On this day — 22 May
368 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 22 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer Francis Derek Bird
- Sergeant Charles John Westley Brinn
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard James Britton
- Pilot Officer John Allen Clark
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon Desmond Coles
- Pilot Officer Michael Alexander Craig-adams
- Flying Officer John Phillip Dyer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Angus Whitson Elliot
- Pilot Officer Malcolm John Giles
- Squadron Leader George Freeman Hall
- Sergeant John William Hartfield
- Pilot Officer Malcolm Lessels George Henderson
- Leading Aircraftman Horace Gwyn Jones
- Sergeant John Heaton Lawrenson
- Sergeant Alexander Livingston
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Robin Archibald Lovejoy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Morton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Carter Ogilvie
- Sergeant George Lloyd Payne
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Francis Peel
- Sergeant Frederick Phillipson
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Rosse Pirie
- Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Quarrington
- Pilot Officer Roi Leonard Saunders
- Sergeant Cyril Joseph Shewry
- Sergeant Samuel Frank Simmons
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Scott Torrance
- Flying Officer Owen Lloyd Williams
1941
- Flight Sergeant John William Bishop
- Flight Sergeant Jack Charlesworth
- Leading Aircraftman Knud Borge Norman Rohde Fischer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Selwyn George Gurney
- Flying Officer Peter Saville Handley
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Cecil Redhead
- Flight Lieutenant William Albert Rider
- Sergeant Cecil James McLaughlin Salt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Gordon Tresidder
- Air Mechanic Webster
1942
- Pilot Officer Godfrey William Ardley
- Sergeant Harold Ernest Barton
- Sergeant Anthony Baylis
- Sergeant James Wilfred Beaven
- Sergeant John William Bode
- Flying Officer Philip Gardner Brooks
- Sergeant Aubrey Hubert Cohen
- Pilot Officer Brian Chester Cosham
- Pilot Officer Edward Francis Gregory
- Sergeant David Beaufort Grout
- Flying Officer Kenneth Cradock Gundry
- Pilot Officer Charles Arthur Harris
- Sergeant Cyril Hayton
- Pilot Officer John Hemingway
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Irving Kersten
- Sergeant Stanley John Laws
- Pilot Officer Andrew Donald Mackay
- Sergeant Sydney Richard Mason
- Group Captain Faulkner Michael Vine May
- Pilot Officer Wilbur Charles McLay
- Flying Officer Alan Worsley Moss
- Sergeant Elston John Quirk
- Sergeant Paul Cecil Roll
- Pilot Officer Charles Dobson Rutherford
- Leading Aircraftman Meirion Thomas
- Sergeant Lewis Trunley
- Sergeant Colin Alwyne Vercoe
- Sergeant Arthur Lloyd Williams
1943
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Brentall Beard
- Flying Officer Douglas Vernon Bishop
- Sergeant Stanley Boothroyd
- Flight Sergeant Peter Healey Brand
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Buck
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Alfred Clews
- Flying Officer Roy John Coomes
- Flying Officer Arlie Berton Douglas
- Flight Sergeant Emery Kenneth Edwards
- Flight Sergeant Stanley D. Frewen
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Cyril Fuller
- Sergeant Stanley Godfrey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Albert Greenham
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Joseph Grenon
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Hagan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard Hamilton
- Flying Officer Dudley John Hickey
- Flying Officer Dennis Porter Higgins
- Lieutenant John S. L. Jackson
- Leading Aircraftman William Alfred Kirkham
- Corporal William Alfred Lakeman
- Captain Lanham
- Aircraftman 1st Class Martin Gordon Lansdell
- Sergeant Patrick Joseph Lavin
- Sergeant Donald Norman Law
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Norris Magnusson
- Sergeant Alexander John Marshall
- Sergeant Alfred George McManus
- Corporal Alfred Nelson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peters
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Harry Burdess Porter
- Sergeant George Henry Potter
- Sergeant Norman Potts
- Flight Sergeant James Rennolds
- Sergeant Arthur Harry Murray Schofield
- Flight Sergeant Alexander James Simpson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank John Slinger
- Sergeant Alexander Bertram Stevenson
- Flight Sergeant William Alexander Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Walter Charles Sutton
- Flight Sergeant William Robertson Swan
- Corporal Donald Waugh
- Sergeant William Henry Wild
- Sergeant Hugh Charles Williams
- Sergeant Rees Arthur Williams
- Sergeant Eric Charles Wright
- Lieutenant Ivan William Young
1944
- Flight Sergeant George Frederick Dugald Abayasekera
- Warrant Officer Edmund James Kiely Ahern
- Pilot Officer Arthur John Alcott
- Flying Officer William Victor Amphlett
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Charles Andersen
- Flight Sergeant Allan Andrew Anderson
- Flying Officer Kenneth Edgar Archay
- Flying Officer Roy Eric Ayre
- Flying Officer Douglas Alfred Bacon
- Pilot Officer Ronald Walter Bailey
- Sergeant Lionel Edward John Baily
- Flying Officer Frederick John Baker
- Sergeant Robert Walter Ball
- Pilot Officer Sigmund Bernard Bandur
- Sergeant Joseph Barber
- Corporal Robert Meggison Barker
- Pilot Officer William Baxter
- Sergeant Ernest Cecil Beacham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Maurice Joseph Berry
- Sergeant Robert William Berry
- Sergeant Jack Birch
- Sergeant Charles Bird
- Sergeant Edward Blackburn
- Pilot Officer Davy George Blackmore
- Squadron Leader John Edward Blair
- Sergeant Alexander Neil Blenkarn
- Sergeant William Boyes
- Pilot Officer Roy Robert Brant
- Sergeant James William Broughton
- Flight Sergeant Russell Howard Brown
- Warrant Officer Class II William Earle Brown
- Sergeant Donald Sidney Bruty
- Pilot Officer Arthur Wilbert Chesley Bugden
- Flight Sergeant Edward Lewis Bunce
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Ralph Bunker
- Warrant Officer Edwin William Burrows
- Sergeant Lawrence Buxton
- Flight Sergeant Peter Talmage Cameron
- Sergeant John McDougal Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Robert Hepburn Campbell
- Pilot Officer Henry Joseph Carrington
- Sergeant Leslie Frank Chappell
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Charles Clutterbuck
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Coates
- Sergeant Ronald F. Coleman
- Flying Officer Malcolm Ernest Collett
- Sergeant Thomas Smith Combe
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Wilfred Cooper
- Leading Aircraftman Baden Harry Cooper
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Summers Cornelius
- Sergeant Paul Martin Couturier
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Creed
- Sergeant Thomas Hill Crump
- Sergeant Desmond Roy Morgan Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Horace Sydney Dawson
- Sergeant Kenneth Dickinson
- Sergeant David Dickson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Dodd
- Flight Sergeant Frank Leonard Dolamore
- Flying Officer Leonard Charles Dudley
- Pilot Officer Peter James Dukelow
- Sergeant James Laird Dunbar
- Flying Officer Leslie Ronald Dunham
- Pilot Officer Leslie William Dunn
- Flight Lieutenant Edwin Laurence Eames
- Corporal James Edwards
- Sergeant Thomas Edwards
- Sergeant Harold Ralph Elsbury
- Sergeant Kenneth Albert Essex
- Flying Officer Ivor Glyndwr Evans
- Flying Officer George Ferguson
- Flight Sergeant Allister Archibald Fergusson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Raymond Trevett (ray) Fieldhouse
- Sergeant Lawrence Foulkes
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Gordon Franklin
- Sergeant James Fraser
- Sergeant Alexander Henry Freeburn
- Sergeant John Anthony Freeman
- Sergeant Denis James Fuller
- Sergeant Gallagher
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Graham Garde
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Michael John Leonard Gibbins
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Giles
- Flight Sergeant James Leslie Gledhill
- Sergeant David Anthony Goggin
- Leading Aircraftman George Henry Goodhall
- Pilot Officer Vernon Alfred Goodwin
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Halsey Grant
- Sergeant Arthur Leslie Green
- Sergeant Harold De Cray Griffiths
- Flying Officer Keith Ian Hailey
- Sergeant Joseph Harold England Hales
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Albert Hancock
- Sergeant Kenneth Wilfred Harmer
- Lieutenant Harris
- Pilot Officer James Alfred Harris
- Flying Officer Robert Maxwell Harris
- Sergeant Ralph James Hawksworth
- Flight Sergeant James Mitchell Henderson
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Heptinstall
- Sergeant James Herkes
- Sergeant Gordon Hill
- Sergeant Ronald Charles Hill
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey William Hinde
- Flying Officer Arthur Frederick Hookway
- Warrant Officer Frederick Hooper
- Aircraftman 1st Class Samuel Frank Horwood
- Flight Sergeant David Hughes
- Flight Sergeant Henry Maengwyn Hughes
- Flying Officer Mervyn Royce Hughes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Irvine
- Flight Sergeant Erik Flohr Jacobsen
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Jagger
- Sergeant Sidney Alfred Jarvis
- Flight Sergeant James Ernest Jasper
- Warrant Officer Alan Arthur Jepson
- Squadron Leader George Acheson Bowen Johnston
- Sergeant Halwood Thomas Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Kenneth Jones
- Pilot Officer Thomas Ivor Jones
- Sergeant William Ernest Jones
- Flight Sergeant Alan Lister Kay
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Keating
- Pilot Officer Lester James Kelly
- Sergeant George Henry Kemp
- Sergeant Robert William Kemp
- Leading Aircraftman William James Kerman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hyman Kersh
- Sergeant James Kiltie
- Corporal William King
- Pilot Officer Douglass-smith Kirkwood
- Flight Sergeant Robert Donald Langford
- Flying Officer Harold Joseph Larby
- Sergeant Ronald Victor Lawrence
- Sergeant James Lindsay
- Sergeant Christopher Lister
- Pilot Officer Herman Earl Macduff
- Sergeant Colin Macfadyen
- Flight Sergeant Lewis John Making
- Flying Officer Albert Oswald Mann
- Flying Officer Walter Ernest Marsh
- Sergeant Joseph Marshall
- Flying Officer Albert Frank Mattingley
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Charles Mattocks
- Warrant Officer Albert Francis Mayne
- Sergeant David Alfred William Mayo
- Sergeant John Thomas Eardley McCaffery
- Warrant Officer Norman Neil McDonald
- Flying Officer Reginald Eugene McDougall
- Sergeant Robert McLaren McDougall
- Sergeant George Alan McEwan
- Sergeant Patrick Louis McIver
- Sergeant Ronald Alexander McKay
- Sergeant Andrew Whitelaw McWhirter
- Sergeant Terence John Meehan
- Sergeant John Moffatt
- Pilot Officer Francis Harold Rowlands Moody
- Warrant Officer Geoffrey Arthur Douglas Mould
- Pilot Officer William Robert Harold Moulden
- Sergeant Raymond Ernest Muffett
- Sergeant Martin Ernest Murton
- Flight Sergeant Alan Notley
- Sergeant Patrick Joseph Anthony O'Callaghan
- Sergeant David Reuben Oliver
- Sergeant William Francis O'Neill
- Warrant Officer John Philip Organ
- Pilot Officer Albert Ronald Oxenham
- Sergeant Frank Parish
- Sergeant Arthur Patmore
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Frank Pearse
- Pilot Officer Frederick Leslie Peck
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Harold Percy
- Sergeant Maurice Pickles
- Sergeant Alexander Porter
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Edward Porter
- Sergeant Alec Raymond Potts
- Pilot Officer Murray Edmund Pratten
- Pilot Officer George Edward Prouting
- Sergeant Raymond William Pryce
- Pilot Officer Thomas Dick Quinn
- Sergeant William Black Rankin
- Sergeant Eric Richard Read
- Sergeant Nathaniel Ernest Redhead
- Flying Officer Robert Hall Redshaw
- Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid
- Sergeant Frank Norman Rice
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Richards
- Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Richardson
- Sergeant Leslie Joseph Richardson
- Sergeant Donald Rimmer
- Flight Sergeant Evan Ephraim Edward Roberts
- Pilot Officer Charles Edward Rose
- Flying Officer Edward Hugh Ross
- Flight Sergeant Marshall Brian Rumbles
- Sergeant Anthony Ralph Sealtiel
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Allan Shackell
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Cyril Sharland
- Sergeant Anthony Arthur Short
- Flight Sergeant Claude Bertram Simpson
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Smart
- Sergeant Owen Edward Gilbert Smart
- Flight Sergeant Francis James William Smith
- Flying Officer Howard Wallace Smith
- Flying Officer John Smith
- Sergeant Sidney George Smith
- Sergeant Harry Snowling
- Sergeant James Southern
- Flying Officer Joseph Spector
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Derek Spencer
- Pilot Officer Leonard Spensley
- Flying Officer Thomas Lavenham Spring
- Flight Sergeant William Kenneth Steedman
- Pilot Officer William Sumner
- Sergeant William Adair Swanborough
- Sergeant Arthur Symonds
- Sergeant Ivor Bertram Thomas
- Sergeant Roy Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Lambert Charles Towler
- Pilot Officer Leslie Robert Towsley
- Flying Officer Albert Edward (bertie) Truesdale
- Leading Aircraftman George Jennings Truphet
- Sergeant Frederick Frank Violett
- Sergeant Cyril Wallbank
- Sergeant Bertram Edmund Wareham
- Squadron Leader Arthur Wilfred Watson
- Sergeant Ernest Leslie Watts
- Flight Sergeant Raymond George Watts
- Flight Sergeant Lionel Warwick Weeden
- Sergeant Douglas Bertram White
- Pilot Officer Jack Maxwell Whiting
- Sergeant Thomas Leonard John Whittick
- Pilot Officer Laurence Edward Wilkinson
- Sergeant Benjamin Robert Williams
- Pilot Officer William Jarvis Willis
- Pilot Officer Bernard William Windsor
- Flying Officer William Thomas Woodall
- Flying Officer Trevor Llewellyn Woodgate
- Sergeant Cyril James Woodmass
- Sergeant Gordon Kenneth Woodward
- Sergeant William Arthur John Young
- Flying Officer Thaddeus John Bernard Zadworny
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Stanley Friar
- Squadron Leader Sidney John Hearn
- Warrant Officer Robert Gordon Holford
- Squadron Leader William Thomas Klersy
- Leading Aircraftman Marie Joseph Paul Henri Lavoie
- Flying Officer Clive Everard Miller
- Corporal Milton Ernest Randall
- Warrant Officer John Charles Sowden
- Flying Officer Robert Charles Webb
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth George Wingfield
1946
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Donat Jacques Roger Marceau
- Flying Officer John Scott Meharry
- Corporal Arthur Francis Ryan