On this day — 27 March
275 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 27 March during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Peter Darrell Walter Brierley
- Corporal George Edward Catmore
- Pilot Officer John Eric George Fennell
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Visger Halliday
- Flying Officer Ewen Campbell Lilburn
- Flight Sergeant David William Gibb Nichols
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Brian Roberts
- Sergeant George Herbert Stiles
1941
- Pilot Officer Alexander David Angus
- Sergeant Douglas McLeod Barclay
- Sergeant Victor Marcel Bidlake
- Sergeant John Henry Case
- Sergeant Terence Patrick O'Kelly Thomas Coady
- Pilot Officer Henry John Craig
- Pilot Officer Michael Rossiter Cotton Dyer
- Pilot Officer John Miles Fothergill
- Sergeant Charles Henry Dennis Frost
- Sergeant Cyril Arthur Carew Goad
- Leading Aircraftman Charles James Gough
- Sergeant Ernest Alfred Francis Grunsell
- Sergeant Frank Albert Lancelot Hankins
- Pilot Officer Colin Logan
- Sergeant Philippe Maurice Aubril Macsherry
- Sergeant Frederick George Manning
- Sergeant Alan Kingsley Mills
- Sergeant Jack Mitchell
- Sergeant Peter Ralph Parker
- Pilot Officer Robert Norman Philpott
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Frank Seager
- Pilot Officer Percival Martin Sloan
- Pilot Officer Robert Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Willard Tourtillotte
- Sergeant Walter Wilson
1942
- Pilot Officer Harold John Appel
- Sergeant Edgar Albert Bailey
- Sergeant Robert Noel Beale
- Pilot Officer Gordon Findlay Beaver
- Sergeant Samuel Frederick Bentley
- Sergeant Herman Albert Benjamin Bird
- Flying Officer William Desmond Stuart Bow
- Flying Officer Henry Paul Brancker
- Sergeant William Brand
- Sergeant Clifford Brown
- Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Roy Densham
- Flight Sergeant John William Dickson
- Pilot Officer Henry Kelso Dryden
- Flight Sergeant Charles Douglas Dunn
- Sergeant Theodore Edward Dutton
- Sergeant Henry Percival John Edwards
- Sergeant William Charles Evans
- Pilot Officer Robert William Franklin
- Pilot Officer William Macmillan Fraser
- Sergeant Alan Richard Frazer
- Corporal Walter Henry Gilbert
- Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Gray
- Squadron Leader Bruce Alexander Hanbury
- Air Mechanic Vivian John Hay
- Sergeant Robert Frederick Howell
- Warrant Officer Class II Alger Jenkins
- Wing Commander John Fraser Grant Jenkins
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Adrian Kimpton
- Sergeant Robert Fowlow King
- Sergeant Walter Edward Lucan
- Flight Sergeant George Percy McLean
- Pilot Officer Vladimir Michalek
- Sergeant Leonard Kitchener Newman
- Pilot Officer Ronald Kevin Critchley O'Connor
- Sergeant Edward Murray Oldham
- Sergeant Emrys Owen
- Flying Officer John Wheatley Goldsmith Potter
- Pilot Officer Cecil Rainsford Shepherd
- Pilot Officer Douglas Murray Stein
- Leading Aircraftman Adrian Henry Styles
- Pilot Officer Philip Marcus Sweet
- Sergeant Harry Taylor
- Pilot Officer Henry Taylor
- Flight Sergeant John Thompson
- Sergeant Alan Copland Thomson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie James Tindall
- Sergeant Harold Malcolm Tookey
- Sergeant Arthur Frederick Trawford
- Sergeant James Herbert Watkinson
- Pilot Officer Stanley Widdup
- Sergeant George Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Vivian Jones Williams
- Sergeant George Robert Wood
- Sergeant Douglas Arthur Young
- Sergeant James Henry Young
1943
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Adams
- Sergeant Robert Anderson
- Flying Officer Alexander Kenn Arnold
- Sergeant John Atherton
- Corporal Ronald Atkinson
- Pilot Officer John Auld
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas William Beckley
- Sergeant William Bell
- Pilot Officer David Andrew Blackley
- Pilot Officer Thomas Henry Brown
- Sergeant Gordon Ronald Campbell
- Pilot Officer Edward Challis
- Leading Aircraftman John Edward Chinner
- Sergeant Robert William Tylden Chisholm
- Flight Sergeant Horace Herbert Clements
- Sergeant Robert Longster Cole
- Sergeant Gordon Alfred Cullener
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Thomas Dinnage
- Warrant Officer Class II Benjamin Victor Lloyd Ducker
- Sergeant George Charles Dynes
- Flight Lieutenant George Hadley Templeton Eades
- Sergeant Patrick John Edwards
- Flying Officer Harl J. Espy
- Leading Aircraftman Kevin Francis Flanagan
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Paton Eric Fly
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Joseph Gardner
- Sergeant Eric Greenhalgh
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Grieve
- Warrant Officer Class II Fred Winslow Guild
- Sergeant Joseph Hammond
- Flight Sergeant Edward Charles Hibburt
- Flight Lieutenant Allen Myrick Hill
- Lieutenant Hilligan
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Thomas Hillman
- Sergeant Frederick Stanley Hilt
- Warrant Officer Class II Richard Wilfred Gerald Hogan
- Flight Sergeant Albert Joseph Horwood
- Leading Aircraftman Guy Weldon Inman
- Sergeant Donald Jackson
- Sergeant Max Ivernia Thomas Jarvis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Vivian John Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Terence Joseph Kelly
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Thomas Lee
- Sergeant Roger Leonard
- Pilot Officer Martin Lord
- Sergeant Robert Handley Maxwell Macfadzean
- Sergeant Alexander Mackenzie
- Warrant Officer Class I John Douglas Macnearney
- Sergeant Colin Cameron Martin
- Sergeant Reginald George Martin
- Sergeant Robert McKerrell
- Sergeant George Edward Moore
- Sergeant Lyle Carter Morgan
- Sergeant Leonard Nash
- Flying Officer James Hubert Naylor
- Warrant Officer Class II Jack McArthur Newton
- Sergeant Jack Russell Oliver
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Edward Owen
- Flight Sergeant Richard Henry Parker
- Corporal Stanley Muirson Parks
- Sergeant Charles Arthur Partridge
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Owen Paton
- Sergeant Charles Pattison
- Sergeant William Henry Penrose
- Sergeant Crawford Kier Phin
- Sergeant Stanley Poole
- Flying Officer Charles Edward Porter
- Sergeant John Shields Priestley
- Pilot Officer Frank Prosperine
- Sergeant Donald James Rae
- Sergeant Arthur Richards
- Sergeant Ronald James Roberts
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Michael Rogal
- Pilot Officer John Cameron Sails
- Sergeant Louis William John Schultz
- Lieutenant Shepheard
- Flight Sergeant John Goodwillie Shepherd
- Sergeant George McCurrach Sheridan
- Sergeant Frederick Simpson
- Sergeant Albert Arthur Skelly
- Sergeant Reginald Charles Smith
- Flying Officer Hugh Douglas Steeves
- Sergeant William Stevenson
- Pilot Officer Alfred Tatlock
- Flying Officer Ronald Frank Thain
- Sergeant Ronald Albert Henry Thomas
- Sergeant Urien Thomas
- Sergeant Frederick James Walder
- Pilot Officer Reginald John Wallis
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Frederick Waters
- Corporal Thomas Keith McDowell Watt
- Pilot Officer William Kenneth McFarlane Weir
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Wellington
- Sergeant Douglas George White
- Leading Aircraftman William Aspinall White
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel Ivan Wiles
- Sergeant George Wilson
- Sergeant Stanley Alfred Woodrow
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Wright
- Sergeant George Harold Yeates
- Sergeant Norman Young
1944
- Sergeant Thomas Arnold
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Boyden
- Flying Officer Arthur Calvert
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Arthur Chapman
- Pilot Officer John Clark
- Flight Sergeant Albert Clarke
- Sergeant Dennis Owen Cottrell
- Flying Officer Russell Murray Coutts
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Charles Crisp
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Henry Dorn
- Leading Aircraftman George Alfred Doughty
- Flight Sergeant Eric Kenneth Ferguson
- Sergeant Alfred William Gowland
- Sergeant Warrington Harris
- Leading Aircraftman Brian Reginald Harrison
- Flying Officer Frank Henderson
- Sergeant James Hendry
- Flying Officer John Jacklin
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin Walter King
- Pilot Officer William Linton Hannah Bain Landies
- Sergeant Ivor Eugene Laughlin
- Flight Lieutenant William John Newton Lee
- Flight Sergeant Victor Kingsbury Lewis
- Sergeant Thomas Longstaff
- Flight Sergeant Frank Lovatt
- Pilot Officer Albert Jack Lusted
- Flying Officer Walter Bertram Mathias
- Sergeant Daniel McInnes
- Sergeant John Joseph McInroy
- Flight Sergeant Eric McLoughlin
- Pilot Officer Charles Lennox Oneil
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Jean Eugene Guy Parant
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick James Perry
- Flight Sergeant Victor Leonard Perry
- Flying Officer Francis Arthur Pfeffer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Keith Wyatt Pilbrow
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Harold Reed
- Lieutenant Richardson
- Sergeant Eric Wickens Roberts
- Flight Sergeant George William Roberts
- Flight Sergeant David Shirley Sabine
- Sergeant Geoffrey Scholefield
- Flight Lieutenant Louis Cecil Shannon
- Pilot Officer Ronald Alfred Simmons
- Pilot Officer Basil Skeen
- Sergeant William James Reuben Smith
- Sergeant Albert John Spinks
- Sergeant Richard Henry Sproge
- Sergeant Henry Thomas Tullett
- Sergeant Dennis Daniel Twomey
- Flying Officer George Alfred Waddell
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Ernest Walker
- Pilot Officer Cyril Alfred Weeks
- Flight Sergeant Henry Oswald Westmorland
- Leading Aircraftman Derek Goldsworthy Wicks
- Flight Sergeant Maldwyn David Howell Williams
- Flying Officer Jack Woodall
- Flight Sergeant Lionel Valentine Woodfield
- Flight Lieutenant John Courtenay Yorke
1945
- Flying Officer Robert Samuel Bellis
- Wing Commander William Hugh Biddell
- Flight Lieutenant David Buchanan
- Flying Officer Ross Hugh Cameron
- Flight Sergeant John Chalmers
- Pilot Officer James Stewart Davison
- Air Marshal Sir Peter Roy Maxwell Drummond
- Flying Officer William Edmondson
- Flying Officer Maurice George Gant
- Flying Officer Gordon David Hudson
- Flying Officer Thomas McLaren Lincoln
- Flying Officer Frederick John Manning
- Corporal Leonard McKeon
- Flight Sergeant Seaton George Redknap
- Sergeant William Rodgers
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth George Shea
- Flying Officer John Christie Simpson
- Pilot Officer Douglas James Spence
- Sergeant Albert Henry Stinson
- Flying Officer George Allan Sullivan
- Flight Sergeant Frank Raven Young
- Pilot Officer John James Yule
1946
- Leading Aircraftman George Wilson Holmes
- Corporal Neil Alva Edison McInnis
- Flight Lieutenant John Walter Tinkler