On this day — 27 May
200 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 27 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Stuart Aitken
- Pilot Officer Edwin Holbrow Alexander
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Baird
- Leading Aircraftman John Alexander Bolton
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Victor Brown
- Flying Officer William Curwin Gavine Cogman
- Pilot Officer James Henderson Deas
- Pilot Officer Herbert Dixon Dixon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Docherty
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Holbrook Docking
- Pilot Officer Neil George Dryburgh
- Pilot Officer Alan Elson
- Sergeant James Victor Page Falconer
- Sergeant Thomas Paul Nozareno Hammond
- Sergeant Basil Aloysius Joseph Henrick
- Pilot Officer Ernest Elliot Howarth
- Leading Aircraftman Squire Hurley
- Leading Aircraftman Rhys Penry Jones
- Sergeant John Mahoney
- Sergeant Terence McLoughlin
- Sergeant Daniel Baxter Mearns
- Sergeant William Thomas Medway
- Leading Aircraftman Daniel McLellan Nimmo
- Pilot Officer Thomas Arthur Nixon
- Sergeant William Charles Henry Paish
- Sergeant Alfred Hubert Payne
- Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Charles Pearson
- Pilot Officer Peter Harvey O'Callaghan Rainier
- Leading Aircraftman Hugh Sharpe
- Pilot Officer Percy Frederick Charles Villiers-tuthill
- Sergeant Harry Warman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Williams White
- Leading Aircraftman James Whyte
- Pilot Officer James Winning
1941
- Sergeant Ronald Joseph Austin
- Sergeant Keith Bamber
- Corporal Geoffrey Cornelius Arthur Barham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Bates
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Billingham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Booth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ivor Charles Burgess
- Sergeant Charles Patrick Anthony Bury
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Sydney Butcher
- Sergeant John Ronald Butler
- Sergeant Douglas Gordon Callender
- Sergeant John Hoole Chesman
- Corporal Victor Charles Chittock
- Flight Lieutenant Garnet Mackenzie Fairbairn
- Sergeant Laurance Arthur Forty
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Geoffrey Walton Gooddy
- Sergeant Josef Gutvald
- Sergeant Gordon Alfred Hadaway
- Pilot Officer Peter John Higgins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Quilford Hopkin
- Sergeant Edwin Bentall Inman
- Pilot Officer Howard Fleming Irving
- Sergeant Stanley William Kemp
- Flying Officer Jean Bruno Le Cavalier
- Sergeant Wilfrid Bernard Longstaff
- Sergeant Raymond Francis Lyle
- Flying Officer Murray Mackenzie
- Sergeant Eric Anthony Martin
- Flight Sergeant William Laurie Martin
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Harry Morgan
- Flying Officer Norman Wilfred Pinnington
- Air Sergeant Serfontein
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Colin Wright
1942
- Sergeant Colin Alfred George Armstrong
- Sergeant Stanley Rans Ashton
- Flying Officer Robert Bernard Bowran
- Flight Sergeant John Robert Brennan
- Corporal Horace William Burt
- Corporal Arthur Chester
- Aircraftman 1st Class Nichols Debono
- Lieutenant Norman Soames Ford
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Edward Groves
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Edward Hacker
- Sergeant Henry William Hall
- Sergeant John Kenneth Knight
- Pilot Officer Terence Lundholm
- Flying Officer William Stuart Marshall
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Muirhead
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Percy George Newman
- Sergeant John Newton
- Sergeant Cecil Nugus
- Sergeant Edgar Charles O'Donnell
- Lieutenant David Paddon
- Flight Sergeant Alwyn Harold Sands
- Sergeant Eric Skyrme
- Flight Sergeant Percy Hudson Thimblebee
- Sergeant James Hamish Wetheral
- Pilot Officer Robert Wigington
- Pilot Officer Robert Martin Woodhead
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey David Abbott
- Sergeant Robert Maxwell Allott
- Pilot Officer Albert Armstrong
- Leading Aircraftman Peter William Baker
- Sergeant Frank Bettridge
- Flight Sergeant Edward William Carpenter Bewley
- Sergeant Colin Lisle Bishop
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Russell Merlin Boe
- Flying Officer Kenneth Stanley Bush
- Flight Lieutenant George Howard Carson
- Flying Officer George Ernest Dean
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Dalkeith Eddison
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley John Edwards
- Flying Officer William Vincent Fitzgerald
- Leading Aircraftman Graham Moseley Fowles
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander McMillan Gillies
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Mervin Griffiths
- Squadron Leader Alexander Wilson Hogg
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Charles Holmes
- Leading Aircraftman George Sydney Hosh
- Sergeant Henry Thomas George Hubbard
- Warrant Officer Class I Alfred Irvine
- Pilot Officer George Lammie
- Flying Officer Victor Guillaume Le Blanc
- Sergeant George Pearson Lister
- Pilot Officer William George Mackie
- Pilot Officer Ronald Massie
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Alan Mathias
- Flying Officer Max Stanley McQualter
- Flight Sergeant John Bruce Crichton Methven
- Sergeant Peter Robert Shaw Miller
- Flight Sergeant William David Mills
- Pilot Officer Leslie Clarence Mollet
- Sergeant Stanley Moore
- Pilot Officer John Ernest Morris
- Corporal Thomas John Norris
- Flying Officer Frederick Openshaw
- Flying Officer Norman Wallace Peat
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Philip
- Aircraftman 1st Class Potter
- Flying Officer Alan James Rea
- Sergeant Stanley Smith
- Sergeant Alfred Newman Stonestreet
- Flight Lieutenant Willdon Simpson Drysdale Sutherland
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Ransom Sutton
- Pilot Officer James Bernard True
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cecil John Tyler
- Warrant Officer Class II John Morton Whittaker
1944
- Corporal Edwin George Ballard
- Sergeant Michael Bertram Palliser Barrow
- Sergeant Robert Bourke
- Flight Lieutenant Cyril Samuel Bradford
- Sergeant Edward Garrod Joshua Bridgeman
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Charles Brightwell
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Brown
- Pilot Officer John Casson
- Sergeant Walter Coldwell
- Sergeant Alan Reginald Harold Daly
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Arthur Donaldson
- Flight Sergeant Bernard David Fine
- Pilot Officer Jack Byrne Fleming
- Flying Officer Alexander Dalgety (sandy) Fraser
- Flying Officer William Samuel Garland
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Aird Gebbie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Campbell Gibb
- Flying Officer Henry Horace Hackney
- Lieutenant Hanson
- Sergeant Albert Edward Harris
- Pilot Officer John Joseph Hayes
- Pilot Officer Joseph Hetherington
- Sergeant Charles David Howes
- Flying Officer George Frederick Jarvis
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond John Jones
- Lieutenant Jooste
- Sergeant Philip Kindlen
- Flying Officer Gordon Noble Leach
- Flying Officer William Douglas Lewis
- Sergeant Gordon Long
- Sergeant Robert Russell Lynch
- Flight Sergeant James Leslie Townsend Mannion
- Flying Officer Joseph Rene Phillippe Markowski
- Flying Officer Thomas Campbell McGowan
- Sergeant Donald Robert Persse
- Sergeant James Harold Pirnie
- Warrant Officer George Frederick Quinn
- Flying Officer Adrian Edgar Speight
- Pilot Officer Thomas Murray Stewart
- Flying Officer Nicholas Stusiak
- Warrant Officer Henry Leonard Walters
- Sergeant Harry Ward
- Pilot Officer Waldemar Freltrik Wolf
- Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Lawrence Wood
- Flying Officer Reginald James Wright
1945
- Air Mechanic Abbott
- Flight Sergeant John William Anderson
- Flying Officer Arthur Scott Gibbon
- Flight Sergeant Robert Reginald Halford
- Flight Sergeant Booth James Johnston
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard William Koehl
- Flying Officer John Macleod
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Alexander McMaster
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald George Nicholls
- Flying Officer James Wallace Piercy
- Flying Officer Joseph Lowry Reid
- Flight Sergeant William Leishman Thornton-white