On this day — 25 April
440 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 25 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Arthur Herbert Benson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie William Elliott
- Leading Aircraftman Thomson Hogarth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Holloway
- Pilot Officer Alfred Peter Burdett Hordern
- Sergeant William Trevor Howells
- Sergeant Arthur Francis James
- Pilot Officer Robert George Kennedy
- Sergeant Robert Ian Leonard Mackenzie
- Sergeant Robert Marwick Mainland
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Begley McLean
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Leonard Graham Neal
- Leading Aircraftman John Derek Openshaw
- Sergeant Wilbert Priestley
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Arthur Roberts
- Flying Officer Derrick Paul Woodrow Rowan-robinson
- Sergeant Geoffrey Beresford Sprange
- Pilot Officer Courtenay Arthur Weeks
1941
- Flying Officer George Brian Shelton Agar
- Flight Sergeant Clifford William Andrews
- Sergeant Victor Edwin Ashworth
- Pilot Officer Charles Edward Blair
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Clifford Willson Brant
- Sergeant Francis Harley Bridgman
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Edmund Cooper
- Warrant Officer William George Craddock
- Sergeant John Murray Gibson
- Flight Lieutenant John Beresford Hawdon
- Sergeant Harry George Hydes
- Sergeant Taliesin James
- Pilot Officer Thomas Keightley-smith
- Pilot Officer Gordon Herbert Kidd
- Pilot Officer James Hugh Arnold Linton
- Sergeant Leslie Joseph George Lockwood
- Flying Officer John Clement Julius Lylian
- Sergeant William Macpherson
- Pilot Officer Roland Needham
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Vivian Nelson
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Paterson
- Flying Officer Thomas Lawrence Patterson
- Pilot Officer Gilbert Peter Lewis Redstone
- Pilot Officer Martin Walter Rivers
- Sergeant Henry Edward Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Bryan William Thomas Somers
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon Alfred Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Keith Edward Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Thornhill
- Flight Sergeant Roy Herbert Alexander Warren
- Leading Aircraftman William Joseph Webster
1942
- Flight Lieutenant Svatopluk Bachurek
- Sergeant Edmund Ronald Baird
- Lieutenant Ball
- Flight Sergeant Richard Ballantyne
- Aircraftman 1st Class Howard Baynham
- Sergeant Arthur Frank Blencowe
- Flight Sergeant Charles Lorne Bray
- Flight Sergeant Lucien David Brooks
- Flying Officer John Gibb Brown
- Sergeant Harry Bircham Bullen
- Group Captain Herbert Reginald Carefoot
- Pilot Officer Donald Young Claxton
- Group Captain Hugh Wolfe Corner
- Sergeant Reginald Clifden Darnell
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Maclennan Densem
- Sergeant David John East
- Sergeant Frank O'Kearney Eivers
- Sergeant Philip William Clement Flannery
- Sergeant John Gerard Fogarty
- Pilot Officer Denis Victor Fordham
- Sergeant Arthur Roland Freeman
- Flight Sergeant Robert Brown Goodman
- Second Lieutenant Gray
- Sergeant Paul Frederick Green
- Sergeant Sidney Harold Harle
- Sergeant Joseph Melvin Hicks
- Squadron Leader Douglas Holbrook Holmes
- Lieutenant Howard
- Sergeant James Gordon Innes
- Sergeant Alexander M. Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Walter Lock
- Flight Sergeant John Grant McCutchan
- Sergeant Landon Pleasants Mooney
- Pilot Officer George Hepburn Morrice
- Sergeant Joseph Morris
- Pilot Officer William Forsythe Munn
- Sergeant Dennis William Musgrove
- Sergeant Ronald Edward Neathway
- Flight Sergeant James North
- Flying Officer Antony Palmer-tomkinson
- Flight Sergeant Charles Arthur Parke
- Pilot Officer William Ernest Newton Pasterfield
- Pilot Officer Kenneth William Pawson
- Flying Officer Harry Cuthbert Pearce
- Sergeant Jack Potter
- Sergeant Stanley George Richardson
- Flight Sergeant William Burns Richmond
- Sergeant Miroslav Rocovski
- Sergeant Samuel Rogow
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Smith
- Pilot Officer Henry John Snelling
- Pilot Officer Paul Steward Stephen
- Sergeant Lauchlan Robert Tait
- Sergeant Donald Montgrove Telford
- Sergeant Karel Urtis
- Sergeant John William Wareham
- Flying Officer Robert Wheldon
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Clifford White
- Pilot Officer William Zoochkan
1943
- Sergeant John Gerald Patrick Adams
- Pilot Officer Bruce Edward Anderson
- Sergeant Kenneth Edward Bannister
- Flying Officer Daniel Gerald Bentham
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Carolus Bullock
- Leading Aircraftman Harold James Butcher
- Sergeant Frank Thomas Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Arthur Dent
- Sergeant George Dunn
- Warrant Officer Class I Edkins
- Flight Sergeant Donald Brian Elliott
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Fidler
- Flying Officer Paul Alexander Gaudet
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth John Harris
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Stanford Hill
- Flying Officer Leonard Jack Ingham
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Percival Jenkins
- Leading Aircraftman Daniel Keith
- Flying Officer Donald Rae McLean
- Flying Officer Clive Nibbs Millward
- Flying Officer James Leslie Mouatt
- Flying Officer Henry Patrick O'Brien
- Flying Officer William Henry Ormsby
- Flight Sergeant James Sydney Patman
- Flying Officer Albert Eugene Pourbaix
- Flying Officer James Reginald Rebbetoy
- Sergeant Vincent Arthur Rice
- Sergeant Joseph Riley
- Pilot Officer Robert Graham Roberts
- Squadron Leader John Herbert Malet Shaw
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Thomas Smith
- Sergeant Alexander John Stewart
- Warrant Officer Class I Frank Leroy Trovillo
- Flying Officer Denis Ivan Vize
- Sergeant Colin Warburton
1944
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Gilbert Adams
- Flight Sergeant Percy James Adshead
- Sergeant William Edward Alexander
- Flying Officer Eric Robert Alston
- Pilot Officer Arthur John Thomas Armon
- Flight Sergeant Roy Francis Crossley Badman
- Pilot Officer George Harvey Bainbridge
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Baker
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Basil Baker
- Warrant Officer Class II Walter Baldwin Baldwinson
- Sergeant Dennis Albert Barber
- Flight Sergeant John Raymond Bathe
- Flight Lieutenant Clifton Francis Benefield
- Flight Sergeant Henry Thomas Leonard Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Peter Anthony Bennett
- Pilot Officer Victor Hector Bernyk
- Sergeant William Bingham
- Flight Sergeant John Edwin Bloomer
- Pilot Officer Gerald Joseph Boucher
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Joseph Henry Boudreau
- Pilot Officer Theodore Phillip Bourque
- Pilot Officer Leonard Douglas Bowden
- Pilot Officer George Robert Boxall
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Singleton Boyes
- Flying Officer John Sidney Braithwaite
- Pilot Officer Leo Arthur Brenton
- Pilot Officer Robert George Brock
- Pilot Officer Edwin Ryland Brown
- Sergeant Francis Patrick Brown
- Flight Sergeant Edward Brunt
- Sergeant Francis John Burton
- Pilot Officer Robert Roland Cagienard
- Sergeant John Wesley Cameron
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert Edgar Hall Cameron
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Richard Carr
- Flying Officer Richard Douglas Carter
- Lieutenant Cartter
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Noe Gustave Robert Casaubon
- Sergeant Frederick John Castle
- Flying Officer Robert Scott Chapman
- Sergeant Maurice Leonard Chaundy
- Pilot Officer Frank Clark
- Sergeant John Cochrane
- Sergeant Benjamin Cohen
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Coker
- Flight Sergeant Terence Robert Connatty
- Warrant Officer James Douglas Cook
- Flight Sergeant Ian Charles Cormack
- Sergeant Dennis Bertram Cox
- Flying Officer George Crabtree
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Gerrard Craddock
- Sergeant Stanley Ralph Crate
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Creer
- Flying Officer Douglas Alexander Crosbie
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Thomas Cross
- Flying Officer Charles William Cyril Crowdy
- Flight Sergeant Rowland Henry Crystal
- Sergeant Andrew Peter Curran
- Warrant Officer Class II Cyril Saul Daleski
- Flight Lieutenant Angus Dalrymple
- Flight Sergeant Arthur William Charles Darby
- Sergeant James George Davenport
- Flight Sergeant George Henry Davies
- Lieutenant Johannes Stephanus De Klerk
- Pilot Officer Douglas Robert Dibbins
- Sergeant William Docherty
- Pilot Officer William Draganiuk
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Dunbar
- Flying Officer Lennox Durham
- Sergeant James Alexander Durkin
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Walter Edgar
- Pilot Officer Ian Albert Edwards
- Pilot Officer Thomas Harold Elliott
- Warrant Officer Joseph Elsdon-howard
- Sergeant Francis Etienne
- Flight Sergeant Eric Gordon Morrice Eyres
- Pilot Officer Thomas Worthington Fair
- Flying Officer Neil Joseph Fairbairn
- Sergeant Ernest John Fancy
- Warrant Officer John Duncan Fiddes
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Murray Fiegert
- Flying Officer Lorenzo James Shann Fittock
- Sergeant Norman Louis Forth
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Albert Foster
- Sergeant Gerard Francis French
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Alexander Garden
- Sergeant Robert Cecil Gardner
- Sergeant Henry Gibbs
- Squadron Leader Brian Montgomery Gilmour
- Sergeant Derrick Walter Golding
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Walter Greenwood
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Charles Griffiths
- Warrant Officer Teofil Grynkiewicz
- Sergeant Ronald Guile
- Pilot Officer Francis Winburn Gunn
- Flying Officer Keith Bayfield Hadley
- Pilot Officer Arthur Hansford
- Sergeant Harry Harbron
- Flying Officer George James Harden
- Sergeant Charles Arthur Hargood
- Sergeant Norris Mervyn Harrison
- Sergeant Alfred George Haywood
- Sergeant Gerard John Head
- Flight Sergeant Edward Anthony James Healey
- Sergeant Gordon William Hemming
- Flying Officer Marvin George Henderson
- Sergeant Roy Douglas Hewlett
- Sergeant Mervyn Jack Hicks
- Flight Sergeant William Howard Higgins
- Sergeant Frederick William Hinton
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Charles Hoad
- Sergeant James Gerrard Hodge
- Flying Officer Adolf David Leon Hoffman
- Lieutenant Hogben
- Sergeant Alan Holt
- Sergeant Eric Frank Hopkins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Henry Horobin
- Sergeant John William Hoyle
- Flight Sergeant Frank William Hubbard
- Flying Officer William Paul Hugli
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Herbert Layle Hunter
- Flight Sergeant Norman Jackson
- Sergeant Wilfred Jackson
- Flight Lieutenant Andrew Jameson
- Pilot Officer Sidney Arthur Jeapes
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Irvine Johnson
- Sergeant David Jones
- Flight Sergeant Eric Stanley Jones
- Flight Sergeant Islwyn Jones
- Sergeant Ronald Claude Hamilton Jones
- Flying Officer Henry John Kadwill
- Sergeant Charles Philip Kelly
- Sergeant John Kempson
- Warrant Officer Class I Lawrence Kerr
- Sergeant Bernard Michael Kimber
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Kimber
- Sergeant Frank Desmond King
- Sergeant Alexander Kingsland
- Sergeant Leonard Kirkham
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Robert Knight
- Flying Officer Paul Frank Korbyl
- Pilot Officer Albert Clayton Letcher
- Sergeant Arthur Richard Line
- Sergeant Derek Edward Lister
- Flight Sergeant William Edward Lock
- Sergeant Archibald Maclean
- Pilot Officer Joseph Murdoch Macleod
- Squadron Leader John Keith Macpherson
- Sergeant Harry Arthur Maki
- Flight Sergeant John Haydn Mantle
- Flight Sergeant Hubert Edward Martin
- Leading Aircraftman James Leith Matthews
- Flight Sergeant James Douglas Mayger
- Pilot Officer George William Mayor
- Flying Officer James McCartney
- Pilot Officer Ronald Joseph McGuinness
- Sergeant William McKelvie
- Sergeant John McNeil
- Pilot Officer Murray Langtry McPherson
- Sergeant John Harold McVey
- Flying Officer Arthur Hewitt Milward
- Pilot Officer Allan Murray Minard
- Pilot Officer Patrick Murray Moloney
- Flight Sergeant Roy Skilton Moore
- Pilot Officer Frederick William Morris
- Flying Officer Leslie Lloyd Mortimer
- Flying Officer John Ernest Moyer
- Flying Officer Ambrose Moynagh
- Sergeant Victor James Mudge
- Sergeant Gordon Charles Munton
- Flying Officer William Murphy
- Pilot Officer John McDonald Napier
- Pilot Officer Charles William Joseph Newman
- Sergeant Frederick Roy Nicholls
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Hughie Noakes
- Sergeant Kenneth Craven Oswald
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Joseph Outram
- Pilot Officer Eric Wilton Page
- Warrant Officer Class I Brinsley George Henry Palmer
- Sergeant Donald Parkin
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Edward James Patmore
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Andrew Paton
- Sergeant William Charles Pearce
- Flying Officer James Bernard George (jim) Pezaro
- Warrant Officer Ronald George Pile
- Sergeant John Frederick Plummer
- Pilot Officer John Marshall Polomark
- Flying Officer Charles Rae Porter
- Sergeant George Albert Alexander Pound
- Pilot Officer Eric Nash Powell
- Flight Sergeant Tom Ramage
- Flying Officer Charles Aphonsus Rampant
- Sergeant Dennis Randle
- Flying Officer Alfred Samuel Redmonds
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Leonard Reynolds
- Flying Officer Joseph Rigby
- Sergeant Norman Daniel Rixson
- Flight Sergeant John Maxwell Robertson
- Leading Aircraftman Murray Thomas Robertson
- Sergeant Norman Valentine Neville Robson
- Sergeant Douglas Rolfe
- Pilot Officer Derek Schofield
- Sergeant Frank Shaw
- Flight Sergeant John Lander Shell
- Warrant Officer Stephen James Shepherd
- Sergeant William Shorten
- Flying Officer John Herbert Silvester
- Sergeant John Alfred Edward Skeat
- Sergeant Frank Skelly
- Flight Sergeant Robert Reginald Skipsey
- Sergeant Reginald William Thomas Smith
- Sergeant Ernest Smith Sowersby
- Flying Officer Richard Herbert Sparling
- Flying Officer Thomas Herbert Speller
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Gordon Spencer
- Sergeant Harold Stewart
- Lieutenant Sumner
- Pilot Officer David Reid Tait
- Flying Officer Alan Nicol Tanner
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Taylor
- Sergeant Geoffrey Norman Tebbutt
- Sergeant John Templeton
- Flying Officer John Evan Tinline
- Pilot Officer Douglas Tomlin
- Pilot Officer Zenon Romeo Trudeau
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Joseph Tudehope
- Flight Sergeant Peter Horace Gordon Vincent
- Sergeant Arthur Walter Wade
- Wing Commander James Elmslie Walker
- Pilot Officer Harry Andre Wallis
- Flight Sergeant John Edward Waltham
- Flying Officer David Douglas Watterson
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Robert Waugh
- Warrant Officer Edward Victor Webb
- Flying Officer Reginald Francis Weedon
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Whitehall
- Flying Officer Ronald Charles Wickens
- Flying Officer William Norman Wiegand
- Pilot Officer George Williams
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Charles Alfred Wilmer
- Sergeant Jack Wilson
- Pilot Officer James Smith Wilson
- Sergeant Peter Collinson Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Joseph Winters
- Flight Sergeant Roy Withinshaw
- Pilot Officer John David Wyn-evans
- Flight Sergeant Sydney James Herbert Young
- Pilot Officer James Eugene Zegarchuk
1945
- Flying Officer Lloyd Hilbourne Amos
- Flying Officer Douglas George Baker
- Warrant Officer George Donald Barry
- Flying Officer Allan Bernard Boyd
- Pilot Officer James Edwin Brambleby
- Lieutenant T. J. McD. Breakey
- Lieutenant Francis Bullard
- Pilot Officer Paxton Chapple
- Flying Officer John Duncan Cruickshank
- Pilot Officer Dennis Rupert Humphrey Curzon
- Flying Officer Wilfred Tarquinas De Marco
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Joseph Dilworth
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Blevyn Ely
- Flight Lieutenant Barry Desmond Emmet
- Corporal Daniel Guerin
- Pilot Officer John Robert Hammond
- Flying Officer William Edward Hanna
- Warrant Officer Class II Paul Edouard Adolphe Henrichon
- Flight Sergeant Lewis Ullysess Malcolm Hiatt
- Pilot Officer Earl William Hicks
- Pilot Officer Vernon Earl Hovey
- Pilot Officer Norman Hubert Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Edgar John Lee
- Pilot Officer Carl Herman Livermore
- Warrant Officer Class II Clarence Robert Irwin Mark
- Major Walter Morse Patrick Mathias
- Flight Lieutenant John Trevor McGreal
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Jackson Mellon
- Flying Officer Colin Ross Milne Morrison
- Pilot Officer Joseph Lawrie Outerson
- Flying Officer John Ramsay
- Flying Officer John Douglas Carlisle Ross
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Jules Pierre Raymond Roy
- Pilot Officer Albert Leroy Rutter
- Pilot Officer Lester Leon Slauenwhite
- Flying Officer Murray Charles Slaughter
- Flying Officer James Kent Stanley
- Flight Lieutenant Robert John Stingle
- Pilot Officer Ronald Ignatius Sweet
- Pilot Officer Stanley James Teskey
- Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin
- Warrant Officer Gordon Victor Walker
- Pilot Officer Donald Dudley Westgarth