
- Leading Aircraftman John William Glew
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Neil Graham
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Stanley Hannah
- Leading Aircraftman George Henry Hawken
- Sergeant Leonard Victor William Herbert
- Pilot Officer James Cecil William Hewetson
- Sergeant Kenneth Herbert Hogarth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederic William (eric) Hookham
- Sergeant Vincent Edward Jack
- Warrant Officer Class II Francis Surrage Jenkins
- Sergeant Kenneth Roy Johnson
- Warrant Officer Class II Perry King
- Warrant Officer Class II James Frederick Kirk
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Louis Bernard Larin
- Pilot Officer Antony Frederick Lear
- Warrant Officer Class II Allison Frederick Weeks McLeod
- Sergeant James Arthur Millar
- Sergeant Edward O'Kane
- Pilot Officer Melvyn Frederick Old
- Pilot Officer Nathaniel Percy Orr
- Sergeant Passmore
- Sergeant Peter Popoff-rikovsky
- Sergeant James Graham Potts
- Flying Officer Norman George Price
- Pilot Officer Robert James Maxwell Reid
- Sergeant Henry Rigby
- Sergeant Michael Frederick Roberts
- Flying Officer Alan Barton Ross
- Flight Lieutenant Oscar Gladwin Rowcroft
- Sergeant Arnold William Rowell
- Flight Sergeant Irving Louis Sanitsky
- Sergeant William Scott
- Flying Officer Murray Kerr Sexton
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Alfred Phillip Sheffield
- Flight Sergeant Cyril James Drane Smith
- Warrant Officer Maxwell Phillip Stewart
- Sergeant Ronald Walter Stokes
- Warrant Officer Cecil Stovell
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Trotman
- Sergeant James Christopher Wade
- Flight Lieutenant John Murray Watt
- Sergeant Harry Victor Werner
- Flying Officer George Howard Wheeler
- Sergeant Edward Leslie Widgery
- Sergeant Richard Wiggins
- Sergeant Alfred Albert Wiles
- Warrant Officer Class II Jack Vincent Willbee
- Warrant Officer Class II Percy Gordon Williams
- Flying Officer Reginald John Frederick Windsor
- Leading Aircraftman Leo Woodburn
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Stanley Woolley
- Pilot Officer Robert Stephen Borden Worley
- Sergeant Kenneth William Wright
- Pilot Officer Stuart Marston Wright
- Sergeant Robert McKenzie Wylie
- Flying Officer George Binnie Yuille
1944
- Pilot Officer William Latham Alder
- Sergeant Kenneth Allen
- Sergeant William Ebenezer Allen
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Thomas Arden
- Flying Officer Anthony Azzopardi
- Flight Sergeant Alfred John Barnett
- Sergeant Henry George Basten
- Warrant Officer Class II Bell
- Sergeant Victor Bennett
- Pilot Officer Herbert John (jack) Benson
- Warrant Officer Class II George Henry Bentinck
- Pilot Officer Norval Bergland
- Pilot Officer Bertil Wilfred Bergquist
- Warrant Officer Class II Hector Frederick Binder
- Flight Sergeant James Kenneth Boothroyd
- Sergeant Herbert Frederick Bore
- Sergeant William Henry Botterill
- Sergeant Percy Roy Bourne
- Sergeant Bryan Robert Bowditch
- Sergeant Frederick Norman Bower
- Sergeant Mervyn Alan Bowles
- Sergeant Alfred Charles Brown
- Flying Officer John William Bryan
- Flight Sergeant Henry Francis Buckingham
- Pilot Officer Charles Thomas Burrows
- Flight Sergeant William David Carlile
- Flying Officer Edmund William Carter
- Sergeant Joseph Ernest Chapman
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Churcher
- Pilot Officer Allan James Collins
- Sergeant Percival Leonard Colman
- Pilot Officer Alfred Colvin
- Sergeant Thomas Leo Connolly
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick George Cornwell
- Sergeant Thomas Baxter Cowley
- Sergeant Harry Crabtree
- Sergeant William Craig
- Sergeant David Crawley
- Pilot Officer Henry Norman Cunliffe
- Flying Officer Frank Roy Daughton
- Pilot Officer Leo Lorne Norman De Celles
- Sergeant Frederick Kenneth Dench
- Sergeant Robert George Dennis
- Flight Sergeant James William Devenish
- Warrant Officer Class I De Waal
- Wing Commander John Frederick Dilworth
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Hartley Doig
- Sergeant Robert Edgeworth
- Flying Officer William Thomas Charles Edginton
- Flight Lieutenant Johann Walter Einarson
- Sergeant Armour John Emerson
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth McLean Fairbairn
- Flight Sergeant John Handley David Fenwick
- Flying Officer George Henry Fowler
- Sergeant Carol Ernest Woodridge Gardner
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Thomas Garrett
- Corporal James Ritchie Garriock
- Flying Officer Christopher Gibson
- Sergeant James Walter Gilbert
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Thomas Gill
- Sergeant James Ernest Glanvill
- Flight Sergeant James George Leslie Glazebrook
- Sergeant Maurice Goldman
- Pilot Officer Leonard Earl Goodkey
- Sergeant Frederick Albert Goodwin
- Flight Sergeant Peter William Bedford Gurdon
- Sergeant Donald John Halke
- Sergeant Gordon Kingsley Hall
- Flight Sergeant George Robert Shield Halliday
- Warrant Officer Class II William Percy Hamilton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John William Harding
- Pilot Officer Oscar Leonard Harrington Harding
- Sergeant Robert Harrison
- Sergeant Arthur Hartley
- Sergeant Arthur Hatfield
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Thomas Haynes
- Warrant Officer Class I Richard Campbell Herod
- Sergeant John Hewitson
- Corporal Charles William Hickey
- Flying Officer James Gordon Hillman
- Sergeant Harvey Ellis Hirst
- Flying Officer Gordon Bruce Hoddle
- Pilot Officer Mervyn Eugene Hodgins
- Sergeant Arthur Hodgson
- Flight Sergeant William John Hollis
- Sergeant John Theodore Hollow
- Sergeant Crawford McKerrow Hossack
- Flight Sergeant Godfrey Denzil Vaughan Howard
- Flight Sergeant William John Howiss
- Sergeant Stanley George Hubbard
- Flying Officer Jack Pierce Hutchinson
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Norman Ingles
- Flying Officer Richard Mortimer Newark Jacombs
- Sergeant Cyril Thomas James
- Aircraftman 1st Class Roy Jarman
- Sergeant Frederick Robert Jeffcoate
- Sergeant Daniel Evan Jenkins
- Sergeant William Harold Johnson
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Nicol Johnstone
- Sergeant William Johnstone
- Sergeant Howard William Jones
- Flight Sergeant Mervyn Francis Jones
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Kay
- Sergeant Horace Henry Kendall
- Pilot Officer Francis Leonard Kennedy
- Sergeant William Patrick Joseph King
- Pilot Officer Martin Allan Knight
- Lieutenant Lallyett
- Flight Sergeant William Alfred Lampkin
- Pilot Officer Charles Algernon Lavery
- Sergeant Norman Henry Lerigo
- Flight Sergeant Frank Lloyd
- Flying Officer Henry Maynard Long
- Flight Sergeant Peter August Lucha
- Warrant Officer Class I Lurie
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Joseph Macey
- Pilot Officer Gerald Rowland Machesney
- Sergeant Edward George Marchant
- Flying Officer Alfred Rothwell Mark
- Flight Lieutenant Charles James Martin
- Flight Sergeant Colin Hillier Martin
- Pilot Officer Ronald Cecil Martin
- Pilot Officer Edgar Thomas Mason
- Flight Sergeant Peter Francis McCaughey
- Sergeant John Payne McCormick
- Sergeant Charles Henry McFadden
- Flight Sergeant Hilton Spencer McGill
- Flying Officer Patrick Gregory McGuire
- Flight Sergeant John Joseph McKeown
- Flight Sergeant James McLeod
- Sergeant Arthur John Howard Merricks
- Flight Sergeant Beresford Bruce Millen
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald James Mortimer
- Pilot Officer Douglas Moultrie
- Flying Officer Ronald Frank Nice
- Sergeant George Pierrie Nicolson
- Flying Officer Francis John Nixon
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Sydney Nurse
- Sergeant Ernest Edward Olive
- Sergeant Roy Openshaw
- Sergeant Henry William John Pain
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Joseph Palmer
- Sergeant Francis Joseph Pearson
- Sergeant John Peers
- Sergeant Arnold Porritt
- Wing Commander Eric Frederick Porter
- Sergeant John Lynden Powell
- Sergeant Herbert Edward Prangnell
- Pilot Officer Donald Alexander Price
- Sergeant Thomas Frederick Quine
- Sergeant Kenneth William Radford
- Pilot Officer Herbert Rankin
- Flight Sergeant Benjamin Samuel Reynolds
- Captain Ribbink
- Flight Sergeant David Ballantine Richardson
- Pilot Officer Dallas Rex Robinson
- Flying Officer Vernon Temple Rutter
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Henry Savage
- Pilot Officer Maurice Sharp
- Pilot Officer Harry Sherlock
- Flight Sergeant John Slack
- Flying Officer Dennis Ripley Smith
- Sergeant Ernest Hamilton Victor Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Paul Smith
- Warrant Officer Kenneth McLeod Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ruffel John Stewart
- Sergeant Harry Stollar
- Pilot Officer John Edward Strain
- Pilot Officer Herbert Ronald Houghton Stuchbury
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Sutton
- Sergeant Joseph Abraham Swingler
- Pilot Officer Roy Tandy
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Tattersall
- Sergeant Roy Sidney Custance Taylor
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Reginald Hans Tibbenham
- Flying Officer Walter Gervase Tibbits
- Sergeant John Joseph Tobin
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Tuckwell
- Flight Sergeant Vernon Grant Tunnicliffe
- Flight Sergeant Eric Dudley Turpie
- Lieutenant Van Bergen
- Sergeant William Walch
- Sergeant Walter Walker
- Sergeant Kenneth Walmsley
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
- Sergeant Frank Russell Webster
- Sergeant George Andrew Weddle
- Sergeant Leslie Wilfred Whitefield
- Sergeant Maurice Hubert Widdows
- Flying Officer Erle Keith Williams
- Sergeant William Robert Williams
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Willis
- Flight Sergeant Eric Leslie Winslade
- Flight Sergeant John Whitham Wood
- Sergeant Frank Woodward
- Flight Sergeant Norman Woodward
- Sergeant Maurice Leonard Worth
- Flying Officer Rowland Bernard Wright
- Sergeant Stanley Thomas Wright
- Sergeant Percy Reginald Wynde
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Yates
- Pilot Officer Ian Cedric Young
- Flying Officer Peter Henry Wilson Young
1945
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Richard Alm
- Pilot Officer Herbert John Arnold
- Lieutenant Bailey
- Flight Lieutenant Ivor Bruce Benson
- Pilot Officer John Gilbert Ross Buchanan
- Wing Commander Cyril Nelson Carpenter
- Flying Officer Louise Philippe Cloutier
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Davis
- Flying Officer Robert Stanley Edick
- Flying Officer Edward Maxwell England
- Warrant Officer Class II William Ross Field
- Flying Officer Vincent Bernard Fleming
- Flying Officer James Ernest Gibberd
- Flight Sergeant William George Godfrey
- Pilot Officer Harold Richard Hammerton
- Flight Sergeant Harold Hayes
- Major Geoffrey Hilton-barber
- Lieutenant Hingle
- Pilot Officer Chester Allen Holmlund
- Flying Officer Max Leslie Hubbard
- Flying Officer Eric Alexander Innes
- Flying Officer Alex Kotyk
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon William Lee
- Flying Officer Hector Lochhead
- Sergeant John George Lynch
- Flying Officer Hugh James Alexander McLean
- Corporal Henry Girvan Pelan
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Frank Piercy
- Flight Sergeant Robert George Pryor
- Sergeant George Edward Rolls
- Warrant Officer Joseph Daglish Stevenson
- Flying Officer Russell George Tickner
- Flight Sergeant Mervyn Rex Vagg
- Flight Sergeant Eric Francis Warmer
- Flying Officer Anthony Dennitts Willcox