On this day — 28 April
510 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 28 April during the Second World War.
1941
- Leading Aircraftman George Edward (teddy) Abbett
- Pilot Officer Bruce Cartwright De Gardanne Allan
- Pilot Officer Herbert Badland
- Squadron Leader David Pringle Barclay
- Pilot Officer Stephen Edward Beloe
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Charles Bennett
- Corporal William Henderson Caldow
- Pilot Officer Sydney George Collier
- Chaplain The Rev. James Ernest Cox
- Pilot Officer Norman Frederick Dawson
- Sergeant Henry Thomas Herbert Downes
- Sergeant Albert Charles Evans
- Flight Sergeant Edward Freeman
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Ellerton Ryan Fry
- Squadron Leader Duncan Charles Frederick Good
- Leading Aircraftman George William Grundy
- Sergeant Albert Horace Henry Hazell
- Sergeant Ronald Towns Henderson
- Sergeant Gordon Wilfred Hickman
- Sergeant John Joseph Hulme
- Pilot Officer Adrian Courtney James
- Wing Commander David Victor Johnson
- Flying Officer John George Keith Long
- Flying Officer Alexander Francis Michael Maclean
- Sergeant John Mingham
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Woolford Morling
- Sergeant Joseph Francis O'Hare
- Sergeant Horace Cuthbert Page
- Sergeant Reginald Ridgman-parsons
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Frederick Ross
- Sergeant John Frederick James Taylor
- Sergeant Norman Frank Taylor
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Thomson
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Walton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cecil Webber
- Pilot Officer John George Embleton Willis
1942
- Sergeant William Yarr Alderdice
- Sergeant Eric Annable
- Flying Officer Richard John Askwith
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Charles Atkins
- Sergeant Sydney Walter George Avent
- Pilot Officer Valden Leonard Bailey
- Corporal Albert Banyard
- Sergeant John Wallace Barber
- Sergeant Ralph Batman
- Leading Aircraftman Percival Francis Blackmore
- Pilot Officer Carl Olaf Bodding
- Sergeant Hubert Allan Booth
- Flying Officer John William Lloyd Botting
- Flight Sergeant Brian Walter Bowman
- Flight Sergeant Derek Arthur Bryant
- Sergeant George William Butterworth
- Flying Officer George Cornelius Buxton
- Sergeant Ivor Wyndham Chance
- Flying Officer Laurence Guy Chick
- Pilot Officer John Charles Clarke
- Sergeant John Robert Cowan
- Flight Lieutenant Barry Mortimer Cox
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Crouch
- Corporal Robert William Crowe
- Sergeant George Anthony Dale
- Sergeant Frederick Joseph Dodd
- Sergeant Edward Birley Downs
- Sergeant Iorwerth Edwards
- Pilot Officer John William Spencer Fletcher
- Pilot Officer Thomas Gordon Foley
- Flight Sergeant Charles Ernest Forrest
- Sergeant Phillip Coldham Fussell
- Leading Aircraftman Lionel Albert Gale
- Sergeant William Charles Garland
- Sergeant James Garroway
- Sergeant Albert John Glaister
- Sergeant Arthur William Greer
- Pilot Officer Franklin Burton Grundy
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Hancock
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Norman Hardaker
- Flight Sergeant Gordon James Hardy
- Sergeant Leslie Godfrey Harris
- Pilot Officer Lewis James Hartley
- Pilot Officer Gerard John Peter Henry
- Pilot Officer Frank William Gosnell Hill
- Sergeant Thomas Hindle
- Sergeant John Richard Hoskins
- Sergeant Aubrey George Hutchinson
- Sergeant Allan John Hyde
- Squadron Leader John Francis Jackson
- Sergeant Walter James Jewell
- Flight Lieutenant John Goodsir Mackid
- Pilot Officer Russell John Majeau
- Sergeant William George Marsh
- Sergeant Francis Robert Edwin McCarthy
- Pilot Officer John McFarlane
- Sergeant Bernard John McGinn
- Pilot Officer Frank Alan Mitchell
- Sergeant Peter Cant Morris
- Sergeant Ernest Clive Morrison
- Sergeant Henry Francis Neary
- Sergeant Gordon Kenneth Moyle Newman
- Sergeant William Nicoll
- Sergeant Eric Stanley Normore
- Sergeant Gwilym Thomas Owen
- Sergeant Robert Stanley Parker
- Flight Lieutenant Michael Reginald Mark Pooles
- Sergeant Frederick Wilberforce Potts
- Sergeant John Potts
- Sergeant Donald Edgar Rarity
- Sergeant Maurice Ben Remfry
- Pilot Officer Joseph Albert Richard
- Warrant Officer Harold Robinson
- Sergeant Thomas Kenneth Robinson
- Sergeant Cyril Frederick Russell
- Warrant Officer Leonard Charles Salter
- Flight Sergeant George Sanderson
- Flight Sergeant Jacob Adam Schweitzer
- Flying Officer George Edward Carrington Seale
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Alfred Searle
- Sergeant Gerald Anthony Simpson
- Corporal Reginald Bernard Snashall
- Sergeant Herbert Harry Stott
- Sergeant John Richard Stukins
- Sergeant Gordon Herbert Surridge
- Air Mechanic Swart
- Sergeant Harry Taylor
- Pilot Officer Dermont Vigors Thesiger
- Sergeant Christopher William Turner
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Alexander Welsh
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Charles Alfred West
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward George Wheadon
- Sergeant Harold Frank Vernon Wheway
- Sergeant Robert White
- Pilot Officer Gerald Bickle Whitney
- Pilot Officer Alfred Wilkinson
- Flight Sergeant David John Williams
- Sergeant Fernley Thomas Williams
- Sergeant John Patrick Williams
- Sergeant Allan Wilstrop
- Sergeant William Alan Winthrop
- Pilot Officer James Edward Wood
1943
- Warrant Officer Class II James Gordon Acker
- Sergeant James Arthur Laurence Allan
- Sergeant Thomas Arthur Allen
- Sergeant Raymonde Derek Balfour
- Sergeant Eric Frank Banks
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Frederick Berridge
- Flying Officer Charles John Bickham
- Flight Sergeant Eric Stuart Blake
- Sergeant John Albert Bolton
- Sergeant Arthur William Bond
- Sergeant Charles Henry George Boxall
- Flight Sergeant William Leslie Fred Brian
- Sergeant Archibald William Brighurst
- Flight Sergeant Ross Cameron Buckley
- Flying Officer Joseph Edward Leo Cantin
- Flight Sergeant John William Carley
- Sergeant Robert Wilson Carlton
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Catterick
- Sergeant David Church
- Sergeant Herbert Clegg
- Flight Sergeant William John Clemow
- Sergeant Arthur Clover
- Warrant Officer Michael De Beauchamp Collenette
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Bernard Turville Cooper
- Sergeant Henry George Corin
- Sergeant James Frank Cowburn
- Sergeant Edward James Culley
- Warrant Officer Harry Edgar Cutten
- Flying Officer Peter Ewart Davison
- Sergeant Alfred Gordon Debenham
- Sergeant Walter Gilbert Dent
- Sergeant Richard Norman Dixon
- Sergeant Daniel Driscoll
- Sergeant Norman David Ensor
- Sergeant Kenneth Frank Erne
- Sergeant Arthur Allan Fitzpatrick
- Sergeant Maurice Albert Gibson
- Sergeant Stanley Ernest Benjamin Gillam
- Flight Sergeant Robert Russell Gourde
- Sergeant Andrew Graham
- Sergeant Daniel Brooke Griffiths
- Sergeant Joseph Stanley Grocock
- Pilot Officer Nathaniel Robert Gyles
- Sergeant Keith Halliburton
- Pilot Officer Douglas Vincent Hamer
- Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Hammond
- Sergeant Harry Pears Holme
- Flying Officer William Henry Hopkins
- Flying Officer Louis Charles Hoslin
- Sergeant Harry Dennis Houghton
- Sergeant Alexander Clunie Howell
- Sergeant Victor Charles Howes
- Sergeant Patrick Torre Hunter
- Flying Officer Ralph Reginald James
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Gordon Keech
- Warrant Officer Class I Alan Lionel Keith
- Leading Aircraftman Evan John Kite
- Sergeant Peter George Leach
- Leading Aircraftman James Lemmon
- Sergeant George Len Lennox
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick William Letchford
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Edward Lewis
- Sergeant William Michael Richardson Lloyd
- Wing Commander Graeme Eaton Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant John Duncan Duthie Mackie
- Sergeant Charles Al Fred Margerum
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred Martin
- Sergeant Dugald McLachlan
- Sergeant Eric Mitchell
- Pilot Officer Reginald Donovan Mix
- Warrant Officer Class II Franklin Guy Moore
- Sergeant Neville George William Morris
- Sergeant Frederick Arthur Moulton
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Joseph Charles Murphy
- Leading Aircraftman Stephen Octavius Nethercot
- Lieutenant Trevor George Nicholas
- Flying Officer Raymond Harry Nicholls
- Flight Sergeant Graham Charles Nichols
- Sergeant Jack Norman
- Sergeant Roy Edgar Norris
- Warrant Officer Class II James Michael Barry O'Connor
- Sergeant Edward John Offer
- Sergeant Geoffrey Albert O'Hea
- Sergeant Donald Jasper Park
- Leading Aircraftman William Parker
- Pilot Officer Jim Cunningham Paroissien
- Flying Officer Cyril Vincent Parsloe
- Flying Officer Otto Pavlu
- Corporal Arthur Platt
- Flying Officer Ian Douglas Prebble
- Warrant Officer Class II William Edward Ernest Priddin
- Lieutenant Quilliam
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Stanislaus Reen
- Pilot Officer Richard David Roberts
- Pilot Officer Ian Ronald Robertson
- Sergeant Desmond Ray Ross
- Pilot Officer Ronald Drinkwater Ryan
- Sergeant Leslie Thomas Scarfe
- Pilot Officer Arthur Reginald Schofield
- Sergeant Claude Brownlie Scott
- Warrant Officer Roy Claude Sherrington
- Sergeant Malcolm Edward John Shogren
- Sergeant Devinder Singh Sidhu
- Sergeant Peter Skoblack
- Squadron Leader David Lawrence Small
- Warrant Officer Class II George Kenneth Alfred Smallwood
- Flight Sergeant William Sprowell
- Sergeant Joseph William Stotter
- Flight Sergeant Keith Robinson Stratton
- Flight Sergeant Archibald McColl Sutherland
- Sergeant Eric Norman Sykes
- Flight Lieutenant John Lawrence Taylor
- Flying Officer Norman Charles Taylor
- Leading Aircraftman Mervyn Hugh Ernest (terry) Thomas
- Pilot Officer James Mellon Traynor
- Air Sergeant Van Der Schyff
- Sergeant Johannes Jacobus Veldsman
- Sergeant John Walls
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Herman Washer
- Flight Sergeant Edward Waterman
- Flying Officer Thomas Charles Wheelhouse
- Sergeant John Herbert Whitehart
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Ernest Julien Wilmet
1944
- Sergeant Robert Harold Aiano
- Pilot Officer Oscar Jacob Albrecht
- Flying Officer William Wilson Alexander
- Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Allen
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Amey
- Sergeant William Gowland Anderson
- Pilot Officer James Lever Atherton
- Warrant Officer Class II Arthur John George Barnes
- Sergeant Robert Dennis Parker Barrett
- Flying Officer Edward Bashi
- Sergeant Francis Henry Bathmaker
- Pilot Officer William John Bell
- Sergeant Hubert Francis Benbow
- Pilot Officer William Walter Bigoray
- Flying Officer Robert Johnstone Blake
- Pilot Officer Robert Alexander Booth
- Flying Officer Leslie Walter Bown
- Flight Sergeant James Sydney Bradley
- Sergeant John Vincent Bramhall
- Pilot Officer Harold Arthur Alexander Breeze
- Warrant Officer Class II John Donald Bremner
- Flying Officer Ian Mackenzie Briscoe
- Flying Officer Michael Broadhurst
- Sergeant Frank Colin Brown
- Flight Sergeant George Henry Brown
- Sergeant James Arthur Buncher
- Sergeant Robert Edward Burgum
- Flying Officer John Woollatt Burrows
- Flying Officer John Raymond Burton
- Flying Officer Rodney Sigsworth Campsall
- Flying Officer Marmion Wilfred Carroll
- Sergeant Philip Charles Carter
- Sergeant Douglas George Champkin
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Chaplin
- Flying Officer Peter Ernest Chilman
- Warrant Officer William Thomas Claridge
- Sergeant Ross Lewis Clark
- Flight Sergeant William George Clark
- Flight Sergeant Eric Raymond Clayworth
- Pilot Officer Nicholas Hugh Clifford
- Sergeant Herbert John Alexander Coates
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Collier
- Pilot Officer John Joseph Cooke
- Pilot Officer Alfred Ernest Stanley Cooper
- Sergeant Leslie Cotton
- Sergeant Leo Coughlan
- Pilot Officer Vincent Joseph Cownden
- Flight Lieutenant Maurice Ivan Cox
- Flying Officer Philip James Crank
- Sergeant Gordon Cranston
- Sergeant George Partridge Croad
- Flight Sergeant Walter James Thomas Crossman
- Sergeant Eric Alfred Cryer
- Flight Sergeant Wilbert Cully
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Evan David Davies
- Pilot Officer Harry Walter Davis
- Flying Officer Laurie Daniel Deloughry
- Flight Lieutenant John Reginald Dodds
- Warrant Officer Edward Terence Donovan
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Dootson
- Sergeant John Dorrity
- Pilot Officer Paul Edward Driver
- Pilot Officer Edmund Ronald Dujay
- Pilot Officer Reginald Earnshaw
- Sergeant John Gordon Eastman
- Group Captain Eric Cecil Eaton
- Sergeant John James Eaton
- Flying Officer William Ralph Ellwood
- Flight Lieutenant William Glyn Evans
- Sergeant William Leonard Evans
- Warrant Officer Allan John Farrar
- Sergeant Basil Forshaw
- Flying Officer Thomas Rex Forsyth
- Pilot Officer Leslie Arthur Foster
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Grant Foulkes
- Flying Officer Kenneth Gordon Franklin
- Pilot Officer Albert Lloyd Gabel
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Lloyd Gardiner
- Sergeant John William Germing
- Flying Officer Raymond Leslie Gibson
- Pilot Officer John Gilson
- Squadron Leader Leslie Henry Glasspool
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Dennis Goldingay
- Sergeant John Gommo
- Pilot Officer Stanley Herbert Goulding
- Sergeant James Graham
- Pilot Officer Gordon Templeton Greig
- Flight Sergeant George Quist Hansen
- Sergeant John Alfred Hargreaves
- Sergeant Royce Desmond Aubrey Harmsworth
- Flying Officer Hector Ronald Harrison
- Sergeant Edward Hope Hastie
- Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Havill
- Pilot Officer Royal Edwin Hazael
- Flight Sergeant Matthew Roland Henderson
- Sergeant Charles Arthur Hensey
- Flying Officer Robert Weir Herron
- Sergeant William John Heward
- Flight Sergeant Alexander John Hine
- Lieutenant Neville Howes
- Sergeant Charles Ashton Howson
- Pilot Officer Ian Walter Hunter
- Sergeant Ernest John Hurr
- Flying Officer Richard Bertram Idiens
- Flying Officer Francis Gordon Jackson
- Sergeant Laurence Jakeman
- Sergeant Charles Albert James
- Squadron Leader Eric George Delancey Jarman
- Sergeant John Elliot Johnson
- Sergeant Aubrey Thomas Grenville Jones
- Sergeant Thomas Evans Jones
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Keenan
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Stanley Keeping
- Flying Officer John William Kerr
- Flight Lieutenant Colin Alfred Kidd
- Sergeant William Royle Kinder
- Sergeant Desmond King
- Sergeant Stanley George Kingsmill
- Sergeant Leonard Ernest Laird
- Sergeant Robert Malcolm Lane
- Sergeant Robert Bernard Laroche
- Warrant Officer Joseph Leary
- Sergeant Stanley Lee
- Sergeant John Richard Lees
- Flying Officer John Iorwerth Gedrych Lewis
- Warrant Officer Robert Lilley
- Sergeant Lockhart Beatson Little
- Wing Commander William Guy Lockhart
- Sergeant Vincent Lodge
- Flying Officer Dale Howard Loewen
- Squadron Leader Victor Charles Lovell
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard George Lyford
- Flight Sergeant William Mabon
- Sergeant Robert Macbeth
- Flight Lieutenant Gerald Frederick Maffre
- Sergeant Edward George Arthur Marnham
- Squadron Leader John Lionel Martin
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Mathews
- Flight Sergeant Henry Gillon McAllister
- Sergeant Simon McCallum
- Pilot Officer James Ronald McClelland
- Sergeant John McGlynn
- Pilot Officer Roderick Austin McIvor
- Flying Officer Euan Wilfred McLachlan
- Flying Officer John Milton McLay
- Flight Sergeant Gordon William McLean
- Sergeant John McQuater
- Flying Officer Allan Roger Meakin
- Flight Sergeant Robert Alexander Meek
- Pilot Officer Joseph Bass Miller
- Sergeant William Milner
- Sergeant James Morgan
- Flying Officer Horace John Morris
- Flight Sergeant John Anthony Murphy
- Flying Officer Ronald Leslie Neal
- Warrant Officer Bertram Bernard Noble
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Herbert Patrick O'Neill
- Sergeant John James Opie
- Sergeant Leonard Percival Oughton
- Flying Officer Gordon Hewlett Parker
- Pilot Officer Donald Arthur Pastorius
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Robert Patterson
- Sergeant Walter Reginald Percival
- Flying Officer Hubert William Pond
- Sergeant Roy Stanley Pountney
- Sergeant Norman Henry Powell
- Pilot Officer Richard William Pratt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Andrew Fair Pryde
- Sergeant William Alfred Pullen
- Flight Sergeant Marcel Louis Quadry
- Flight Lieutenant David Ramsay
- Sergeant Arthur Bernard Randall
- Sergeant Sebastian Rennie
- Pilot Officer Robert Burns Ridley
- Sergeant Stanley James Rigden
- Sergeant Herbert Rimmer
- Pilot Officer John Riordan
- Sergeant David Band Robertson
- Pilot Officer Warwick Neville Rose
- Flight Lieutenant Lewis Rothwell
- Flight Sergeant Albert George Rowland
- Sergeant Kenneth Rowley
- Flight Sergeant Walter Henry Rumney
- Sergeant Robert Baillie Russell
- Squadron Leader George Ryle
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Richard Sampson
- Sergeant Roger John Sampson
- Pilot Officer Gerhard Edgar Herbert Schultz
- Flying Officer Robert George Sharland
- Sergeant James Shearer
- Flight Sergeant Edward Fanahan Sheehan
- Sergeant Frank Wells Shields
- Flight Lieutenant Alexis Louis Silverman
- Warrant Officer Keith Alfred Smith
- Sergeant Maurice George Smith
- Flight Sergeant James Ethelred Smythe
- Sergeant Edwin George Sneyd
- Pilot Officer Grenfell William Snow
- Flight Lieutenant Sinclair Joseph Roberts Soper
- Pilot Officer Robert Henderson Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Lenard William Stringer
- Flight Lieutenant Panico Hercules Christopher Theodosiou
- Sergeant James Harold Thomas
- Flight Sergeant Eric Moore Thompson
- Sergeant Robert John Thompson
- Flying Officer Charles William Eric Tiplady
- Pilot Officer Kenneth David Tucker
- Pilot Officer Edmund Arthur Vigor
- Sergeant Alfred Harvey Brooks Wadham
- Flying Officer Philip Wadsworth
- Sergeant Robert Wallace
- Sergeant John Arthur Warburton
- Flight Lieutenant James Andrew Watson
- Sergeant Robert Watson
- Sergeant Bernard Henry Watts
- Sergeant John Fenwick Weatherell
- Sergeant Leonard Francis Webb
- Sergeant Allan Mackay Weir
- Sergeant Alec White
- Sergeant Stanley White
- Sergeant George Wise Whitley
- Flight Sergeant James William Willesden
- Flight Sergeant George Herbert Williamson
- Sergeant John Wilson
- Pilot Officer John Wilson
- Sergeant George Wood
- Sergeant Kenneth George Wooden
- Pilot Officer William Edwin Woodrow
- Flying Officer Albert Edward Young
1945
- Flight Sergeant Verle Edmond Cline
- Flying Officer Ross Vernon Day
- Corporal Edwin George East
- Flight Lieutenant Norman William Guy
- Pilot Officer John Learned Ives
- Flying Officer Bruce Douglas McBride
- Flying Officer Richard Knut Ourom
- Flight Sergeant Ross Earl Reynolds
- Flight Sergeant Frederick John Simpson
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Patrick Terpening
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert George Thomas
- Flying Officer John Donald Travis
- Pilot Officer Peter Gledden Turner
- Pilot Officer John Grylls Watson
- Sergeant James Roy Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Williams
- Flight Sergeant Donald Roger Wilson