On this day — 24 May
377 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 24 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Richard Dennis Aubert
- Pilot Officer David Conquest Barker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Burton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alan Clark
- Sergeant John Raymond Collingham
- Sergeant Harold George Collins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Angus William Adams Coull
- Corporal William Crook
- Pilot Officer William David Finlayson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sydney Ewbank Firth
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Douglas Grant-crawford
- Pilot Officer Duncan Henderson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edgar Sydney Hewitt
- Pilot Officer Robert Laird Hill
- Sergeant Arthur Noel Holmes
- Pilot Officer James Melville Dundas Irvine
- Sergeant Arthur Raymond Jackson
- Squadron Leader Charles Edward Johnson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Ritchie Lamont
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Nevil Linley
- Sergeant William Martin
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Robert McBurney
- Pilot Officer James William Mitchell
- Pilot Officer Michael Erskine Ryan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril George Shepperd
- Leading Aircraftman James Dempster Short
- Pilot Officer Peter Knox Sigley
- Leading Aircraftman Albert George Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy South
- Sergeant George Maxwell Stephens
- Sergeant Ernest Wigham
1941
- Sergeant Frank Ashworth
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Herbert Bolton
- Sergeant Walter Louis Brown
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Charlton
- Sergeant John Edward Fearnley Dobbs
- Pilot Officer Clifford Harry Fuller
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Garland
- Corporal Cecil William Gerrard
- Pilot Officer Julian Gill
- Pilot Officer Bernard Albert Godsmark
- Pilot Officer Robert Leslie Goord
- Sergeant Raymond Allen Hewlett
- Leading Aircraftman Desmond William Kates
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Plunkett Leonard
- Pilot Officer Robert Hugh Likeman
- Sergeant Eric Dunn Maddison
- Sergeant James McKenzie McWilliam
- Sergeant George Arthur Pyke
- Pilot Officer Michael Andrew Scott
- Sergeant Bonn Cory Smith
- Sergeant John Maurice South
- Sergeant Maxwell John Shipp Walsh
- Leading Aircraftman Roger Leslie Williamson
1942
- Flight Sergeant Albert Adderley
- Sergeant Kenneth James Allwood
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Gilchrist Boyce
- Flight Sergeant John George Ypres Boyle
- Sergeant George Henry Brandon
- Flight Sergeant Christopher Gordon Campbell
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Capp
- Sergeant Maurice Wilfred Cooper
- Flying Officer Michael Andean Coote
- Leading Aircraftman Zelig Feldman
- Squadron Leader John Anthony Lamond Fowler
- Sergeant Herbert Thomas Gillam
- Sergeant Sydney George Haines
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Cecil Hartley
- Sergeant Wilbert Dudley Heap
- Leading Aircraftman Harold George Henry
- Sergeant James Alexander Herman
- Sergeant Robert Samuel Holden
- Sergeant James Eric Hough
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred William Hughes
- Sergeant Frederick Jack Irvine
- Pilot Officer John Leslie Manton Jewell
- Flight Sergeant George Thomas King
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Thomas Larkin
- Sergeant Robert McGregor Laurie
- Leading Aircraftman George Alfred Layton
- Sergeant Arthur Marder
- Flight Sergeant Richard Lewis Mellish
- Sergeant Arnold Richard Merritt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Neil Morrison Montgomery
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Charles Patrick Moore
- Sergeant Charles Arthur Pankhurst
- Sergeant Andrew Picken Paterson
- Leading Aircraftman Gilbert James Prince
- Sergeant Kenneth Ramsdale
- Flying Officer Richard William Rollason
- Aircraftman 1st Class Neil Shedden
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Henry Smith
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Mervyn Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Smith
- Sergeant Colin Tilley
- Sergeant Albert Edward Willis
- Sergeant Alan Tyson Wood
1943
- Pilot Officer Derrick Henry George Adams
- Sergeant Ernest Douglas Ager
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Henry Alderson
- Sergeant Donald Eric Alford
- Sergeant Frederick Victor George Alloway
- Sergeant Robert Hasting Ancell
- Sergeant William Antcliffe
- Sergeant Herbert George Ashton
- Sergeant Charles Wilson Astle
- Sergeant Horace William Austin
- Sergeant Robert Frederick Fletcher Baggaley
- Warrant Officer Class II George Bancescu
- Pilot Officer Edward Semmens Bawden
- Sergeant William Parker Baxter
- Sergeant Ronald Bell
- Corporal Albert Edward Belsham
- Sergeant Arthur Benson
- Flight Sergeant Jack Stanley Biffen
- Sergeant Denis Birkhead
- Sergeant Alastair Milner Hood Black
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Bland
- Sergeant Alfred James Brockway
- Flight Sergeant John Maxwell Brown
- Flying Officer Norman John Brown
- Flight Sergeant William Brown
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Nigel James Bryde
- Flying Officer James Rudolph Bullock
- Sergeant Arthur Sidney Bushill
- Sergeant Arnold Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman Collin Arthur Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Walter Capes
- Sergeant Frederic Munroe Chaffey
- Sergeant Roy Craven Child
- Pilot Officer Robert Christy
- Sergeant Eric Cyril Church
- Flying Officer John Wallace Coleman
- Flying Officer James Mackenzie Colvin
- Sergeant Walter Randall Cook
- Flying Officer John Cookson
- Flight Sergeant James Laing Robert Cooper
- Warrant Officer Ralph Matthew Costello
- Flight Sergeant Ian George Coupe
- Pilot Officer Alan Fullerton Craddock
- Flight Sergeant Derek Ernest Thomas Crosland
- Flight Sergeant Henry Arthur Crouse
- Sergeant Evan George David
- Flight Sergeant Beresford Milton Troy Davis
- Flying Officer Herbert John Harry Debnam
- Pilot Officer Jack Banfield Denton
- Sergeant John Dodd
- Pilot Officer Francis Aloysius Doherty
- Flight Sergeant Horace Robert John Downing
- Sergeant Allen Drury
- Pilot Officer James Leonard Drysdale
- Sergeant William Dunkerley
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Douglas Dyce
- Sergeant Percy George Eames
- Sergeant Wilfred Easson
- Sergeant John Leonard Edwards
- Flight Sergeant John Joseph Egan
- Flight Lieutenant John Gordon Eldridge
- Flying Officer Douglas Arthur Norman Evans
- Sergeant Gwilyn Richard Evans
- Sergeant John Warwick Craven Evans
- Pilot Officer John Wesley Evans
- Sergeant Frank William Farnell
- Sergeant Harold Walter Fields
- Sergeant Michael John Flaherty
- Flight Sergeant Henry Graham Freeman
- Sergeant Lionel Gerald Freeman
- Flight Sergeant John Samuel Freeth
- Sergeant Eric Alfred French
- Flying Officer Douglas Gartery
- Sergeant Samuel James Gaywood
- Sergeant Henry John Gibbs
- Flying Officer Mark Gluck
- Sergeant Zanwel Goldfinger
- Sergeant Julius Goldflust
- Sergeant Ronald Edward Goodyear
- Flight Sergeant George Robert Gowling
- Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Stanley Green
- Flying Officer Thomas Herbert Green
- Sergeant Cyril Greenhalgh
- Sergeant John Howard Griffiths
- Sergeant Peter Grimwood
- Sergeant Stanley Groom
- Sergeant Aubrey Hall
- Sergeant James Henry Roy Harper
- Flying Officer Frank Percival Harrison
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Harrison
- Sergeant Michael Arthur Harrison
- Flying Officer Alain Morison Harvey
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Terence Hayes
- Flying Officer William Claud Haylock
- Flight Sergeant Anthony John Hebblewhite
- Sergeant Arthur Herbert
- Flight Lieutenant Brian Hartley Higgins
- Sergeant Charles Joseph James Hine
- Sergeant Thomas Leonard Victor Hitchcock
- Sergeant John Hooper
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Ivan Astin Horne
- Flying Officer Clement Louis Houedard
- Air Sergeant William Hargreaves Hulley
- Flight Sergeant Horace William Enoch Hyett
- Sergeant Ian Bethune Inglis
- Corporal Joffre David James
- Leading Aircraftman William Harold James
- Flight Sergeant Roland Warren Jennings
- Sergeant Sydney Jepson
- Pilot Officer Stanley Buchan Jobes
- Sergeant Frederick John Leigh Joblin
- Sergeant Jack Raymond Johnson
- Pilot Officer William Quinton Johnson
- Sergeant John Jones
- Sergeant Samuel Jones
- Flying Officer Joseph William Trainor King
- Flying Officer Max Alexander Larkan
- Sergeant George Henry Lawson
- Sergeant Gordon Bruce Leadbeater
- Sergeant Geoffrey Ernest Leedham
- Sergeant Kenneth George Legg
- Sergeant John Finsterbush Lester
- Pilot Officer Thomas Glendenning Harries Lewis
- Flying Officer Peter Harold Liddle
- Pilot Officer Texas Roy Livermore
- Leading Aircraftman Henry George Lovett
- Flying Officer William Allan Marsden
- Warrant Officer Class I James Martin
- Sergeant Lionel Martin
- Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth Howard Masterson
- Sergeant Stanley McGlory
- Sergeant William Neill McMullan
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Cameron McRae
- Sergeant Robert Sydney George Miller
- Sergeant John Dyfrig Minton
- Sergeant Edward Silas Morris
- Flying Officer William Norman Mounsey
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Murray
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Musgrove
- Sergeant Colin Alexander Nelson
- Sergeant Hugh Donald Newbery
- Sergeant Clifford Newman
- Sergeant George David Nisbet
- Sergeant Donald Charles Oliver
- Sergeant William Edgar Oliver
- Flying Officer Alan Bert Orme
- Sergeant James Aloysius Park
- Sergeant James William George Parker
- Flying Officer Lancelot Herbert Parker
- Flying Officer Alastair Henry Pelham-clinton
- Corporal Joseph Alcide Rolland Pellerin
- Flying Officer John Phillips
- Sergeant Harry Pierpoint
- Sergeant Norman Peter Plenderleith
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Kilminster Poole
- Corporal Thomas Henry Poole
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Fernard Jacques Paul Prieur
- Sergeant Robert George Pritchard
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Wilson Ralph
- Warrant Officer Robert Craig Rankin
- Sergeant John Redman
- Sergeant John Rees
- Flying Officer John Edward Rigby
- Warrant Officer Class II Levie Adrien Rivest
- Sergeant Charles Holt Roberts
- Sergeant Aubrey Edgar Perrin Rochester
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Rose
- Sergeant Eric Rowlands
- Pilot Officer Samuel Sabin
- Sergeant Arthur James Sales
- Pilot Officer John Fryon Sanders
- Sergeant Guy Edgar Schubert
- Sergeant Terence William Shadgett
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Shaw
- Sergeant Charles Robert Shields
- Sergeant Owen Hugh Sibson
- Flight Sergeant David Slobotsky
- Sergeant Donald Fred Smith
- Sergeant James Colin Smith
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Gordon Smith
- Flying Officer Albert Edward Steward
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Robert Stewart
- Sergeant Derrick George Amos Storey
- Sergeant Ronald Victor Street
- Pilot Officer Warren Raymond Taggart
- Sergeant Arthur Charles Hilton Taylor
- Flying Officer John Ewart Thomas
- Sergeant Frederick Thompson
- Sergeant Harold Blamire Thompson
- Sergeant Stephen Muir Tietjens
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur William Tipple
- Sergeant George Watson Turnbull
- Flying Officer Fulliott Victor Polhill Turner
- Flying Officer Harry Uretzky
- Sergeant Henry George Charles Waite
- Pilot Officer John Albert Walker
- Sergeant Albert Edwin Wallis
- Flight Sergeant Harold Ward
- Sergeant Charles Arthur Warnes
- Sergeant Stanley John Wayman
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Simpson Wells
- Sergeant Charles William Henry Westwood
- Sergeant Leo Rex Whatley
- Flight Sergeant Albert John Wheatcroft
- Flying Officer William Butler Whitaker
- Flying Officer Ian Hamilton Whitson
- Sergeant Jack Kenneth Wilkins
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Alfred Williams
- Sergeant Ronald Frederick Williamson
- Lieutenant Wilter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Golden Winch
- Sergeant Peter John Wood
- Flight Sergeant Charles Sinclair Wright
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Alfred Wright
- Flight Sergeant Merton Earl Zapfe
1944
- Flight Sergeant Peter Francis Allwright
- Sergeant Pryce David Andrew
- Flight Sergeant John Wilfred Barber
- Flight Lieutenant Edgar William Beattie
- Flying Officer Donald Cosmo Beddoe
- Pilot Officer Alfred Henry George Biggs
- Sergeant Archibald Brewster
- Pilot Officer James Orr Burke
- Pilot Officer Frederick Lloyd Butcher
- Leading Aircraftman James Milne Clinton
- Flying Officer Harold William Coles
- Sergeant Edward Critchley
- Sergeant Robert Paul Cummins
- Sergeant Frederick Curry
- Lieutenant Maurice Davis
- Lieutenant Arnold Frederick Deelman
- Flying Officer William Burton Ernst
- Pilot Officer Stuart Scott Finlayson
- Warrant Officer Class I Keith Maynard Gerald Fleming
- Flying Officer Thomas Edward Frair
- Flying Officer Harold Freeman
- Flight Sergeant Arnold Gawith
- Flying Officer Gregg Bernard Gingell
- Sergeant Charles Peter Greenslade
- Flight Sergeant Lewis William Guggiari
- Pilot Officer John Henry Hamilton
- Sergeant Kenneth Bruce Harding
- Sergeant Donald James Harvey
- Sergeant Eric Henley
- Flying Officer Frederick Thomas Hodge
- Flying Officer George Eugene Holly
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Joseph Kimber
- Sergeant John Michael Logelin
- Sergeant Arthur Lunt
- Sergeant Arthur Aloysius Macardle
- Sergeant Donald McRae
- Warrant Officer Class II William David Mitchell
- Leading Aircraftman Stephen Newton
- Flying Officer Albert Edward Norris
- Flight Sergeant Adrian Pearson
- Sergeant Roy Spencer Piers
- Flight Sergeant Frank Powls
- Corporal John William Pragnell
- Leading Aircraftman Howard John Rolls
- Flying Officer Colin Sacker
- Sergeant John Trevor Saunders
- Pilot Officer John Courtney Seely
- Pilot Officer Claude Senton
- Sergeant Philip John Simpson
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Edwin Steeden
- Sergeant Edward Jalland Stone
- Warrant Officer Class II George Simon Streisel
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Tabram
- Flying Officer Herbert Cyril Tessier
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Stanley Lincoln Underwood
- Pilot Officer Edward Vallely
- Flight Sergeant Tionga Waaka
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald West
- Flying Officer Edward Henry Widdess
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Michael Angelo Zollo
1945
- Flying Officer Thomas Cormie
- Flight Lieutenant Wilfrid Francis Coulson
- Corporal Arthur Frederick Peakman