On this day — 16 April
230 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 16 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer Patrick Folkes
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Robert Charles Knights
- Sergeant Archibald McPherson
1941
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Lance Congreve
- Sergeant Geoffrey Ernest Cook
- Sergeant Peter James Cross
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Cross
- Leading Aircraftman Richardson Kinnear Davidson
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Ezekiel Dugan
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Colvin George Eden
- Leading Aircraftman John James Golding
- Sergeant William Roy Govett
- Sergeant Norman Frederick Jackson
- Sergeant Wilson Henry Johnson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Arthur Jones
- Sergeant Cyril Walter Kerridge
- Sergeant Gerard Lynch
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leo Carty McFall
- Corporal Kenneth James McVicar
- Sergeant Norman Albert Morant
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Sidney George Nice
- Sergeant John Dennis O'Connell
- Leading Aircraftman Louis Raphael
- Pilot Officer Robert Colebrooke Lewin Reade
- Sergeant Reginald Lee Robinson
- Sergeant Robert Victor Salway
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Christopher Sharkey
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas St. John Shipway-fowler
- Aircraftman 1st Class Anthony Myer Silverman
- Sergeant Victor John Stickland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Thorpe
- Leading Aircraftman Donald James White
1942
- Sergeant Lloyd Livingstone Armour
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Maclear Atkinson
- Sergeant Thomas Hubert Beament
- Sergeant William Allan Beard
- Pilot Officer George Roxberry Bland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Walter Charles Bond
- Sergeant Stanley Briggs
- Sergeant Peter Sydney Brunsdon
- Sergeant Basil Nora N. Burnett
- Warrant Officer William Lucas Constable
- Flight Sergeant Dennis George Stanley Corden
- Sergeant James Richard Waclaw De Rzonca
- Sergeant Alexander Charles Frederick Digby
- Sergeant Oliver Raymond East
- Sergeant Vernon Ernest Egan
- Pilot Officer Alexander Leslie Ellis
- Pilot Officer Max Lightfoot Field
- Flight Sergeant Bricker Wilson Forman
- Pilot Officer Allan George Griffith
- Sergeant Rex Valund Hagborg
- Sergeant Dennis Shapley Hall
- Sergeant Harry Ronald Harvey
- Sergeant Percy Heppenstall
- Sergeant Arthur William Holman
- Sergeant John Howard Hunt
- Sergeant Norman Charles Hutson
- Flight Sergeant Roylance Kinsey
- Sergeant Eric Austin Kirk
- Sergeant Arthur Richard Langston
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Malcolm Leech
- Sergeant John Roderick McRae
- Sergeant David James Meikle
- Flight Sergeant George Nelson Moore
- Sergeant Charles Moynes
- Sergeant James Festubert Nesbitt
- Sergeant Gilbert Victor Phillips
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Edwards Pike
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Power
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Pringle
- Sergeant Graham Donald Randall
- Sergeant Robert Robertson
- Sergeant William Valentine Rogerson
- Lieutenant N. Mac L. Ross
- Pilot Officer Charles Scatchard
- Sergeant Josef Sedlacek
- Pilot Officer Joseph Sheffield
- Pilot Officer Harry Arthur Shortt
- Sergeant John James Smith
- Sergeant Eric George Andrew Stevens
- Sergeant Donald Neale Storer
- Sergeant Geoffrey Malcolm Charles Turner
- Flying Officer George William Ward
- Sergeant Jack Ward
- Sergeant Douglas Wightman
- Sergeant Roy Charles Edgar Willingham
- Pilot Officer Ralph Skelton Woolass
1943
- Pilot Officer Michael Cyriates Anastassiades
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Leonard Andrews
- Sergeant Leslie Judson Ayers
- Flight Sergeant Jacques Gordon Baker
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence William Baldwin
- Warrant Officer Class II Raymond James Barnes
- Flight Lieutenant Cuthbert Roderick Barrett
- Flying Officer Kenneth Alan Barrett
- Pilot Officer Albert Henry Bayliss
- Sergeant Ronald Francis Beaumont
- Flight Sergeant Bertie Joseph August Bessette
- Sergeant William Frederick Biggs
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Bourne
- Sergeant James Boyd
- Flying Officer Edgar Brearley
- Sergeant Roland Brown
- Sergeant Maurice George Wilfred Capon
- Flying Officer Ronald Chandler
- Flying Officer William Kendall Clarke
- Flight Sergeant Grant Depew Cline
- Flight Sergeant Louie Elmo Corley
- Sergeant Boris Frederick Cornhill
- Pilot Officer George Cruickshank
- Sergeant Edward Reginald Davidson
- Sergeant Jim Jack Davis
- Sergeant Sydney Dawson
- Sergeant John Gordon Kennedy Dean
- Pilot Officer Kevin Frederick Debenham
- Flying Officer Herbert Donald Dixon
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Patrick Dowse
- Sergeant George Errington
- Leading Aircraftman John Hugh Evans
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick John Faulkner
- Wing Commander Ian Richard Gleed
- Pilot Officer Hugh Bernard Gonce
- Sergeant John Gould
- Pilot Officer George Griffiths
- Flying Officer John Maude Hadow
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred Hall
- Sergeant Alexander Herd
- Sergeant Donald Mauldon Homer
- Sergeant William Stanley Humphreys
- Sergeant Donald James Arthur Hyde
- Sergeant William Illingworth
- Sergeant Leslie Arthur James
- Sergeant Harold Ernest Jones
- Sergeant Peter John Keay
- Sergeant John Percy Lacy
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Campbell Lamond
- Sergeant Lewis Lewis
- Flying Officer Selwyn Jaques Lupton
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Baird Maclachlan
- Sergeant John Leslie Marlow
- Flying Officer Andrew Wilfred Marsden-levy
- Flight Sergeant John Reid Martyn
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Daniel Mason
- Sergeant John Richard Mason
- Sergeant John Paul Merton
- Flight Sergeant Ian Gordon Miller
- Flight Lieutenant Edward George Mortenson
- Sergeant Murdo McKenzie Muirhead
- Flight Lieutenant Dennis Brent Panting
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Victor Parker
- Sergeant Sydney William Patton
- Flying Officer Douglas Calder Payne
- Sergeant Peter Braithwaite Pearson
- Pilot Officer Clive Bolas Perring
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Mark Piche
- Sergeant Donald Alfred Pitman
- Sergeant Norman Percy Richmond
- Sergeant Harry Dawson Rowe
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Ryder
- Pilot Officer James Lauder Shiells
- Sergeant Vernon Ross Smith
- Flying Officer Nicholas Snowdon
- Leading Aircraftman George William Sutcliffe
- Sergeant Edwin Gordon Thomas
- Pilot Officer Colin Foley Tozer
- Warrant Officer Class II Albert Roy Twiss
- Pupil Pilot J C Van Zyl Van Heerden
- Sergeant David Aubrey Watkins
- Warrant Officer Class II William John Watters
- Sergeant David Michael Turner Watts
- Sergeant Clifford George West
- Sergeant Richard Kitchener White
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick William Wilkins
- Flying Officer Cyril Frederick Williams
- Sergeant George Joseph Wilson
- Sergeant Ronald Woodhall
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Kenneth Young
- Sergeant Joseph William Young
1944
- Sergeant Frank Ashbee
- Sergeant John Stuart Beeley
- Flight Sergeant John Stuart Boden
- Squadron Leader Max Stanley Bott
- Sergeant John Walter Robert Andre Bunyan
- Sergeant Vivian Raymund Chadwick
- Sergeant Donald Joy Corlyon
- Sergeant Robert David Cunningham
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Dear
- Pilot Officer William Watson Downer
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Nerton Emberson
- Lieutenant Geater
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Gissing
- Sergeant George Brian Hall
- Sergeant James Harrison
- Warrant Officer Fred Edmond James
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Sharpe McMullen
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Donald Middleton
- Flight Sergeant Stuart James Walton Poulson
- Sergeant John William Henry Rimmer
- Sergeant Arthur James Robert Strachan
- Warrant Officer Class I Vivian Tedder
- Leading Aircraftman John Turnbull
1945
- Flight Lieutenant Theodore Blanchard Atkinson
- Flying Officer Colin Roy Baker
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Donat Marcel Bedard
- Flying Officer George Ferguson Bidstrup
- Flying Officer Herbert Brown
- Flight Sergeant Colin William Burt
- Leading Aircraftman Regis Fernand Charbonneau
- Flying Officer Douglas James Dickson
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Fernyhough
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert Llewellyn George
- Flight Sergeant Eric Douglas Hitchins
- Pilot Officer Patrick Gordon Thomas Hoolihan
- Flight Lieutenant George Russell Large
- Flying Officer Ross Ashmere Fleming Laurenson
- Flight Sergeant George Thomas Matthews
- Flying Officer Jeffrey Alexander Millar
- Sergeant Roger Henry Nelson
- Flying Officer John Austin Perress Nicholls
- Flying Officer William Howard Porritt
- Flight Sergeant John Powell Redpath
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Hina Rewi
- Flying Officer David James McLagan Robertson
- Flying Officer John Thomas Rose
- Flight Lieutenant Leigh Rule
- Flying Officer Kenneth Ernest Sparkes
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Graham Warren