On this day — 12 March
357 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 12 March during the Second World War.
1940
- Squadron Leader David Malyon Allan
- Pilot Officer Lloyd George Bishop
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Squire Burke
- Sergeant John Douglas Hartley
- Sergeant Alphonse Roger Hermels
- Pilot Officer Eric Iver Hewett
- Pilot Officer Harry Blakeway Hunter
- Pilot Officer Peter Richard Johnson
- Pilot Officer Albert Charles Manaton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alec Mullineux
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Bowyer Vaux
1941
- Leading Aircraftman Gurney De Lois Barrett
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Claud Beaumont
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Martin Blue
- Aircraftman 1st Class Giuseppe Borg
- Sergeant Allan Anthony Burtenshaw
- Sergeant William James Chamberlain
- Sergeant John Henry Collopy
- Sergeant James Conway
- Sergeant Ernest Joseph Coult
- Flying Officer William Peter Crosse
- Pilot Officer Edward Dudley Dear
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter John Dennis
- Pilot Officer William Hotchkiss Edwards
- Sergeant Ian Charles Elkins
- Pilot Officer Charles Gillard
- Sergeant John Nixon Glendinning
- Sergeant Stanley Donald Sutherland Goodlet
- Sergeant Douglas William Gough
- Sergeant John Hocknell
- Sergeant Henry Jones
- Corporal Norman Grenville Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Percival Arnold Roy McFarlane
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edwin Denzil Horace Morgan
- Sergeant William James Morgan
- Sergeant Edward Richardson
- Sergeant Thomas Herbert Rose
- Sergeant Paul Anthony Savage
- Sergeant Walter Gordon Smith
- Leading Aircraftman William Lewis Nick Starkey
- Sergeant Lawrence Stewart
- Sergeant Frank Stones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert Todd
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril George Tomlinson
- Squadron Leader Robert Alfred Edmund Traill
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Watson
- Sergeant Thomas Geoffrey Webb
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Henry Williams
1942
- Flight Sergeant Campbell Ewin Justin Aitchison
- Sergeant Keith Alexander Andrew
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas James Desmond Baber
- Pilot Officer Derrick Bourchier Bailey
- Sergeant Geoffrey George Bell
- Flight Sergeant John Lukies Brown
- Sergeant Tony Kevin Carter
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Montgomery Chamberlain
- Sergeant Harry Chaplin
- Pilot Officer Josef Frantisek Cibulka
- Sergeant William Clezy
- Sergeant Herbert Sidney George Cullen
- Sergeant Joseph William Dale
- Pilot Officer Leonard Dobson
- Sergeant Leslie Joseph Dunn
- Sergeant Bernard John Dykes
- Pilot Officer John Earle
- Sergeant Jiri Fina
- Flying Officer Peter Radcliffe Giddy
- Flight Sergeant James Eugene Gilfoy
- Sergeant Joseph Henry Godfrey
- Sergeant John Ridges Hand
- Sergeant Edmond Patrick Hanrahan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William James Sydney J. Heap
- Pilot Officer Ian Alexander Bruce Johnstone
- Sergeant Saint Michael Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Stewart King
- Squadron Leader Peter James Robert Kitchin
- Flight Lieutenant Jaroslav Kula
- Leading Aircraftman William Maguire
- Sergeant Murray Alexander McDonald
- Sergeant Robert McGibbon
- Sergeant Alois Wellington Meznik
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Molnar
- Flight Sergeant William Arthur Murphy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Manley Nixon
- Pilot Officer Michael Owen Ogier
- Sergeant James Monkman Parker
- Sergeant John Frederick Massey Parnham
- Pilot Officer William James Parton
- Sergeant Arthur James Pratley
- Flight Sergeant Henry John Price
- Sergeant Frantisek Raiskup
- Sergeant Edgar Cecil Reynolds
- Sergeant Philip Robinson
- Pilot Officer Patrick Heron Thorold Rogers
- Flying Officer John Frederick Kelly Sandys
- Sergeant Edgar Grenville Shaw
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Edward Small
- Sergeant Oldrich Soukop
- Pilot Officer James Spalding
- Sergeant Charles Ronald Spence
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Charles Storey
- Sergeant Norman Harry Webster
- Sergeant Thomas William Weeks
- Pilot Officer John Albert Williams
- Sergeant Roy Joffre Desmond Woodcock
1943
- Flight Sergeant Howard Victor Adams
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Allan
- Sergeant William Andrews
- Pilot Officer Douglas Invicta Arthur
- Sergeant Henry Edwin Ash
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Barker
- Sergeant Albert Edward Beaven
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Patrick Beesley
- Flying Officer Edwin Harold Beeton
- Sergeant George Edward Benson
- Sergeant Harry Bentley
- Pilot Officer Lionel Hubert Rogers Binning
- Sergeant Henry Stuart Fell Bishell
- Sergeant William Smith Black
- Flight Sergeant Douglas George Blackmore
- Sergeant William Alfred Blackmore
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie Samuel Boarer
- Sergeant Anthony Richard Burgess
- Flight Sergeant William Cecil Burr
- Flying Officer Arthur Harold Bywater
- Pilot Officer Robert George Caldwell
- Flight Sergeant Colin James Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Basil Carnell
- Flight Sergeant Robert Stonehouse Carr
- Pilot Officer Alexander Carruthers
- Sergeant William Eric Chamberlain
- Sergeant Edward William Leon Charlebois
- Flight Sergeant Edward Blake Clampitt
- Sergeant Albert Edward Clark
- Sergeant William Hugh Clayton
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Clift
- Flying Officer Brendan Clitheroe
- Sergeant Dennis Collins
- Pilot Officer George Cook
- Flying Officer Gordon Johnson Cory
- Flight Lieutenant James Cowan
- Sergeant Frank Patrick Crawford
- Sergeant Martin Harvey Christie Crow
- Flying Officer Harold James Crowe
- Sergeant Alexander Robertson Dawson
- Pilot Officer John Dickinson
- Sergeant George William Dillon
- Flying Officer Michael Eugene Doble
- Flying Officer William Horatio Donald
- Sergeant Dennis James Druett
- Flying Officer Harry Welland Dugard
- Sergeant Charley Gordon Dyer
- Sergeant Edgar Louis Eaglen
- Sergeant Bernard James Eckett
- Sergeant Victor Norman Elkins
- Flight Sergeant Percy Philip Fahie
- Sergeant Gerald Cecil Felsenstein
- Sergeant Edwin Carlo Fermanian
- Sergeant Patrick John Fitzgerald
- Sergeant Robert William Floyd
- Aircraftman 1st Class Michael Barry Fowler
- Sergeant James Freel
- Flying Officer Cecil Carl Albert Fuchs
- Sergeant Leslie John Gait
- Sergeant Alexander Garden
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred Gerrard
- Sergeant Walter Henry Gosnell
- Sergeant William Edmund Greasley
- Sergeant John Davidson Haigh
- Sergeant Eric Hall
- Flying Officer Harold Patterson Hall
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Hannay
- Sergeant Jessel Hyam Harris
- Pilot Officer Peter Graham Harris
- Sergeant Reginald Baron Percy Henry Heath
- Pilot Officer Roderick John Heather
- Sergeant Henry Edward Henden
- Sergeant Charles Orrin Henderson
- Pilot Officer James Henderson
- Sergeant Ronald Heslop
- Sergeant Ernest Hodgson
- Pilot Officer Francis Holland
- Sergeant Ernest Arthur Hughes
- Sergeant George Albert Hyatt
- Sergeant William Hynd
- Sergeant Richard John Jenkins
- Sergeant Brian Roland Jennings
- Sergeant Philip Percy Jobling
- Sergeant Stanley Charles Johnson
- Sergeant Leslie Morgan Jones
- Sergeant William Richard Jones
- Sergeant Harold Jowitt
- Flying Officer John Richard Kee
- Pilot Officer William Watson Kirkpatrick
- Flight Sergeant Victor Robert David Kissick
- Pilot Officer Bernard Henry Labarge
- Sergeant Emanuel George Lacina
- Sergeant Alfred Perry Larson
- Pilot Officer Ian Alistair Hardy Linklater
- Sergeant Bernard Leo Litolff
- Sergeant Douglas William Lovelady
- Pilot Officer Derek Graham Lovell
- Sergeant James Stephen Lowdell
- Pilot Officer Leonard Ronald Stockwell Luton
- Flight Sergeant Robert Gray Macdonald
- Sergeant James Macfarlane
- Sergeant Matthew Walker Mackenzie
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander Fraser Macqueen
- Flight Sergeant Fred Aten Marean
- Squadron Leader David Alston Johnstone McClure
- Sergeant John Henry William McDonagh
- Pilot Officer Arthur Lennox McDonald
- Flying Officer Reginald Alexander McFarlane
- Corporal George Alexander McKellar
- Sergeant David McKenzie
- Sergeant William John McLelland
- Warrant Officer George William Miller
- Sergeant Kenneth Alfred Mills
- Pilot Officer Joseph Millward
- Sergeant Jack Misseldine
- Sergeant Geoffrey Eli Morris
- Flight Sergeant Percy John Musk
- Sergeant Harold Cedric Alan Newland
- Sergeant Percy Pugh Oakes
- Sergeant Robin Cecil Carrow Owen
- Sergeant Ronald McMurray Pace
- Sergeant Victor Page
- Flying Officer Wendell McLean Palmer
- Sergeant Eric Parker
- Pilot Officer Gerald Andrew Parkinson
- Flying Officer Ronald James Paul
- Sergeant Ronald Moseley Peake
- Flight Sergeant Fred Alwyn Pearson
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Cameron Plaunt
- Flying Officer Brian Wallis Polson
- Sergeant William Patrick Quinlivan
- Warrant Officer Class II Jack Graydon Richardson
- Sergeant Ronald Charles Granville Rickett
- Sergeant Arthur Reece Roberts
- Sergeant Thomas Robinson
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Thomas Robson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard James Rogers
- Sergeant James Hamilton Ross
- Flying Officer Greaton Wesley Sellers
- Sergeant Antony Cecil Sharpe
- Sergeant Eric Shaw
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Gordon Shockley
- Sergeant Roger Fisher Rowe Sides
- Sergeant Bernard Mario Singleton
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Holmes Skinner
- Sergeant Arthur Dennis Slade
- Pilot Officer Alexander John Smith
- Sergeant John Ernest Smith
- Sergeant Stanley Gordon Smith
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert Eric Somerville
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Samuel Stallan
- Sergeant Frederick Wade Stanners
- Sergeant Ernest Alfred Steed
- Sergeant Frederick Stephens
- Flight Sergeant Charles Stewart
- Sergeant Howard Sydney Stockbridge
- Sergeant Arthur William Ernest Taylor
- Sergeant Leonard Evan Thomas
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Denzil James Thompson
- Sergeant William Lloyd George Thompson
- Sergeant Arthur Leonard Thurlow
- Squadron Leader Michael Edward Thwaites
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Topping
- Sergeant Percival Edwin Trew
- Flying Officer Denys Raymond Tuft
- Flight Sergeant Robert Matthew Urwin
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Alfred Jean Louis Viau
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Jack Walker
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Ward
- Pilot Officer Llewellyn Edgar Warren
- Flight Lieutenant Orville Ray Waterbury
- Flying Officer Frank Lancelot Martyn Whibley
- Sergeant Trevor Lloyd Williams
- Flying Officer Raymond William Wilsdon
- Sergeant Robert Wilson
- Sergeant Harold Winstanley
- Sergeant Stuart Ronald Wright
- Flying Officer Lorne Herbert York
1944
- Leading Aircraftman William Adams
- Flight Sergeant Keith Fowler Allen
- Leading Aircraftman William Atherden
- Flying Officer James Duncan Mactavish Baillie
- Warrant Officer George Wilson Wood Baker
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Bamford
- Major Bell
- Warrant Officer Robert James Bonar
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Edward Burke
- Sergeant Reginald Ernest Burt
- Sergeant Reginald Horace Cantwell
- Squadron Leader Peter John Carpenter
- Sergeant James Clark
- Flight Sergeant Walter Stuart Cook
- Leading Aircraftman Derek James Crosweller
- Sergeant William Howell Ebsworth
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Funger
- Flight Sergeant Arnold Bruce Gillam
- Sergeant James Robertson Graham
- Flight Sergeant Harold Frederick Grinnell
- Sergeant Joseph George (joe) Hall
- Flying Officer George Henry Hart
- Flying Officer Leslie Alec Hayward
- Sergeant Arthur Isherwood
- Flying Officer Louis Irving Land
- Squadron Leader Frederick William John Last
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry Lawson
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Frederick Legg
- Flying Officer Gerald Campbell Liggett
- Pilot Officer Robert Joseph McCormick
- Flight Sergeant Thomas George David Mills
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Enous New
- Flight Lieutenant Bryan George Overton
- Sergeant Thomas Parkes
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Henry Parsey
- Corporal James Jonas Pearson
- Flight Sergeant Denis John Ernest Poole
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred Potter
- Flying Officer William Joseph Rice
- Corporal Charlie Saunders
- Flight Sergeant Charles Edward Sayer
- Pilot Officer Graham Natt Smith
- Lieutenant Stead
- Flight Sergeant Basil Herbert Symes
- Squadron Leader George Thompson
- Sergeant Alan Tym
- Flying Officer Willebrodus Maria Antoine Van Leemputten
- Pilot Officer William Arthur Walker
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard William George Ward
- Flight Sergeant Francis Llewellyn Webster
- Sergeant Cecil Reginald West
- Sergeant Norman White
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Williams
- Flying Officer John Wilson
- Flying Officer Charles Stewart Grant Wood
- Flight Sergeant Clyde Thomas Young
1945
- Flying Officer Bruce Andrew Stanley Abbott
- Pilot Officer Frank Ernest Baker
- Pilot Officer George Herbert Brock
- Flight Sergeant John Derrick Bryant
- Pilot Officer George Leonard Burgess
- Flight Sergeant Lewis Walter Calder
- Flight Sergeant Hunter Gillender
- Flying Officer Ronald Arthur Green
- Pilot Officer Thomas Alexander Mallon
- Warrant Officer Raymond William Moffat
- Flight Sergeant George John Patrick O'Brien
- Corporal Frederick Hartington Parker
- Leading Aircraftman William Pittendreigh
- Warrant Officer Class I George William Stairs
1946
- Flight Sergeant John Stewart Elliott
- Flight Sergeant William Ernest Kew
- Flight Sergeant Jack Shepherd