On this day — 28 May
455 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 28 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Victor Adams
- Sergeant Edward Douglas Barratt
- Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Barratt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Barrick
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Horace Bellingham
- Sergeant Leonard John Brooks
- Sergeant Roy Ernest Brown
- Flight Sergeant Albert Burrows
- Sergeant Charles Herbert Butler
- Sergeant Kenneth Charles Chatfield
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Churchard
- Flight Lieutenant William Roy Clapham
- Pilot Officer Edgar Hillman Cross
- Sergeant Lionel Charles William Daisley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ivor Lewis Davies
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert William Dickson
- Wing Commander James Macgregor Fairweather
- Pilot Officer Rupert Chatham Frost
- Sergeant Arthur Fryer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert Harold Gardiner
- Flying Officer Trevor James Geach
- Squadron Leader Arthur Roger Glencross
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Glover
- Squadron Leader Maurice Patrick Gurney
- Pilot Officer Jack Elmer Hatfield
- Sergeant Stanley Albert Hillman
- Leading Aircraftman George Ellis Humphreys
- Flying Officer William Hartwell Humphreys
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Balfour Hutchison
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Allen Ives
- Sergeant Jack Willis Jenkins
- Pilot Officer Dale Fred Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Alfred Kealy
- Corporal Charles Thomas Keyte
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Edward Lang
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alasdair Rhodes Macintyre
- Pilot Officer Alexander Macleod
- Corporal Charles Victor Murton
- Pilot Officer Reginald William Newman
- Sergeant Harold Revill
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Ronald Russell
- Squadron Leader Roger Maurice Sanders
- Pilot Officer Horace Scott
- Pilot Officer Laurence George Beauchamp Stone
- Flight Lieutenant Humfrey Ewan Symons
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Townend
- Sergeant Martin Leigh Tully
- Sergeant Arnold Edward Desmond Twamley
- Pilot Officer Peter Vincent Watson
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Allen Webber
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Wheeler
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Hammond Whitehouse
- Sergeant John Tom Whitelam
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Percy Whiteman
- Flight Lieutenant Edward George Winning
- Flying Officer Albert Henry Woolcock
- Flight Lieutenant George Louis Paul Zech
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Ernest Abbott
- Sergeant Douglas Norman Banks
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Harold Bragger
- Sergeant Douglas Victor Davis
- Sergeant Orlando John Dee
- Pilot Officer John Ollis Fenton
- Sergeant Michael Edward Gardiner
- Sergeant Stanley Gordon
- Sergeant Vernon Douglas Huggett
- Sergeant Peter Jarvis
- Sergeant Gerald Bruce Johnson
- Sergeant Roland Harry Johnson
- Sergeant Lloyd Jones
- Flight Sergeant James Guthrie Leslie
- Pilot Officer Daniel McDaniel
- Sergeant John Hamilton McGowan
- Flight Sergeant Harold Thomas Naughtin
- Sergeant Ronald Oldroyd
- Sergeant Vernon Edward Pereira
- Pilot Officer William Ronald Phillips
- Squadron Leader David Arthur Smith
- Sergeant Leslie Edward Stalder
- Flight Sergeant Henry Trenholm
- Sergeant Alan Lowther Walker
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Burton Wilcox
- Flying Officer Derek Alan Willans
1942
- Sergeant Donald George Allen
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Arthur Allgood
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert John Bent
- Sergeant Frederick Henry Bouchard
- Leading Aircraftman James Craig
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Joseph Daly
- Sergeant Dennis William Davies
- Flight Sergeant Henry Lawrence Davis
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Dickinson
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Downs
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Dunn
- Corporal Stephen Smith Florence
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick George Giannasi
- Sergeant George Douglas Graham
- Flight Sergeant William John Peter Grant
- Sergeant Charles Thomas Kronk
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Lunt
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Howard Lyons
- Sergeant Scot Leeming Mason
- Sergeant Bruce Wallace McClennan
- Sergeant John Ingram McDowell
- Sergeant Albert Scott Neilly
- Flying Officer Thomas Arthur Newton
- Sergeant Harold David Ovenstone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Samuel Rabinovitch
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Rogers
- Sergeant Brian Frank Smith
- Sergeant Henry John Stone
- Sergeant Clifford James Thomas
- Sergeant Frederick George White
- Sergeant Herbert Noel Williams
1943
- Sergeant Andrew Aitken
- Pilot Officer Ralph Grant Allan
- Sergeant Charles Basil Anderson
- Sergeant Harry Anderson
- Sergeant John Leonard Atha
- Flight Sergeant Richard Joseph Ayres
- Warrant Officer Class II Albert George Bailey
- Sergeant Eric Gordon Fay Beaumont Baker
- Pilot Officer Walter George Baker
- Sergeant Wilfred Reginald Beadsmoore
- Flying Officer Francis Bruce Beale
- Flying Officer Alexander Farquhar Beaton
- Sergeant Stanley Grieve Beattie
- Flying Officer Stanley Adolfson Bishop
- Sergeant Ernest Bernard Blackbarow
- Sergeant William Alfred Blackwell
- Flying Officer Alfred Henry Blake
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Peter Brogden
- Flying Officer Thomas David Brown
- Sergeant Edward Samuel Buck
- Flying Officer Edmund Fraser Campbell
- Sergeant Edward Cavill
- Flying Officer Cuthbert Keith Cazaly
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Edward Chapman
- Warrant Officer Hubert Harry Chapman
- Sergeant David Owen Charles
- Sergeant Kenneth Graham Chilver
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Clarke
- Sergeant Frank Charles Cleaver
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Edward Clement
- Flight Sergeant Graham Bruce Coad
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Napoleon Pascal Eugene Comeau
- Flying Officer George William Cooper
- Sergeant Peter Michael Cosgrove
- Flight Sergeant Ernest James Cotton
- Flight Sergeant Harold Coupe
- Pilot Officer George Cribbin
- Flying Officer Edward Robert Curtis
- Sergeant Edward Strangways Davis
- Flight Sergeant Russell Charles Denny
- Flight Lieutenant John Matthew Desmond
- Flight Sergeant Draper
- Flying Officer Harry Entwhistle
- Sergeant William John Erdbeer
- Squadron Leader David Evans
- Flying Officer John Arlo Farnham
- Flying Officer Ronald Norman Fewtrell
- Sergeant James Parker Fitchett
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Ford
- Sergeant Geoffrey Herbert Garrard
- Sergeant Basil William Gill
- Sergeant Davis William Glover
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Goulden
- Flight Sergeant John Alexander Grant
- Pilot Officer Harold Greatwich
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Richard Green
- Flying Officer Arthur Cecil Montagu Griffin
- Sergeant Percy Guest
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Hageman
- Sergeant Edward George Halston
- Flying Officer Charles Harrison
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Gerald Hart
- Pilot Officer Gordon Douglas Hay
- Sergeant George Henderson
- Sergeant Thomas Heslop
- Sergeant James Holmes
- Corporal Alan Edward Hooker
- Pilot Officer Fred Hopkinson
- Flight Sergeant James Young Houston
- Sergeant John Howarth
- Sergeant Richard Taylor Anthony Hudson
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Thomas Ingley
- Flying Officer John Denzil Jeffery
- Pilot Officer Arthur Denis Johnson
- Sergeant William Gordon Kendall
- Flight Sergeant Ernest James Kerr
- Pilot Officer Andrew Fleming Lavery
- Flight Sergeant Gabriel Emile Joseph Le Bihan
- Sergeant Ronald Leyland
- Flight Sergeant Hilton Arthur Lister
- Pilot Officer John Norman Lockwood
- Pilot Officer Ray Hutchings Logan
- Sergeant Jack Louis Stanley Lowings
- Leading Aircraftman John Joseph Maguire
- Sergeant William Alfred Manning
- Sergeant Rene Real Mantha
- Sergeant Leonard Marshall
- Sergeant John Henry Mastin
- Pilot Officer Ray Arthur Matthews
- Flying Officer Bernard Christopher McGrath
- Sergeant Leonard Cyril Medhurst
- Sergeant Leslie James Miles
- Sergeant Frank Miller
- Sergeant Frederick Allan Morris
- Pilot Officer Ross Marshall Murray
- Sergeant Francis Leon Nelson
- Sergeant Arthur Robert Nicholls
- Flight Sergeant Francis John O'Grady
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Churchill Patrick O'Hara
- Sergeant Ernest Fred Jesse Oliver
- Flight Sergeant Robert Gilbert Ordish
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Francis O'Rourke
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Frampton Osborne
- Warrant Officer George Frederick Paddon
- Sergeant George Albert Parker
- Flying Officer Emlyn Parry
- Flying Officer David Pratt
- Warrant Officer Howell Ward Price
- Flying Officer Halford Douglas Pye
- Sergeant Frederick Reginald Pym
- Flight Sergeant Gordon John Rankmore
- Flying Officer George Rawlinson
- Sergeant Norman Percival Rayner
- Flying Officer Robert Ryland Reid
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Rogerson
- Flight Sergeant David Ross
- Pilot Officer John Richard Ryalls
- Corporal Christopher Shields Sanderson
- Sergeant Eric Short
- Sergeant John Simmons
- Sergeant Douglas John Smith
- Sergeant Kenneth Joseph Smith
- Flight Sergeant Basil Furness Snell
- Leading Aircraftman William Storey
- Flying Officer John Barker Taylor
- Pilot Officer Ralph Edgar Taylor
- Corporal Arnold Albert William Thompson
- Warrant Officer Class I Denison Hilton Thompson
- Sergeant Reginald Arthur Tilbury
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Thomas Tonkinson
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Tunney
- Flight Sergeant Harold Empsall Tyas
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Vincent John Raymond Veys
- Sergeant Waggett
- Flight Sergeant David Lawson Wallace
- Sergeant John Roland Smith Waller
- Flying Officer Frederic Hugh Warburton
- Corporal Cecil Spencer Ward
- Corporal Warren
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Stafford Webster
- Sergeant Bruce Price Williams
- Flying Officer David Stuart Williams
- Sergeant Frederick George Williams
- Flying Officer Alexander Bell Pate Wilson
- Flying Officer George Stephen Wilson
- Pilot Officer Donald Eugena Woodfield
- Flight Sergeant William Hubert Wyatt
- Pilot Officer Samuel Zareikin
1944
- Flying Officer Dennis Herbert Acworth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Edward Allan
- Sergeant Anthony Peter Allen
- Pilot Officer Thomas Arthur Allen
- Flying Officer Edward John Andrews
- Flying Officer Clyde Glencoe Archibald
- Leading Aircraftman William Arnott
- Pilot Officer Robert Frederick Ayres
- Pilot Officer Elmer Lincoln Bailey
- Sergeant William Oliver Douglas Baird
- Warrant Officer Eric Holdgate Baker
- Flying Officer Stuart Percival Barter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Batting
- Squadron Leader Gordon Scowcroft Beall
- Warrant Officer William Walter Beavan
- Flying Officer Raymond Henry Beer
- Sergeant David Robertson Bell
- Sergeant John Edward Benson
- Warrant Officer Class II William Blair
- Sergeant Charles Aidan Bonner
- Warrant Officer Ernest Moreton Boon
- Corporal Phillip Alwyn Botham
- Pilot Officer Jonathan Riley Bradley
- Sergeant Alan Stewart Broadbent
- Sergeant Albert Henry Brown
- Pilot Officer John Francis Brown
- Flight Lieutenant Stephen Watson Brown
- Warrant Officer Joseph Edward Browne
- Warrant Officer Leonard William Cain
- Sergeant William Smith Campbell
- Pilot Officer Joseph Jacques Bruno Cardinal
- Flying Officer Frederick William Clare
- Flying Officer Neville Roy Maslen Clark
- Sergeant John Clarke
- Flight Sergeant William Alfred Clevey
- Sergeant Kenneth Clinch
- Pilot Officer Paul Everett Coltman
- Flight Sergeant Stephen Astley Cook
- Flight Lieutenant Keith Newman Cooling
- Sergeant William Roland Crompton
- Sergeant Leonard William Cudlipp
- Sergeant Kenneth Harold Fontain De Lengerke
- Pilot Officer Frank Gerrard Devereaux
- Sergeant Ronald Archibald Drury
- Pilot Officer Bruce Dunlop
- Sergeant Terence Alexander Eburne
- Sergeant Richard Edwards
- Sergeant William Austin Edwards
- Sergeant Hubert John Evans
- Sergeant Raymond John Evans
- Flight Lieutenant Spencer Francis Fauvel
- Pilot Officer Maurice Isidore Joseph Fitzgerald
- Pilot Officer Thomas Edward Flanagan
- Flying Officer Roy Douglas Ford
- Flying Officer David Kay Foster
- Flying Officer Phillip Spencer Foxcroft
- Sergeant Victor Basil Foy
- Pilot Officer George Frank Freeman
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Friedt
- Flying Officer Robert Paul Gagnebin
- Sergeant Charles Clifford Allen Gardner
- Sergeant Richard Gill
- Pilot Officer John William Goddard
- Pilot Officer Alan Fletcher Goodall
- Sergeant Frank Vennard Gott
- Flight Sergeant William Goudie
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Wilfred Gower
- Squadron Leader Allan Delafield Graham
- Flight Lieutenant Melvin Roland Greenslade
- Sergeant Arthur Graham Hall
- Flying Officer John Hardman
- Pilot Officer Allan George Harrington
- Flight Sergeant John Osborne Harris
- Sergeant Sylvester Hartley
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Balfour Henderson
- Squadron Leader Harold Wright Heney
- Sergeant William Hickox
- Flying Officer Frederick Brearley Hill
- Flying Officer Raymond George Hills
- Sergeant Norman Hornby
- Flying Officer Kenneth Alfred Howes
- Sergeant Ronald Edward Howson
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Ernest Hunter
- Sergeant William Impey
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Ireland
- Flying Officer Robert Aubrey Irwin
- Flying Officer Albert Victor Morgan Jones
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Ian Kernahan
- Flying Officer Gordon Patrick James Kimmins
- Sergeant Peter Charles Morrell King
- Pilot Officer Ronald Neville Kirkland
- Pilot Officer Lloyd Kirton
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald David Lamb
- Flying Officer Kenneth James Lambert
- Pilot Officer Frank George Lebano
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Gordon Leggett
- Sergeant Richard Lethbridge
- Flying Officer Robert Stanley Ling
- Flying Officer Francis Henry Clark Lukey
- Warrant Officer Frederick Arthur Mander
- Pilot Officer Douglas William J. Marvin
- Flight Sergeant James Rooker Mason
- Sergeant Thomas Findlay McClay
- Flight Sergeant William George Angus McCloud
- Pilot Officer Donald McCrae
- Sergeant James Patrick McEvoy
- Flight Sergeant Oscar Patrick McFadden
- Pilot Officer Howard John Menzies
- Sergeant Hubert Alexander Messenger
- Sergeant George Willston Mitchell
- Warrant Officer Class II Otis Judson Mohler
- Flight Sergeant William Joseph Moody
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Mustoe
- Flying Officer Norman Gilbert Nahu
- Sergeant Gordon Howard Nelson
- Flight Sergeant Victor Louis John Newell
- Flying Officer Reginald John Newens
- Sergeant John Newlands
- Pilot Officer Stanley William Newman
- Flight Sergeant Harry George John O'Bree
- Squadron Leader Leonard Ollier
- Warrant Officer Class II Gerald Joseph Overend
- Pilot Officer Keith Charles Page
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Lorne Patience
- Sergeant Douglas Arthur Pickering
- Sergeant Joseph Raymond Pollon
- Sergeant Kenneth John Power
- Flight Sergeant Jack Donnelly Pringle
- Sergeant Arnold Gordon Puiu
- Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney
- Flying Officer Moses Rabovsky
- Sergeant John Ray
- Flight Sergeant George Ernest Reddish
- Sergeant George Reid
- Pilot Officer Ernest James Richardson
- Sergeant Henry Riley
- Sergeant Basil John Roach
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Elwyn Roberts
- Flying Officer James Freeman Robinson
- Sergeant Alan Roderick
- Pilot Officer Herbert Henry Rodgers
- Pilot Officer Carman Vincent Ross
- Pilot Officer Francis Robert Ross
- Sergeant James Henry Rudge
- Sergeant Harry Russell
- Flight Sergeant Jack Rutter
- Pilot Officer Benjamin Cyrus Scobie
- Sergeant Francis Alexander Jack Scott
- Sergeant Thomas Fairfax Scott
- Flying Officer Martin Shapiro
- Warrant Officer Harold Shaw
- Sergeant John Leonard Sheahan
- Flying Officer Allan Gorrie Smith
- Flying Officer Claud Austin Smith
- Pilot Officer Alan Snell
- Pilot Officer William Charles Stainton
- Pilot Officer Norman David Lesley Stephenson
- Sergeant Frank Charles Stevens
- Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Charles Alexander Taylor
- Pilot Officer Cecil Keith Thomas
- Sergeant John Mansel Thomas
- Sergeant Tixhon
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Gemmell Turner
- Flight Lieutenant Paul Kemble Twiss
- Sergeant Marco Joseph Henry Vedovato
- Sergeant James Frederick Vincent
- Pilot Officer Gerard Frederick Vinett
- Flying Officer Norman John Wakeham
- Pilot Officer Wilfred George Wakely
- Aircraftman 1st Class Andrew John Wale
- Sergeant Neville Philip Warlow
- Flight Sergeant Frank Sidney Webb
- Flying Officer Bernard Arthur White
- Sergeant Thomas John Whiteside
- Flying Officer Arthur Alexander Wilks
- Flying Officer Frank Williams
- Flight Sergeant Barry Wilson
- Sergeant Leslie John Witcomb
- Pilot Officer David Edward Woolley
- Flight Sergeant Robert Francis Yates
- Warrant Officer William Cave Yates
1945
- Flight Sergeant William Edwin Algar
- Warrant Officer Class I John William Duncan
- Flight Sergeant Fred Theodore Gidilevich
- Flying Officer Keith Maxwell Graham
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Aloysius Halpin
- Flying Officer Albert Harry Handley
- Sergeant Joseph Rene Isabelle
- Flight Sergeant Leo Parkes Marshall
- Sergeant Melville Pascoe Lawrence Moxsom
- Sergeant Eric George Priest
- Sergeant Douglas David Read