On this day — 24 April
212 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 24 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer Anthony Alexander Talbot Bulloch
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Dobson
- Sergeant George Christopher Durie
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred William Hallam
- Pilot Officer Robert George Meadows Harmston
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Lane
- Pilot Officer Ronald Owen Lawry
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Banham Legge
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Cyrus Maddocks
- Pilot Officer John Dawson Murphy
- Sergeant Edward William Aidan Peachey
- Pilot Officer Murray Charles Petrie
- Pilot Officer Richard Heron Sanders
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Jack Simpson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur William Weatherill
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Lewis Weeks
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Wilson
1941
- Sergeant Francis Norman Alstrom
- Sergeant Wilfred Alan Bendy
- Sergeant Harry Burton
- Pilot Officer John Clapham
- Leading Aircraftman Desmond Edward Thomas Cotterell
- Lieutenant Eric Humphrey Curran
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Arthur Dewhirst
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Alexander Edward
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Francis Foxall
- Sergeant Clifford Lewis Ginnetta
- Aircraftman 1st Class Abraham Grabie
- Sergeant Anthony James Hannah
- Aircraftman 1st Class Roy Silvester Hodgson
- Lieutenant John Howitson
- Leading Aircraftman Ivor Llewellyn Hughes
- Pilot Officer Richard Wycliffe Spooner Inge
- Sergeant Douglas Stevenson Hutcheon King
- Pilot Officer Henry Robert Lanchester
- Aircraftman 1st Class Josef Lowin
- Pilot Officer Charles Peter Hope Maclaren
- Sergeant Archibald Macvicar
- Sergeant Thomas Francis McDevette
- Flying Officer Royal Gordon McDougall
- Sergeant Claude Ronald Nash
- Corporal Alec Polson
- Flying Officer Ronald Edward Ransome
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Ivor Sanders
- Sergeant John Hodgins Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Matthew Swain
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Edward Talbot
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Tobias Tattenbaum
- Sergeant Herbert William Taylor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Leonard Ward
- Sergeant Ronald Wilson
1942
- Warrant Officer John Seton Aitken
- Pilot Officer Neville Neil Allen
- Flight Sergeant Alexander B. Balinson
- Pilot Officer Charles Bertram Barber
- Flight Sergeant Prokop Brazda
- Sergeant Maurice William Buckley
- Pilot Officer Oswald John Channon
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Ernest Charron
- Sergeant Thomas William Chaston
- Sergeant Phillip Bruce Dauncey
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Victor George Dennis
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Footer
- Sergeant Frederick William Foster
- Pilot Officer Robert Plimpton Frahm
- Sergeant Eric Goulden
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Green
- Flying Officer Robert Edward Hardy
- Flight Sergeant Victor Donald James Harris
- Warrant Officer William Victor Hinds
- Sergeant Thomas Pellew Hosking
- Pilot Officer Alan Frederick James
- Flight Sergeant Allan Wilson Johnson
- Sergeant George Herbert Jordan
- Sergeant James Bernard Kehoe
- Sergeant Douglas Clarence King
- Sergeant George Henry King
- Flying Officer Thomas George Leitch
- Pilot Officer Norman Curtis Lerwill
- Sergeant Joseph Lewis
- Flying Officer Gerald Gordon Lonsdale
- Pilot Officer Edward Noel Macdonell
- Sergeant Vlastimil Machacek
- Flight Sergeant Norman Kenneth Macleod
- Sergeant Edward Henry March
- Sergeant Allen Hedley McFall
- Sergeant James McIntyre
- Sergeant Patrick McKenny
- Leading Aircraftman John Franklin McMahon
- Sergeant Vilem Michalek
- Squadron Leader Robert Miller
- Sergeant Kenneth Nisbett
- Sergeant Harry Arthur James Northcott
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Powell
- Sergeant Robert Patrick Goodwin Reilly
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Owen Rickard
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Austin Rogerson
- Pilot Officer Arthur Philip Lodington Smith
- Flight Sergeant James Alfred Smith
- Sergeant Sydney Alfred Smith
- Pilot Officer Harry Murdoch Stoffer
- Pilot Officer Axel Anders Svendsen
- Sergeant Herbert John Thorogood
- Sergeant Frank Webster Tregear
- Sergeant George William Tull
- Flight Lieutenant Vivian Eugene Watkins
- Sergeant Eric Frederick Wear
- Sergeant Arthur Whitaker
- Sergeant Bryan Whitham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Denis Leo Wilde
- Sergeant Reginald Wilde
1943
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Frederick Bedell
- Squadron Leader Ian Maxwell Theodore De Kaap Bocock
- Pilot Officer Grahame Percy Boswell
- Flying Officer Ian Browning Brown
- Sergeant Robert Brown
- Sergeant Stewart Dewar Cameron
- Flight Sergeant Donald John Casselman
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas William Alfred Cremen
- Sergeant Jan Domansky
- Pilot Officer James Corke Donald
- Flying Officer Frantisek Karel Dostal
- Sergeant Robert Burns Douglas
- Flying Officer Robert John Heugh Drummond
- Flying Officer Jesse Gerald Evernden
- Air Pupil Francis
- Corporal John Harding
- Pilot Officer Robert Bruce Hudson
- Corporal James Edward Irving
- Pilot Officer Jindrich Krepel
- Flight Sergeant John Stewart Mackie
- Warrant Officer Class I John McKinnon Main
- Sergeant Leopold Martinovic
- Sergeant William Barrie McCallum
- Air Sergeant Archibald Payton
- Sergeant Karel Posva
- Leading Aircraftman Forbes McKenzie Robertson
- Sergeant Frant Schejbal
- Corporal Walter Sentell
- Sergeant Karel Simon
- Sergeant John Islwyn Thomas
- Sergeant James Clark Wilkie Thomson
- Warrant Officer Herbert George Wood
- Sergeant Stanley Richard Yeoman
1944
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Raymond Aitken
- Sergeant Keith Leonard Armstrong
- Sergeant John George Beilby
- Pilot Officer John Broomfield
- Sergeant Kenneth John Cameron
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Peter Campbell
- Sergeant Robert Joseph Clarke
- Corporal Charles Ernest (mick) Coston
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur William Bowen Davies
- Sergeant John Henry Dunn
- Sergeant Colin William Dunning
- Sergeant Ernest George Emsley
- Leading Aircraftman Gerald Robert Flisher
- Sergeant Denis William Fussell
- Flying Officer John Alexander Gillies
- Flying Officer Alexander Henry Hall
- Sergeant Alfred Arthur John Higgins
- Sergeant Kenneth William Percival Hunt
- Sergeant Glyn Jones
- Flight Sergeant Douglas William Anthony Kersey
- Sergeant William Lane
- Pilot Officer John Peter Leech
- Leading Aircraftman Royston Lockwood
- Sergeant Robert Dennis Loke
- Sergeant William Henry Loverock
- Sergeant Murdo Donald Davidson Macfarlane
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Mann
- Flight Sergeant Edward Allan Nayler
- Flying Officer Arthur Joseph Painter
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Archibald Pearce
- Sergeant Norman Pearce
- Pilot Officer David Pickering
- Sergeant Kenneth Powell
- Flight Lieutenant John Raymond Savage
- Leading Aircraftman William Scaife
- Sergeant Stanley Henry Seaforth
- Pilot Officer Richmond Wesley Smith
- Flying Officer William Francis Smith
- Sergeant John William James Spiller
- Lieutenant Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Paul Derrick Sykes
- Flight Sergeant Peter Henry Thomas
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Arthur Townrow
- Sergeant Frederick Liege Tucker
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Ernest William Veal
- Flying Officer Henry Joseph Benedict Veint
- Lieutenant Wallem
- Pilot Officer Ivan Arnold Weir
- Sergeant Charles Francis West
- Corporal Leonard Russell Wilcox
- Sergeant Christopher George Woplin
1945
- Sergeant James Keir Allan
- Flying Officer Peter Joseph Baker
- Air Mechanic Carstens
- Lieutenant Jack E. Filby
- Flying Officer Edgar Ivan Ford
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Lance Jenyns
- Warrant Officer Malcolm Clair Keightley
- Flight Sergeant George Kilpatrick
- Flying Officer Conrad Albert Lee
- Flying Officer Richard Bruce Livingstone
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Robertson Newell
- Flying Officer Maynard Annand Parker
- Flying Officer Jack Norman Reedie
- Warrant Officer Harold Beaumont Uren