On this day — 15 May
209 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 15 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer Leslie James Ashfield
- Wing Commander Ernest Cecil Barlow
- Pilot Officer Peter Knowles Bone
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Bromley
- Flight Lieutenant Mark Medley Carter
- Sergeant Edward Clarke
- Pilot Officer Charles Douglas Crawley
- Sergeant William Joseph Cronin
- Flying Officer John Ernest Edwards
- Pilot Officer Trevor John Edwards
- Flying Officer Neville Johnson
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Johnson
- Sergeant Steven Francis Henry Keene
- Flight Lieutenant Brian Rutter Kerridge
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Francis Lucas
- Sergeant Francis Wallace McKinlay
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Ernest Millard
- Sergeant Cyril Arnold Morgan
- Pilot Officer Alan Christie Ollerenshaw
- Leading Aircraftman John George Pickard
- Corporal Frank Preston
- Pilot Officer Donald Sprague Ross
- Pilot Officer Samuel Anthony Compton Sibley
- Pilot Officer Edward Alan Vagg
- Leading Aircraftman Rae Stuart Wass
- Sergeant Charles Thomas White
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Wightman
- Sergeant James Leslie Clutton Williams
- Sergeant Douglas Wolstenholme
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Bell
- Flight Lieutenant Gerald Oscar Ladler Bird
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Blundell
- Sergeant Joseph Brissenden
- Sergeant William Keith Clarke
- Pilot Officer William McGregor Cooper
- Sergeant Harry Crawford
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Dale
- Sergeant William Vernon Fillingham
- Sergeant Erle Rutherford Fremlin
- Leading Aircraftman Alec Haigh
- Sergeant Wallace Patrick Hannigan
- Sergeant Bertram Arthur Headland
- Sergeant Michael John Hopkins
- Flight Sergeant Edward Hughes
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth John Hutt
- Sergeant Harold King
- Aircraftman 1st Class Clifford Gordon Latham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie Alfred Latter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward James Lock
- Leading Aircraftman Henley Anzac Hadwell Manns
- Sergeant Reginald Percival Mayers
- Sergeant John Cooper Gunn McGuffie
- Sergeant James Lyle Newton
- Sergeant Peter Norman Nutt
- Pilot Officer James Flockhart Thom Ogilvie
- Sergeant Reginald George Pyatt
- Sergeant Charles David Ripsher
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Robson
- Sergeant Donald Weston Rose
- Sergeant Peter John Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Hamilton Charles Stewart Vetch
- Sergeant Cecil Norman Weller
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Walter Wilson
- Sergeant Ernest Victor Wynne
1942
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Forbes Alger
- Pilot Officer Samuel Richard Balden
- Sergeant John James Carthew
- Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Cook
- Flight Sergeant Wilburt McLarty Crane
- Pilot Officer Cyril Cresswell
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph William Daubner
- Flight Sergeant Raymond James Dillon
- Flight Sergeant Norman Clifford Doehn
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Wesley Dreyer
- Leading Aircraftman George William Martin Duncan
- Pilot Officer Arthur Rodolphe Roland Farley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Fenger
- Leading Aircraftman Archibald Athron Ford
- Flying Officer Milton Melrose Forster
- Sergeant Walter Fox
- Sergeant Eric Greenwood
- Pilot Officer William Alfred Haliburton
- Pilot Officer William Ian Hannam
- Sergeant Herbert Frederick Hearle
- Flight Sergeant Roland Tulk Hobby
- Flying Officer Ronald Henry Imeson
- Flight Sergeant Melvin Knight
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Frederick Macnutt
- Flight Sergeant Donald McDonald
- Sergeant William Dudley Palmer
- Flight Sergeant Aston James Walter Pottle
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Herbert Rowland
- Flight Sergeant Leighton Ogilvie Scott
- Aircraftman 1st Class Max Seals
- Pilot Officer Lloyd Newton Skinner
- Sergeant Norman William Smith
- Pilot Officer Alphonse Leon Dudley St. Aubin
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Kaysbrook Tilley
- Flight Sergeant George Arthur Tooth
- Pilot Officer John Frederick Wemyss-smith
- Sergeant William Douglas Witham
1943
- Flying Officer Dick Meldrum Alfred Banton
- Sergeant Thomas Edward Baxter
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Patrick Boyle
- Sergeant Thomas Joseph Campbell
- Sergeant Henry Hamilton Carter
- Sergeant Obadiah Cave
- Flight Lieutenant Gerald Arthur Church
- Sergeant Ernest Leslie Clark
- Pilot Officer George Herbert Cone
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Ernest Creasey
- Flight Sergeant Harold Arthur John Cummings
- Sergeant George Arthur Cure
- Sergeant Arthur Reginald Davis
- Sergeant Richard Lionel Deacon
- Sergeant Keith Thomas Devery
- Sergeant Franklin Matthew Dickinson
- Sergeant Eric Rowland Dixey
- Sergeant Alec Edgar
- Sergeant Gruffydd James Evans
- Pilot Officer Ernest George Farrow
- Warrant Officer Class I Harold Clifford Ferguson
- Flight Sergeant Donald Murray Gibson
- Flight Sergeant Charles Loxley Harris
- Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Haynes
- Sergeant John Clem Hedge
- Flying Officer Arthur John Hibberd
- Flight Sergeant Richard Kevin Holmes
- Sergeant Reginald Carl Horsley
- Pilot Officer Trevor Jones Hughes
- Flight Sergeant Lewis Wyndham Jones
- Sergeant William Wilson Kirby
- Flying Officer William Thompson Lane
- Flight Sergeant Jean Paul Denis Leclerc
- Sergeant Gordon Stone Lee
- Flying Officer William Leslie Leeman
- Flying Officer Trevor Arthur Ley
- Flight Lieutenant John Harrington Loder
- Flight Lieutenant Lyn Bertram Madden
- Warrant Officer Eugene James Maycock
- Sergeant William Lloyd McDowell
- Squadron Leader George Vernon Miscampbell
- Sergeant Alun Milsom Morgan
- Pilot Officer Cameron Dickson Myers
- Flying Officer Thomas Arthur Newbery
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Henry O'Brien
- Leading Aircraftman Gilbert Earl Park
- Sergeant James Richard Parkes
- Sergeant George Frederick Parris
- Pilot Officer George William Paul
- Warrant Officer Class II Francis Joseph Payne
- Sergeant Alan John Polfrey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald William Purdy
- Air Mechanic Randall
- Air Mechanic Bertram H. Randall
- Sergeant Cyril Ray
- Sergeant Thomas Blundel Rimmer
- Flying Officer John William Robb
- Flight Sergeant John Alfred Rolfe
- Flight Sergeant Edward William Rusby
- Sergeant Arthur William Sayers
- Sergeant Charles Edgar Sheppard
- Sergeant Joseph Shields
- Flight Sergeant David Smart
- Corporal Ernest Smith
- Sergeant George Taylor
- Sergeant James Ernest Taylor
- Sergeant John William Waters
- Flying Officer Joseph Henry Gray Watson
- Sergeant Arthur Edward Whittall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Joseph Whorwood
- Squadron Leader Dennis Fiennes Wykeham-martin
1944
- Sergeant Norman Frederick Alsop
- Pilot Officer Deryck Hunter Bond
- Flight Sergeant Wallace Bruce Burton
- Pilot Officer William Francis Crosbie
- Flying Officer John Anthony Edgar
- Warrant Officer Andre Emile Eid
- Flying Officer John Manson Finnie
- Sergeant Geoffrey Bernard Gaunt
- Pilot Officer Eric Geoffrey Harman
- Sergeant Douglas William Harrison
- Sergeant Kenneth John Holton
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Elwyn Hopkin
- Pilot Officer Gordon John Henry Hughes
- Flying Officer Kenneth Scott Johnson
- Sergeant Joseph Andre Lanouette
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Mair
- Sergeant Gordon Keith McLellan
- Flight Sergeant David Motherwell
- Pilot Officer Peter Albert Nash
- Flying Officer George Scott Oliphant
- Flight Sergeant James Edward Paddison
- Corporal Norman Partridge
- Sergeant Alfred Arthur Phillips
- Warrant Officer Antonin Prvonic
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Rhodes
- Warrant Officer Class I Jack Tass
- Flying Officer Cyril James Taylor
- Flying Officer Robert Douglas Warren
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Gordon Young
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Easter
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert John Krampp
- Pilot Officer James Arden Milne
- Flying Officer Lionel Ernest Nixon
- Air Commodore Edward George Olson
- Corporal Harold Shillito Perry