On this day — 17 May
328 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer George Edgar Auld
- Sergeant Alexander Bell
- Pilot Officer Severin Christensen
- Sergeant Joseph Kenneth Crawley
- Sergeant Arthur George Bernard Crouch
- Corporal Thomas Henry Cummins
- Pilot Officer Anthony Michael Dillon
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Raymond Victor Ettershank
- Sergeant Frank Fearnley
- Flying Officer Alexander Moresby Gofton
- Pilot Officer James Joseph Grierson
- Pilot Officer Leslie Montagu Hamilton
- Corporal William George Houston
- Pilot Officer Francis Stanley Jackson
- Warrant Officer Harold Alfred James
- Flight Lieutenant Harvey Bell Jasper
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Robert Kean
- Sergeant Albert Vernon Knowles
- Sergeant David John Lees
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas McClenaghan
- Sergeant Frederick Stanley Miller
- Leading Aircraftman Raymonde Morris
- Sergeant Reginald Edward Newbatt
- Leading Aircraftman John Patrick O'Reilly
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Hedley Patterson
- Sergeant Joseph William Paul
- Sergeant Alfred Norman Phillips
- Flying Officer John Easton Pidcock
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Rosslyn Price
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Gordon Reed
- Corporal Allen Glyndwr Richards
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred George Sims
- Flight Lieutenant George William Campbell Watson
- Flying Officer Edward Ellis Alexander Wood
- Sergeant Francis Charles Wootten
1941
- Pilot Officer Dennis Knox Atkinson
- Sergeant Charles Edward Bushford
- Sergeant William Archibald Campbell
- Squadron Leader Anthony William John Clark
- Sergeant John Oliver Ross Collins
- Pilot Officer Leslie Ernest Henry Cooper
- Pilot Officer Graham Hardy Cotton
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Cowan
- Sergeant Malcolm James Courtland Craig
- Sergeant David George Crichton
- Sergeant Thomas William Archibald Crone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Dawson
- Sergeant Eric Patrick Diaper
- Flight Sergeant Jack Townley Dunmore
- Sergeant Ernest David Foster
- Sergeant George Dixon Gray
- Sergeant Kenneth Gray
- Pilot Officer Stuart James Harvey
- Sergeant William Charles Henning
- Sergeant Richard Samuel Keith Hickmott
- Flying Officer Paul Sydney Hirst
- Pilot Officer Thomas Riley Hodgson
- Sergeant Hugh Arthur Hounam
- Flight Lieutenant George Gordon Hyde
- Leading Aircraftman William Thomas Innes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Kane
- Sergeant Erl Joseph Kean
- Sergeant Arthur Gordon Knight
- Pilot Officer Stanley Michel Kolendorski
- Flying Officer Iain Robertson Macdiarmid
- Sergeant Leslie B. Mitchell
- Sergeant Eric Richard Payton
- Sergeant Ernest Ronald Peacock
- Sergeant Norman Brook Pell
- Sergeant Alfred Pepper
- Sergeant Ronald Albert Petter
- Flight Sergeant George Wallis Radford
- Sergeant Albert Edward Sanne
- Sergeant Philip Savage
- Sergeant John Frederick Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Percy Edward Spice
- Pilot Officer Raymond John Tearle
- Sergeant James Whitbread
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Bert Williams
1942
- Sergeant William Edwin Ackerman
- Sergeant Stanley Mansel Angelo
- Flying Officer Rodney Bainbridge Archer
- Sergeant James Henry Baillie
- Pilot Officer James Arthur Baraw
- Sergeant Ernest Bates
- Sergeant Matthew Bates
- Sergeant Miroslav Borkovec
- Flight Sergeant William Columba Boyle
- Sergeant Cyril Brown
- Sergeant John Owen Butcher
- Sergeant Barry Cain
- Sergeant Gordon Clelland
- Corporal Thomas Ashall Clifford
- Pilot Officer William Ernest Coates
- Pilot Officer Gordon Willard Coldwell
- Sergeant Stanley Alan Collins
- Sergeant William Collins
- Sergeant Raymond Colvin
- Pilot Officer Ernest Clayton Corbett
- Sergeant Cyril Johnson Crozier
- Sergeant Geoffrey Matthew Culley
- Sergeant John Currie
- Pilot Officer Ronald Arthur Duce
- Sergeant Maurice Daniel Duggan
- Sergeant Orville Norman Elwell
- Flying Officer John Acheson Esler
- Flight Lieutenant Stanislav Fejfar
- Pilot Officer John Redvers Fisher
- Sergeant John Francis Vincent Ford
- Sergeant Robin Jack Fraser
- Pilot Officer Reginald Philip Gent
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Terrence Healey
- Sergeant Thomas Snowdon (tot) Heron
- Warrant Officer Dennis Carrington Hide
- Sergeant Stanley James Hoare
- Sergeant Peter John Lascelles Hoyle
- Sergeant George Jefferies
- Flight Sergeant David North Keeling
- Flight Sergeant Robert Alec Linford
- Flight Sergeant Donald Charles Macdonald
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Anthony Major
- Pilot Officer Edward Patrick McDevitt
- Sergeant Ernest McDonald
- Warrant Officer Class I Kenneth Lendon McDowell
- Pilot Officer Graeme McLean
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Henry Mercer
- Warrant Officer Class I Alan Hubert Andrew Morris
- Pilot Officer Peter Alfred Nash
- Flight Sergeant Eric Neal
- Flight Sergeant Frederick David Lloyd Oakwell
- Flying Officer John Robert Paisley
- Sergeant Frederick William Parkin
- Sergeant Robert McIlwraith Paton
- Pilot Officer William Shannon Peake
- Flight Sergeant James Phillip
- Flight Sergeant Frank Pikula
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Roydon Poe
- Sergeant Geoffrey Rysdale
- Sergeant Alberto Sackman
- Pilot Officer John Franklin Victor Saunders
- Leading Aircraftman William Wesley Slater
- Sergeant Alfred Henry Smith
- Sergeant William Alan Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Malcolm G. Stables
- Wing Commander Edward Blakeway Steedman
- Sergeant William Thomson
- Sergeant Hugh Nicholas Wanostrocht
- Flight Sergeant Walter Hopkins Webster
- Sergeant Jack Weston
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Wilcock
- Flight Sergeant Gwilym Willis
1943
- Sergeant Percy Ronald Annetts
- Warrant Officer Class II James Lamb Arthur
- Flight Lieutenant William Astell
- Sergeant Harry Kenneth Barker
- Warrant Officer Arthur Barnes
- Flying Officer Jack Kenneth Barrett
- Flying Officer Alexander Chalmers Barrie
- Sergeant Jiri Bleier
- Sergeant Richard Bolitho
- Flying Officer Robert George Bowley
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Gordon Brady
- Sergeant Charles Brennan
- Flying Officer Robert Bridge
- Pilot Officer Lewis Johnstone Burpee
- Sergeant Norman Rupert Burrows
- Pilot Officer Vernon William Byers
- Sergeant John Hamilton Casstles
- Flying Officer Victor James Corless
- Warrant Officer Class II Alden Preston Cottam
- Flight Sergeant Robert Cross
- Warrant Officer William Patrick Daly
- Sergeant Terence Henry Doran
- Flying Officer Kenneth Earnshaw
- Warrant Officer Christopher Lynton Edwards
- Sergeant Morgan Edwards
- Sergeant Gerald Douglas Evans
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Charles Fermor
- Sergeant William Black Flemington
- Sergeant Alan John Francis
- Pilot Officer Michael John David Fuller
- Flight Sergeant Francis Anthony Garbas
- Warrant Officer Class II Abram Garshowitz
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Henry Giles
- Flying Officer George Henry Ford Goodwin Gregory
- Flight Lieutenant John Albert Guest
- Sergeant Jack Guterman
- Sergeant John Leopold Hamilton
- Sergeant George Edwin Harmes
- Sergeant Ronald Hartley
- Air Mechanic Alfred Harvett
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Thomas Hawkins
- Sergeant Ernest Charles John Hill
- Sergeant Jack Hamilton Hogg
- Flight Lieutenant John Vere Hopgood
- Flying Officer Donald Hopkinson
- Sergeant David Taylor Horsfall
- Flying Officer Anthony Hunt
- Sergeant Wilfred Ibbotson
- Warrant Officer Class II George Bertram Jackson
- Warrant Officer John Edward Jackson
- Sergeant Thomas Jaye
- Sergeant Robert Eric Lowden Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Barr Johnston
- Warrant Officer Joseph Colwyn Kelly
- Sergeant John Kinnear
- Sergeant William Charles Arthur Long
- Flying Officer Vincent Sanford Maccausland
- Sergeant John Marriott
- Sergeant Ronald Marsden
- Squadron Leader Henry Eric Maudslay
- Sergeant Herbert George Horatio McCready
- Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Keith McKenzie
- Pilot Officer Norman James McLeod
- Sergeant John William Minchin
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil James Frederick Morgan
- Leading Aircraftman James Murdoch
- Sergeant James Herber Newton
- Sergeant Lawrence William Nichols
- Flight Sergeant John Bedford Norman
- Sergeant Archibald Orr
- Pilot Officer Warner Ottley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Melvin Parsons
- Squadron Leader Thomas Wylie Patrick
- Sergeant James Andrew Pearce
- Sergeant Guy Pegler
- Corporal George Verdun Bell Penman
- Sergeant Leonard Raymond Perriss
- Pilot Officer Harry Rhodes
- Flying Officer Kenneth Lovett Ridings
- Flight Sergeant Charles Walpole Roberts
- Flying Officer Jean Baptiste Normand Roy
- Sergeant Kenneth John Sampson
- Sergeant David Seigal
- Sergeant Harry John Strange
- Sergeant Raymond Khalil Tewfik
- Flying Officer William John Tytherleigh
- Flight Sergeant David John Underwood
- Flying Officer Robert Alexander Urquhart
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Charles Warnes
- Flying Officer Keith Cameron Wathen
- Sergeant Gerald Henry Charles Watkins
- Pilot Officer Leonard George Weller
- Flight Sergeant John Edward Whelan
- Warrant Officer Jack Bernard Whyte
- Pilot Officer Floyd Alvin Wile
- Flight Sergeant James Watson Wilmore
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Geoffrey Wilson
- Sergeant Leslie Charles Wright
- Sergeant Gordon Arthur Yeo
- Squadron Leader Henry Melvin Young
1944
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander James Baldwin
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Barrett
- Sergeant Norman Bingham
- Corporal John Thomas Bootland
- Flying Officer Victor Charles Carter
- Flying Officer Douglas Arthur Cass
- Lieutenant Chaplin
- Pilot Officer John Wemyss Clark
- Corporal John Claypole
- Sergeant Cyril Rupert Coe
- Lieutenant Douglas John De Villiers
- Flight Sergeant William Henry England
- Sergeant Kenneth Foster
- Warrant Officer Arthur Gleghorn
- Squadron Leader Norman Glew
- Warrant Officer Ross Hardie
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Percy Hebbes
- Sergeant Stanley George Hill
- Sergeant William Hoffie
- Flight Lieutenant John Maurice Holder
- Pilot Officer Gerald Stott Howorth
- Sergeant Allan Wilfred Huppe
- Warrant Officer Lancelot Jearey
- Major Job
- Flying Officer Bernard Ellis Knight
- Flying Officer Adrian Charles Edward Lance
- Flying Officer Norman Liddle
- Sergeant Frederick Jesse Luxford
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Mackinnon
- Warrant Officer Allan Henry Marsh
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Marshall
- Pilot Officer Frederick Ethelbert William Mayhew
- Pilot Officer Harold Gregor Milne
- Flying Officer Hubert Moran
- Leading Aircraftman Percy John Morley
- Pilot Officer Frederic Graham Murray
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Lawrence Patrick O'Gorman
- Air Commodore Reginald Pyne
- Second Lieutenant Cedric Llewellyn Rogers
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Siggins
- Pupil Pilot Emil Smit
- Sergeant Donald William Smith
- Flight Sergeant Eric James Smith
- Lieutenant Stuart
- Flying Officer George Albert Turnage
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edmund Turner
- Flight Lieutenant John Duncan Ward
- Second Lieutenant Hermanus Abrance Whitcher
- Flying Officer John Joseph White
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Haig Williams
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Michael Wolowiec
1945
- Sergeant Arthur Ronald Armstrong
- Flying Officer Tom Tate Biltoft
- Flying Officer Lionel James Brown
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Rupert Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman Clarence Albert Cheney
- Flying Officer Archibald McLaren Clark
- Flying Officer Herbert James Clark
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Augustine Reginald Gamble
- Flying Officer Orwin Rene Gillette
- Flying Officer Harold Alfred Jones
- Flying Officer Herbert Archibald John Jones
- Flying Officer William James Long
- Flying Officer Colin Montague Manning
- Group Captain James Allardyce Mitchell
- Flight Lieutenant John William Rice
- Sergeant Harry Riley
- Flight Sergeant Angus Francis Wilson Torbett
- Flight Sergeant Brony Trymbulak
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Alexander Vincent
- Corporal Keith Walter Werner
1946
- Wing Commander George Laurence Bazett Hull
- Squadron Leader John Stuart Macdonald
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Rigby
- Corporal George Lyle Richard Robinson