On this day — 21 April
405 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 21 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Cornelius Desmond Gordon-wilson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sydney Leonard Holmes
- Pilot Officer Alexander Francis Burnett Ramsay
1941
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Allen
- Sergeant Walter Henry Balch
- Warrant Officer John Osmotherley Barnes
- Warrant Officer Clifford Bond
- Pilot Officer Wilfrid Edgar Bowden
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Francis Dempster Breese
- Sergeant William Ezra Burrell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Chesnutt
- Second Lieutenant Edward Coltsman-cronin
- Pilot Officer Frank Henry Cook
- Pilot Officer Jack Cutmore
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Stewart Dilnutt
- Sergeant Brinley Morgan Evans
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold James Floate
- Leading Aircraftman Anthony John Evans Foster
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Fred Grubb
- Sergeant Christopher Thomas Handley
- Flight Sergeant Robert Beaumont Hanmer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Victor Hawkins
- Sergeant Ralph Kilbuern
- Pilot Officer Ronald Maurice Alexander Lakin
- Pilot Officer Edward Michael Lloyd
- Leading Aircraftman William Faulds McLeod
- Sergeant Alexander Vaughan McRae
- Pilot Officer Rex Mulligan Morrow
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Vernon Norton
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Pendlebury
- Sergeant Ernest Stanley Phillips
- Flight Sergeant Hubert Everard Preston
- Sergeant George Verney Reeves
- Sergeant John Robert Ronnie
- Sergeant Maurice Alfred John Savage
- Sergeant Robert Lindon Sellars
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Patrick Slevin
- Sergeant Horace Arthur Tann
- Flying Officer Richard Lloyd Tanner
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Tizzard
- Sergeant Richard Selkirk Waddy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry James Wall
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Fisher White
- Sergeant Frank Archibald Whitehead
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Willis
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Frank Woodward
1942
- Sergeant Patrick Albert Beavis
- Flying Officer Michael Gordon Boggon
- Pilot Officer Stanley Frederick Brooker
- Flight Lieutenant Duncan Gordon Cameron
- Corporal Peter Mark Clarke
- Wing Commander Walter Ronald Farley
- Sergeant John Kenneth Fullalove
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Charles Garratt
- Flying Officer William Thomas Gray
- Squadron Leader Joseph Theodore Gutray
- Sergeant John Clifford Hammond
- Sergeant John Edgar Howell
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Gordon Cyril Inwood
- Sergeant Robert Richard Kember
- Sergeant Sydney William Francis Leigh
- Flight Sergeant Walter John Edward Lines
- Sergeant Edward Voliantine McGuire
- Pilot Officer Ivan Anderson Miller
- Leading Aircraftman William M. A. Palmer
- Flying Officer James Ansford Pulton
- Pilot Officer Hiram Aldine Putnam
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth James Ryan
- Sergeant Raymond Fred Shaddick
- Pilot Officer Joseph Alexander St. Ours
- Leading Aircraftman Syed Munsoor Ali Mirza
- Squadron Leader John St. John Thomson
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Raymond Warren
- Sergeant Nathaniel White
- Corporal Wilfred Owen Wood
1943
- Sergeant Adam Anderson
- Pilot Officer Frederick James Mackenzie Ashdown
- Sergeant John Watts Bagley
- Lieutenant Ballard
- Sergeant David Frank Rawlinson Banks
- Sergeant Clarence Bertram Barrott
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Harold Bartman
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Samuel Eric Bennett
- Sergeant Peter Bigg
- Squadron Leader Wilfred Albert Blake
- Sergeant Arthur Bone
- Flight Sergeant Frederick James Bowles
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Ediss Boyes
- Sergeant George Brady
- Sergeant Michael Charles Burgoine
- Sergeant James Kenneth Campbell
- Sergeant Ernest Carter
- Sergeant Thomas Carter
- Sergeant Alfred Chadwick
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Brian Chippendale
- Flying Officer Donald James Dupree Chitty
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Thomas Cobb
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Owen Collinge
- Sergeant Wallace James Colwill
- Sergeant William Alexander Cook
- Sergeant James Cooper
- Flight Sergeant Spence Grainger Cottrell
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Cramer
- Pilot Officer Sydney Nelson Cross
- Sergeant Cyril Leslie Cruttenden
- Sergeant George Henry Cruxton
- Pilot Officer Robert Pickering Cryer
- Sergeant Roy Ernest Dadd
- Flying Officer Arthur Daley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Dawson
- Sergeant Frank William Day
- Sergeant Andrew Peter Deighton
- Sergeant George Lewis Doidge
- Flying Officer Ronald Arthur Dorsett
- Sergeant Robert Cooper Mills Douglas
- Sergeant Reginald Herbert Dunstan
- Sergeant Harold Vivian Durrant
- Sergeant Kenneth Cook Eagland
- Sergeant Frederick Joseph Earle
- Sergeant Raymond George Elkins
- Pilot Officer Reginald Frederick Elliott
- Flying Officer Charles Paynter Ellis
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Ellis
- Sergeant Gordon Joseph Evans
- Flight Sergeant John Crowther Eyre
- Sergeant Dennis Charles Farley
- Sergeant Norman Louis Fauvel
- Sergeant Graham Fellows
- Flight Sergeant Brian Finnane
- Lieutenant French
- Sergeant James Goulding
- Sergeant Wilfred Ambrose Griffiths
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Charles James Grist
- Sergeant Thomas Edwin Hall
- Flight Sergeant Denis Edward Hamlyn
- Pilot Officer Christopher Dinsdale Handley
- Flight Lieutenant John Roderick Harries
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Hartley
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Harold Harvey
- Sergeant John Henry Hicken
- Flying Officer Gerald Lambert Hicks
- Sergeant William Patrick Hoare
- Sergeant Howard Miles Holmes
- Flight Sergeant Harry Hudson
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Graham Hume
- Sergeant James Bolton McMillan Irving
- Sergeant William John Jackson
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth James
- Sergeant Arnold Jenkinson
- Flying Officer Gordon Francis Jones
- Corporal Donald Leslie Kay
- Leading Aircraftman John Francis Kedrosky
- Flight Sergeant Norbert Clement Keeffe
- Sergeant James Neil Kelsall
- Warrant Officer Class II Louis John Krulicki
- Sergeant Reginald Walter Lambert
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Howard Lankshear
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Sidney Lea
- Sergeant William Trevor Leathley
- Sergeant Jack Lees
- Sergeant Mervyn Leonard
- Sergeant Allen Henry Leuty
- Sergeant Eric Lewis
- Sergeant John Desmond Lindrea
- Sergeant Anthony Luke
- Pilot Officer William Alex Lyttle
- Sergeant Archibald Ian Mackay
- Flying Officer Edward Alan Mahoney
- Sergeant Wilfrid Charles Marsh
- Warrant Officer Class II James Stanley Marshall
- Pilot Officer Clifford Leigh Maunder
- Sergeant William Dennis Mayoh
- Corporal James Stanley McKay
- Sergeant Charles Dale McKelvie
- Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
- Pilot Officer James Robert McLean
- Sergeant Joseph Francis McNeill
- Sergeant Ronald Bertram McPherson
- Sergeant Francis McPhillips
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Alfred Miller
- Flying Officer Clifford Morgan
- Corporal John William Moseley
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Montague Muir
- Sergeant Harold Munnery
- Flight Lieutenant Bernard Francis Myers
- Sergeant Basil Leonard Neal
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Nicol
- Sergeant Edwin Marley Offen
- Sergeant Benjamin Oldroyd
- Sergeant Albert George Page
- Sergeant Rex Ian Palmer
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Woodbine Parish
- Sergeant Fergus Thomas Peake
- Sergeant Thomas Pearson
- Pilot Officer George May Pettigrew
- Sergeant Sydney Pitcher
- Sergeant Noel Leonard Pittendrigh
- Warrant Officer Class II Reginald Frank Charles Porter
- Flight Lieutenant Antony Seton Wombwell Prioleau
- Flying Officer Wilfred Raets
- Sergeant Walter Dennis Ramsay
- Flying Officer John Gerald Rappoport
- Squadron Leader John Colverd Richards
- Pilot Officer Arthur William (bill) Richmond
- Pupil Pilot Roberts
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Martyn Rogers
- Pilot Officer James Louis Rossignol
- Sergeant Laurence Arthur Rummery
- Flight Sergeant Ian Charles Salt
- Sergeant Norman Shield
- Sergeant Leslie Frederick John Short
- Sergeant Roland Stanley Sidwell
- Sergeant James Thomas Smith
- Sergeant Peter Tristan Smith
- Flight Sergeant William Marshall Spafford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Michael Joseph John Staley
- Sergeant Richard Barnato Stanley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Stephen Stanley Sternberg
- Sergeant Dennis Stowe
- Sergeant Lancelot Tagg
- Flying Officer Douglas Malcolm Tassie
- Flight Sergeant Frank Taylor
- Sergeant Adam Telfer
- Warrant Officer Harold Elsdon Thorpe
- Flying Officer John Earle Tickler
- Pilot Officer Alan Gray Tolley
- Sergeant Gerald Albert Raymond Town
- Flight Sergeant Frank Wakefield Upton
- Pilot Officer John Vallance
- Pilot Officer Elmer Robert Vance
- Flight Sergeant Dalton James Kenneth Wallace
- Sergeant Alexander Felix Warner
- Flight Sergeant Elvet Waters
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Arthur Watkins
- Flight Sergeant Marcel Alfred Barnard Watkins
- Sergeant Robert Watson
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Watson
- Sergeant John Burt Watt
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Cuthbert Weir
- Pilot Officer Cyril Ernest Wellard
- Sergeant Ronald Herbert Wells
- Sergeant Reginald Alfred Whellams
- Sergeant Bertram Charles John White
- Flight Sergeant Reginald John White
- Pilot Officer Noel George Woodward
1944
- Flight Sergeant Donald George Abbey
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Alderson
- Sergeant John Atkinson
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Roy Aylett
- Flying Officer James Francis Banister
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Sidney Barnett
- Flying Officer Ernest Malcolm Barrett
- Sergeant Arthur Maurice Belshaw
- Flight Sergeant Denzil Yorke Bishop
- Flying Officer Frederick John Blute
- Sergeant John Beedie Bowen
- Flying Officer Robert Gerald Campbell Brodie
- Flight Sergeant John Eyre Brown
- Flight Sergeant Maurice George Brown
- Pilot Officer Thomas James Burgess
- Sergeant Thomas Herbert Burke
- Sergeant Norman George Cailes
- Flying Officer James William Keith Cameron
- Sergeant James Casey
- Sergeant William Clarke
- Sergeant James Coulter
- Sergeant Kenneth John Cresswell
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Hyde Cutmore
- Sergeant Charles Christopher Davies
- Pilot Officer Derrick Roy Dearman
- Flight Sergeant Ian James Dixon
- Flight Sergeant Harold Dolby
- Flying Officer Herbert John Drawbridge
- Sergeant Clarence Delmer Duncan
- Flying Officer Walter Eaton
- Flying Officer Alfred Charles Elliott
- Flying Officer Joshua Ellis Emery
- Flight Sergeant Simon Grover Emery
- Flying Officer George Albert England
- Sergeant Alan Farmer
- Pilot Officer Kenneth George Feeney
- Sergeant Harry Thomas George Flint
- Pilot Officer Donald Everton Fonseca
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Brydon Fothergill
- Flight Sergeant Max Gordon Francis
- Flight Sergeant David Alexander Fraser
- Sergeant William Thomas Freeman
- Pilot Officer Peter Henry French
- Flight Lieutenant John Lucian Funnell
- Sergeant William Fyfe
- Flight Sergeant Richard McDougall Garland
- Flying Officer John Eric Gay
- Flight Lieutenant James Gillies
- Sergeant Frank Gradwell
- Sergeant Archibald Graham
- Corporal George Arthur Hall
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Bruce Hamilton
- Pilot Officer Milton Charles Hardy
- Pilot Officer George Dudley Heathcote
- Flight Sergeant Edward Francis Hill-cottingham
- Pilot Officer Roger Norman Hilsden
- Flight Sergeant Douglas George Hoffman
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Charles Hoffman
- Flight Lieutenant Glen Allen Holland
- Sergeant Ronald Charles Holmwood
- Sergeant Harry Humphries
- Flight Lieutenant John Howard Inns
- Flying Officer William Leonard Jarvis
- Sergeant Christopher Jelley
- Flight Sergeant Eric Maxwell Jensen
- Flight Sergeant Albert Henry James Jordan
- Leading Aircraftman Clyde Crosby Kendall
- Flying Officer Horace Peter Harvard Kiddle
- Squadron Leader Ernest William Kinchin
- Sergeant John Marsland Knott
- Sergeant Clifford Victor Lake
- Squadron Leader Douglas Leatherland
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Edward Wright Leigh
- Pilot Officer Peter Arthur Leins
- Warrant Officer Ronald George Lewis
- Sergeant Philip Edwin Lomas
- Sergeant Richard Lundy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth James Macintosh
- Sergeant John McAllister
- Squadron Leader Francis (frank) Richard McGugan
- Flying Officer Archibald Blair McIntyre
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Colin McIntyre
- Pilot Officer James Ian McKechnie
- Flying Officer Frederick William Miller
- Flying Officer Douglas Frank Minns
- Warrant Officer Grant Muckart
- Sergeant Harold Charles Munns
- Lieutenant Nussey
- Sergeant Michael O'Connor
- Sergeant Kingsley Pearton
- Sergeant David Prewer
- Sergeant James William Randall
- Sergeant Harry Reavey
- Sergeant William David Reece
- Sergeant Denis Fay Rimmer
- Sergeant Charles Henry Robinson
- Flying Officer Francis Kirby Robinson
- Sergeant Robert Calderwood Robinson
- Sergeant John Younger Scott
- Sergeant William Leslie Scott
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Sellors
- Pilot Officer Arthur Shaw
- Sergeant Albert William Sherry
- Sergeant John Walter Sigsworth
- Sergeant William George Singfield
- Pilot Officer George Alfred Skinner
- Sergeant Norman Skirrow
- Flight Sergeant Irwin Harold Smead
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Henry Smith
- Sergeant Herbert Walter Lawrence Smith
- Sergeant John Edward Noble Smith
- Sergeant Thomas Herbert Stacey
- Pilot Officer John Bertram Steed
- Air Corporal William Stevenson
- Warrant Officer Robert Emery Stewart
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Martin Strathdee
- Warrant Officer Robert Alfred Swan
- Sergeant Kenneth Evenett Thompson
- Sergeant Robert Thompson
- Flying Officer Jack Stewart Thomson
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Claud Tincler
- Flying Officer Edmund Thomas Tinker
- Sergeant Edgar Usher
- Flight Sergeant Edward George Walker
- Sergeant Thomas Dudley Ward
- Second Lieutenant Webster
- Squadron Leader Philip Mervyn Wigg
- Flying Officer Roger Howard Wilkinson
- Pilot Officer Ignatius William Willcocks
- Flight Sergeant Brian Kenneth Winterbon
- Sergeant Norman Donald Woodhouse
- Flying Officer Harold James Young
1945
- Lieutenant Blacklaws
- Lieutenant Cowell
- Lieutenant Cuff
- Squadron Leader Eric Stanley Few
- Warrant Officer Edward Arthur Green
- Flying Officer Harry Robert Hanscom
- Warrant Officer John Penboss Hunt
- Pilot Officer Russell Stuart Jack
- Air Mechanic Cornelius Lombard
- Lieutenant Lowe
- Flying Officer Archibald Roy McCurdy
- Flight Lieutenant Bruce Calder McKenzie
- Lieutenant Oakes
- Flying Officer Alec Stanley Broadhurst Rushton
- Flying Officer William Carnduff Russell
- Flying Officer Anthony Richard Tenison Smith
- Sergeant Kenneth Mortimer Smith
- Warrant Officer Class I Walter William Spencer
- Warrant Officer Class I Thomas Keith Theaker
- Pilot Officer George Henry Topliff
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Leonard Warner
- Flight Lieutenant Bernard Herbert Webb
- Warrant Officer Herbert Charles Williams