On this day — 25 May
355 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 25 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Jack Leslie Alexander
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald William Austin
- Corporal Thomas Baybutt
- Pilot Officer John Keith Bennett
- Sergeant Peter Bloomer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest James Bray
- Sergeant Frank Edwin Buckland
- Pilot Officer John Merrett Bushell
- Flying Officer Peter Saumarez Butler
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Vincent Cleaver
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Goffe
- Pilot Officer James Hamilton Gordon
- Corporal Benjamin Morgan Harding
- Pilot Officer Douglas Sidney Reeve Harriman
- Sergeant John Harrison
- Sergeant Arthur Knightley Roland Keates
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Main
- Sergeant Frank Miller
- Leading Aircraftman George Rene Joseph Parsons
- Sergeant John Alexander Smyth
- Sergeant Colin Woodhouse
1941
- Flight Lieutenant Robert William Ayres
- Sergeant Ernest George Baker
- Sergeant Stanley Bertram Bransby
- Pilot Officer Anthony Doughty Browne
- Sergeant George Allan Bye
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Sidney Copplestone
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Frederick Dean
- Flight Lieutenant Hubert Cecil Down
- Sergeant George Morton Duffus
- Sergeant Frantisek Dusek
- Lieutenant Stanley Robert Ellis Forrester
- Sergeant Wilfred Arthur Joseph Fretwell
- Sergeant Iain Fraser Gow
- Sergeant George Eric Green
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Arnold Green
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Hadlum
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Frank Hall
- Flight Sergeant Harold Robert Hibbs
- Sergeant Harold Phelps Jeudwine
- Flight Sergeant David Graham Keane
- Flight Sergeant Norman Burton Lake
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Robert Lewis
- Sergeant Eric Allan Lloyd
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Arthur Maiden
- Sergeant Stanley Parr
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert John Rowe
- Pilot Officer George Eric Joseph Rushbrooke
- Sergeant Maxmilian Stocek
- Sergeant William George Thorneycroft
- Sergeant Norman Paterson McKirdy Wilson
- Sergeant Frank Wood
- Flight Sergeant Henry Young
1942
- Sergeant Lloyd Maxwell Bailey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Harold Bessant
- Pilot Officer Walter Alexander Caldwell
- Sergeant Douglass Callaghan
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Alfred Coles
- Pilot Officer Alexander Charles Comfort
- Flight Sergeant Robert Douglas Cook
- Leading Aircraftman Graham Langley Emms
- Pilot Officer Francis William Graham Faunt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ford
- Sergeant Arthur Ian Friday
- Sergeant Douglas Eric Gwynn
- Sergeant Alfred Edwin Harrison
- Sergeant Ronald Ernest Herbert
- Pilot Officer John Andrew Hill
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Thomas Holden
- Flying Officer John Bedford Kendal
- Squadron Leader Maxwell Vernon Lewis
- Flight Lieutenant Duncan Matheson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Edmund Miller
- Lieutenant Burton Haig Nicol
- Sergeant Vyvyan Roessler Pascoe
- Flight Sergeant John Hugh Allen Ryan
- Leading Aircraftman James Emanuel Skillen
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Sutcliffe
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney Frank Wells
- Sergeant Charles Robert Whitworth
- Sergeant Mervyn Wilkinson
- Sergeant Bernard Williams
- Sergeant John Syddall Williams
- Pilot Officer Gerard Patrick Windsor
- Flying Officer Stanley Le Vesconte Wood
1943
- Sergeant Peter Alfred Allport
- Sergeant George Edmond Anderson
- Corporal Neville Bruce Andrews
- Sergeant Patrick Arnott
- Pilot Officer Joseph Henry Atkinson
- Sergeant Frederick William Barns
- Flight Sergeant Peter Bentley
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Mortlock Broad
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Bruce Bryers
- Flying Officer James William Clarke
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Frederick Convoy
- Flight Lieutenant Francis De Naeyer
- Flying Officer Brynmor Granville Evans
- Sergeant James Evans
- Leading Aircraftman John Fender
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Jack Fowler
- Flying Officer Andrew Smith Gibson
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred John Grand
- Pilot Officer John Arnold Guy
- Squadron Leader John Theodore Hanafy
- Sergeant James Hird
- Sergeant William George Hopps
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Thomas Howard
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Hughes
- Flying Officer Frank James Jessop
- Flight Sergeant Alan Norman Lancaster
- Sergeant Dunbar William Mason
- Sergeant Eric William Matthews
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Edward Maynard
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank McManus
- Flying Officer Alastair Ian Taylor Moir
- Sergeant Hugh John Morris
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Arthur Murphy
- Warrant Officer Arthur George Myers Nourse
- Sergeant Donahan Anthony O'Dowd
- Flying Officer Ernest Franklyn Paige
- Sergeant John Palmerley
- Sergeant Geoffrey Walter Parker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Mervyn Francis Parker
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Francis Paterson
- Sergeant Charles John Percival
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Cyril Pettitt
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Ernest Plowright
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard John Porter
- Sergeant David Purvis
- Flight Sergeant David Raymond Nicholas Reynolds
- Sergeant Derek Harold Richardson
- Sergeant John Rowe
- Pilot Officer Martin Pelham Salisbury-rowswell
- Sergeant Ronald Sherwood
- Sergeant Leonard Ray Smith
- Leading Aircraftman John Golder Stokes
- Sergeant David Campbell Stone
- Sergeant Leslie Gordon Sutherland
- Warrant Officer Class I Wallace Roy Thompson
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Dowson Thurston
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Edward Veness
- Warrant Officer Irwin Bruce Watson
- Squadron Leader William Wilson
- Flying Officer Howard Stephen Winchester
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Forster Withy
- Flight Sergeant James Currie Wood
- Sergeant Thomas H. Yellowlees
1944
- Sergeant Kenneth Herbert Allaker
- Sergeant Terence Alldritt
- Pilot Officer John Neville Almond
- Flight Lieutenant Herbert Leonard Ashman
- Sergeant Albert Ernest Bachelor
- Flight Sergeant John Bailey
- Sergeant Frank Henry Baker
- Pilot Officer Bernard Oliver Baldwin
- Pilot Officer James William Barber
- Flight Sergeant Eric Walter Bark
- Sergeant Richard Roy Clements Bartram
- Pilot Officer Albert Bates
- Sergeant Stanley Percy Beech
- Squadron Leader Gordon Bennett
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bernard Berryman
- Sergeant Peter William Bishop
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Arthur Bond
- Sergeant Frederick John Broad
- Sergeant George Herbert Butler
- Flight Sergeant Edward Hilary Calvert
- Sergeant Reginald Cecil Carvell
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Chandler
- Sergeant Isaiah Lewis Chittock
- Pilot Officer Robert Foster Christie
- Pilot Officer John Seymour Macleod Clarke
- Pilot Officer James Raymond Henry Cochrane
- Flight Sergeant Edward Cecil Coldicutt
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Sidney Collins
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Arthur Colman
- Pilot Officer John Colvin
- Sergeant George James Cooper
- Flight Sergeant Jack Henry Crane
- Flight Lieutenant George Cecil Crew
- Sergeant William Edward Dann
- Sergeant David John Davies
- Sergeant Dennis Davies
- Flying Officer Kenneth Harry Davies
- Sergeant William Davis
- Warrant Officer Class I Pascal Albert Joseph Desico
- Captain De Waal
- Flight Sergeant David Cornelius Dick
- Warrant Officer Ian Hillman Dick
- Sergeant Raymond Stuart Dickinson
- Pilot Officer Francis Wilfred Dolter
- Sergeant Thomas Edward Ramsay Donnelly
- Flying Officer Ralph Langley Erskine
- Corporal William John Falahey
- Sergeant Frederick Arthur Farrall
- Corporal George Fenn
- Pilot Officer Mario Alfred Fernandez De Leon
- Sergeant William Fletcher
- Flight Lieutenant John Patrick Flynn
- Flight Lieutenant John Fotheringham-parker
- Flight Lieutenant Cedric Charles Fox
- Sergeant Alfred George
- Flying Officer Kenneth Douglas Goddard
- Air Mechanic Lionel Gordon
- Sergeant Wilfred Arnold Gosnay
- Sergeant Raymond Dennis Gould
- Flying Officer David Murray Gow
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Henry Graydon
- Sergeant Noel William Green
- Flight Sergeant Roy John Hall
- Flight Sergeant Stanley William Hans
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Hardwick
- Air Sergeant Harmer
- Sergeant William Harpur
- Sergeant Stewart Haslett
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Hayhurst
- Pilot Officer Eric Thome Heard
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Henderson
- Flying Officer Desmond Baker Fearon Heslop
- Pilot Officer Philip Hicken
- Sergeant John Hoarty
- Pilot Officer Allan James Neville Hockley
- Sergeant Kenneth Harold Hodgkinson
- Sergeant Robert Holmes
- Sergeant James Horrocks
- Sergeant Robert John Hughes
- Sergeant William Austin Hughes
- Flight Sergeant Alec Frank Humphrey
- Flying Officer John Daniel Hurley
- Flight Sergeant George Blackwood Hyndman
- Sergeant Nicholas Edward Hyt
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Hawley Jackson
- Sergeant Sidney Jackson
- Warrant Officer Jack Sydney Jarrett
- Sergeant Philip John Jeffs
- Pilot Officer Romley Thomas Jenkins
- Sergeant Albert Johnson
- Sergeant Reginald James Johnstone
- Sergeant Joseph Isaac Jolley
- Sergeant David John Jones
- Pilot Officer Gwynfor Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Frederick Victor Jones
- Pilot Officer James William Kellie
- Sergeant William David Kirton
- Sergeant Joseph Willie Conrad Labelle
- Pilot Officer George Albert Langford
- Flying Officer Gordon Robert Lauder
- Flight Sergeant James Law
- Pilot Officer Wilfred Carroll Lawson
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Thomas Lloyd Le Blanc
- Flight Lieutenant Stuart Walker Little
- Pilot Officer James Ignatius Macdonald
- Pilot Officer Arthur Clarance Macgillivray
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Daniel Maddock
- Sergeant William Ridley Makepeace
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Marriott
- Flying Officer Norman Allan Marston
- Warrant Officer Eric Arthur Mason
- Sergeant William McCulloch
- Flying Officer William Dennett McKay
- Flying Officer Daniel Neilson McKenzie
- Flying Officer Leslie Alexander McLellan-symonds
- Pilot Officer James Lloyd Michell
- Sergeant Bernard Reginald Morgan
- Flying Officer Neville Morrad
- Sergeant Norman Edward Mullins
- Sergeant Hector Macdonald Mundy
- Pilot Officer Arthur John Murphy
- Flying Officer Peter Nazar
- Sergeant Kenneth James Nuttycombe
- Flying Officer John Williamson Oakley
- Sergeant Edward Oldroyd
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Wishart Oram
- Leading Aircraftman Alex Thomson Paterson
- Sergeant Stanley Patterson
- Sergeant Dermott Frederick Arthur Peach
- Flying Officer Sidney Glen Peterson
- Warrant Officer Alan Henry Phillimore
- Warrant Officer Charles Geoffrey Polkey
- Sergeant Albert Glanville Porter
- Flying Officer Charles Cleveland Price
- Flying Officer Harry Ratner
- Flight Sergeant Neville Ayrton Rawlinson
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Rawlinson
- Squadron Leader Ralph Reavill
- Sergeant William Marley Rivers
- Pilot Officer John Meredith Roberts
- Sergeant John Murray Robertson
- Sergeant Roy Edwin Dennis Robinson
- Pilot Officer Donald Matthews Robson
- Flying Officer Walter James Rogers
- Sergeant Ronald Rook
- Warrant Officer Class I James Alexander Rooney
- Flight Sergeant John Hamilton Ross
- Sergeant Myer Rume
- Pilot Officer Eugene Preston Sabine
- Lieutenant Saunders
- Flying Officer George Edward Scott
- Flying Officer Peter Redman Sewell
- Sergeant James Shields
- Sergeant Geoffrey Shutt
- Flying Officer James Eric Sidnell
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Lewis Silver
- Sergeant Raymond George Victor Simpson
- Sergeant Alec Norman Smith
- Pilot Officer Phillip Seagar Smith
- Sergeant Robert Eric Smith
- Sergeant Thomas Harry James Smith
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Smith
- Flight Sergeant William Steane
- Pilot Officer William McGill Stewart
- Pilot Officer Claire Douglas Stroud
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Albert Sullock
- Pilot Officer Donald Elgin Tate
- Flying Officer Edward Arthur Thomas Taylor
- Sergeant Reginald Thomas Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Derrick Gordon Cobley Thorpe
- Warrant Officer Class II Alfred Arthur Joseph Tremblay
- Sergeant Wilfred Cyril Truman
- Sergeant Howard George Trump
- Flying Officer Jack Turner
- Flight Sergeant Peter Stuart Wade
- Sergeant Horace John Walker
- Flight Sergeant Philip Charles Warwick
- Air Mechanic Cathbert Watcham
- Flight Sergeant Bernard William Webb
- Sergeant Philip West
- Sergeant David White
- Sergeant William John White
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Whittaker
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Williams
- Warrant Officer James Esca Williamson
- Pilot Officer Eric Benjamin Wilson
- Pilot Officer Gordon Alexander Wilson
- Pilot Officer Harold Kenneth Wilson
- Pilot Officer Norman Andison Wilson
- Warrant Officer Albert Witham
- Flying Officer Kenneth Alexander Wood
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Stephen Henry Russell Brown
- Pupil Pilot Norman Frank Burgess
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Richard Crawford
- Flying Officer Norman Harold Dixon
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Peter Kaye
- Flight Lieutenant John William Bruce Povah
- Warrant Officer Class II Alvin Otto Scherbarth
- Corporal John Maurice Tonkin
- Warrant Officer Class I Thomas Stewart Watson
1946
- Squadron Leader Edward Bagley Gale
- Sergeant Neil Hannah McLauchlan
- Flight Sergeant Henry Rayner
- Flight Lieutenant Bruce Leonard Terdich