On this day — 27 April
472 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 27 April during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Sergeant Thomas John Air
- Sergeant Walter Barrie Angell
- Sergeant Derek William Arnold
- Sergeant Richard William Channer
- Pilot Officer Richard Hope Crush
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Benjamin Cutts
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Stanmore Davis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Hugh Ross Elder
- Sergeant James Golding
- Flight Sergeant John Ernest Goldsmith
- Sergeant Frank Goodchild
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Clifford Grundy
- Sergeant Gilbert Townsend Hall
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Neville William Mackie
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick William Edward Morrison
- Sergeant Eric George Norman
- Sergeant Stanley O'Connor
- Leading Aircraftman John George Permuth
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Harry Proudman
- Sergeant John Strachan Ramsay
- Sergeant Andrew Roland Rennie
- Sergeant William Keith Thompson
- Pilot Officer William Richard Aelwyn Walters
- Flight Lieutenant James Charlton Whittall
- Sergeant Frederick James Younger
1942
- Aircraftman 1st Class Norman Atkin
- Pilot Officer Ernest Derrick Bailey
- Sergeant Gilbert Baker
- Sergeant Frederick Bennett
- Sergeant Harold James Bennett
- Sergeant Victor George Bolam
- Sergeant William John Brandon
- Sergeant Leonard Branton
- Pilot Officer Henry Brener
- Pilot Officer Phil Clive Budd
- Sergeant John Douglas Burnley
- Sergeant Oswald Lindsay Clubb
- Sergeant George William Craft
- Sergeant Raymond Day
- Sergeant Vincent Arthur Doran
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Percy (harry) Duval
- Flying Officer Montague David Ellerton
- Sergeant Lloyd Francis Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Benjamin Arthur Flatt
- Flying Officer John Flynn
- Flight Sergeant Denis Gilligan
- Pilot Officer Tom Gordon Grantham
- Sergeant Donald Handford
- Pilot Officer Frederick Speed Haslett
- Sergeant John Hindle
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Nellis Hodgins
- Sergeant Alfred James Victor Holman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James George Hull
- Sergeant Eric Charles Inder
- Sergeant Clifton Hartman Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Frederick Jordan
- Sergeant Zdenek Kothera
- Flight Lieutenant George Richard Lane
- Pilot Officer Marie Joseph Robert Larcher
- Corporal Francis Kenneth Lewis
- Sergeant William Keay Falconer Marshall
- Sergeant John Richard Martin
- Sergeant Eric McDermott
- Sergeant Hugh Money McHarg
- Sergeant Robert Paxton Moore
- Sergeant Wilfred George Mutton
- Flight Sergeant Marshall Edmund Parbery
- Sergeant Alan Penman
- Sergeant Arthur Pope
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Royal Potter
- Flight Lieutenant Rudolf Rohacek
- Sergeant John Brian Rohr
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Maclean Rowlings
- Sergeant Terence James Savage
- Sergeant George Scully
- Sergeant Ronald Marcus Sutton
- Pilot Officer James Handiside Thomson
- Pilot Officer Thomas Neville Tree
- Sergeant Edmund Albert Trickey
- Pilot Officer Ronald Benjamin Underwood
- Sergeant Douglas Charles Ellis Upjohn
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Walker
- Flying Officer Harry Heustis Weeks
- Flight Sergeant Walter Charles Wicker
- Pilot Officer George Winstone Wilkinson
- Flight Sergeant Vivian Alquin Willetts
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Spencer Agnew
- Flight Sergeant Clarence David Alder
- Sergeant Bernard Patrick Ashcroft
- Sergeant Sidney Ronald Atwill
- Sergeant George Harold Austin
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Mohamed Slyman Awad
- Leading Aircraftman Charles William Baker
- Sergeant Arthur Alexander Barbour
- Sergeant Henry Lewis Barnes
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Henry Barnes
- Sergeant Donald Samuel Barrett
- Sergeant Kenneth Templeton Bates
- Sergeant Howard Beck
- Sergeant Eric Walter John Bennett
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Lloyd Bentley
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred James Bird
- Sergeant Raymond Jack Blackie
- Sergeant Colin Niven Bonar
- Sergeant John Scott Boyce
- Sergeant James Riby Boyes
- Sergeant James Bradley
- Flying Officer John Joseph Brennan
- Flight Sergeant Clifton Macleay Brigden
- Sergeant Malcolm Penvil Brown
- Sergeant Sydney Crowther Brown
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Brownlow
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Walter Westlake Bull
- Flight Sergeant Wesley Victor Chittock
- Sergeant Jack Clegg
- Sergeant Ronald Francis Cocking
- Sergeant Alan Arthur Collins
- Sergeant Kenneth Bryan Cooke
- Flight Sergeant Lorne Ronald Coutts
- Pilot Officer David Edward Crockatt
- Leading Aircraftman Duncan Croker
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Albert Dackombe
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Allen Davies
- Pilot Officer Chester Brockie Dixon
- Sergeant Stanley John Duckenfield
- Flight Sergeant Francis John Duffy
- Sergeant Guy Fisher
- Flying Officer Noel Douglas Fleming
- Sergeant George Frederick Fletcher
- Sergeant William Foley
- Pilot Officer Edward Austin Nixon Foster
- Sergeant Henry Orlando Foster
- Pilot Officer Ernest George Francis
- Sergeant Ernest Samuel Frostwick
- Sergeant Ronald Eric Funnell
- Flying Officer Claude William Gebhard
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Edward Genower
- Sergeant Kenneth Alfred Leslie Giles
- Sergeant John Gillespie
- Sergeant Geoffrey John Glare
- Sergeant Orval Kenneth Glascock
- Sergeant Ernest Gilbert Goodfellow
- Warrant Officer James George Grainger
- Flight Sergeant Bryant Francis Kingdom Green
- Sergeant William Donald Griffith
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Aylmer Hamlet
- Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Hanan
- Sergeant Eric Thomas Dunn Hardee
- Sergeant Robert Edward Hardingham
- Sergeant Frederick George Harris
- Sergeant James Alfred Hawkins
- Sergeant Samuel Hawkins
- Warrant Officer Class II Werner Charles Hencke
- Sergeant William Holding
- Sergeant William Alfred Hollett
- Pilot Officer Robert William Joseph Hudson
- Sergeant James Reid Hunter
- Flying Officer Basil Paul Malcolm Hyland
- Sergeant Brian Hugh James
- Sergeant Benjamin Bryn Jones
- Sergeant Iorwerth Beynon Jones
- Sergeant Bertie Frederick Keable
- Sergeant Gordon Verdon Keane
- Flight Sergeant Frank Sydney Lane
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Langdale
- Flying Officer Raymond Henry Larkins
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Edward Lavallee
- Sergeant Norman Law
- Sergeant Victor George Leak
- Sergeant Walter Scott Lees
- Flying Officer Leopold Ernest Lindsey
- Sergeant Edwin Giles Litchfield
- Sergeant George Lyle
- Flying Officer Ian Fraser Mackenzie
- Flight Lieutenant Horace Michael Dermott Magill
- Pilot Officer John Robert Marriott
- Sergeant James Nelson McHarrie
- Sergeant Alfred Dawson McKilligan
- Sergeant Donald Gordon McNab
- Pilot Officer Harvey Minnis
- Sergeant Roy Mucklow
- Sergeant Robert Ronald Munro
- Sergeant Thomas Eric Musto
- Flight Sergeant Earl Lloyd Newburg
- Sergeant Kenneth Oatridge
- Pilot Officer Francis Edward O'Hare
- Sergeant Alexander Waddell Pate
- Sergeant Isaac Abraham Penner
- Sergeant George Clare Peters
- Pilot Officer Arnold Lloyd Pollard
- Sergeant Albert Leonard William Pond
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Edwin Powis
- Sergeant Frank Theodore Pratt
- Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Hugh Purchase
- Pilot Officer John Downing Pye
- Sergeant Kenneth Eric Rabbitt
- Sergeant James Leo Readman
- Sergeant Brian Arthur Rogers
- Pilot Officer Arthur Cecil Sawdy
- Sergeant Richard George Henry Sees
- Warrant Officer Class II Stewart Sleeth
- Sergeant Fred Noel Slingsby
- Flight Sergeant James Allan Smith
- Sergeant William Charles Snook
- Sergeant William Henry Stacey
- Sergeant William Stevenson Stanbury
- Sergeant James Stephen
- Sergeant Raymond William Stockton
- Flight Sergeant John Maynard Stone
- Flight Sergeant John Lawrence Stordy
- Sergeant Clifford Clarence Strain
- Flight Sergeant Arnold Hildrew Swanson
- Pilot Officer Arthur Edward Taylor
- Flying Officer Eric George Louis Thompson
- Sergeant George Kenneth Thompson
- Sergeant Norman Thompson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Thornton
- Sergeant Charles Edward Thorpe
- Sergeant Wilfred Arthur Timms
- Flying Officer Michael Tuckwell
- Flying Officer Philip Alsop Walker
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Harold Watters
- Flight Sergeant Donald Herbert Waugh
- Sergeant Leigh Gordon Webster
- Sergeant Douglas Weight
- Sergeant John Raymond Wells
- Sergeant Thomas Alfred Wells
- Sergeant Gordon Charles Whittaker
- Sergeant William Alfred Willis
- Sergeant Joseph Wilson
- Sergeant John Wood
- Sergeant William Harold Woods
1944
- Flight Sergeant Royston John Edward Adey
- Flight Lieutenant Clifford Arthur Lawrence Allen
- Leading Aircraftman Donald David Alliston
- Sergeant Frank Iron Anderson
- Flight Sergeant Lionel David Anderson
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Gow Armstrong
- Leading Aircraftman Edward James Bailey
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Frederick Balham
- Sergeant Alan Beattie
- Flying Officer Andrew Allan Bell
- Flight Sergeant Duncan Neilson Bell
- Pilot Officer Cyril Arthur Bishop
- Leading Aircraftman Hugh Cecil Blinman
- Sergeant Denis Booth
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Boswell
- Sergeant Fred Ernest Bowler
- Sergeant Robert James Boyce
- Squadron Leader Michael Innes Boyle
- Pilot Officer Harold Arthur Brad
- Flying Officer Reginald Maurice Brooks
- Warrant Officer Class II George Bryson
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Percival Butler
- Warrant Officer Class II Graham Frederick Butson
- Flying Officer Gordon Buxton
- Pilot Officer Esmond Russell Caldwell
- Flying Officer Peter Ross Callahan
- Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Cannon
- Flight Sergeant Ernest George Cass
- Sergeant Donald Walter Chick
- Sergeant Henry David Clark
- Flight Sergeant John David Clark
- Pilot Officer Robert Fraser Cluff
- Squadron Leader Albert Leslie Collett
- Sergeant David Norman Collins
- Pilot Officer William Frederick Collins
- Sergeant Dennis John Cooper
- Pilot Officer Alwyn Trevor Cox
- Sergeant Walter Edmond Crawford
- Flight Sergeant Noel Vaughan Creighton
- Flying Officer Wesley Elmore Cummings
- Flying Officer John Walter Charles Darvall
- Flying Officer Percy George Davis
- Sergeant Alan Davison
- Flight Sergeant John Leslie Davison
- Sergeant Percy John Daw
- Pilot Officer John Russell Dickinson
- Pilot Officer Harold Dixon
- Flight Sergeant Irvine Irwin Donovan
- Flight Sergeant Eric Colston Doram
- Sergeant Stephen Nelson Dougan
- Sergeant Charles Duerden
- Sergeant Harold Edward Dyerson
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Roy Dyment
- Sergeant John Ellenor
- Sergeant Douglas Edgar Endean
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Evans
- Sergeant Ward Thomas Falan
- Flight Sergeant Selwyn Fawcett
- Pilot Officer Lewis Leslie Feindell
- Sergeant Jack Clarke Fell
- Sergeant Edward John Fletcher
- Sergeant Eric Fletcher
- Pilot Officer Frank Smith Folley
- Squadron Leader John Charles Noel Forshaw
- Sergeant Sidney Frederick Foster
- Flight Sergeant Robert Day Frame
- Sergeant Kenneth Frank
- Flying Officer Robert Frazer
- Pilot Officer Derek Peter Garraway
- Sergeant David Gemmell
- Sergeant James Harry Gilbert
- Sergeant Hyman Goldberg
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Arthur Cornelius Goodwin
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Gore
- Pilot Officer Douglas Thomas Greatrex
- Warrant Officer Edmund William Green
- Sergeant Henry Greenfield
- Leading Aircraftman John Grier
- Sergeant Thomas Howell Brian Griffiths
- Flight Lieutenant Guy Godfrey Charles (nip) Gunzi
- Flight Sergeant Cyril William Hagerty
- Sergeant Richard Beetham Hainsworth
- Flying Officer Thomas David Halbert
- Pilot Officer Edward Charles Bisset Harper
- Sergeant Kenneth George Fuge Harvey
- Sergeant Ernest Ambrose Hatch
- Sergeant Harry Reginald Healey
- Flying Officer Andrew Gillespie Hendry
- Pilot Officer Robert Elliot Hendry
- Sergeant Joseph William Higdon
- Pilot Officer Leslie Holden
- Sergeant William Leslie Holford
- Sergeant Alan Stanley Hollands
- Sergeant Charles Herbert Holmes
- Warrant Officer Class II James Chandler Horne
- Flight Sergeant William Houghton
- Leading Aircraftman William George House
- Flying Officer George Joffre Huddart
- Sergeant Eric Furlow Hudson
- Sergeant Robert Hall Hudson
- Sergeant John Irons
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Wilson Irwin
- Sergeant Leonard George Alfred Izod
- Sergeant Robert Davidson Jack
- Sergeant Wallace Henry (wally) Jenkins
- Flight Sergeant Norman Hugh Johnson
- Pilot Officer Walter Stanley Jones
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony George Randall Kayll
- Flight Sergeant James Philip Keenan
- Warrant Officer Class II Leonard Thomas Kennedy
- Pilot Officer William Edward Kewley
- Pilot Officer Joseph Seddon Kilgour
- Pilot Officer George James Langridge
- Sergeant Roy William Laybourne
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Grant Leask
- Sergeant George Douglas Lees
- Pilot Officer John William Lethbridge
- Sergeant George Stanley Longmate
- Sergeant David Arthur Loveday
- Warrant Officer Class II Norman Alexander Freeman Mackenzie
- Pilot Officer Pierre Joseph Benoit Morel Madore
- Sergeant John Dennington Manley
- Flying Officer Hugh Mason
- Sergeant Stanley Mason
- Flying Officer John Edward Mathias
- Sergeant Lionel W. John Maynard
- Flying Officer William Ross McClung
- Warrant Officer Robert Maxwell McCrabb
- Flight Sergeant James George McGarva
- Flying Officer Clifford Douglas McIvor
- Sergeant Alexander Strathern McJannett
- Flying Officer Alfred Thompson McKay
- Flight Sergeant John Andrew McKerrow
- Pilot Officer George James Mee
- Flight Lieutenant John James Spencer Mellar
- Sergeant Robert Middleton
- Flying Officer Frederick Manuel Mifflin
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Mirfin
- Sergeant Andrew John Mitchell
- Pilot Officer James Agnew (donald) Moffat
- Pilot Officer Robert Montgomery
- Flying Officer Gregor Stephen Moore
- Pilot Officer Thomas Harrison Morris
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Moxham
- Sergeant Alexander Rattray Muir
- Flight Lieutenant James Findlay (jim) Muir
- Squadron Leader Anthony O'Shea Murdoch
- Flight Sergeant Walter Alexander Napier
- Flight Sergeant William Conrad Napier
- Flying Officer Harold Newell
- Pilot Officer George Edwin Nicholls
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Leslie Nichols
- Flying Officer Arnold Rex Oates
- Flying Officer Gordon William Oldham
- Flight Sergeant Raymond George Osborne
- Sergeant Terence Parkin
- Sergeant Eric Frank Parry
- Flight Lieutenant John Charles Paterson
- Flight Sergeant Patmore
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Pearson
- Pilot Officer Henry Thomas Peebles
- Flight Lieutenant Allen Pennington
- Flying Officer Leslie William Petts
- Flight Sergeant Alan Pickstone
- Flight Sergeant Roy Pinkett
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth John Pinnell
- Sergeant Herbert Eugene Pollard
- Warrant Officer Class I John Milton Potter
- Flying Officer Jack Stephen Pritchard
- Flight Sergeant Francis Patrick Morgan Quinn
- Flying Officer William Keith Raby
- Sergeant John Howard Rees
- Sergeant Stanley Rickard Reeve
- Corporal Leslie George Reynolds
- Flying Officer Dennis Stuart Richards
- Sergeant Richard Archibald Kilgour Riddle
- Sergeant George Albert Robinson
- Flying Officer Everett Raymond Rognan
- Flying Officer Philip Finnis Rowe
- Flight Sergeant John Rutzki
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Richard Sampson
- Flying Officer Jack Wellington Sharpe
- Pilot Officer Frank Shepherd
- Sergeant Alexander Kelso Shiels
- Sergeant Anthony Bert Hayward Sims
- Sergeant Claude William Frank Sizer
- Sergeant Donald James Skeites
- Pilot Officer Gordon John Leslie Smith
- Flying Officer Lawrence Lindsay Smith
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Smith
- Sergeant Douglas Edwin Spencer
- Pilot Officer Sidney Richard Stead
- Flying Officer Arthur Keith Steinbeck
- Pilot Officer William George Stevens
- Warrant Officer Class I Reuben Alexander Storbakken
- Sergeant Reginald Frank Tearle
- Flight Sergeant William Justin Theyer
- Flying Officer Dirk Everard Tolley
- Flying Officer George Turton
- Sergeant Walter Upsall
- Flying Officer Nickolas Vlassie
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Wale
- Sergeant Frank Birkett Walker
- Sergeant Cyril Waller
- Sergeant Kenneth Norman Ward
- Sergeant George Henry Warren
- Sergeant John Ernest Watson
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Oswell Watts
- Sergeant Maurice Webb
- Sergeant Maurice James Webber
- Flight Sergeant Robert Ford Whinfield
- Sergeant Melvyn White
- Warrant Officer Alfred Whitehouse
- Sergeant Gilbert Wheeler Whittles
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Amesbury Wickham
- Sergeant Harold Wild
- Pilot Officer James Hargreaves Wilkinson
- Flight Lieutenant David Laing Williams
- Sergeant William Frederick Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Richard George Yeaman
1945
- Flying Officer Charles Frederick Brown
- Warrant Officer Gordon Henry Dixon
- Flight Sergeant Robert Slessor Geddes
- Flying Officer Eric Hurrell
- Pilot Officer Albert Roy Knight
- Flying Officer Herbert Oswald Krause
- Warrant Officer Alister Donald Miller
- Second Lieutenant Nienaber
- Warrant Officer Ronald Stanley Gilbert Raynel
- Lieutenant Gordon H. Richardson
- Leading Aircraftman William Sone
- Flying Officer Ernest Leonard Weary
- Warrant Officer Class II C Paul Weitz
1946
- Leading Aircraftman James William Bentley
- Air Mechanic Arthur George Salmon
- Warrant Officer Class I Stoddart
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Noel Wilden