On this day — 23 May
438 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 23 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Peter Arthur Merrick Burrell
- Pilot Officer William George Edwards
- Flying Officer John William Graafstra
- Sergeant Edward Hibbert
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney Jarvis
- Sergeant Stanley William Jenkins
- Sergeant Peter William Josse
- Sergeant Paul Henry Klipsch
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Daniel Knowlton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Lawton
- Pilot Officer Patrick Alexander George Learmond
- Wing Commander John Griffith Llewelyn
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Maddy
- Pilot Officer Garfield Alexander Madore
- Sergeant Alan Marsh
- Pilot Officer James Graham Masters
- Corporal Frank McCormack
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Ledoux McLaren
- Pilot Officer John Robertson McLaren
- Pilot Officer Richard Atheling Sanders
- Sergeant Clifford William Thompson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Willie Thornton
- Flight Sergeant Eugene Tucker
- Second Lieutenant Pieter Warden
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Matthew Whelan
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Rex Whittle
- Pilot Officer Albert Edgar Wickham
1941
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Evelyn Brodie
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Brooks
- Flying Officer Robert Bruce
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Cecil Bryant
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon James Burkle
- Flying Officer Reginald Stephen Collis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Michael George Fernau
- Sergeant Patrick Field
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald William Gautrey
- Corporal Andrew Brown Gillan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Goulding
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Howarth
- Aircraftman 1st Class Archibald Thomas Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Miles Kelsall
- Sergeant Leslie Littlefair
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Granville Anderson Marsh
- Sergeant Peter Godfrey Marsh
- Flight Sergeant John Roy Massey
- Warrant Officer Sylvester George McCabe
- Aircraftman 1st Class Howard Stephen McKeown
- Sergeant Harold John Mew
- Flight Sergeant John Newell
- Pilot Officer Stuart Charles Niven
- Leading Aircraftman Sydney Percival Palmer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Emerson Addison Parker
- Corporal Charles Penneyston
- Leading Aircraftman Brian Hugh Richards
- Sergeant John Rowe
- Pilot Officer Robert Edward Sears
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter Stanley Story
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Edwin Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Oswald Burnell Thompson
- Sergeant Leslie Seymour Tipper
- Pilot Officer Paul John Vincent
- Corporal Eric Wickett
- Leading Aircraftman Colin Higson Wylde
1942
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Ernest Adams
- Flying Officer David Searle Ambrose
- Pilot Officer Leslie Joseph Ronald Back
- Flying Officer Leonard William Bangley
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Brannam
- Sergeant Brian Robert Bright
- Lieutenant Callaghan
- Sergeant William Muir Cameron
- Sergeant Donald Perry Carruthers
- Sergeant Beverley Kilgour Chandler
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Everard Coleman
- Sergeant Douglas George Colley
- Flight Lieutenant James Constabaris
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Ernest Richard Cotton
- Sergeant Arthur Collins Davie
- Sergeant Edward Charles Hibbs Doherty
- Sergeant Clifford Albert Downing
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Alfred Driver
- Sergeant Donald Eugene Engemoen
- Flying Officer Leonard Charles Fenly
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Francis Germein
- Sergeant John Arthur Gibson
- Flying Officer Colin Davies Grigg
- Sergeant Hugh Christopher Horsfield
- Warrant Officer Class II John James Victor Howard
- Pilot Officer David Gaspard Hunter Blair
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Hugh Kenney
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Robert Livesey
- Sergeant Thomas Marsh
- Flight Sergeant Edgar James Morrow
- Pilot Officer David Laird Muir
- Flying Officer Eric Francis Kennedy Pearse
- Pilot Officer John Desmond Power
- Flight Sergeant William Robert Scott
- Sergeant Wilfred Hubert Smeaton
- Sergeant Ronald Fred Southern
- Flight Sergeant Leslie William Stammers
- Sergeant Charles Jeffery Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Kevin Ellsmore Stewart
- Leading Aircraftman William George Strange
- Flight Sergeant William Jack Taylor
- Pilot Officer Lloyd George Dennis Thomas
- Flight Lieutenant Desmond Percy Wade
- Sergeant William Oswald White
- Pilot Officer Etienne Emile Louis Winterbeeck
1943
- Flight Sergeant William Geoffrey Abbott
- Flight Sergeant Frederick George Addis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Stevens Anthony
- Sergeant Victor Harry Archer
- Flight Sergeant George Assaf
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Arthur William Bailey
- Sergeant William Herbert Bastable
- Sergeant Thomas Richard Bayles
- Sergeant Walter James Bennett
- Sergeant William Henry Bestwick
- Sergeant John Booth
- Sergeant James Brason
- Sergeant Ronald Percy Bristow
- Corporal Henry Beveridge Brown
- Flight Sergeant Charles Herbert Brumby
- Sergeant Charles Edward Bryant
- Sergeant Reginald Gordon Carter
- Sergeant David Rainnie Chalmers
- Flying Officer Ernest Keele Chivers
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Philip Lawson Corner
- Sergeant Robert Richard Courtney
- Flight Sergeant Colin Bernard Crabbe
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Crawshaw
- Sergeant Peter Daly
- Pilot Officer Charles John Davis
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Henry Denny
- Sergeant Maurice Louis Seth Drabble
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Franklin Fenton
- Leading Aircraftman Earle Oscar Milton Gilbert
- Flight Sergeant Neil Gillies
- Sergeant Neal Morton Gray
- Sergeant Robert Clifford Hall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Hayde
- Sergeant Peter Hemingway
- Sergeant Alexander Keir Henderson
- Sergeant Frederick William Hennessey
- Sergeant John Frederick Hinds
- Flying Officer Roger Billingsley Hitchcock
- Flying Officer David Charles Houle
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Howlett
- Sergeant Reginald John Hughes
- Leading Aircraftman James Ireland
- Sergeant Ivor Armstrong Jervis
- Sergeant James Locke Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Allan John Kerrigan
- Sergeant William George Kirby
- Sergeant Harry Kleiner
- Sergeant Alan Ramsay Leslie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Andrew Joseph Phillips Lohoar
- Flying Officer Henry Neelin Lyons
- Sergeant Alan Robert Marlow
- Sergeant Alexander Colin Matheson
- Sergeant Francis John Matier
- Flight Sergeant John Francis McMahon
- Sergeant George Arthur Mills
- Leading Aircraftman Vincent Monaghan
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Joseph Morrissey
- Pilot Officer John Robert Morton
- Sergeant Frederick James North
- Sergeant Philip Parkin
- Sergeant Derek Arthur Frank Paveley
- Sergeant Raymond Francis Pelrine
- Aircraftman 1st Class Donald William Pepper
- Corporal Wilfred John Peregrine
- Aircraftman 1st Class Laurence Theodore Petersen
- Flight Sergeant Vivian Lewis Pope
- Flying Officer Willard Irving Post
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Denis Pulsford
- Sergeant William Barrymore Rawnsley
- Sergeant David Arthur Robb
- Leading Aircraftman Humphrey Ronald Roberts
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Edwin Sage
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Sansum
- Corporal Harold Simmonds
- Flight Sergeant Julien Louis Soos
- Sergeant Norman Thomas Sparrow
- Corporal John Swinn
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph Taylor
- Sergeant Angus Wallace Thomson
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Donald Thomson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Charles Toovey
- Sergeant Victor Norman Walker
- Sergeant Frank Warburton
- Squadron Leader Bramwell Watson Watkins
- Aircraftman 1st Class Dennis Claude Westlake
- Sergeant George Sinclair Wishart
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard James Wood
- Sergeant William Godfrey Wood
- Sergeant Ross Clifton Woods
1944
- Sergeant Arthur Meakin Armin
- Pilot Officer Cecil Ernest Armstrong
- Flight Sergeant Francis Allen Aspinall
- Sergeant Denis Asquith
- Sergeant Ronald Leonard (ron) Aston
- Flight Sergeant Harold Roy Bailey
- Flight Sergeant Peter Alan Gainsford Bailey
- Pilot Officer William Alexander Bailey
- Pilot Officer Leslie Jack Baker
- Warrant Officer Ronald Charles William Gibson Baker
- Sergeant John Oliver Beagley
- Flying Officer Alvin Marshall Beatty
- Pilot Officer Charles Marie Beauregard
- Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Carleton Beckett
- Flight Sergeant David Frank Boyce Bell
- Sergeant James Binnie
- Warrant Officer Alfred Boulton
- Pilot Officer Eric Patrick Boutilier
- Warrant Officer Noel Oswald Bowden
- Pilot Officer Eric James Brittain
- Flight Sergeant Alan Stevens Bromley
- Flying Officer Alan Francis Brown
- Flying Officer Charles Davis Brown
- Pilot Officer Vivian William Brown
- Pilot Officer Edgar Lawrence Burke
- Sergeant Archibald Sinclair Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Alan Michael Carew-gibbs
- Pilot Officer Edward Frank Champness
- Pilot Officer William James Donald Charles
- Flight Sergeant Adam Philip Chawanski
- Sergeant David John Kenneth Churchouse
- Flying Officer Frederic Allan Newell Clifton
- Sergeant Thomas William Connor
- Sergeant James Henry Cooper
- Warrant Officer Reginald Frederick Henry Cossins
- Sergeant Courtois
- Flight Sergeant Albert William Cox
- Sergeant Reginald Herbert Cozens
- Sergeant Kenneth Denzel Crothers
- Pilot Officer Wallace Watson Crum
- Pilot Officer Harry Joseph Cunningham
- Sergeant John Robert Cursiter
- Flying Officer James Boustead Dallyn
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Arthur Davies
- Flying Officer Reginald Ivor Havard Davies
- Sergeant Roy Joseph Davies
- Sergeant Vaughan Davies
- Sergeant Eric Alfred Davis
- Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
- Pilot Officer Joseph Eugene Gerard Desmarais
- Sergeant John Leonard Doggett
- Flying Officer John Wallace Downing
- Sergeant Daniel Patrick Duggan
- Warrant Officer Class II Alexander Dunae
- Sergeant Harry George Eggbeer
- Sergeant Henry John Thomas (buller) Eley
- Sergeant Richard William England
- Sergeant Kenneth Fieldsend
- Sergeant Samuel Flavell
- Flight Sergeant Charles Leslie Foster
- Signaller Reginald Roy Frost
- Flight Sergeant Robert Fryer
- Flight Sergeant Walter Joseph Fullum
- Sergeant Denis Charles Gallagher
- Flight Sergeant Tom Gaskell
- Sergeant Norman Myer Goldberg
- Flight Sergeant Frederick James Goodale
- Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin
- Sergeant George Gow
- Sergeant Donald Cameron Kitchener Grant
- Sergeant Hugh Kerr Grant
- Pilot Officer Edward George Graves
- Pilot Officer Philip Rodney Graves-hook
- Sergeant Stanley Stuart Greenwood
- Flying Officer John Neville Grey
- Flying Officer Peter Greystoke
- Sergeant David Beattie Haig
- Flying Officer Marshall Hall
- Flight Sergeant Stanley John Hall
- Flying Officer George Hallows
- Flight Lieutenant James Robert Hanson
- Sergeant Wilfred Gordon Harris
- Warrant Officer William George Harrison
- Sergeant William John Hayman
- Leading Aircraftman Tom Haynes
- Pilot Officer Allan Frank Heath
- Pilot Officer Maxwell Henderson
- Pilot Officer Francis Norman Henley
- Flight Sergeant George Dennis Hetherington
- Flight Lieutenant Farnham Hill
- Flying Officer Joseph Hong
- Sergeant Eric Hopkinson
- Sergeant Jack Hopper
- Sergeant Edward Derek Horton
- Flight Lieutenant Sidney Jack Houlden
- Flying Officer Peter Malcolm Hughes
- Sergeant Raymond Cecil Hulme
- Flying Officer William George Hunter
- Flight Sergeant Alan Ife
- Flight Sergeant Crossley Jackson
- Wing Commander David Sinclair Jacobs
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Gaston Jacques
- Sergeant Raymond George James
- Flying Officer Wallace Bell Jardine
- Sergeant Edwin Maurice John
- Sergeant Joseph William Johnson
- Flying Officer William George Wesley Johnson
- Sergeant John Peacock Craig Johnstone
- Sergeant Ernest George Jones
- Flight Sergeant John Anthony Jones
- Flight Sergeant Ogwen Jones
- Pilot Officer Peter Kalyta
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Norris Kelly
- Flying Officer Lancelot Stanley Kennedy
- Leading Aircraftman John Stephen Kitts
- Pilot Officer Stephen Kuleski
- Pilot Officer John Arthur Laing
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Leslie Lamb
- Flying Officer Edmund Elie La Porte
- Flight Sergeant Keith Gilbert Lawrence
- Sergeant Augustus Ernest Lee
- Flying Officer John William Leitch
- Pilot Officer Joseph Jean Marie Levasseur
- Pilot Officer Francis (frank) Malcolm Linton
- Sergeant Stanley Lister
- Flight Sergeant George Henry Little
- Flying Officer Abraham Gordon Lodge
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Samuel Lopez
- Sergeant William Low
- Sergeant John Lowery
- Flight Lieutenant John Joseph Mahoney
- Flying Officer Denis William Major
- Pilot Officer Joseph Raoul Henry Bernard Clovis Mallette
- Sergeant John Manson
- Flying Officer John Colin Marland
- Flight Sergeant Eric William Elliott Marshall
- Flying Officer Harold Thomas Maskell
- Flying Officer Leonard Eric Mason
- Flying Officer Walter Henry Matthews
- Pilot Officer David Clerk Hill Maxwell
- Sergeant Robert Milligan McClure
- Sergeant Phillip Joseph McCrory
- Flight Lieutenant Thom Ross McDougall
- Sergeant William Ernest McIlwaine
- Flying Officer Joseph McKee
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Niall McKenna
- Sergeant Alistair Stuart McLaren
- Sergeant Lionel Herbert Milligan
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Thomas Millikan
- Sergeant Norman Robert Millward
- Flying Officer William Wilkins Mitchell
- Pilot Officer Harry Reginald Moncrieff
- Sergeant James Alexander Moore
- Leading Aircraftman Itehl Thomas Morgan
- Flying Officer Lancelot Eric Morgan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Morris
- Sergeant Lawrence Edward Morris
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Morris
- Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Arnold Morrison
- Flying Officer John Beswick Morritt
- Flying Officer William Murphy
- Pilot Officer James Henry Myers
- Pilot Officer Gerald Melbourne Naugler
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Henry Newell
- Sergeant Henry Arthur Nightingale
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Nichol Norris
- Sergeant John Notley
- Sergeant Gerrard Patrick O'Connor
- Sergeant Ross Odgers
- Sergeant Jack Percival Olive
- Warrant Officer Frank Albert Page
- Flying Officer James Willard Paige
- Pilot Officer Charles Edmund George Patterson
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Beardsley Payne
- Sergeant Bernard Pearce
- Pilot Officer Robert James Peggs
- Flight Sergeant James Pepper
- Sergeant James John Phillips
- Flying Officer William George Philpot
- Sergeant Pickering
- Sergeant Alan Leslie Pickering
- Sergeant Norman Reginald Pike
- Sergeant Ian Arras Pretswell
- Flying Officer John Ralph
- Pilot Officer Richard Robert Reed
- Flying Officer Walter William Rehkopf
- Flight Sergeant George Reid
- Sergeant Robert William Richardson
- Sergeant Armand Richelet
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Stanley Richmond
- Sergeant Reginald Alfred Rose
- Pilot Officer John Wallis Rouse
- Warrant Officer Class II Michael Alexander Saruk
- Sergeant William John Saxby
- Pilot Officer Walter Hugh Scott
- Flying Officer William Earl Scott
- Sergeant Leslie Sharpen
- Sergeant William Frederick Shead
- Warrant Officer George Heptinstall Shearer
- Sergeant Henry Alfred Shephard
- Flying Officer Thomas Russell Sherrill
- Flight Sergeant Robert Neil Simpson
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Arthur Sinclair
- Flying Officer Francis Edward Sinden
- Sergeant David Sleightholm
- Pilot Officer John Atherstone Snowdon
- Flight Lieutenant George Charles Startin
- Sergeant John Stewart
- Flight Lieutenant John Kennedy Stewart
- Flight Lieutenant John George Symons
- Sergeant Arthur Taylor
- Flight Sergeant William Irving Taylor
- Flying Officer Joseph Octave Arthur Remi Tetrault
- Sergeant James Edward Trow
- Sergeant Arthur Tuffs
- Flying Officer William Tye
- Sergeant Peter Vose
- Sergeant Carl Arthur Warburton
- Flying Officer John Halliday Ward
- Sergeant Norman Vincent Ward
- Sergeant Charles Webb
- Sergeant Wilfred Whalley
- Warrant Officer Cecil Harold Whyte
- Flight Sergeant John Whyte
- Flying Officer Derek Abraham Wiener
- Sergeant John Wilson
- Pilot Officer Leslie Harold Winneke
- Pilot Officer Michael Wiwsianski
- Pilot Officer Robert Eric Norman Wood
- Flying Officer George Henry Wright
- Flying Officer Owen Wright
- Sergeant Raymond Hedley Wright
- Flying Officer Charles Beverly Wyckoff
- Pilot Officer Joseph Philip Young
1945
- Leading Aircraftman James Bradley
- Lieutenant Creighton
- Second Lieutenant Evans
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Welsted