On this day — 27 February
205 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 27 February during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer John Christopher Howell Blake
- Pilot Officer Harold Dodgson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Samuel Newton Middleton
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Thompson Moult
- Sergeant Thomas Sinclair Weightman
1941
- Sergeant George Russel Armstrong
- Sergeant John Bowes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfred Henry Collins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Henry Courtney
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Charles M. Ellerbeck
- Sergeant Leslie Emmerson
- Sergeant Edwin Featherstone
- Sergeant Ian Harrington Fenton
- Sergeant George Alexander Forsyth
- Pilot Officer Donald Henry Gates
- Flying Officer Maurice Ivan Frank Green
- Sergeant Norman Leslie Lane
- Pilot Officer Andrew McDougall Melville
- Sergeant John Anderson Patterson
- Squadron Leader Lionel Woodland Saben
- Wing Commander William Waters Stainthorpe
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Percy Sumner
- Sergeant Leonard Wells Taylor
- Wing Commander Gerald Thomas Toland
- Sergeant Douglas Vincent Weaving
- Wing Commander Alfred Percival White
1942
- Flying Officer Harold Edward Aspey
- Sergeant Edmund Sidney Ayton
- Sergeant Hubert Waddy Blackmore
- Sergeant Reginald Alfred Bland
- Lieutenant Thennis J. P. Botha
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Clayton
- Sergeant Joseph Walter Connell
- Sergeant Tom Crump
- Pilot Officer Christian Georges Auguste J. Deffontaine
- Pilot Officer Peter Satterswaite Devonshire
- Sergeant Frank Dickinson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stewart William Edson
- Sergeant John Arthur Eves
- Corporal William James French
- Sergeant Rowland Owen George
- Sergeant Edward James Gray
- Flight Sergeant John Balfour Gray
- Sergeant Arthur Robert Harrington
- Flight Sergeant Bert Gordon Hibell
- Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Hopewell
- Warrant Officer Eric Edward Ilett
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Atherton Irving
- Flight Sergeant Earl Morse Jackson
- Pupil Pilot Jacobson
- Air Mechanic Jarvis
- Leading Aircraftman Sam Jarvis
- Sergeant Roger Maurice Herbert Jennings
- Flying Officer Martin Shipley Job
- Pupil Pilot Johnson
- Sergeant James Joyce
- Sergeant Roland Wilfred Lancaster
- Sergeant Percy John Walter Leonard
- Flying Officer Robert John Love
- Sergeant Alan Craig Lowe
- Flight Sergeant George Malpass
- Pilot Officer Morris Donald Darwin McCarthy
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Reid McClean
- Sergeant Greig McCracken
- Sergeant Nephi Nicholls
- Sergeant John Gordon Nicholson
- Squadron Leader Leslie Hugh William Parkin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Pickering
- Pilot Officer Frederick William Powell
- Sergeant John Lewis Stanley Price
- Pilot Officer James Melville Ross
- Sergeant Eric Leonard Sams
- Sergeant Douglas John Sandlin
- Flight Sergeant James Gerard Shandley
- Flight Sergeant John Meredith Farley Shilan
- Corporal George Sivewright
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick William Fred Stoffell
- Sergeant Peter William Lindsey Strachan
- Sergeant Arthur Stringfellow
- Leading Aircraftman Benjamin Gordon Swan
- Sergeant John Gilbert Tallentire
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Tranter
- Sergeant Kenneth Twidale
- Sergeant Sidney Arthur Tyrrel
- Sergeant Donald Unsworth
- Pilot Officer Harold John Wagner
- Pilot Officer Richard George Walder
- Sergeant Wilfred Whittam
- Sergeant John Primrose Wilson
- Flying Officer James Malcolm Wishart
1943
- Sergeant Alfred Henry Reginald Aggett
- Flying Officer Ronald Charles Bell
- Sergeant Robert McBain Boswell
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Gordon Bradley
- Flying Officer Graham Brayshaw
- Sergeant Herbert Gordon Brooks
- Sergeant Jack Bunce
- Sergeant Barry Charles Burton
- Flight Sergeant Keith Lauchlan Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Victor Clark
- Flying Officer Dundonald Nelson Cochrane
- Flight Sergeant John Dunham Correll
- Flying Officer George Frank Davey
- Sergeant William Evans Davies
- Wing Commander John William Deacon
- Sergeant George Wilson Dempster
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Alexander Dey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Roy Drew
- Sergeant George Irving Herbert Dunbar
- Flying Officer William Hendrie Ford
- Sergeant Edward Thomas Fouet
- Sergeant Leslie Gregory
- Flight Sergeant Barrington Philip Grogan
- Sergeant Norman Hallett
- Flight Sergeant Lancelot George Howard Hingley
- Sergeant Thomas Ithel James
- Sergeant Carl Elwood Jamieson
- Corporal Charles Conroy Jennings
- Warrant Officer Class II William Booker Kenny
- Flying Officer Ronald Strongman Kent
- Flight Sergeant Richard Hubert Lewis
- Sergeant Arthur Marlow
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Arthur Marsden
- Pilot Officer Paul Manfred Daniel Marx
- Sergeant William Roy Matthews
- Pilot Officer Clifford Austin McArdle
- Flying Officer George William McCormick
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence McNaney
- Lieutenant Ejnar H. H. Mickdal
- Warrant Officer Class II John Noble Mitton
- Pilot Officer Dennis Oswald Moss
- Pilot Officer Charles Henry Nichols
- Flight Lieutenant Patrick Terrence O'Leary
- Sergeant John Emil Partos
- Sergeant Cyril Petherbridge
- Flight Lieutenant Vaclav Jan Petr Ridkosil
- Sergeant William Robert Cochrane Robertson
- Leading Aircraftman William Edmund Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Victor Spencer
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Noel Stubbs
- Flight Lieutenant Miloslav Stusak
- Flight Sergeant Donald Frank Sutterby
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Tan Teik Wah
- Sergeant George Rolling Taylor
- Pilot Officer Arthur John Teasdel
- Sergeant Donald Armitage Travis
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Leslie Tucker
- Flight Sergeant Edward James Twigg
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald William Vere Vanstone
- Sergeant Cecil Edward Vyse
- Sergeant Albert Waterworth
- Sergeant Joseph Alexander White
- Sergeant James Michael Wilson
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Milne Winter
- Flying Officer Frank Leslie Scott Wismer
- Flying Officer George Dickinson Wright
- Sergeant William Harry Young
1944
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Alexander Brown
- Flying Officer John Webster Christie
- Sergeant Henry Cohen
- Flying Officer William Michael Davies
- Flying Officer Arnold William Dawe
- Leading Aircraftman Bernard William Dix
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Leonard (frank) Ford
- Squadron Leader Reginald Lloyd Gordon
- Leading Aircraftman John Gray
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence John Peter Hampson
- Flying Officer Philip Wesley Hart
- Pilot Officer William Foster Hudson
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Kiley
- Flying Officer John Kenneth Morrison
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Trevor Payne
- Sergeant Frank Plumpton
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick William Pratley
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Massie Morrison Reid
- Warrant Officer John Rowe
- Warrant Officer John Augustine Siebert
- Lieutenant Sisson
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Albert Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jowsey Richardson Straughan
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Frederick Wardle
- Warrant Officer Robert Devon Williams
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Marcel Belanger
- Flying Officer Rodolphe Joseph Lorenzo Boucher
- Flight Sergeant Morley Junior Brewer
- Flying Officer Henry James Brock
- Flying Officer Sidney Thomas Carson
- Sergeant Griffith Wynne Dixon
- Flight Lieutenant John Fredrick Filteau
- Flight Sergeant Frederick George Fisher
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Samuel Hagerty
- Squadron Leader Jack Holloway
- Pilot Officer Angus Mackie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Moore
- Pilot Officer Harold Osbourn
- Wing Commander John Richard Ratten
- Flying Officer Richard McDiarmid Scott
- Flying Officer James Ben Stoehr
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Ward
- Flying Officer Kenneth Frank Whitehouse