On this day — 17 March
160 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 March during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Peter Aubrey Forrester Addie
- Flying Officer Vivian Howard Ayres
- Sergeant George Albert Rowling
- Leading Aircraftman Allan Vincent Wallace
1941
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Austin
- Sergeant Frank Joseph Berry
- Pilot Officer Jack Raymond Cresswell
- Sergeant Roy Henry Mark Crook
- Sergeant George Clarence Curle
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Joseph Gawne
- Sergeant Bernard Charles Gilmore
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Royston Ernest Hill
- Leading Aircraftman Horace William Lewis Holder
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Bertram Hunt
- Leading Aircraftman Haydn Clarke Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Kenyon
- Sergeant William Rex Loxton
- Leading Aircraftman Gregory William Lygo
- Flying Officer Basil George Mace
- Sergeant John George Seymour Simmons
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Terrence Frederick George Turness
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Ronald Wardell
- Sergeant John Sinclair Wrightson
1942
- Sergeant George Arthur Allen
- Corporal Basil Binoth
- Sergeant Henry Blackett
- Pilot Officer John Hosken Braybrooks
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Brooker
- Sergeant Peter George Cannell
- Sergeant Christopher Carling
- Pilot Officer Floyd Bryson Cobb
- Pilot Officer Derek Alfred Cook
- Flight Sergeant Ian Maxwell Cormack
- Flight Sergeant Jack Robert Dickerson
- Sergeant Dennis George Albert Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Horace Fearney
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander Macgregor Foster
- Sergeant William Bernard Turley Godly
- Sergeant Robert James Good
- Sergeant Arnold James Birrell Humphries
- Flight Sergeant Louis Joseph Krapek
- Flight Sergeant William Opsal Krueger
- Flight Sergeant Richard George Sheridan Linley
- Pilot Officer David Edward Lloyd
- Pilot Officer Robert Emmett Manders
- Sergeant Alexander Jack Marshall
- Flying Officer Maurice Joseph Martel
- Sergeant Francis Hugh McMullin
- Leading Aircraftman William David Nesbitt
- Flying Officer Tom Nicholson
- Leading Aircraftman Lewis Conway Rosenberg
- Flight Sergeant James Vincent Routledge
- Sergeant Thomas Giles Smail
- Sergeant Wilmot Winslow Smith
- Sergeant William Archibald Walker
- Sergeant John Stanley Windmill
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Albert John Betts
- Corporal Bertram Clifford Broadbent
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Bond Douthwaite
- Sergeant Frederick Hugh Elder
- Warrant Officer Bernard Denis Llewellyn Gillman
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Hale
- Sergeant Ladislav Kocourek
- Sergeant John Harvison Manuel
- Sergeant Paul Chandler Mercer
- Sergeant Lancelot Hood Schultz
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Edward Sivier
- Sergeant Willie Ackroyd Wainwright
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Edward Winterton
1944
- Leading Aircraftman John William Bainbridge
- Flight Sergeant Ernest William Baldwin
- Sergeant Ronald Osborne Barrs
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Guy Biggs
- Flight Lieutenant Dennis Arthur Bourne
- Flying Officer Archibald Douglas Buchanan
- Flying Officer Vernon Bartlett Groves Butler
- Flight Sergeant Peter John Calder
- Flight Lieutenant David Mark Campbell
- Flying Officer Edwin Claude Colcomb
- Flight Sergeant Terence Patrick Collins
- Flying Officer William James Coulter
- Leading Aircraftman Sydney James Crew
- Sergeant John Harry Davis
- Pilot Officer Roy Dennis
- Leading Aircraftman Malachy Digby
- Flight Lieutenant Kevin Sean Dodrill
- Sergeant Thomas John Greenhill
- Flying Officer Donald Maldwyn Griffiths
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Griffiths
- Flight Sergeant Roy Alexander Hodge
- Aircraftman 1st Class Phillip Hunt
- Corporal Louis Edward Lane
- Corporal Kitchener Walter Littleboy
- Flight Sergeant William Archibald Lynn
- Sergeant Thomas George Mackenzie
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Yule McKenzie
- Pilot Officer John Benedict Murphy
- Sergeant Douglas Oliver
- Squadron Leader Edward Tudor Owen
- Corporal Joseph Herbert Parish
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Gibson Peers
- Squadron Leader John Luce Ramson
- Flying Officer Frederick John Reid
- Pilot Officer Horace James Rich
- Flight Sergeant Donald Stephen Robinson
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred George Salvidge
- Sergeant Ernest Small
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Smallwood
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Augustus Snow
- Flying Officer William Kenneth Thompson
- Sergeant John James Owen Walters
- Flying Officer Kent Morgan Watkins
- Flight Lieutenant John Swithin Wayland
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Walter Wheeler
- Squadron Leader William Michael Whitamore
1945
- Warrant Officer Gilmour Sydney Catford
- Flight Sergeant John Donald Davidson
- Flight Sergeant Mervyn Desmond Sylvester Davis
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Edmond Dotten
- Lieutenant George Dunlop
- Corporal Donald Vernon Elliott
- Warrant Officer Ernest Oliver England
- Flying Officer Thomas Edison Farrow
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Fetherston
- Squadron Leader George Herbert Finch
- Pilot Officer Alan William Garnet
- Pilot Officer James Stanley Marks Gibb
- Warrant Officer Jack Dawson Green
- Flight Sergeant William Keaton Hunter
- Flight Sergeant James Love Isles
- Flying Officer Jack Dennison Johnston
- Pilot Officer Alfred Churchill Lockyer
- Warrant Officer Maxwell Ernest Margules
- Flight Lieutenant Leo McAuliffe
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Wylie McBride
- Flying Officer Ernest Henry McDonald
- Flight Sergeant Harold Mino
- Flying Officer George Moses
- Flying Officer William Frederick (bill) Nicol
- Pilot Officer Rowland Ira Parks
- Pilot Officer Edward James Peverley
- Warrant Officer Harrie Irwin Pinkerton
- Flying Officer Donald Swallow Quinn
- Flight Sergeant William Cyril Jeffrey Reynolds
- Flight Sergeant Eric Alexander Roy
- Flight Sergeant John Francis Ryan
- Flight Sergeant Harold James Salter
- Flight Sergeant Roland James Saundercook
- Warrant Officer Cecil Howard Slight
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Lloyd Stepharnoff
- Flight Sergeant Morgan Swap
- Flying Officer Edwin William Thomas
- Flying Officer Lloyd Tilley
- Flight Lieutenant Alastair Clarence Watt
- Pilot Officer Albert Edward Wotherspoon
- Flying Officer Gordon Cameron Yorkston