On this day — 21 May
281 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 21 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Reginald Edmund Compton Butterworth
- Flight Lieutenant John Noel Collins
- Sergeant Arthur Ernest Craig
- Pilot Officer Terence John Frederick Davey
- Pilot Officer Francis Albert Gabriel Joseph De Labouchere-sparling
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Duggan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gerard Edward Flanigan
- Leading Aircraftman James Henry Gillham
- Pilot Officer Desmond De Courcy Creagh Gower
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Hatt Noble Graham
- Leading Aircraftman Harold George Griffin
- Sergeant George Hawkins
- Sergeant Alfred Harold Hooper
- Sergeant Kenneth William Hughes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Kennedy
- Pilot Officer Cyril Light
- Sergeant Francis Alfred George Lowe
- Flight Sergeant Leonard George Moores
- Pilot Officer Douglas William West Morris
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Thomas Packer
- Pilot Officer Peter McLeod Peace
- Pilot Officer John Connolly Pugh
- Pilot Officer Walter Philip Richards
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Allen Robinson
- Corporal Reginald Augustus Tamblin
- Sergeant Francis Williams
1941
- Sergeant Tudor Beattie
- Sergeant William Calver
- Flight Lieutenant John William Fitzclarence Collins
- Flight Sergeant Douglas John Robert Craig
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Craven
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Michael Fraser Cross
- Sergeant Frank Arthur Culham
- Pilot Officer Count Rudolphe Ghislain De Hemricourt De Grunne
- Sergeant Joseph Arthur Donovan
- Sergeant Ralph Kell Dowse
- Flight Sergeant Howard Walter Easton
- Flight Sergeant Clifford George Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Samuel Ferguson
- Sergeant Meredith Charles Fuller
- Pilot Officer Roy Gibson Gilmore
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred George Hanson
- Sergeant Jeffrey Frederick Harrison
- Sergeant Norman William Hoskins
- Flight Sergeant George Vincent Hoyle
- Pilot Officer Eric Jackson
- Sergeant Maurice George Jackson
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Walter Jennens
- Pilot Officer Ronald Frederick Johnson
- Sergeant Harry Jones
- Flight Lieutenant Marcus Kramer
- Sergeant Vaclav Kriz
- Flying Officer Peter William Lochnan
- Flight Lieutenant Sir Roderic Alan Macrobert
- Sergeant Joseph Frank Matetich
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Metcalfe
- Squadron Leader William John Methven
- Flight Sergeant Archibald McCaughey Morrison
- Pilot Officer David Knaggs Oak-rhind
- Pilot Officer Dallas William Owen
- Sergeant John Arnold Ashley Parker
- Squadron Leader Roy Cecil Phillipps
- Sergeant Thomas Kilner Riley
- Sergeant Leslie Walter Robertson Pryor
- Flying Officer James Clifton Edmeston Robinson
- Air Mechanic Thomas Rose-price
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard Walter Stevens
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald George Stone
- Sergeant Olaf Nicholas Stromberg
- Sergeant Allan Arthur Sutton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert John Tabern
- Flight Sergeant John Robert Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth James Wilkie
- Pilot Officer George Victor Wilson
- Sergeant John Colin Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Wrightson
- Air Mechanic Clifford Exmouth Young
1942
- Sergeant Brian Frank Adams
- Sergeant James Anderson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alan Francis Frederick Angell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ivor George Badham
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Barber
- Flight Sergeant Robert Melbourne Boates
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick John Bowers
- Pilot Officer John Edward Darrell Brewer
- Sergeant Ernest Brocklebank
- Leading Aircraftman James Bullock
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick George Byrne
- Sergeant Thomas Henderson Campbell
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Clegg
- Flying Officer Raymond Aubrey Coates
- Sergeant James Sidney Dewhurst
- Leading Aircraftman Fred Ellis
- Sergeant Eric Pulford Fairgrieve
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest Foxall
- Sergeant George Arthur Gardner
- Leading Aircraftman George Williams Godfrey
- Sergeant Rae Groom
- Sergeant Reginald Kerin Hanley
- Sergeant Donald Francis Hingott
- Pilot Officer George William Holman
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Hutt
- Flight Sergeant Edward Hope Illingworth
- Sergeant Norman Clements Keenan
- Sergeant Ronald Vivian Kerry
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Leslie King
- Leading Aircraftman Victor William Lear
- Sergeant Denis Aloysius Lenihan
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Vernon Lowe
- Leading Aircraftman James Edward Maddick
- Sergeant James French Mark
- Sergeant Alan Bryant Martin
- Pilot Officer Richard Henry Maunder
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick Geoffrey Marshall Overton
- Air Mechanic Papenfus
- Flight Sergeant Charles Parkes
- Leading Aircraftman Michael Ernest Peachell
- Leading Aircraftman David Stanley Peattie
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Edward Randall
- Flight Sergeant William Neil Reeves
- Flight Sergeant Angus Frederick Roberts
- Sergeant Rambler David Roberts
- Corporal Herbert Rushton
- Flight Sergeant Edmund Verner Shaw
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin Cyril Snell
- Flying Officer Paul Eyre Springman
- Sergeant Herbert Swales
- Flight Sergeant Ian Telfer
- Flight Lieutenant Karel Jan Vykoukal
- Pilot Officer Charles Wilcock
- Flight Sergeant George Herbert Wilsher
- Sergeant Thomas Alfred Worley
- Pilot Officer Stanley Gordon James Yarnell
- Sergeant Terence John Yarr
1943
- Sergeant Charles Corringham Adams
- Leading Aircraftman George Charles Adams
- Sergeant James Ashton
- Flight Lieutenant James Edward Atkins
- Flight Sergeant Thomas William Vincent Atkins-tallentire
- Sergeant Herbert Bassnett
- Flight Lieutenant Roderick Russell Herbert Bowes
- Flight Sergeant Terence Joseph Brassel
- Sergeant Alfred Brown
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Burchard
- Sergeant Albert Camps
- Sergeant William Victor Chambers
- Sergeant Thomas Brian Clarke
- Flying Officer Alastair Grant Cleary
- Flying Officer Marshall Bailey Collings
- Sergeant George Thomas Cook
- Pilot Officer Colin Lloyd Cubitt
- Sergeant Ronald Dean
- Sergeant John James Denmeade
- Sergeant William John Dewson
- Flying Officer Henry Edward Dowle
- Sergeant Ian Laddie Duncan
- Sergeant Ernest William Durrant
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Ernest Edwards
- Flying Officer Kenneth Alfred Embery
- Sergeant Edwin Esau
- Flying Officer David John Forrest
- Flying Officer Archibald Douglas Vincent Forsyth
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Forsyth-johnson
- Warrant Officer Jocelyn Friendly
- Sergeant Meg Gedelian
- Sergeant Leslie Trevethan Gibson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Vincent Gregson
- Sergeant Howard Watson Guinter
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Hails
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Charles Halestrap
- Sergeant Ernest William Hall
- Squadron Leader Vernon Ralph Garcia Harcourt
- Leading Aircraftman Alan Vernon Harding
- Sergeant Harry Hubert Charles Harris
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Hatfield
- Flying Officer Kenneth Gladstone Holmes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jesse Hook
- Flight Sergeant Edward Thomas Horner
- Sergeant Graeme Michael Hughes
- Sergeant Charles Peter Hutton
- Sergeant Allan James
- Sergeant Cyril Jones
- Sergeant Jan Kmec
- Sergeant Arthur Frederick Lane
- Sergeant Gregory Carlisle Lawrence
- Sergeant Reginald Peter Leehy
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Lloyd George Littlejohn
- Sergeant Noel Loveday
- Sergeant Bertram Harrington Lowe
- Flight Sergeant Thomas James Macaulay
- Flight Sergeant Oswald Percy Morton
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Wilson Murphy
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Patrick O'Brien
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney James Parris
- Pilot Officer Charles Pigdon
- Sergeant Miroslav Podborsky
- Flight Sergeant Angus Donald Mackay Ross
- Flying Officer Earle James Ross
- Leading Aircraftman William Martin Scott
- Sergeant Walter Henry Arthur Shelvington
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Linford Groves Showell
- Flying Officer Neville Francis Davis Simpson
- Sergeant Alfred George William Smith
- Pilot Officer Reginald James Stokes
- Corporal Harry Garnet Sylvester
- Pilot Officer Eric Douglas Todd
- Sergeant Cyril Edward Tomlin
- Sergeant Geoffrey Herbert Wager
- Sergeant John Stanley Warburton
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Allan Wearn
- Flying Officer Robert Lee Wellington
- Sergeant Arthur Robert Williams
- Sergeant Eddie Wright
1944
- Warrant Officer Frederick William Atherton
- Flight Lieutenant George Edward Bailey
- Corporal Charles Gordon Baker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wenzl Matthew Bayer
- Flight Lieutenant David Patrick Murray Bell
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Golding Bird
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Alexander Bowman
- Air Corporal John Bussio
- Flight Sergeant Robert Dougall Christie
- Sergeant Kenneth Harold John Clarke
- Sergeant Jack Desborough Cowley
- Flight Sergeant Edward Albert Currie
- Warrant Officer Lionel Dellit
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Lipsey Gibson
- Flying Officer Norman Bruce Gill
- Flying Officer William Ferguson Gray
- Sergeant Howard William Hall
- Warrant Officer Class I Walter Henry Harris
- Flight Sergeant George Harrison
- Wing Commander Harry Geoffrey Havyatt
- Flying Officer Arthur Hawker
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Charles Holbrow
- Flight Lieutenant Frank William Jeffrey
- Flight Sergeant Alan Francis Johnson
- Flight Sergeant John Thomas Kerr
- Flight Sergeant Frank Owen Kirsopp
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Crosbie Knight
- Flying Officer John Ainslie George Maslin
- Flying Officer William McTaggart
- Flight Sergeant Augustin Meier
- Flight Sergeant Walter William Moore
- Pilot Officer Leith Chandler Mudge
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Patrick O'Neill
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Park
- Warrant Officer Class II Peens
- Flying Officer George Malcolm Rea
- Flight Sergeant Jack Kenneth Richards
- Pilot Officer John Vivian Charles Roberts
- Flight Lieutenant Samuel Alvin Rodgers
- Sergeant Ernest Jones Rowlands
- Pilot Officer Francis Howard Russell
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Frank Sanden Somers
- Flying Officer Gilbert Langdon Storey
- Pilot Officer Donald Keith Sundercock
- Lieutenant Swart
- Flight Sergeant David Frank Haigh Taylor
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Warren
- Flying Officer Herbert William Watkins
- Flying Officer Charles Reginald Whincup
- Flying Officer George John Wilcox
1945
- Flight Sergeant John Colin William Anderson
- Flight Sergeant Murray Alexander Chalmers
- Warrant Officer Phillip Hector Cormack
- Flight Sergeant Owen William John Davern
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Henry Davies
- Flight Lieutenant Keith Roy Norman Emmett
- Leading Aircraftman Archibald Graham
- Flight Lieutenant John Oswald Graham
- Warrant Officer Ralph Proudlock
- Warrant Officer Ernest Travers Shorter
- Sergeant Lawrence James Starr
- Flying Officer Reginald Lee Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Frederick Theyer
- Flying Officer Warren Lindsay Vaughan
- Flight Lieutenant Rodney Nelson Walker