On this day — 16 March
315 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 16 March during the Second World War.
1940
- Wing Commander Richard Graham Blomfield
- Sergeant John William Gillings
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Vincent Morgan
- Leading Aircraftman Eric William Pizzey
- Flying Officer William John Swire-griffiths
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Akers
- Sergeant Richard Lenard Cherrington
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Maurice Dawson
- Sergeant Stanley William Jack English
- Sergeant Charles William Minn
- Sergeant Dennis Charles Murrell
- Squadron Leader William Henry Scott-badcock
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Samuel Elyahu Weiner
1942
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald William Armstrong
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Stanley Baker
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Charles Barrett
- Sergeant Walter Paul Brooks
- Leading Aircraftman Stewart Broome
- Pilot Officer Hugh Card Brown
- Sergeant Andrew McMillan Smith Brownlie
- Flight Sergeant George Buchanan
- Pilot Officer Ion Brancovan Constant
- Sergeant Thomas Edward Coogan
- Sergeant Derek Owen Leach Dold
- Sergeant Allan Stewart Edington
- Flying Officer John William Elliott
- Flying Officer Dennis John Alsen Fletcher
- Sergeant John Forrest
- Leading Aircraftman James Gardner
- Sergeant Henry James Gibbons
- Flight Sergeant Carlton Stokes Goodenough
- Corporal George Grant
- Sergeant Francis James Hiesler
- Sergeant Andre Holmes
- Flying Officer Harold Eric Hunter
- Sergeant Charles Joseph Ingram
- Flight Sergeant Leslie George Jordan
- Pilot Officer George Frederick King
- Sergeant Ronald Wilfred Leach
- Sergeant David Joshua Levy
- Pilot Officer William John Lewis
- Pilot Officer Thomas Orsmond Littlejohn
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Larmour Magee
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Mair
- Leading Aircraftman Paul Anthony McArdle
- Warrant Officer William Smith McNaughton
- Flight Sergeant Paul Herrick Morey
- Flight Sergeant Robert Laird Parker
- Corporal Charles John Morris Peirce
- Sergeant Brian Phillips
- Squadron Leader Norman Stanley Royle
- Flight Sergeant Herbert William Thornley Sloman
- Sergeant Stanley William Steenson
- Sergeant James Alexander Stevenson
- Sergeant William Swordy Taylor
- Pilot Officer John Peile Tolson
- Flying Officer Howard Arthur Tyrrell
- Wing Commander Richard John Wells
- Flight Sergeant Lindsay Ross Williams
1943
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Bromley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Ernest Chambers
- Warrant Officer Class II Walter Leon Dion
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry John George Ellis
- Flying Officer Alfred Ronald Heins
- Pilot Officer Peter John Dickson McGeehan
- Flying Officer Reginald Charles Morris
- Warrant Officer Class I Ronald Arthur Seaker
- Corporal Darcy Arthur John Sharland
- Sergeant Andrew Hamilton McGhee Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Harold Spicer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Prideaux Spry
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Allan Switzer
- Pilot Officer Francis Leslie Varney
- Lieutenant Colonel Whitaker
- Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Gordon Williams
1944
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Tudor Addicott
- Sergeant Alfred William Aiston
- Sergeant Sydney John Arnold
- Flight Lieutenant Denys Alban Ashton
- Pilot Officer Samuel Cunningham Atcheson
- Flying Officer Charles Ernest Austin
- Sergeant George Bagnall
- Sergeant Charles Henry Baker
- Flight Sergeant William Arthur Ballard
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Arthur Bartley
- Sergeant Henry Alfred Baxter
- Sergeant David Arthur Bean
- Sergeant Ernest Egerton Bebington
- Pilot Officer Harold Copeland Bell
- Sergeant Peter Edwin Bethell
- Sergeant Douglas Brigg Birbeck
- Flight Sergeant Peter Frank Bishop
- Flying Officer Richard Bursleigh Black
- Sergeant John Samuel Boyce
- Flight Sergeant William Edmund Briggs
- Pilot Officer John Philip Brooks
- Flight Lieutenant George Dunlop Brown
- Pilot Officer John Percy Bulger
- Sergeant Joseph William Samuel Burden
- Flying Officer Douglas Hector Calder
- Leading Aircraftman John Campbell
- Sergeant Nicholas Jackson Capstick
- Sergeant Joseph Louis Phillipee Denis Carrier
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Wiliam Carter
- Sergeant Peter Cassell
- Warrant Officer Class II Charles Warden Ernest Chabot
- Flight Sergeant David John Chandler
- Flying Officer Oswald Kenneth Chrimes
- Sergeant Richard Clegg
- Sergeant James Arthur Coates
- Flying Officer Alexander Colborne Colville
- Sergeant Gilbert Cosgrove
- Sergeant Joseph Jacques Omer Cournoyer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Ernest Charles Courtney
- Flight Sergeant William Cowern
- Sergeant Arthur Cross
- Sergeant John Douglas Dadswell
- Sergeant Dennis Vivian Davies
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Dawson
- Warrant Officer Class I Deetlefs
- Warrant Officer Vivian Dickson
- Pilot Officer Francis Roger Dionne
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Drummond
- Sergeant William Parker Dunbar
- Sergeant Richard John Harry Easter
- Sergeant Raymond Eddison
- Sergeant Harold Ellison
- Pilot Officer Clarence Irving Elsley
- Sergeant Victor Favager
- Sergeant Richard James Fettis
- Flight Sergeant James Wharton Severn Fisher
- Flight Sergeant John Gordon Flockhart
- Sergeant Thomas Austin Fox
- Warrant Officer Class II Alexander McCowan Freeman
- Sergeant George Henry Freeman
- Sergeant Peter James Gallacher
- Sergeant David Gibson
- Pilot Officer Derrick John Gigger
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Gittins
- Flight Sergeant Roland Golding
- Flying Officer Ronald Frederick Gore
- Corporal Maurice Tildsley Gornall
- Pilot Officer William Alexander Graham
- Flight Sergeant Jack Greenhalgh
- Flying Officer Donald Reginald Hale
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Hall
- Pilot Officer Albert Ernest Hammond
- Sergeant William Alfred Hammond
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Ernest Harding
- Sergeant William Edgar Hardy
- Sergeant William Frederick Hearn
- Sergeant William Norman Hedges
- Pilot Officer Wilbert Henry Oliver Heidman
- Sergeant Dennis Hewitt
- Flight Sergeant Harry Walter Hill
- Flight Sergeant Frank James Hobbs
- Flight Sergeant Charles Richard Carlton Hoddinott
- Pilot Officer Arthur Coles Kitchener Hodson
- Sergeant Ronald Hoole
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Samuel Humphreys
- Flight Sergeant John Peter Hutcheson
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Ivey
- Flight Sergeant Donald Herbert Jackson
- Sergeant Harold Jackson
- Flying Officer Robert Harold Jackson
- Sergeant James Gilroy Baty Jameson
- Sergeant Stanley Hugh Jenkins
- Pilot Officer Allan Jones
- Flying Officer Robert Roy Jones
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Jones
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Jory
- Sergeant Michael Yorke Zisslin Kalms
- Flight Sergeant Donald Joseph Kilner
- Warrant Officer Donald Russell Knowles
- Flying Officer John Joseph Knowles
- Sergeant John Archibald Lang
- Pilot Officer Lyle Anzac Lawson
- Flight Sergeant Philip Walters Leach
- Sergeant Ernest Roy Lee
- Leading Aircraftman George Audenby Lee
- Flight Sergeant Walter Lee
- Pilot Officer Frederick William Lerl
- Flight Sergeant Robert Thomas Lightbody
- Corporal John Walter Lock
- Flying Officer Eric Francis Marler
- Sergeant George Percival Marley
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Stuart Martin
- Pilot Officer Ivan William Martin
- Pilot Officer Antony Patrick McCall
- Flight Sergeant Terence Conlon McEneaney
- Sergeant Robert Findlay McNeill
- Sergeant Stuart John Mead
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Angus Menelaws
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Jeffrey Mole
- Sergeant Basil Yates Morley
- Sergeant James Butler Morton
- Sergeant David McArthur Munro
- Sergeant James Willie Naylor
- Warrant Officer Class I Alphonse Jean Paul Normandeau
- Pupil Pilot William J. Otty
- Sergeant James Henry Overholt
- Sergeant Thomas Yeandle Owen
- Sergeant Kenneth Edwin Peake
- Flight Sergeant Romeo Arthur Pelletier
- Flying Officer Kaiho Thomas Penkuri
- Sergeant Allan Peterken
- Flight Sergeant Ernest John Philipson
- Flight Sergeant George Frederick Pridham
- Sergeant John Raymond Quicke
- Sergeant Leslie Charles Miles Race
- Flying Officer Henry Calvin Chambers Read
- Flight Sergeant Keith George Redford
- Sergeant Anthony George Redman
- Flying Officer William Van Fossen Reid
- Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie
- Sergeant Thomas James Robinson
- Sergeant William Charles Walter Robson
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Rodbourn
- Pilot Officer James Menzies Rodger
- Sergeant Anthony William Herbert Rowley
- Sergeant Paul Henry Salisbury
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Frederick Saunders
- Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd George Scott
- Sergeant Edward Shatz
- Flying Officer Moody Albert Siddons
- Pilot Officer Arthur Gerald Sylvain Simard
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter John Skelton
- Flying Officer Donald Leonard Smith
- Sergeant Francis Ernest Albert Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Grant Statham
- Flight Sergeant George Ronald Stewart
- Pilot Officer William Fraser Sutherland
- Flight Sergeant Templer
- Sergeant Brian Henry Maude Thomas
- Flying Officer Eric Leonard Truscott
- Lieutenant Ueckermann
- Leading Aircraftman James Lindsay Viggers
- Flying Officer Robert Albin Walld
- Sergeant Sydney Wasson
- Pilot Officer Thomas William Waugh
- Sergeant Frank Slater Weaver
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Weller
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Arthur Werrett
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Walter Wildfong
- Sergeant Albert Henry Wilkinson
- Sergeant John Grenfell Wise
- Flying Officer James Stuart Wright
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Alvin Wry
- Pilot Officer Lorne Edgar Yeo
- Flying Officer Henry Kenneth Young
1945
- Flight Sergeant Vincent James Arnold
- Flight Sergeant Gerard Sydney Barbeler
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Franklin Lindsay Barber
- Pilot Officer Malcolm Melly Barker
- Flight Sergeant Lyle Eugene Bedell
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth William Binder
- Sergeant Asrielis Blumbergas
- Flying Officer Angus Edward Brechin
- Flying Officer Kenneth Stickney Brenton
- Flight Lieutenant Edward George Brown
- Pilot Officer Walter Gordon Brown
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Earl Connors
- Flying Officer Roger Leon Corcoran
- Flying Officer George Alfred Osborn Dauphinee
- Flight Lieutenant Keith William Daymond
- Squadron Leader Philip Alexander Dey
- Flying Officer Ronald Kingston Dorrington
- Flying Officer Ian Lindsay Felgate
- Flight Lieutenant John Mackintosh Fowlie
- Sergeant Douglas Charles Andrew Gillespie
- Flight Sergeant James Graham
- Flight Sergeant John Howard James Grahame
- Flight Lieutenant Henryk Boleslaw Grynkiewicz
- Flying Officer Vernon James Hedley
- Flying Officer Hugh Richard John Hennessey
- Lieutenant Hill
- Warrant Officer James Hyde
- Flight Sergeant Colin Howe Irving
- Flight Sergeant William Harvey Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Henry Jones
- Flight Sergeant Milton Keith Jurd
- Sergeant Gwilym John Arthur Kenvin
- Flying Officer Bertram Clarence Kerr
- Pilot Officer Stuart Lindsay Lloyd
- Flying Officer Richard Hartley Long
- Flying Officer Keith Wearing Mabee
- Pilot Officer William John Malyon
- Warrant Officer William Arthur Neill
- Flight Sergeant Richard Joseph O'Reilly
- Pilot Officer Charles William Parrish
- Flight Sergeant Morgan James Parry
- Flying Officer James Charles Pearson
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Arthur Peatfield
- Flight Sergeant James William Prouse
- Pilot Officer Leslie Elmer Rae
- Flight Sergeant Robert Craven Rhodes
- Flying Officer Patrick Morley Rolls
- Flight Lieutenant Hartley Derek Roper
- Warrant Officer Peter Thomas Maurice Stevens
- Corporal Norman John Sutherland
- Flight Sergeant Cecil James Tarrant
- Flight Sergeant John William Teague
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Newby Tonge
- Flying Officer William Richard Vale
- Pilot Officer Clifford Howard Vickery
- Flight Sergeant Carl Heinrich Weicker
1946
- Warrant Officer Donald William Beattie
- Flight Sergeant William Luther Clements
- Flying Officer Edmund Murray Hugh Knyvett
- Sergeant Donald Lewis Mills
- Leading Aircraftman William Ogilvie
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Bevan Wilson