On this day — 20 March
177 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 20 March during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer Royston Henry Bullard-davies
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Gordon Doughty
- Aircraftman 1st Class Desmond Hugh Lynch
- Cadet Allan John Macpherson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon Moore
- Pilot Officer William Creighton Scott
- Sergeant Alan Henry Woodward
1941
- Sergeant Singleton Wilson Adair
- Sergeant Arthur Jeffrey Anthony
- Flying Officer Frank Mellard Boycott
- Sergeant Douglas Frank Cade
- Sergeant John Alfred Entwistle
- Pilot Officer Richard James Fuller
- Sergeant Cecil Henry Funnell
- Sergeant Frank Leslie Holyoake
- Sergeant John Henderson Kelly
- Sergeant Eric George Mason
- Leading Aircraftman William Strongren Murray
- Sergeant George William Reginald Nesbitt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Richard William Shimes
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Arthur Smith
- Pilot Officer Samuel Anthony Taylor
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest William Ward
- Pilot Officer Maurice Kingsley Warren
- Pilot Officer Richard Charles Webb
- Sergeant Graham Robert Wilson
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Allen
- Pilot Officer Paul Leedham Bantock
- Sergeant Victor Baxter
- Leading Aircraftman George William Bond
- Pilot Officer James Carey Boyers
- Sergeant Norman Arthur Branchflower
- Sergeant Walter Bramley Cattrall
- Warrant Officer Neale Eustace Evans
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Albert Gardiner
- Second Lieutenant Charles Henry Gielink
- Sergeant Gerald Clifford Hunkin
- Air Sergeant Edward Jardine
- Sergeant Eric William Jordan
- Sergeant Oswald Herbert Leggett
- Pilot Officer Douglas Cecil Leggo
- Sergeant Ronald Leyland
- Pilot Officer Gerald Edward Robert Lock
- Sergeant Walter John Macmichael
- Sergeant Ronald Herbert Marsh
- Sergeant Peto Munyard
- Pilot Officer Francis Newton Pope
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Windsor Jenkins Rees
- Sergeant Malcolm Jack Ritchie
- Sergeant Robert James Scarff
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Charles Sherrin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon Fozard Siddron
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Smith
- Pilot Officer Tom Thornley Braithwaite Stoker
- Sergeant Allan Dussard Walker
- Flying Officer George Eric Walker
- Flying Officer John Lewis Ward
- Sergeant Edward Francis Welfare
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Williams
- Sergeant William (billy) Wilson
- Sergeant Arthur James Woolsey
1943
- Flying Officer Lorne Oliver Armstrong
- Sergeant James Fortune Bain
- Sergeant Richard William Brodie
- Lieutenant Chaplin
- Flight Sergeant Harold Clark
- Flying Officer Gordon Sampson Clear
- Sergeant Frank Ronald Conway
- Flight Sergeant Leonard John Coppins
- Lieutenant Davies
- Sergeant Hugo Henry Dotzenroth
- Aircraftman 1st Class Victor Drinnan
- Sergeant George Fisher
- Flight Sergeant William Dennis Keith Forbes
- Flight Sergeant Colin Alexander James Gordon
- Pilot Officer Derek Stephen Hall
- Sergeant Ivan Henry Hazard
- Sergeant Leslie Frederick Hills
- Sergeant Henry Thomas Holley
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Edward Hughes
- Sergeant Terence Jenkins
- Flying Officer Leonard John Johnson
- Sergeant Reginald Herbert Lawrence
- Flying Officer William John Locke
- Corporal Fred William Long
- Flight Sergeant John Lyon
- Sergeant James Maccormack
- Lieutenant McCartney
- Pilot Officer John Newton Miller
- Flying Officer William Corfield Morris
- Sergeant William Patrick Morton
- Flight Sergeant Roy John Moss
- Flight Sergeant Orlek
- Sergeant Harry Alfred Rideout
- Sergeant Kenneth Roberts
- Sergeant John Ernest Rouse
- Sergeant Percy Robert Rutter
- Lieutenant Sale
- Leading Aircraftman John Gordon Stoneham
- Flying Officer Raymond Henry Thompson
- Sergeant Frederick John Trusler
- Leading Aircraftman Wilfred Frank Wallis
- Flight Sergeant Leonard David Watson
- Flight Lieutenant Michael Myers Wayman
- Sergeant Lawrence Edward Victor Webb
- Flying Officer Albert Edward Wheeler
- Sergeant Douglas Williams
- Pilot Officer William Ernest Williams
1944
- Second Lieutenant Ronald Stanley Austin
- Flight Sergeant Jack Hume Bird
- Sergeant Kenneth John Brettell
- Warrant Officer John Haig Broad
- Flying Officer Norman Brockhouse
- Flying Officer Ronald Frank Calnan
- Squadron Leader Oswald Terence Cantor
- Warrant Officer Ronald Herbert Cook
- Flying Officer Alexander Valentine Cormack
- Flying Officer Neil Watson Crabtree
- Flying Officer Douglas Vernon Dalton
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Frank Dunn
- Flying Officer Charles Richard (dick) Floyd
- Sergeant Thomas Bernard Forestell
- Flying Officer Melville Lloyd Fullerton
- Squadron Leader James Joseph Henry
- Pilot Officer John Lutterell Hutchison
- Flying Officer Daniel Louis Jacobs
- Sergeant Henry Edward Jeffery
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Bruce Jenkins
- Sergeant Lorne Herbert Johnston
- Sergeant George Kenneth Jones
- Squadron Leader Francis Larman
- Flight Sergeant William Joseph Leahy
- Flying Officer David Wright Lindsey
- Pilot Officer Ralph Northcliffe Macgillivray
- Leading Aircraftman Ellerton Richard Maggs
- Sergeant John Charles McCartney
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Mercer
- Pilot Officer Harry Charles Millen
- Flying Officer William James Mohring
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Chenoworth Moxon
- Pilot Officer William Maxwell Mulholland
- Warrant Officer Jack Donald Murphy
- Sergeant Jeremiah O'Brien
- Pilot Officer Charles Lawrence Panton
- Flight Sergeant Vivian Harold Pearsall
- Sergeant James Leonard Peck
- Warrant Officer Class II Martin Harvey Penhale
- Leading Aircraftman William Thomas Perry
- Corporal James Ronaldson
- Squadron Leader Douglas Julian Sale
- Sergeant Kenneth Montague Snelling
- Flight Sergeant Allan John Pearson Souter
- Warrant Officer James Charles Stanton
- Flight Sergeant William Frank Stockwell
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Stuart Thomson
- Warrant Officer Class II Harvey Thornton
- Leading Aircraftman John Royal Twyford
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Albert Waring
- Lieutenant Alan Wilson-thompson
- Sergeant Walter William Younger
1945
- Flying Officer Lindsay Page Bacon
- Warrant Officer Class I Andrew Paul Bell
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Stafford Benedict Bracey
- Flying Officer Charles Alan Cobern
- Warrant Officer Robert Courtney
- Captain Dickson
- Flying Officer Laurence William Marshall
- Corporal William Crawford Cunningham McLarty
- Flight Lieutenant Shirley William Morris
- Flying Officer Archibald Pollock Smith
- Warrant Officer Philip Athol Tennant
- Leading Aircraftman Edgar Umpleby
- Warrant Officer Donald Trevor Wrightson