On this day — 15 April
346 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 15 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant James Atkinson
- Sergeant Leslie Bancroft
- Pilot Officer Anthony Bryan-smith
- Sergeant Ernest Reginald Clarke
- Leading Aircraftman John Hendrie Edwards
- Sergeant Victor Emanuel
- Sergeant Ronald Etheridge
- Flying Officer Arthur Raymond Fordham
- Pilot Officer Peter De Galleani Fry
- Sergeant Thomas Gosling
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter Gladstone Graham
- Sergeant Gerald Greenwood
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Henry Mercer
- Sergeant John Miskelly
- Flight Lieutenant Mervyn Lascelles Morris
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Murcar
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eldred George Newby
- Pilot Officer Laurence George Nolan-neylan
- Sergeant George Cyril Perry
- Leading Aircraftman Edmund William John Picot
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Read
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Edwin Ridgway
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Brougham Summerfield
- Flying Officer Kenneth Richard Hugh Sylvester
- Flying Officer Henry Outram Thwaite
- Flying Officer Charles Francis Lionel Tulloch
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William H. Warrington
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Wells
1941
- Sergeant Leonard Alfred Aylott
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest Stephen Bampton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Charles Paterson Barton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Baxter
- Corporal Beevor
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin George Bezant
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Michael Bowen
- Flight Lieutenant Wilfrid Mark Hamilton Brookes
- Sergeant William Thomas Browne
- Pilot Officer Charles Arthur Copeland Chetham
- Pilot Officer Brian Austin Childs
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Pearsall Clifford-reade
- Pilot Officer Ronald Hector Laurence Cressy
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Doggett
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Eric Evans
- Aircraftman 1st Class Fred Faulding
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Edward Ffitch
- Sergeant Alexander Forsyth
- Sergeant Allan Hugh Lovatt Fraser
- Flight Sergeant John Frodsham
- Sergeant Leonard George Gillam
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Eric Green
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Stephen Green
- Sergeant John Willie Hartop
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Victor Harvey
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Desmond Heron
- Flight Lieutenant Archibald Edmund Hill
- Wing Commander Christopher Grant Hill
- Sergeant Arthur George Humphries
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Graham James
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Jones
- Sergeant Frederick Victor Norman Lown
- Flight Lieutenant John Filton Mackie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald John Mathias
- Sergeant Stewart Coutts McAdam
- Sergeant Peter Blair McLaughlan
- Flight Sergeant Charles Duthrie McPhee
- Sergeant Peter Robert Birch Meynell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Miller
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas William Clive Moss
- Sergeant James Arthur Norris
- Pilot Officer Ian Ormiston
- Sergeant Henry William Patten
- Sergeant Reginald Cyril Payne
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alec Frederick Prior
- Sergeant Wilfred Alan Rooks
- Pilot Officer Alexander Richard Ross
- Sergeant Robert Thomas Selley
- Corporal Frederick Taylor
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Allen Waite
- Sergeant George James William Webb
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Williams
- Pilot Officer Robert John Wyndham Williams
- Sergeant Harold Wood
1942
- Sergeant Alan William Amey
- Pilot Officer Richard George Banks
- Flying Officer Gordon Herbert Batchelor
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Boisvert
- Sergeant Horace Stanley Brown
- Flight Sergeant William Alexander Coulson Browne
- Flight Sergeant John Cormack
- Leading Aircraftman John Connell Cowan
- Sergeant Victor George Deacon
- Pilot Officer Andrew Downie
- Flight Sergeant Billy Orin Gates
- Sergeant Jack Gledhill
- Flight Sergeant Norman Gordon
- Flight Sergeant Francis Eldon Hagel
- Flying Officer James Bruce Halbert
- Sergeant Jean Jaques Gabriel Hall
- Pilot Officer Robert Balfour Halliday
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Edward Hartley
- Sergeant Alan Godfrey Harvey
- Leading Aircraftman Keith William Higgie
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Hocknull
- Pilot Officer Richard Pryce Hughes
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Harold Morton Jacques
- Flight Sergeant Bradley Winship Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Keith Alan Johnson
- Sergeant John Johnstone
- Sergeant Malcolm David Jones
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Marcus Lawrence
- Warrant Officer Class I Howard Pilmore Low
- Sergeant Donald Malcolm Macfarlane
- Sergeant Keith James Horsman Manning
- Pilot Officer Cedric Hall Mardon
- Sergeant Eric Mason
- Flight Sergeant Archibald McClintock
- Sergeant John Charles Donald McHardy
- Flight Lieutenant Denys Edgar Mileham
- Pilot Officer Ronald Loris Nall
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Payne
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Rogers
- Sergeant Joseph Preston Shipton
- Pilot Officer Michael Lemuel Simon
- Warrant Officer Class I Russell Charles Smith
- Flying Officer Eric Neville Somerville
- Sergeant Thomas Strang
- Pilot Officer Edmund Ray Taylor
- Sergeant Norman Leslie Thomas
- Pilot Officer William Stone Tyler
- Air Mechanic Leslie Ronald Verwey
- Sergeant Henry Ernest Vosper
- Sergeant Leslie William Webbe
- Sergeant Peter Fitzpatrick Vane Winkle
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Elmer Yates
1943
- Sergeant James Green Adam
- Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Wallace Bartman
- Warrant Officer Class II Richard Barnett Blake
- Flight Sergeant Michael Albert Edward Bradford
- Flight Sergeant Ansell Edward Britten-jones
- Flight Sergeant Frederick James Britton
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Brown
- Flying Officer Sydney Brown
- Warrant Officer Class II Henry Ellwood Budd
- Sergeant Harold Buxton
- Sergeant John Reginald Gallimore Calvert
- Flight Sergeant Robert Richard Campbell
- Sergeant Joseph Leadbetter Cartmell
- Flying Officer Henry Eifion Clement
- Sergeant Philip Joseph Conwell
- Sergeant Ernest Desmond Cook
- Sergeant John Joseph Courtney
- Sergeant John David Culleton
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard John Davies
- Sergeant Lawrence Denby
- Sergeant Harold Charles Dent
- Flying Officer Joseph Omer Leopold Desroches
- Sergeant Carman Garfield Dixon
- Flying Officer Alexandre Theodore Doucette
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Henry David Druce
- Sergeant Robert Ernest Dutton
- Sergeant Bertram Elwell
- Sergeant David Bertram Everitt
- Sergeant Edward Farnen
- Sergeant Ernest James Field
- Flight Sergeant Theodore Willson Foran
- Pilot Officer Alfred Louis Foster
- Sergeant Ronald Richard Fox
- Sergeant Christopher Blake Freeman
- Sergeant Donald Ernest Funnell
- Sergeant Thomas Galloway
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Henry Godsell
- Sergeant Charles Alfred Good
- Sergeant Stanley Francis Gould
- Pilot Officer James Kennedy Grainger
- Sergeant Reginald Thomas Charles Green
- Sergeant Fred William Griggs
- Sergeant Ervin Earl Grissom
- Sergeant Denis Charles Grocock
- Sergeant Robert Gordon Hamilton
- Sergeant Samuel Hammond
- Sergeant Gordon William Hancock
- Flight Sergeant James Eric George Hancock
- Sergeant Leonard Francis James Harris
- Warrant Officer Class II William Scott Harris
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Hay
- Sergeant Robert Henderson
- Flying Officer Arthur Seymour Herrington
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Hemsley Hewitt
- Flight Sergeant John Gregson Hibbert
- Warrant Officer Class II Walter Marvin Hicks
- Flying Officer Leslie Henry Hodges
- Sergeant Peter Henry Russell Hunt
- Sergeant William Alexander Wilson Hunter
- Flight Sergeant Eric Harold Ingram
- Sergeant Ralph Malcolm Jay
- Sergeant Ralph Vincent Jennings
- Sergeant Albert Jones
- Sergeant Lawrence Jones
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Thomas Knox
- Squadron Leader Jerrard Latimer
- Flying Officer Georges Paul Henri Ledoux
- Sergeant Dennis Lenahan
- Pilot Officer Ian Cumming Mackenzie
- Pilot Officer Matthew Mank
- Sergeant Basil Charles Marling
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis Joseph Mason
- Squadron Leader Raymond William McCarthy
- Pilot Officer Donald Gordon McCaskill
- Sergeant William Thomas McLean
- Sergeant Angus McVicar
- Pilot Officer Edward Miles Merritt
- Sergeant Harry Noar
- Sergeant George William Henry Northover
- Sergeant John Henry Nunn
- Pilot Officer Terik Godfrey Ogle
- Sergeant James Joseph O'Hagan
- Warrant Officer Harold Donald Oke
- Sergeant Aaron Ottolangui
- Sergeant Hugh George Owen
- Sergeant Robert John Palmer
- Flying Officer Sydney Parsons
- Sergeant George Edgar Pascoe
- Sergeant Kenneth Sidney Albert Payne
- Sergeant Douglas Stuart Peters
- Pilot Officer Leslie Powell
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Thomas Matthew Price
- Sergeant Russel Verian Rosser
- Warrant Officer Class II Jean Robert Roy
- Flying Officer Edward Henry Scott
- Sergeant Edwin Arthur Shaw
- Sergeant Thomas Shepherd
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald James Shufflebotham
- Pilot Officer John Alexander Simpson
- Sergeant Ronald Alexander Smith
- Sergeant Peter Donovan Steed
- Flight Sergeant William Stephen
- Warrant Officer Class II Russell Roberts Stover
- Flying Officer Albert Frank Towers
- Sergeant Frank Cecil Townsend
- Warrant Officer Class II Pierre Paul Trudeau
- Sergeant Geoffrey Prescott Tyrer
- Sergeant Victor James Upson
- Flying Officer Lloyd George Vallance
- Sergeant Derek Vollans
- Sergeant Patrick Wadding
- Sergeant Gordon Wade
- Sergeant Archibald Walker
- Leading Aircraftman William Samuel Edward Wallington
- Sergeant Harold Walters
- Flying Officer Kenneth Richmond Waters
- Sergeant Michael Frederick Weir
- Flying Officer Sidney Herbert West
- Flying Officer Ronald Wheatley
- Sergeant Herbert John Kenneth Wheeler
- Sergeant Albert John White
- Pilot Officer Dominic Bernard White
- Sergeant Herbert Wilcock
- Pilot Officer Ronald Edward Wilkes
- Sergeant John William Williams
- Sergeant Frank Wood
- Flight Sergeant Arthur William Cecil Yeates
1944
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Abdul Latif Bin Malin Muda
- Flight Sergeant Harry Sheperdson Ashbolt
- Sergeant John Charles James Bailey
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Oren Baker
- Sergeant Raymond Harry Birch
- Flying Officer Alan Peter Bowman
- Flight Sergeant Robert Phillip Henry Brown
- Warrant Officer Peter Lear Browning
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest James Bull
- Sergeant Albert Edward Cloutier
- Flight Sergeant John Crichton
- Sergeant Aubrey Gerald Crowe
- Sergeant Lloyd John Cull
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Frederick Deadman
- Air Mechanic Etsebeth
- Pilot Officer Reginald Fifoot
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Fitzgerald
- Sergeant Herbert Henry Francis
- Sergeant Kenneth French
- Pilot Officer Joseph Wilson Gibson
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Haworth
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Charles Supple Hayes
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Joseph Hiskins
- Sergeant Kenneth David Holden
- Flying Officer Donaldson Rendal Holloway
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Houston
- Warrant Officer Class I John Huddleston
- Sergeant William Brown Jamieson
- Flying Officer Stewart Walter Jobson
- Air Corporal Louw
- Sergeant Charles Edward Lovett
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Bernard Lucas
- Pilot Officer Ian Alasdair Macdonald
- Pilot Officer Gwilym Deiniol Morris
- Flight Sergeant Homer Leroy Muisiner
- Flight Lieutenant Keith Mellis Napier
- Flying Officer Ronald O'Neill
- Warrant Officer Faulkner Adrian Andrew Ormiston
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Leslie Payne
- Sergeant Michael Casey Pocock
- Sergeant William John Poling
- Sergeant Henry George Coles Powell
- Flying Officer Sidney James Pugh
- Lieutenant Puttock
- Pilot Officer Douglas Glen Reynolds
- Sergeant Kenneth Richardson
- Lieutenant Rogan
- Sergeant Gordon Scully
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Seng
- Lieutenant Shaw
- Flight Sergeant Colin Graham Smith
- Flying Officer James Henry Smith
- Sergeant George Albert Stewart
- Corporal William Edward Summerfield
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Tasker
- Sergeant Ronald Jack Uden
- Flight Lieutenant Denis Jack Unkles
- Flying Officer Gordon Elgin Vance
- Flying Officer Hugh Alexander Wallace
- Pilot Officer Murray Alfred Warwick
- Squadron Leader Thomas George (tommy) Westlake
- Sergeant Alan Whitehead
- Flight Lieutenant Donald William Wickes
- Pilot Officer Michael Wishak
1945
- Warrant Officer Graham Morris Bagshaw
- Sergeant Donald Gerald Boutcher
- Flight Sergeant Edward Arthur Crutchfield
- Flight Lieutenant John Norrie Gordon Dick
- Flying Officer Robert Mould English
- Flight Sergeant Sefton Clyde Joseph Ferrick
- Leading Aircraftman James Gibbons
- Flight Sergeant John William Hamilton
- Flying Officer Arthur Sydney Haynes
- Sergeant William Spencer John Hickmore
- Sergeant Edward Charles Johnson
- Corporal Barry Pugh Jones
- Pilot Officer Henry Andrew (hank) Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Allan McDougall Mortimer
- Flying Officer Royden Leslie Nugent
- Warrant Officer Sidney Robert Paddick
- Leading Aircraftman Keith Gordon Robertson
- Corporal John Francis Roche
- Flying Officer Ernest George Robert Thatcher