On this day — 17 April
507 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Burnside
- Sergeant Robert Frederick Carter
- Sergeant William Cuthbert
- Sergeant Neil Ramsey Davidson
- Sergeant David William Edmunds
- Leading Aircraftman Anthony James Patrick Golder
- Sergeant Norman John Griffin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Harwood
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Charles Lerigo
- Flying Officer Trevor Victor Poltock
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Ellis Warne
- Sergeant James Windsor
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Ernest Botterill
- Sergeant Harold Douglas Bowles
- Sergeant Archibald Fleming Brownlee
- Sergeant Eric Norman Brundish
- Sergeant Kenneth Lynch Clark
- Flight Lieutenant Seymour Fitzclare Clifford
- Sergeant Talbot Charles Cyril Clifton
- Flight Sergeant Victor Godfrey Elliott
- Sergeant Frederick Henry Erdwin
- Sergeant Lionel Lewis Evered
- Sergeant Leonard William Flint
- Sergeant Peter Charles Thomas Forster
- Sergeant Cyril Edward Gansler
- Flight Lieutenant Donovan Gibson
- Sergeant Kenneth Gaston Gresty
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Fred Heaton
- Pilot Officer John Kenneth Hill
- Sergeant Francis Everard Hubank
- Sergeant Henry Kirby
- Pilot Officer Vaclav Kosulic
- Sergeant Frantisek Kracmer
- Flying Officer Vladimir Kubicek
- Sergeant John Thompson Lamb
- Sergeant Rudolf Lifcic
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis Walter Lock
- Sergeant Bernard Joseph Lodge
- Sergeant Melvin Ernest McMurdo
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Robert Moseley
- Leading Aircraftman William Muir
- Sergeant John William Mulford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Partington
- Flying Officer Leslie Edward Pearson
- Sergeant Jack Peel
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Ernest Platt
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Hyde Proctor
- Honorary Flight Lieutenant The Rev. Andrew Gordon Rintoul
- Sergeant William Ross Rodger
- Sergeant Ivor Griffiths Sarjeant
- Leading Aircraftman Horace Dean Simonsen
- Flying Officer Frank Sixta
- Flight Sergeant James Edward Sneeston
- Sergeant Vaclav Stetka
- Sergeant John Melville Taylor
- Corporal Joseph Keith Trudeau
- Sergeant William Archibald Tyler
- Sergeant William Waugh Walker
- Sergeant Harry Spencer Walters
- Sergeant John Wood
- Sergeant Stanley Wright
1942
- Sergeant John Charles Hinton Allen
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Carleton Austin
- Pilot Officer Gordon Baker
- Sergeant Lawrence Heaton Baxter
- Pilot Officer John Frank Beckett
- Sergeant Clifford McCormick Carkner
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Alfred Christ
- Sergeant Harold Cliffe
- Sergeant Alfred Raymond Clouston
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Henry Coles
- Sergeant Arthur Meaker Cox
- Squadron Leader Bernard Barton Cresswell
- Sergeant Brian Ignatius Joseph Daly
- Flight Sergeant John Granville Donoghue
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Edward Eades
- Flight Sergeant George Alfred Edwards
- Sergeant Ivor Edwards
- Flying Officer Ronald James Finch
- Flight Sergeant Robert James Flux
- Sergeant Alfred Donald Gardiner
- Flying Officer Alexander Gerrie
- Sergeant Alexander John Shields Gillespie
- Pilot Officer Francis Albert Grills
- Leading Aircraftman Allison Sheir Guelich
- Sergeant John Henry Hackett
- Sergeant George William James Hadgraft
- Flight Sergeant David Walter Harrington
- Sergeant Alfred James Harrison
- Warrant Officer Leonard Harrison
- Sergeant Norman Craig Hayes
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Raymond Heaton
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Stuart Reddy Hepburn
- Sergeant Harold Knight
- Second Lieutenant Jack Dennis Laing
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Law
- Sergeant David Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Haig McAlpine
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis McGrath
- Flight Sergeant Ian Skene Melvin
- Sergeant Cyril Leonard Merricks
- Sergeant Brian Douglas Moss
- Sergeant Douglas John Hayden Mott
- Warrant Officer Thomas James Mycock
- Sergeant Terence Ernest Albert O'Coy
- Sergeant Roderic Samuel Page
- Pilot Officer Hurworth Anthony Paul Peall
- Sergeant George Penman
- Flight Sergeant William Herbert Edward Phillips
- Sergeant Alfa Powell
- Leading Aircraftman Alastair Logie Rankin
- Flight Sergeant Alexander John Reed
- Sergeant George Thomas Rhodes
- Sergeant George Macklin Lascelles Robertson
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Edgar Ross
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Robert Sandford
- Sergeant Cyril Joseph Scattergood
- Sergeant Bryden George Seagoe
- Flight Sergeant Walter Shelley
- Sergeant Jack Ernest Taylor
- Sergeant Richard Lattimore Trustram
- Sergeant Peter Johannes Venter
- Pilot Officer Alfred Thomas Webb
- Flight Sergeant Vincent Wilding
- Sergeant Robert Edward Wing
- Sergeant John Alfred Wynton
1943
- Sergeant Edward John Ablewhite
- Flying Officer Basil Courtney Abrams
- Leading Aircraftman George Charles Ady
- Pilot Officer Harald Roy Andersen
- Sergeant Ronald Claude Anderson
- Sergeant Steve Archie
- Sergeant Donald Keith Atkinson
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Axtell
- Flight Sergeant Robert Henry Baker
- Sergeant Charles Glendinning Bamford
- Sergeant William Watson Bannatyne
- Sergeant Herbert Rhys Barnes
- Pilot Officer Herbert William Barnett
- Sergeant John Alec Bates
- Flight Sergeant Roy Beaven
- Sergeant John Courtney Bell
- Sergeant Albert Warren Berry
- Warrant Officer Class II Roland Birchall
- Flying Officer Kenneth Sidney Bird
- Sergeant John Sydney Blackburn
- Flight Sergeant Peter Leonard Boase
- Flying Officer Alexander Victor Bone
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Winchcombe Bordycott
- Sergeant Leslie Robert Bray
- Sergeant Stanley Braybrook
- Sergeant Sydney John Briffett
- Flying Officer William Christie Brisbane
- Sergeant Thomas Leslie Bromley
- Sergeant Patrick Langston Brougham-faddy
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Brown
- Flight Sergeant Ian Stewart Brown
- Sergeant Stephen Hugh Colin Brown
- Sergeant Norman Bruce
- Sergeant Raymond Charles Burt
- Sergeant Leslie Charles Cameron
- Sergeant Alexander Crawford Cantley
- Pilot Officer William Roy Kenneth Charlton
- Sergeant Alfred William Clark
- Flying Officer Raymond Frederick Clements
- Sergeant Brodie John Clinging
- Flying Officer Elvin Newton Cluderay
- Sergeant Robert Frank Clutterbuck
- Sergeant Frank Robert Cocks
- Sergeant John Christopher Frederick Cook
- Flying Officer Alexander Nicholson Cooper
- Sergeant Ronald Cope
- Pilot Officer Patrick Claud Cotter
- Sergeant Ernest Walter Cox
- Sergeant William Davis
- Flight Sergeant William Waller Dawson
- Flying Officer Herbert Harry Day
- Flying Officer Dirk Bertram De Kretser
- Sergeant Harold Derbyshire
- Flight Sergeant Alan Norris Dixon
- Sergeant Douglas Brian Doyle
- Sergeant Francis Joseph Doyle
- Sergeant John Gilchrist Duncan
- Sergeant Robert Dunn
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Cyril Ebbott
- Sergeant Allan Knowles Edgar
- Pilot Officer John Frederick Edwards
- Warrant Officer Joseph Gilbert Edwards
- Flying Officer Henry Elderfield
- Sergeant Henry Evans
- Sergeant Leslie Leonard Everden
- Sergeant George Richard Fernee
- Pilot Officer Henry Crelling Fiddes
- Sergeant Francis Christopher Fidgeon
- Sergeant Harold Walter Fill
- Sergeant Roy Charles Samuel Findley
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Fitch
- Sergeant James Frederick Fletcher
- Sergeant Herbert Fortune
- Sergeant Raymond Norman Percy Foster
- Sergeant Donald Frederick Gargrave
- Flight Sergeant William Harris George
- Warrant Officer Class II John William Gibson
- Sergeant Anthony Patrick Gielty
- Flight Sergeant George Gill
- Flying Officer Aaron Henry Gipson
- Sergeant George James Good
- Sergeant Bernard Hamilton Gooding
- Flying Officer Harry Gray
- Sergeant John William Greenwood
- Pilot Officer Kelvin Havelock Green Groves
- Warrant Officer Joseph Jacques Alfred Guay
- Sergeant Maurice Richard Hadland
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd George Haines
- Flying Officer Michael Anthony Harland
- Sergeant Robert William Harley
- Flying Officer Philip Harvey
- Flight Lieutenant Clifford Oscar Hatle
- Flight Lieutenant Dennis Henry Haycock
- Sergeant Thomas Frederick Hayden
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Davis Heming
- Flight Sergeant George Chetwynd Heming
- Sergeant Henry Ronald Henley
- Sergeant Geoffrey Maxted Hill
- Flight Sergeant Roy Hill
- Sergeant Harold Hinchcliffe
- Pilot Officer Donald Alfred Holdsworth
- Squadron Leader Frederick Arthur Holmes
- Flying Officer Laurence Henry Holmes
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Melville Horahan
- Pilot Officer David Frederick Howlett
- Flying Officer Francis James Hudson
- Sergeant John Henry Humphrey
- Sergeant Raymond Edward Joseph Hunt
- Sergeant Douglas Frederick Inch
- Flight Sergeant James Earl Isaacs
- Sergeant Charles Lawrence James
- Flying Officer Brinley Pearce Jay
- Sergeant Ronald Joseph (ron) Johnson
- Sergeant Leonard Norman Jonasson
- Corporal John Henry Jones
- Sergeant Thomas Evan Jones
- Sergeant Stanley Johannes Jorgensen
- Sergeant William George Kapuscinski
- Sergeant Jack Kay
- Warrant Officer Class II John Clayton Kennedy
- Flying Officer Cecil Percy King
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Robert King
- Pilot Officer Antony Derek Kitchen
- Sergeant Maurice Kleinhorn
- Sergeant Frederick Joseph Knight
- Sergeant Bruce Knilands
- Flight Sergeant William Kwasney
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Lee Lancaster
- Flying Officer Frederick William Larcey
- Flight Sergeant John Maurice Leblanc
- Sergeant Eric Makham Lee
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Hugh Lester
- Sergeant Alun Oliver Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Emmett Jay Longstaff
- Flight Lieutenant Gerald Alfred Lunn
- Flight Sergeant Irving Macdonald
- Pilot Officer William Macfarlane
- Sergeant Harry George Machell
- Sergeant Thomas Martin
- Sergeant Richard William Mason
- Pilot Officer William Robert McBriar
- Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Grant McCardle
- Sergeant Albert Frederick McDonald
- Sergeant Robert Allan McLaren
- Flying Officer Norman Milton McLellan
- Flying Officer John McMaster
- Flying Officer Brian Robert McNair
- Flying Officer Glen Alexander McNichol
- Flight Sergeant Colin Kerr Menzies
- Sergeant Victor John Merefield
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Eric Milliken
- Pilot Officer Frank Cyril Milton
- Pilot Officer Peter Vivian Monk
- Sergeant Jack Monks
- Pilot Officer James Owen Beggs Mooney
- Pilot Officer Ivor Malcolm Payne Morgan
- Sergeant Robin Morris Mumme
- Flying Officer Stanley Digby Murray
- Flying Officer Thomas Harold O'Connell
- Sergeant Sydney Frederick Osmond
- Sergeant Ralph Henry Pallender
- Pilot Officer Alfred Kenneth Parker
- Sergeant James Parkinson
- Sergeant Cyril Payne
- Sergeant David Trevor Penry
- Sergeant Leslie Pickford
- Sergeant Rodney Leslie Pierson
- Flight Sergeant Francois Rolland Pilon
- Flight Sergeant Lester Kenneth Plank
- Sergeant Alex Podolsky
- Flying Officer Philip Charles Price
- Lieutenant Proctor
- Sergeant Dick Irvin Pullen
- Sergeant Horace Stanley Pullen Radford
- Sergeant Harry Ray
- Sergeant Kenneth Ray
- Sergeant Jack Valentine Rees
- Sergeant Donald Harold Reid
- Sergeant John Henry Reynolds
- Warrant Officer Class II Henry Richmond
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Samuel Ritchie
- Flight Sergeant Fraser Allan Robb
- Flight Sergeant David Eric Roberts
- Sergeant Geoffrey Evan Roberts
- Sergeant Thomas Charles Robertson
- Sergeant Robert Walter Robinson
- Flying Officer Thomas Collis Robinson
- Flight Sergeant Jack Rodgers
- Sergeant William Augustus Rogers
- Sergeant Raymond Joseph Rooney
- Flight Sergeant Allen Roderick Ross
- Flight Sergeant Francis Owen Ross
- Flight Sergeant Peter Rudick
- Sergeant John Rutter
- Flying Officer Joseph Raymond Louis Sergent
- Flying Officer Alexander Gordon Shand
- Sergeant Tom Graham Shergold
- Sergeant David Mackenzie Smellie
- Flight Sergeant Alan Keilier Smith
- Pilot Officer Frederick Smith
- Flying Officer Harold Eric Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Alexander Flemming Smith
- Sergeant Leonard George Smith
- Sergeant Leslie Charles Smith
- Sergeant James Speirs
- Sergeant Laurence Sydney Staight
- Sergeant John Thomas Stephens
- Sergeant James Scott Stewart
- Pilot Officer Ronald Henry Stewart
- Sergeant Ronald Charles Stone
- Sergeant John Strachan
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Clarence Stuart
- Sergeant John Gordon Sullivan
- Flying Officer Thomas Maxwell Taylor
- Pilot Officer Frank Malcolm Thompson
- Sergeant Leslie Thompson
- Flying Officer Colin Thwaites
- Flight Sergeant Steve Tomyn
- Flying Officer Albert William Arnold Trevarthen
- Flight Sergeant Albert Andrew Tschantre
- Sergeant Dennis Albert Henry Underwood
- Sergeant William Neville Underwood
- Sergeant Harold Albert Upton
- Sergeant Norman Vanston
- Flying Officer Lionel Walters
- Pilot Officer William Highmoor Walton
- Sergeant Richard Fleury Wanstall
- Flight Sergeant Francis Henry Ward
- Pilot Officer Bruce Emmott Watt
- Warrant Officer James Oscar Way
- Flying Officer James Frederick Webb
- Sergeant Kenneth Ernest Webb
- Sergeant Brian Walter Edward Wedderburn
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hilton Kennedy Weir
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Basil Wells
- Warrant Officer Class II Edward Ambrose Whalen
- Sergeant Maxwell Whitby
- Pilot Officer David Edward White
- Sergeant Raymond Charles White
- Sergeant William Forster Whitfield
- Flying Officer Graham George Williams
- Flight Sergeant John Norman Williams
- Sergeant Kenneth Rees George Williams
- Sergeant Ronald Harry Winter
- Flying Officer Raymond George Wood
- Wing Commander Vernon Charles Wood
- Flight Sergeant William Oldfield Woolnough
- Flight Sergeant George Clifford Wright
- Sergeant Cyril William Yelland
- Flight Sergeant Demetre Zaleschuk
1944
- Flying Officer Lionel Herbert Abbott
- Sergeant Ronald Adams
- Flight Sergeant Jack Arnold Alexander
- Corporal Rowland Allen
- Flight Lieutenant Bruce Wild Andrew
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Gladstone Armstrong
- Flying Officer Harold Calven Austen
- Sergeant Alan Dennis Bale
- Flying Officer Arthur Thomas Barton
- Warrant Officer Frank Desmond Bell
- Corporal Derek Albert Bird
- Leading Aircraftman John George Blunt
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Box
- Corporal Neville Francis Brindley
- Warrant Officer Class II James Angus Brown
- Sergeant Reginald John Brown
- Flying Officer Allan Edward Buckley
- Sergeant Roydon Walfred Burgess
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Mason Burton
- Corporal John Reginald Caley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard Paynter Carbines
- Sergeant Roy Arthur Chambers
- Flying Officer Vivian Basil Charlton
- Sergeant Frank Childs
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Haughton Cray
- Flying Officer Alfred Derrick Critchlow
- Sergeant Nelson Harcourt Cutler
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Herbert Darnell
- Sergeant John Albert Davies
- Flying Officer Leslie Albert Denison
- Flight Lieutenant Donald George Dewar
- Flight Sergeant Owen Donnelly
- Flying Officer Kenneth Kara Edwards
- Warrant Officer Frank Noel Ellis
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Elms
- Sergeant Raymond Mortimer Eyre
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Harkness Farrell
- Sergeant Dennis John Fazakarley
- Flying Officer Glyn Fisher
- Sergeant William John Follows
- Sergeant Michael Ronald Forsyth
- Sergeant William Fox
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Charles French
- Flying Officer Albert George Tracey Gardiner
- Flying Officer Arthur Douglas Gavel
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Gibbons
- Flying Officer Robert Gorton
- Leading Aircraftman John Joseph Griffin
- Flying Officer Elmer James Hagen
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Archibald Hallett
- Lieutenant Hamilton
- Squadron Leader Edmund Sydney Harries
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Royston Hitchcock
- Sergeant Robert John Humbles
- Pilot Officer Bruce Lettington Humphreys
- Flight Sergeant Frederick James Ingram
- Pilot Officer George William Lamb
- Corporal George Laurie
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert John Lawrie
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Walter Lovell
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Marshall
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Roy McDennon
- Corporal James Lindsay Cairns Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Ernest Moody
- Flying Officer Denis John Moore
- Corporal Frederick Ernest Mouncer
- Flight Sergeant Claude Ralston Newell
- Flying Officer Noel Spencer Nicklin
- Warrant Officer James William Nisbet
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Henry Nopper
- Sergeant Ronald Leonard Mark Peirce
- Flight Sergeant Herbert John Ralph
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Oswald Rathke
- Pilot Officer Herbert George Perks Reed
- Sergeant Laurence Gerald Reilly
- Flight Lieutenant Granville Roberts
- Flying Officer Alan Claud Macdonell Rolph
- Flight Sergeant Michael Kingston Rowe
- Warrant Officer William Barry Ryan
- Flight Sergeant David Guise Shanks
- Air Mechanic Jacob J. Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Robert Starkey
- Warrant Officer Class II John Lionel Stubbs
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Francis Stunt
- Sergeant Frederick Albert George Thomas
- Squadron Leader William Godfrey Tiley
- Sergeant Alan Townsley
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth John Turley
- Leading Aircraftman George Arthur White
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Wolf Wiseman
- Flight Sergeant James Edward Wood
- Warrant Officer Harold Hargroves Wright
1945
- Flying Officer Robert Allan Brown
- Flying Officer Wallace Victor John Burdis
- Lieutenant Roderick Swift Douglas
- Flying Officer Eric George Draper
- Flying Officer Leonard Acton Dunn
- Lieutenant Kenneth George Du Pre
- Pilot Officer Herbert William Elliott
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Reginald Henry Foster
- Lieutenant Richard Errol Gritten
- Lieutenant Graham Brand Harvey
- Lieutenant Frans Hendrik Heyns
- Flight Sergeant Howard Blake Hobson
- Squadron Leader Michael Wintworth Hubble
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Sinclair Jennings
- Flight Sergeant Ebenezer Fitzhenry Kirkman
- Lieutenant Gert Diedrik Roetz
- Lieutenant Sleep
- Flight Sergeant Errol Dallas Tisdell
- Lieutenant Van Dam
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Paulle Courtney Woodward
1946
- Squadron Leader Frederick George Birchall
- Sergeant Alexander Bruce Hart
- Flight Lieutenant Hector Murdoch McDonald
1947
- Major Bosman
- Air Mechanic Burger
- Air Corporal Case
- Lieutenant Crisp
- Lieutenant Gericke
- Lieutenant Hirst
- Lieutenant Kritzinger
- Lieutenant Landman
- Captain Liebenberg
- Leading Aircraftman John Arthur Morris
- Lieutenant Nelson
- Lieutenant Nicolay
- Lieutenant Prinsloo
- Captain Taylor
- Lieutenant Van Rooyen
- Captain Frederick Welgemoed