On this day — 12 May
326 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 12 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant William John Anning
- Sergeant Thomas Todd Atchison
- Sergeant Douglas John Avent
- Sergeant Thomas Roy Barker
- Flying Officer Thomas George Bassett
- Pilot Officer Frederick Sidney Bazalgette
- Flying Officer Charlie Bellis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie Askham Berridge
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Frederick John Bowie
- Flying Officer John Roland Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Christopher Burgess
- Flying Officer John Alexander Campbell
- Pilot Officer Ian Campbell-irons
- Leading Aircraftman William Timothy Cavanagh
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Colby Child
- Sergeant Harry Ian Child
- Sergeant Ronald Henry Claxton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald William Coles
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest William Laurie Cooper
- Sergeant George Frederick Couzens
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Douglas Davies
- Sergeant Thomas William Davis
- Flying Officer Russell Hieland Dingle
- Flying Officer Peter Norman Douglass
- Sergeant Leonard Charles Flisher
- Sergeant Kenneth Douglas Footner
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Joseph Foster
- Pilot Officer Claude Randolph Frankish
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Tebbutt Garbett
- Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland
- Aircraftman 1st Class Benjamin Gill
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Henderson Gourlay
- Pilot Officer Ian Lowrie Gray
- Sergeant Phillip Cole Gray
- Sergeant Thomas Gray
- Sergeant Francis Wynell Gregory
- Sergeant Hubert Ronald Hall
- Sergeant Tom Charles Raymond Harrison
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Henry Hinder
- Flight Sergeant John Bland Horner
- Pilot Officer Tom Hurst
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Casson Jobling
- Sergeant Norman Spencer Denver Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Tudno Jones
- Pilot Officer Osborne Harvey Keedwell
- Sergeant Joseph Belk Keegan
- Flight Lieutenant Andrew Wynyard Lee
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Joseph Lowry
- Wing Commander Arthur Noble Luxmoore
- Sergeant Fred Marland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Richard Mayor
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick Joseph McDonnell
- Leading Aircraftman William Allan McFadden
- Flying Officer Andrew McPherson
- Sergeant Kenneth Mellership
- Sergeant Leonard John Merritt
- Sergeant Neville Craig Middlemass
- Sergeant Montague Moore
- Flying Officer George Barry Morgan-dean
- Pilot Officer Edgar Elliot Morton
- Flying Officer Albert Edward Oakley
- Leading Aircraftman Hubert Frank Over
- Leading Aircraftman William Edward Palmer
- Flying Officer Thomas Hayward Parrott
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Parry
- Sergeant Edward Reuben Perrin
- Leading Aircraftman John Lawrence Perrin
- Leading Aircraftman Terence Poad
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Royston Reynolds
- Sergeant Edwin George Roberts
- Sergeant John Conacher Robertson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Lawrence Rodham
- Pilot Officer Laurence Oliver Rogers
- Leading Aircraftman John Rooney
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander Strachan Ross
- Squadron Leader William Ian Scott
- Aircraftman 1st Class Horace Basil Sewell
- Sergeant Wilfred Owen Shortland
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald James Sloan
- Sergeant Nicholas Frank Smith
- Pilot Officer Norman Alastair Lloyd Smith
- Sergeant Henry Raven Sunderland
- Sergeant Cyril Taylor
- Pilot Officer Stanley George Thornton
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Harry Tyler
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur David Watson
- Sergeant Alan Lawrence Fortescue Webb
- Sergeant Horace David Welch
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Ronald Wells
- Leading Aircraftman Denis Victor Woods
1941
- Sergeant John Shaw Allsop
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Samuel Ardley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfred Edward Armstrong
- Sergeant George Balmforth
- Sergeant Hubert William John Barr
- Flight Sergeant Percy Herbert Beckett
- Sergeant Kenyon Charles Belton
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Leonard Boham
- Sergeant Peter Richard Kenneth Burley
- Sergeant Alfred Ernest Couper
- Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Forrester Davies
- Flight Sergeant Victor Stuart Dodd
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Leslie Draper
- Corporal Frederick William Oliver Dunn
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon Idris V. Eggleton
- Flying Officer Kenneth Patrick English
- Sergeant Roderick William Finlayson
- Sergeant Deryck Fletcher
- Sergeant Donald Laidlaw Forbes
- Sergeant Eric Francis Gannaway
- Group Captain Frederick Frank Garraway
- Sergeant Arnold Walker Gibson
- Sergeant William Hunter
- Sergeant Thomas Webley James
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Arthur Jarvis
- Corporal John Brynmor Jones
- Sergeant John Kay
- Sergeant Edwin Howard Whitley Kemp
- Sergeant Reginald Denis Kirby
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Lackey
- Pilot Officer John Lawson-brown
- Corporal Richard Owen Lenham
- Sergeant Albert Livesey
- Sergeant Norman Robertson Macmillan
- Corporal Kenneth Hamilton Marloth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Martin
- Sergeant Kenneth Bowers Martin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Hector Herbert Meeson
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Ivor Miller
- Sergeant Stalford Keith Mills
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Harry Moody
- Sergeant James Bartle Murray
- Sergeant Norman Ronald Newey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Henry (jack) Norbury
- Leading Aircraftman Edgar James Oxford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alwyn John Richards
- Pilot Officer Raymond Lionel Roberts-brown
- Leading Aircraftman Phillip Melancthon Rowland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Glyn Alexander Sanders
- Sergeant Hubert George Sharp
- Sergeant Stephen Rivington Skerritt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Roy Tipton
- Pilot Officer John Grahame Toplis
- Flight Sergeant Harold Charles Tuckwell
- Pilot Officer Reginald Herbert Vaughan
- Sergeant William Douglas Weir
- Sergeant Stanley Gordon White
- Leading Aircraftman Wood
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Vincent Woolnough
- Flight Sergeant Charles Samuel Wynn
1942
- Sergeant Thomas Bateman
- Sergeant Richard Roland Thomas Christy
- Sergeant John Frederick Crawford
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Augustus Cripps
- Sergeant Bernard Martin Franklin
- Sergeant Charles Edward Graysmark
- Flying Officer Frank Gwyther-jones
- Sergeant George Rufus Joslin
- Sergeant Harold Kay
- Sergeant Robert Charles Luxon
- Air Sergeant Hugh Maclachlan
- Pilot Officer Herbert Robert Mitchell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney John Reynolds
- Flight Sergeant James Thomas Thackham
1943
- Sergeant Frederick Thomas Allen
- Sergeant Robert Edward Allen
- Flying Officer Peter Charles Stuart Bird
- Flying Officer Thomas Booth
- Sergeant Reginald William Thomas Brock
- Leading Aircraftman Reuben Walter Carlier
- Warrant Officer Ralph George Hall Catherall
- Sergeant Joseph Harrington Collett
- Flight Sergeant Harry Alleyn Francis Dickinson
- Sergeant John Angus Douglas
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Emil Elliot
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Foote
- Sergeant Kenneth Henry Green
- Corporal Grenville Charles Hall
- Sergeant John Sidney Harris
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Gordon Harris
- Flying Officer Roderick Harold Hurton
- Warrant Officer Class I Michael Joseph Stuart Kerby
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Vivian Lawrence
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Lowry
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Alexander Wilson McNeil
- Flight Sergeant Eric Burke Monypenny
- Sergeant Jacob Piket
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Ransom
- Sergeant James Albert Scott
- Pilot Officer Albert Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Fred Underwood
- Sergeant Frank Clive Verity
- Sergeant Eric James Washington
- Leading Aircraftman Vivian Arthur Westcott
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice White
- Sergeant John Henry Langley Wilson
- Flight Sergeant James Samuel Yates
1944
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert Harry Agar
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Amies
- Sergeant Philip Amies
- Flight Sergeant Algernon Early William Ayre
- Sergeant Herbert Samuel Baker
- Squadron Leader Clayton Keith Barrett
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Barton
- Sergeant Frederick James Bassett
- Flying Officer Douglas George Bentley
- Sergeant Raymond James Bond
- Leading Aircraftman Sydney James Branch
- Squadron Leader Wilfred Henry Broom
- Flying Officer John Armagh Charles Brown
- Corporal George St. Clair Bryden
- Corporal Francis Edward Bulcock
- Pilot Officer Maurice Bunnagar
- Sergeant John Desmond Cairns
- Pilot Officer James Alexander Carter
- Sergeant Richard Matthew Cartlidge
- Sergeant John Albert Chambers
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey John Reader Clark
- Flight Sergeant Ralph William Clarke
- Flying Officer Desmond Maxwell Cleeve
- Flight Sergeant David Clough
- Warrant Officer David Johnston Robertson Clyne
- Warrant Officer William Thomas Cochrane
- Flight Sergeant George Ernest Coe
- Sergeant John Nicol Craig
- Warrant Officer Gavin John Cronk
- Sergeant Gilbert Frederick Crump
- Sergeant Peter Neller Crutchfield
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John De Lucia
- Sergeant Harold Dewhurst
- Sergeant Thomas Donnachie
- Sergeant Bernard Gordon Easterlow
- Pilot Officer Jack Hilton Eastwood
- Pilot Officer Stanley Frederick Ellis
- Leading Aircraftman Alan Ewans
- Flying Officer Joseph Feldman
- Sergeant Clifford Leslie Finighan
- Pilot Officer Donald Irwin Gage
- Wing Commander Hubert Reginald Goodman
- Warrant Officer Class II Wilber Dixon Goodrick
- Pilot Officer Thomas Alan Goundrey
- Pilot Officer Alfred Frederick Grant
- Squadron Leader John Ritchie Grant
- Sergeant Arthur Peter Gudger
- Flying Officer Kenneth Reginald Hall
- Pilot Officer Alexander Hamilton
- Second Lieutenant Louis Harris
- Sergeant Arthur Ian Henderson
- Flight Sergeant Harold Max Hewett
- Sergeant Patrick William Noel Hine
- Sergeant Ronald Stanley Hollingum
- Flying Officer Arnold Earle Irving
- Flying Officer John Tudor Isfan
- Pilot Officer Alfred Thomas Jackson
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Maxwell Jennings
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Thomas Jones
- Flying Officer Ronald Peter Nicolas Kayser
- Sergeant Eric Ronald Kingman
- Pilot Officer Collin Bruce Lamb
- Flight Lieutenant Howard Douglas Lea
- Sergeant Russell Frederick Leggitt
- Sergeant Ernest Albert Louis
- Captain Lovat
- Corporal Hugh Leith Munro Mackay
- Warrant Officer Joseph Maddison
- Pilot Officer Colin Rupert Marriott
- Sergeant Kenneth Mark Martin
- Flying Officer Roy McLeod
- Warrant Officer Edward Middleton
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Mills
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred Moore
- Pilot Officer William Irwin Moore
- Flight Sergeant Denis Walter Muddiman
- Flying Officer Alexander Jamieson Muir
- Sergeant Harold Edgar Frank Owen
- Sergeant William Arthur Palmer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Parkinson
- Sergeant William Grainger Parry
- Flight Lieutenant Davis Hamilton Perry
- Sergeant Albert Derrick Poole
- Sergeant Keith Lund Ramage
- Warrant Officer Denis Charles Bushman John Riddick
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Riding
- Sergeant Francis Christopher Riley
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Lloyd Robinson
- Pilot Officer Jack Rodgerson
- Sergeant Peter Robert Rowthorn
- Pilot Officer Irvin Trevor Scheelar
- Sergeant Arthur William Seago
- Pilot Officer William Muir Shaw
- Pilot Officer George Edward Sinclair
- Sergeant Albert Stanley Smith
- Pilot Officer Charles Worth Smith
- Sergeant John William Smith
- Sergeant Leonard George Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Barnard Sneddon
- Corporal Geoffrey Stubbs
- Sergeant Eric Edward Tabner
- Corporal Owen Taylor
- Sergeant Leslie St. Clair Thompson
- Pilot Officer James Sydney Thomson
- Sergeant Cecil Reginald Todd
- Sergeant Herbert Stanley Douglas Tulett
- Leading Aircraftman William Tyrer
- Flying Officer William Lorne Vanderdasson
- Second Lieutenant Van Staden
- Pilot Officer Philip Dennis Vickers
- Pilot Officer Stanley Waller
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard Noel Walsh
- Flight Lieutenant Derek Warren
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Kenneth Watson
- Sergeant Ronald George Thomas Watson
- Pilot Officer Wilfred Arthur Watt
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Bennett Webb
- Flight Sergeant Richard White
- Pilot Officer Richard Whitley
- Sergeant John Whittaker
- Sergeant Donald Jack Wilson
- Corporal Edgar George Woodall
- Flying Officer Joseph Henry Zanzottera