On this day — 15 March
362 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 15 March during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer William Ward Adam
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick John Mantle
- Pilot Officer Robert Eli West
1941
- Sergeant Richard Hugh Alington
- Pilot Officer Robert Henry Fettiplace Blandy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Elder Chalmers
- Sergeant Walter James Cox
- Sergeant John Geoffrey Crawford
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Ronald Downes
- Sergeant Charles Gillespie
- Captain Noel Courtney Harvey
- Group Captain Dudley D'Herbez Humphreys
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Stephen Jones
- Pilot Officer William Herbert Leedam
- Sergeant Harold Edward Meason
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gwyn Morris
- Sergeant Frederick Paul Horton Oatley
- Sergeant Geoffrey Gordon Prescott
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Edward Purvis
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Smith
- Flying Officer Francis Burton Smith
- Sergeant Leslie Soden
- Flying Officer Frederic John Swain
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John William Taylor
- Sergeant Kenneth Herbert Aynge Vaughan
- Corporal John Dean Wheeler
- Flying Officer James Noel Whitney
- Sergeant William Eric Williams
1942
- Wing Commander Eric Hugh Paul Clarke
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Steele Collins
- Sergeant John Ivor Evans Davies
- Pilot Officer Jean Verdon Marie Aime Decloedt
- Sergeant David Wallace Dewar
- Sergeant William Henry Arthur Drewcock
- Wing Commander John William Seivwright Forbes
- Sergeant Leslie Reginald Foulkes
- Pilot Officer James Henry Hackett
- Sergeant Jack Coulson Hannaford
- Pilot Officer Clare Harrison
- Sergeant Alexander George Harvey
- Flying Officer Arthur Herbert Hiles
- Flight Lieutenant James Edward Hogg
- Pilot Officer Basil Leonard Alfred Francis Holland
- Flight Lieutenant Richard John Jouault
- Sergeant Alfred John Leaver
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Leavesley
- Air Mechanic Lessing
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Lucas
- Pilot Officer Angus Stewart Robertson Mackenzie
- Sergeant Rex Joseph Marre
- Sergeant Glynnly Herbert Frederick McClay
- Flying Officer Derek Reginald Olver
- Flight Lieutenant John Harcourt Pickering
- Sergeant Frederick Arthur Robinson
- Flight Sergeant Michael D'Oyly Rochfort
- Sergeant Sydney James Rout
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Ryan
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Raymond Squires
- Flight Sergeant John Gerard Turner
- Sergeant Noel Alexander Watt
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Waugh
- Sergeant Sydney Walter White
- Leading Aircraftman Basil Derek Wickham
- Sergeant Julius Lee Wyatt
1943
- Sergeant Ronald Victor Batten
- Pilot Officer George Bishop
- Sergeant Frederick Edward Blatchford
- Sergeant John Brims
- Warrant Officer Class II Arnold Lindsay Card
- Aircraftman 1st Class Godfrey Carter
- Sergeant Colin Frederick Chambers
- Warrant Officer Class II Syd Cohen
- Pilot Officer Douglas Connell
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Cooper
- Sergeant Barrie Lincoln Crane
- Sergeant Robert Keith Cunningham
- Sergeant Arthur Robert Dale
- Sergeant Neville Roy Dawson
- Warrant Officer Class I Albert Joseph De Cruyenaere
- Pilot Officer Lorne Gerald Dobson
- Sergeant Eric Stanley Evans
- Sergeant William Field
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Thomas Franklin
- Flying Officer William Byron Gibbs
- Sergeant Ian Stuart Gibson
- Sergeant Anthony John Harvey
- Flight Sergeant John Hearne
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Hilditch
- Warrant Officer Gordon Roger Jeffreys
- Leading Aircraftman Horace Victor Jopson
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Joseph Charles Keane
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Spencer Kilpatrick
- Corporal Cecil Rhodes Kirby
- Sergeant John Henry Lawson
- Flying Officer Albert Ernst Longoni
- Flying Officer Follett Keith Major
- Sergeant Stuart Edward Marsden
- Flight Sergeant Donald Leo McDonald
- Sergeant David Robert McDougle
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Arthur Moore
- Sergeant Stanley Arthur Morris
- Sergeant Colin Finlay Nicholson
- Flight Sergeant William Sidney Norris
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Thomas Nottingham
- Sergeant Charles Vincent Patching
- Second Lieutenant Pedlar
- Leading Aircraftman George Louis Pedrotta
- Sergeant William Pettigrew
- Flying Officer Frederick John Pickard
- Sergeant Reginald Arnold Powell
- Sergeant Robert Ambrose Redman
- Flight Sergeant Ruziecki
- Sergeant Hugh Shearer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest Ronald Sills
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Ernest Skinner
- Leading Aircraftman John Sweeney
- Squadron Leader Raymond Edward Thorold-smith
- Sergeant David Richard Trigg
- Sergeant Donald Ashby Waite
- Sergeant Edward Watling
- Flight Sergeant Clifford James Westcott
- Sergeant Arthur James Heppel Williams
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Miller Williamson
- Sergeant Donald Henry Yorke
1944
- Pilot Officer Mervyn Adder
- Sergeant Norman Sinclair Allan
- Sergeant John Neville Andrew
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Heriot Armstrong
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Glen Arthur
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh Asken
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Herbert Ball
- Pilot Officer Lloyd Roger Barker
- Sergeant Reginald Dennis Barlow
- Sergeant Roy Stanley Barratt
- Pilot Officer Archibald Macarthur Barrowman
- Flight Sergeant John Hardie Bell
- Flight Sergeant James Macadam Benzie
- Flying Officer John Raynor Berrington
- Flight Sergeant Eric Alfred Birrell
- Flying Officer Leonard Alvin Bland
- Sergeant John Henry Bone
- Flying Officer Peter Charles Russell Brown
- Sergeant William Bruce
- Sergeant Joseph Bagnall Bull
- Sergeant Robert George Alfred Burt
- Sergeant Frank Thomas Cadge
- Pilot Officer Douglas Alfred Carter
- Sergeant Philip Rodney Cattrall
- Sergeant Harold Edward Chapman
- Pilot Officer Jack Leslie Childs
- Sergeant Gerard Clark
- Flying Officer Leslie Francis Clarke
- Pilot Officer James Clegg
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Arthur Cole
- Flying Officer Kenneth Arthur Cole
- Sergeant George Edward Collins
- Warrant Officer Class II Alexander R. Conte
- Flight Lieutenant James Fraser Craig
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Simon Gustave Crawford
- Flying Officer John Frederick Creba
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Robert Murray Critchley
- Flight Sergeant David Crome
- Sergeant Douglas Cruickshank
- Flying Officer Maurice Ferguson Culling
- Sergeant Edward Andrew Cunningham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Wallace Cunningham
- Pilot Officer James Henry Dempsey
- Sergeant Terence Raymond Dennis
- Flying Officer George Albert Dobson
- Pilot Officer William Lawrence Doran
- Sergeant Maurice Duckworth
- Flying Officer John Duncan
- Pilot Officer Laurie James Dunn
- Flying Officer Kenneth Charles Dyer
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Charles Edwards
- Pilot Officer Douglas Raymond Eley
- Sergeant Robert Elliott
- Sergeant John Frederick Ennis
- Squadron Leader Lloyd Higgs Eno
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Estcourte
- Sergeant Denis Evans
- Sergeant John Oliver Everitt
- Pilot Officer John Bruce Ewen
- Flight Sergeant Derek Ronald James Ewer
- Flight Lieutenant Alwyn Kevin Dudley Fell
- Leading Aircraftman Donald James Folkard
- Warrant Officer Class II Arthur John Dennis Fox
- Flight Sergeant Donald Victor Roy Francis
- Flight Lieutenant Allan Blake Fyfe
- Pilot Officer Bernard Edwin Galbraith
- Flying Officer Gerald Harman Gilbert
- Sergeant Brian Glover
- Sergeant Arthur Frederick Goold
- Flying Officer Jack Howard Grantham
- Sergeant William James Green
- Flying Officer Archibald Edgar Guthrie
- Pilot Officer Peter Hanson Hamby
- Corporal James Harris
- Flight Sergeant Charles Elmer Harvey
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Lyle Heimbecker
- Sergeant Thomas Raymond Hewitt
- Flight Sergeant Henry Oliver Hill
- Flight Sergeant Frank Grafton Hodgkins
- Flight Sergeant George Hudson
- Sergeant Robert Henry Hudson
- Sergeant William Cameron Jack
- Sergeant Ronald Johnson
- Flight Sergeant George Alfred Johnston
- Warrant Officer Ernest Jones
- Sergeant Robert Reginald Kemp
- Warrant Officer Reginald John King
- Pilot Officer Irvine George Klein
- Warrant Officer Henry Krone
- Flying Officer Ronald Sidney Le Good
- Sergeant David John Lewis
- Sergeant Robert Liderth
- Pilot Officer Oswald Adam Linton
- Flying Officer Patrick Arthur Lockton
- Pilot Officer Norman Andrew Lumgair
- Flying Officer James Henry Scott Lyon
- Flight Sergeant John Douglas Lyon
- Sergeant Alexander Frank Mackay
- Flight Sergeant Norman Archibald McAllister
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Edward William McCombie
- Sergeant John McDougal McIntyre
- Pilot Officer James Campbell McLeish
- Pilot Officer John Joseph McNeill
- Sergeant Lawrence Rex Melbourne
- Flight Lieutenant William Alexander Meyer
- Pilot Officer William Victor Moss
- Pilot Officer Duncan John Munro
- Warrant Officer Class I Stanley Mydaski
- Flight Sergeant Jack Reginald Newman
- Flying Officer Ian Hay Nicolson
- Pilot Officer John Norgaard
- Sergeant David Edward Nutter
- Pilot Officer John Frederick O'Dowda
- Pilot Officer Bruce Adam Ogilvie
- Sergeant Eustace Henry Orchard
- Sergeant Dennis David Orme
- Sergeant Laurence William Frederick Overend
- Flight Sergeant Albert John Pack
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Blake Palmer
- Flight Sergeant Stanley John Fielding Palmer
- Pilot Officer George Parker
- Pilot Officer George Edward Parkinson
- Flight Lieutenant Lorne Patterson
- Sergeant Ronald Pead
- Sergeant Leslie Floyd Pepper
- Flight Sergeant Victor Jack Pickford
- Pilot Officer Reginald Charles Pike
- Flight Lieutenant James Cecil Spencer Ponsford
- Sergeant John Reginald Powell
- Sergeant Reginald Bateman Priestley
- Pilot Officer Lawrence John Pugh
- Sergeant William Halkett Ramsay
- Lieutenant Ratcliff
- Sergeant Allan McLean Reid
- Sergeant Hoskin Peter Riddle
- Sergeant John Henry Riddle
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Roberts
- Flying Officer John Roberts
- Sergeant William Bertram Robertson
- Sergeant Reginald George Ryder
- Sergeant Joseph Sagar
- Sergeant Reginald Douglas Samuels
- Warrant Officer Albert Edward Saunders
- Pilot Officer Joseph Hector Gaeten Senecal
- Sergeant Robert John Service
- Warrant Officer Ronald Sharp
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Roy Shaw
- Flying Officer Herbert Keith Sheasby
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Collard Sherwood
- Sergeant Arthur Roy Skelton
- Sergeant Arthur Smith
- Sergeant Douglas William James Smith
- Flight Sergeant Roy Stanley Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald George Spicer
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Vernon Spring
- Flight Lieutenant Bernard John Starie
- Flying Officer Harold Birch Steeves
- Sergeant Kenneth Rowland Sumner
- Flight Sergeant John Albert Taylor
- Flying Officer Rennie Taylor
- Pilot Officer William Taylor
- Flying Officer Leslie Charman Williams Thomas
- Warrant Officer Class II Harold Bruce Thompson
- Sergeant Kenneth Thompson
- Pilot Officer Herbert Frederick Tomalin
- Flight Sergeant Norman Maurice Trimmer
- Flying Officer Gordon Foster Trudgeon
- Pilot Officer Brian Seymour Uppington
- Flight Sergeant John Anthony Vane
- Sergeant Allen Edward Roy Ward
- Sergeant Ronald West
- Squadron Leader Hugh Ferguson Davidson Whitelaw
- Sergeant James Wilby
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Wilkinson
- Sergeant David Roland Williams
- Flight Sergeant James Martin Withers
- Sergeant Frederick Henry Worthington
1945
- Pilot Officer Joseph Jules Rodrigue Arcand
- Flying Officer Leonard Wilson Armstrong
- Flying Officer Joseph Dixon Ball
- Pilot Officer Howard Bruce Boddy
- Flying Officer Stewart Millen Bonter
- Flying Officer Clive Arkoll Boulton
- Pilot Officer Mark Webster Bredin
- Warrant Officer Richard Power Cantwell
- Flying Officer Edmund Bruce Carleton
- Flying Officer Walter Garfield Cunningham
- Flying Officer George Henry Davis
- Flight Sergeant Eric Dwyer
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Gordon Edwards
- Flying Officer Earle Robert Evans
- Pilot Officer Alphonse Marcel Fournier
- Pilot Officer Donald Irwin Galbraith
- Flying Officer Henry Lloyd Garriock
- Flying Officer Donald Curry Graham
- Pilot Officer Gerald Francis Greenlee
- Flight Sergeant Donald Leo Haberthur
- Flight Lieutenant Ross Curtis Hamill
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Roy Haw
- Flight Sergeant David Andrew Holliday
- Pilot Officer Robert Ernest Horne
- Pilot Officer Richard Barron Jones
- Corporal James Gregory Kane
- Pilot Officer Thomas Carle Kossatz
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Norman Laing
- Pilot Officer Darwin Cameron Lawton
- Pilot Officer George Tucker Llewellin
- Flight Sergeant Francis Joseph Marsh
- Warrant Officer Class I Ernest William McCready
- Flying Officer Arthur Bowker Smith McElroy
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Noel McPhee
- Pilot Officer Francis John Miller
- Flying Officer Joseph Lucien Viateur Morin
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond William Newton
- Flight Lieutenant Keith Edwin Parkhurst
- Flight Sergeant John William Paterson
- Pilot Officer Joseph Victor Leopold Andre Patry
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Wallace Preston
- Flying Officer Thomas Clement Reeve
- Pilot Officer Peter Paul Repsys
- Flight Sergeant Edward Gordon Coke Richards
- Flying Officer Graeme Alastair Robinson
- Flying Officer George Henry Small
- Flying Officer Donald George Smith
- Flying Officer William Francis Stafford
- Flying Officer Jack Ormsby Stewart
- Pilot Officer Alexander Sutherland
- Pilot Officer Ivan Francis Tait
- Pilot Officer Robert Taylor
- Flying Officer Raymond Franklin Thompson
- Flight Lieutenant William Murray Tree
- Flying Officer Russell Francis Wallace
- Pilot Officer William George White
- Pilot Officer John Alfred Whitehead
- Sergeant Leo Williams
- Flying Officer Hardy Edward Wort
- Flying Officer James Lenoury Wright