On this day — 12 June
477 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 12 June during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant John Ballantyne
- Sergeant Charles Alfred Bartlett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Boulton
- Sergeant Richard Henry Brown
- Sergeant Wilfrid Dixon
- Sergeant David Lawson Dorris
- Pilot Officer Frederick Alan Smith Fletcher
- Sergeant Herbert George James Gannaway
- Sergeant Frank Vivian Gunning
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Richard Haines
- Sergeant William Jeffrey
- Sergeant Ronald William Lawrence
- Pilot Officer Cecil Thomas Locke
- Sergeant Eric Thomas Dods Machell
- Pilot Officer Donald Kenneth Andrew Mackenzie
- Sergeant Lloyd Albert Winston Matthews
- Sergeant David Hilary Peuleve
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Leonard Pitfield
- Pilot Officer Bruce Douglas George Houston Reid
- Sergeant Jack Francis Sandall
- Sergeant James Simpson
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Leslie Sumpster
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Hopper Swinney
- Pilot Officer Alexander Takideli
- Sergeant William Hubert Wheeler
1941
- Sergeant William Allison
- Sergeant Edward Annesley-cooke
- Sergeant Arthur Joseph Arnold
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Edward Bacon
- Sergeant John Bestwick
- Sergeant Keith Cecil Bisson
- Sergeant John Bradshaw
- Sergeant Peter Henry Hay Bratley
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Breene
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Alfred Bromage
- Flight Sergeant James Thomson Carmichael
- Sergeant James King Cassels
- Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Caunter-jackson
- Sergeant Guy Trevor Corbett
- Sergeant Mervyn Cobbe Crombie
- Flying Officer Brian Davey
- Flying Officer Roy Frederick Ferdinand
- Sergeant James Edward Gittins
- Pilot Officer Alexander Lindsay Gordon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Anthony Albert Grant
- Sergeant Edward Peter Gray
- Sergeant William George Halliday
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Hannay
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Sidney Herbert
- Flight Sergeant Eric Leonard Holmes
- Sergeant Cyril Gerrard Humble
- Aircraftman 1st Class Duncan Macdonell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Charles Mahier
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Maver
- Pilot Officer Leslie John Moore
- Pilot Officer Roich Hamish McKenzie Munro
- Sergeant Edward Thomas Naylor
- Leading Aircraftman William Neill
- Leading Aircraftman William Robson Newton
- Sergeant William Duncan Oswald
- Sergeant John Alan Oxley
- Leading Aircraftman William Wharton Parkinson
- Pilot Officer Robert Frederick Payne
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Ernest Pocknell
- Sergeant Denis Edward Richardson
- Sergeant William McLean Ritchie
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Frank Schofield
- Sergeant Ronald Corsar Scott
- Pilot Officer Andrew Fanshawe Sharp
- Pilot Officer Paul Edward Snyder
- Sergeant Martin Strahan Soames
- Sergeant Alfred Edmund Stephens
- Pilot Officer Maurice Ridgeway Stephens
- Sergeant John Till
- Sergeant Gordon Leslie Tompson
- Sergeant Eric William Tyler
- Sergeant James Abraham Tyrrell
- Sergeant Henry William White
- Sergeant Albert Robert George Williams
- Sergeant Noel Sydney Wilson
- Sergeant Derek Garth Woodward
1942
- Corporal Leonard John Barnes
- Pilot Officer Warren Percy Bolton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Brader
- Sergeant Stanley Brimer
- Flight Sergeant George Stanley Brockington
- Sergeant Herbert Kitchener Bromage
- Flight Sergeant William Cameron
- Sergeant John Bertram Campbell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Edward Cock
- Sergeant William Reuben Cooper
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Leslie Coster
- Sergeant John Ernest Counihan
- Flight Sergeant Norman Buckenham Day
- Sergeant Ralph Henry Dominy
- Sergeant Kenneth Hayne England
- Sergeant Frank Crawford Evans
- Sergeant Roy Earnest Farnham
- Sergeant Tom Illenden Fielding
- Sergeant Donald Fraser
- Pilot Officer Leslie Charles Froud
- Sergeant Douglas Arthur Harsum
- Sergeant Wilbert Nicholas Hergott
- Sergeant Harvey Holmes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Thomas Holmes
- Sergeant Charles Douglas Hucker
- Sergeant Eric Huggins
- Sergeant Edward Kennion Jones
- Sergeant George Jones
- Sergeant David Edmund Killelea
- Sergeant James Hunter Laurie
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Seaton Lorimer
- Pilot Officer Alfred James Majury
- Sergeant Edward Walter Mallett
- Sergeant Joseph Milligan
- Sergeant James Dallas Moller
- Leading Aircraftman William Francis Pearse
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Horace Percival Pearson
- Sergeant John Roland Pittman
- Flying Officer Robert Pyper
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ibrahim Rabieh
- Sergeant George Thomas A. Robins
- Sergeant James Rutherford
- Pilot Officer Victor William Saul
- Sergeant Horace Evans Shying
- Corporal Frederick George Smith
- Flight Sergeant James Wight Stirling
- Flight Sergeant Wallace Stockport
- Sergeant Brian William Swaffield
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Swiderski
- Pilot Officer Bede Joseph Stourton Vavasour
- Sergeant George Harvey Whalen
- Pilot Officer Donald George Williams
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Brian Willson
- Sergeant James Cecil Wrigley
- Sergeant Albert Joseph Young
- Pilot Officer Ivan Charles Young
1943
- Sergeant Frederick Thomas Adams
- Pilot Officer Reginald Ellithorne Allen
- Squadron Leader Benjamin Southam Ambrose
- Sergeant Frederick Anderson
- Flight Sergeant James John Anderson
- Sergeant James Joseph Anderton
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Raymond Andrews
- Sergeant Jack Norman Angus
- Sergeant Reginald Arthur Charles Avery
- Flight Sergeant Thomas James Bainbridge
- Sergeant Peter Francis Baker
- Sergeant Leonard Richard Barrow
- Sergeant Donald Compton Bauman
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Baxter
- Sergeant James Richard Bell
- Sergeant William Henry Bellhouse
- Flying Officer Bruce William Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Weston Robert Berry
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Robert Betts
- Sergeant Frederick John Biddle
- Sergeant William Frank Biggs
- Flying Officer John Bentley Binns
- Flight Sergeant Derry Gates Bird
- Leading Aircraftman Stewart William Blake
- Sergeant Gordon Francis Blanch
- Sergeant Ronald Henry Boone
- Flight Lieutenant Laurie Alban Bourgeois
- Pilot Officer Denis Clarke Bovis
- Sergeant Kenneth Bowes
- Flying Officer William John Boyce
- Sergeant William Frederick Bradley
- Warrant Officer Class II James Gerald Breen
- Flying Officer Gordon William Brewer
- Sergeant Albert Edwin Brodie
- Sergeant Albert Derek Bulmer
- Warrant Officer Class I Herbert Thomas Campbell Burley
- Warrant Officer James Burns
- Pilot Officer Joseph Howard Burrow
- Sergeant Cyril Kitchener Burton
- Sergeant Edgar Cadmore
- Sergeant Douglas Noel Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Duncan Eric Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Cassingham
- Sergeant Douglas Edward Cyril Chambers
- Sergeant Wilfred Stanley Champ
- Flight Sergeant Philip Arthur Chapman
- Flight Sergeant Robert Stanley Christie
- Sergeant Norman William Stanley Clack
- Pilot Officer Harry James Clelland
- Flying Officer Leonard John Collins
- Sergeant John Edgar Constable
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Cook
- Flying Officer John Albert Cowley
- Lieutenant Charles Cross
- Sergeant Edward Nicholas Cummings
- Sergeant William Edward Cunliffe
- Sergeant John Richard Curtis
- Sergeant Thomas William Reynold Daniel
- Flight Sergeant Keith Benedict Davidson
- Flight Sergeant John Malcolm Davies
- Flying Officer Ralph Perry Davies
- Sergeant Thomas Albert Davies
- Flight Sergeant Delmar Murray Davis
- Sergeant Leon Wilfred Joseph Dawson
- Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Thomas Dean
- Flight Sergeant Thomas George Dellar
- Pilot Officer George Robert Densmore
- Flying Officer Edward Patrick Deville
- Flight Lieutenant Alfred William Doel
- Sergeant Jacob Domnitz
- Flight Sergeant James Blackman Donohoe
- Sergeant William John Drake
- Sergeant William Albert Drew
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Joseph Driver
- Warrant Officer Robert Durham
- Pilot Officer William Dunsmore Eaglesham
- Flight Sergeant Robert Ferguson Edmonds
- Pilot Officer Richard Campbell Ellison
- Sergeant George Edward Evans
- Sergeant Leslie Robert Evans
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alderson Fellows
- Leading Aircraftman John Walsingham Field
- Flying Officer Thomas Ashton Fillingham
- Flight Sergeant Raymond James Flaherty
- Flying Officer Charles Bernard Fleming
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Edwin Fletcher
- Pilot Officer William Charles Robert Foale
- Flight Lieutenant Patrick Raymond Ford
- Sergeant Sidney Lazarus Ford
- Sergeant William Forster
- Sergeant William Leonard Fortescue
- Flight Lieutenant Alfred Francis Foster
- Warrant Officer Class II Albert Edward Fowell
- Sergeant Thomas Kirk Fowler
- Squadron Leader Douglas Parr Fox
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Arthur Furniss
- Flight Sergeant James Morris Gavagan
- Flight Lieutenant Cornelius Vincent Joseph Geary
- Sergeant Alan Arthur Gill
- Sergeant William Andrew Gillanders
- Sergeant David Glassman
- Sergeant Andrew Glen
- Sergeant Gordon Glover
- Pilot Officer Edward Maurice Gold
- Pilot Officer Arthur Gordon Grant
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Lindsay Gray
- Flight Sergeant Fletcher William Randall Green
- Flight Sergeant Francis Joseph Greenwood
- Sergeant Norman Greenwood
- Sergeant John Detrick Halvorsen
- Sergeant Stanley Frederick Hammond
- Flying Officer William John Harding-haydon
- Warrant Officer Class II John Harrington
- Sergeant Myer Harris
- Wing Commander Ralph Armine Ignatius Harrison
- Pilot Officer John Alfred Hawes
- Sergeant Frederick John Hawkins
- Sergeant Alfred Edward Hayes
- Pilot Officer Norman Dennis Hayes
- Flight Sergeant Jack Heath
- Sergeant Anthony Ribour Helliwell
- Warrant Officer Frank Hemmings
- Pilot Officer George Racine Herbert
- Sergeant Trevor Charles Herbert
- Sergeant Robert Highet
- Flight Sergeant Peter John Hogan
- Flying Officer Herbert Edward Holbrook
- Sergeant Percy Hollyer
- Flight Sergeant John Harold Horwood
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley George Howe
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Humphreys
- Flying Officer Frank Whitford Jackson
- Sergeant William Edward Jackson
- Flying Officer John William James
- Flight Sergeant Jasper Lionel Jeal
- Flight Sergeant Alan Morton Johnson
- Pilot Officer Frank Robert Johnson
- Sergeant Arthur Sidney Jones
- Flying Officer Owen Kenyon Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Hyslop Jones
- Sergeant Wilbur Haldane Jordan
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Joyce
- Flight Sergeant Donald Robert Kelly
- Corporal Robert James Kelly
- Leading Aircraftman James Edward Kerr
- Sergeant Reginald Sydney Kerwin
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Harry King
- Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Kirstine
- Flying Officer Louis George Knauer
- Sergeant Aston Crawford Lake
- Flight Sergeant John William Lake
- Flight Sergeant James Murray Reginald Lang
- Squadron Leader Ronald Hugh Laud
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Alfred James Laver
- Aircraftman 1st Class Percy Frederick Lawrence
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth William Lawson
- Sergeant Frank George Lay-flurrie
- Flying Officer Ronald Percy Lea
- Sergeant Alan William Lee
- Sergeant Frank Lee
- Warrant Officer Class I Glenn Arthur Leitch
- Sergeant Reginald Lawrence Lewis
- Leading Aircraftman George William Lindsay
- Flying Officer Lewis Charles Long
- Sergeant Robert Elston Longster
- Sergeant George Luff
- Sergeant Angus Macdonald
- Flying Officer Frank Mackelden
- Squadron Leader Donald Carr Mackenzie
- Flight Sergeant Donald Andrew Mackenzie
- Flight Sergeant Albert James Maclachlan
- Sergeant Alfred Benjamin Magill
- Squadron Leader James Ross Manahan
- Flight Sergeant Robert William Maroney
- Sergeant Frederick Harry Martin
- Flight Lieutenant John Frederick Mason
- Pilot Officer Henry Tudor McAusland
- Flying Officer George Austin McClintock
- Flying Officer Colin Angus McDougall
- Sergeant James Fraser McLuskey
- Sergeant Hugh Steel McQuade
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Sinclair McRae
- Pilot Officer George McVitty
- Flight Sergeant John Francis Mell
- Sergeant Patrick Edward Kevin Daly Merry
- Flying Officer Christian Godfrey Miller
- Flight Sergeant Edward David Milliken
- Sergeant James Henry Mitchell
- Sergeant David Montgomery
- Sergeant Arthur Moon
- Sergeant Arthur Duncan Moore
- Flying Officer Kenneth Patrick Carroll Morpeth
- Sergeant James Muir
- Squadron Leader William Edwin Mulford
- Sergeant Henry Stephen Mulholland
- Sergeant James Rutherford Murray
- Warrant Officer Class II Charles Arthur Nash
- Warrant Officer Gordon Arthur Nelson
- Sergeant Peter Francis Nixon
- Pilot Officer John Edward Norris
- Pilot Officer James Thomas O'Brien
- Flying Officer Terence Blachford O'Reilly
- Sergeant James Albert Osborn
- Sergeant James Leslie Osborne
- Sergeant Thomas Robert Pagett
- Pilot Officer Frank Lawrence Parton
- Sergeant Archibald Paton
- Flying Officer Douglas Ewen Paul
- Sergeant James John Pawsey
- Sergeant Cecil William Payne
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Stuart Phillips
- Flight Sergeant James Albert Mason Philpott
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Phypers
- Flying Officer Leonard Pietsch
- Sergeant Frederick Norman Pink
- Pilot Officer Eric James Plumridge
- Sergeant Ronald George Pope
- Sergeant Thomas Frank Potter
- Sergeant Reginald Edward Ratcliff
- Sergeant Alexander George Rawlins
- Flying Officer James Leslie Rawson
- Sergeant Henry Charles Relph
- Flight Sergeant Earl Stewart Rheaume
- Flight Sergeant Desmond Gerald Richardson
- Sergeant John Smith Riddell
- Pilot Officer Llewellyn Roberts
- Sergeant George Ridgway Rowland
- Flying Officer Stephen Roxburgh
- Leading Aircraftman James Arthur Ruscoe
- Sergeant Emrys Russell
- Sergeant John Herbert Russell
- Leading Aircraftman Julius Sabik
- Pupil Pilot Savell
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Earl Schamehorn
- Warrant Officer Ronald William Secord
- Sergeant Alexander Shaw
- Flight Sergeant Horace Shepherd
- Sergeant Roy Arthur Collins Showler
- Pilot Officer George Sinclair
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Smith
- Pilot Officer William Settle Bill Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Spicer
- Flight Sergeant Alan Seblery Spires
- Sergeant Philip George Spreckley
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Loren Spring
- Sergeant Bernard Hamilton Stephenson
- Sergeant Leslie Stephenson
- Flight Sergeant Frank Stewart
- Sergeant James Stone
- Sergeant Marcus Walter Stone
- Warrant Officer Douglas Hamilton Styles
- Sergeant George Swan
- Flying Officer Thomas Wallace Swann
- Squadron Leader James Eric Swift
- Sergeant Kenneth John Tagg
- Warrant Officer Class II Louis Phillipe Roma Taillefer
- Warrant Officer Class I Norman Henry Arthur Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Murray Theobald
- Flying Officer Daniel Owen Thomas
- Flight Sergeant Daniel McNicol Thomson
- Sergeant Derek Bewlay Tibble
- Warrant Officer Class I Herbert Andrew Tripp
- Sergeant Geoffrey William Twitty
- Sergeant Peter Pearson Tye
- Sergeant Aubrey Reginald Waite
- Squadron Leader Antony De Quincey Walker
- Flight Lieutenant William George Walker
- Sergeant William Middleton Ward
- Pilot Officer Harry Dale Warner
- Sergeant Reginald Watkinson
- Warrant Officer Class II Herbert George Watson
- Sergeant Wilfred Gordon Watts
- Sergeant Edward George Westall
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Whatmough
- Flight Sergeant Owen Kendrick Whyman
- Flying Officer Douglas Williams
- Pilot Officer Frederick Lionel Williams
- Sergeant Andrew James Normandale Wilson
- Flight Sergeant John Lindsay Wilson
- Warrant Officer Herbert Edward Wood
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Wood
- Flight Lieutenant John Richard Wood
- Flight Sergeant Robert Donald Woods
- Sergeant Eric Wright
- Sergeant Sidney Wright
- Sergeant Alexander McDonald Young
- Flight Sergeant Rudolph Zeidel
1944
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Anthony Armstrong
- Flight Lieutenant Cedric John Kenneth Ash
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Harold Beasley
- Sergeant Robert Charles Beggs
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Joseph Birtles
- Flying Officer Gilbert William Brereton
- Flight Sergeant Jack McCrae Brigham
- Flying Officer Lincoln Clapcott Dadds
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Lacey Edwards
- Warrant Officer John Andrew Foubister
- Sergeant Jesse Robert French
- Flight Lieutenant James Garfield Gohl
- Lieutenant Goulden
- Pilot Officer Cedric Charles William Gover
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Leleux Humphrey
- Flight Lieutenant James Elliot Jenkinson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Stephen Jones
- Warrant Officer Class I Allen Fooks Kelland
- Corporal Gordon Laker
- Captain Malan
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Lewis Malor
- Warrant Officer Brian Edward Marstin
- Flight Sergeant Douglas McAully
- Flight Sergeant James Johnston McLean
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Munro McLeod
- Pilot Officer Michael Frederick John McNamara
- Flight Lieutenant Vincent Kenneth Moody
- Lieutenant Harold Chadwick Palmer
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Allan Robson
- Squadron Leader William Denys Butterworth Ruth
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Sharland
- Flight Sergeant Russell Percival Singleton
- Flight Lieutenant Mervyn Edward Slaughter
- Lieutenant Smith
- Sergeant William Mars Stanger
- Flight Sergeant Archibald William Wauchope
- Flight Sergeant Robson Coltish Webb
- Flying Officer John Edward West
- Leading Aircraftman Morris Zuback
1945
- Flying Officer Robert McKenzie Clarke
- Corporal Eric Arnold Delaporte
- Flying Officer Ralph George Henry Fisher
- Flight Sergeant Clifford James Frith
- Flight Sergeant George William Hill
- Flight Sergeant John Carl Hodichak
- Flight Sergeant Peter Nicholas Humeniski
- Leading Aircraftman Hugh O'Rorke
- Flying Officer Allan Hoadley Pivott
- Flying Officer Floyd Reginald Ross
- Flight Sergeant Stephen John Veres