On this day — 23 June
396 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 23 June during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Peter Edward Frederick Adams
- Sergeant William John Barrett
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ray George Brand
- Corporal John Charles Brayshaw
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Henry Dale
- Pilot Officer Stephen George Esson
- Pilot Officer Cecil Denis Frost
- Air Mechanic Fulton
- Sergeant Harold Kenyon
- Sergeant George Ross Murchison
- Pilot Officer Thomas Clare Prescott
- Sergeant Vincent Joseph Swallow
- Flying Officer Brian Anthony Taylor
- Corporal Joseph Tickle
- Pilot Officer James Johnstone Tozer
1941
- Sergeant William Harvey Kenneth Annetts
- Flight Sergeant Rowland Atkin
- Pilot Officer Richard Henry Baker
- Pilot Officer Frank Baldwin
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie William Bayley
- Pilot Officer David Malcolm Bolton
- Sergeant Leslie Charles Botterman
- Sergeant Richard John Bullen
- Flight Sergeant Neil Erskine Byres
- Flight Sergeant Alfred John Cannell
- Sergeant Kenneth Edward Corrie
- Sergeant Ivan Paul Einarson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Henry Ewers
- Sergeant Christopher Timothy Fletcher
- Sergeant Thomas George Freeman
- Sergeant James Henry Grubb
- Pilot Officer Richard John Heavens
- Flight Sergeant Jan Hejna
- Sergeant Dorian Allison Hinde
- Flight Sergeant James Hood
- Sergeant George Thomas Hunt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Derrick William Kates
- Sergeant Gordon Kenneth Kircher
- Pilot Officer Vilem Konstacky
- Squadron Leader Charles John French Kydd
- Sergeant Kenneth Thomas William Mitchell
- Warrant Officer Reginald Lionel William Mitchell
- Sergeant Kenneth Naylor
- Sergeant Kenneth Thomas Noakes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jeffrey Perkins
- Sergeant Walter George Price
- Flying Officer Maurice Viner Redfearn-smith
- Sergeant Jack Vickery Rowe
- Flight Sergeant Alois Rozum
- Sergeant John Alfred Rudkin
- Sergeant Kenneth Harold Sanders
- Pilot Officer Leonhard Smrcek
- Flight Sergeant Eric William Sponder
- Sergeant Leslie Morley Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Karel Valach
1942
- Sergeant John William Balfour
- Lieutenant Leonard James Beesly
- Sergeant Sydney Edward Bradshaw
- Sergeant Walter Burnside
- Corporal Colin James Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Clavey
- Sergeant Edward Alfred Doughty
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert William Douglas
- Pilot Officer Arthur Cyril Reid Downward
- Sergeant John Robert Dryden
- Flight Sergeant Henry Gordon Edwards
- Flying Officer Leslie Cosmo Edwards
- Sergeant James Traynor Fallon
- Flight Sergeant Vincent John Gallogly
- Flight Sergeant George Henry Germain
- Wing Commander Oliver Godfrey
- Pilot Officer William Frederick Batty Griffiths
- Flight Sergeant Alan Buchan Harper
- Sergeant Gaston Hazan
- Corporal William Reid Hill
- Flying Officer Norman Robert Holmes
- Sergeant George Debbage Johnson
- Flight Lieutenant John Osman David Kellow
- Warrant Officer Gerard John Kerrigan
- Sergeant James Beattie Larkins
- Flight Sergeant Kinglsey Clarence Little
- Sergeant Robert Donald Macgregor
- Pilot Officer David Lindsay Malloch
- Flying Officer William Donald McCulloch
- Pilot Officer James Day McKeown
- Squadron Leader Ian George Armour McNaughton
- Leading Aircraftman George Henry Moore
- Sergeant Edwin McMilligan Mutch
- Sergeant Colin Mellor Parker
- Sergeant James Wallace Porteous
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald James Power
- Sergeant Herbert Preston
- Sergeant Alan Lever Ridings
- Sergeant Arthur Robert Ruge
- Sergeant Alfred Brian Scanlan
- Sergeant William Thomson Smith
- Sergeant Ronald Fletcher Snell
- Sergeant Gibbard Selkirk Standring
- Sergeant Robert Horace Stangham
- Corporal David Lester Turnbull
- Wing Commander Alois Vasatko
- Aircraftman 1st Class Anthony Vella
- Aircraftman 1st Class Percy Charles Wakely
- Sergeant Herbert Henry Watson
- Leading Aircraftman James Watson
- Sergeant Vincent Owen Weston
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred Joseph Woodhouse
1943
- Sergeant John Alexander
- Warrant Officer John Allen
- Pilot Officer Roy Locke Amesbury
- Sergeant John Anderson
- Sergeant Walter A. Anderson
- Sergeant Leo Vernon Anthony
- Pilot Officer George Wesley Armstrong
- Sergeant Leslie Ashworth
- Sergeant Frederick James Ross Bain
- Flight Sergeant Edgar Batty
- Warrant Officer Class II Carl Phillips Beairsto
- Sergeant Thomas Hylton Bell
- Flight Sergeant John William Bembridge
- Sergeant Terence Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Richard Bisset
- Flying Officer Sydney Blackhurst
- Sergeant Norman Blanchard
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Blank
- Pilot Officer Joseph Oscar Rosario Bonenfant
- Sergeant Stanley Thomas Booth
- Flying Officer William Henry Boundy
- Sergeant Ronald Bradshaw
- Flight Sergeant William Anthony Macduff Brettell
- Sergeant Albert George Bryan
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Alfred Burbidge
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Edward John Burke
- Pilot Officer George Austen Cadmus
- Flying Officer Ronald Dennis Caldecourt
- Sergeant Gibson Cameron
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Frank Capel
- Flying Officer Duncan Alexander Carmichael
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Ernest Cavanagh
- Sergeant Rowland John Paul Chandler
- Sergeant George Charles Chapman
- Flight Sergeant Peter Maxwell Clark
- Sergeant Alfred Clarke
- Sergeant George Noel Cochrane
- Sergeant John Conway
- Sergeant Ronald Bertram Cooper
- Sergeant Reginald Harrison Cramm
- Flight Sergeant John Sidney Francis Victor Crawley
- Flight Sergeant James Franklin Karl Crowe
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Walter Crozier
- Flying Officer Stanley Albert Charles Cutler
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Jean Baptiste Sylvio Paul Henri David
- Sergeant Wyndham Henry Davies
- Sergeant John Richard Pexton Dawson
- Sergeant Alfred Frederick Sidney Day
- Warrant Officer Class II Anthony David Deane
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Denness
- Flight Sergeant Pierce James Axel Dennis
- Sergeant Edmond Alexis Duchene
- Sergeant William Frederick Eades
- Sergeant Robert Hugh Elliot
- Flying Officer Daniel Valentine Elliott
- Sergeant Clifford Richard Fenwick
- Pilot Officer Ernest Quarrier Findlay
- Sergeant John Fitzsimmons
- Flying Officer William Henry Flatt
- Sergeant Frederick Francis Foden
- Pilot Officer Albert Leonard Ford
- Sergeant Thomas Ridley Forster
- Sergeant Gordon George
- Sergeant Eric William Geraghty
- Sergeant Kenneth Sydney Gillard
- Sergeant Wilson Hebenton Gordon
- Flying Officer Byron McGie Gracie
- Sergeant John Alexander Graham
- Sergeant Newell Graham
- Sergeant Eric Grainger
- Flying Officer Douglas Munroe Grant
- Flying Officer William Donald Graves
- Sergeant Walter Richard Green
- Pilot Officer Eric Griffiths
- Sergeant Frank Groom
- Flying Officer Eric George Grove
- Flying Officer Lloyd John Gwynne
- Flight Sergeant James Douglas Hamilton
- Sergeant Reginald Hammond
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Edward Harley
- Sergeant Charles William Hartin
- Sergeant Frank Hawes
- Flying Officer John Vincent Hawkins
- Sergeant Gordon Robert Hazell
- Flight Lieutenant Werner John Hein
- Sergeant Cyril Benjamin Hemmings
- Flight Sergeant James Hennessy
- Flying Officer Philip Gerard Herrin
- Pilot Officer Cecil William Hewitt
- Flight Sergeant Harry Pliley Heximer
- Pilot Officer Robert Geoffrey Higgins
- Sergeant George Roland Hill
- Flight Sergeant James Oliver Hills
- Sergeant James Theodore Hindley
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Alfred Hine
- Sergeant Frederick Johns Hobbs
- Sergeant Frank Holmes
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Victor Howe
- Sergeant William Edward Hughes
- Sergeant Richard Huke
- Pilot Officer Albert Edward Humphreys
- Flying Officer James Donald Humphreys
- Sergeant Cyril Hunt
- Sergeant James Munro Hurson
- Sergeant George Cairns Hutton
- Sergeant Roy Jackson
- Sergeant Ralph Owen Jasper
- Sergeant Charles Phillip Johns
- Sergeant John Whyford Marsh Jones
- Group Captain Reginald Charles Jordan
- Flying Officer William Douglas Joy
- Flight Sergeant Desmond Henry Russell Kelly
- Sergeant Raymond Anthony Kennedy
- Sergeant Stephen William Kennedy
- Sergeant Gordon Frederick Kilsby
- Sergeant Guy Kipling
- Flying Officer Georges Kleinberg
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Herbert Knight
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Claude Albert Laberge
- Flight Sergeant George Labiuk
- Leading Aircraftman Rowland Dalton Lake
- Sergeant George Witham Lawson
- Flight Sergeant William Charlton Lawson
- Sergeant William Cecil Lewis
- Sergeant Leslie David Lingwood
- Pilot Officer Gordon Leonard Linklater
- Sergeant George Lockey
- Sergeant James Desmond Diggles Longden
- Flying Officer Harold James Lumb
- Sergeant Terence Wilfred Charles Luther
- Flight Sergeant Timothy Leo Macaskill
- Sergeant Wilfred Chalmers Macaulay
- Flying Officer John Scott Macintyre
- Sergeant Gerald Arthur Harold Male
- Sergeant Durston Mann
- Flying Officer Albert John Manning
- Flight Sergeant John James Mansfield
- Flight Lieutenant Colin Carswell Marshall
- Flight Sergeant Donald Ernest Martin
- Sergeant Cyril James Matthews
- Pilot Officer Ronald Albert Charles Maund
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Fraser McCrorie
- Flight Sergeant Andrew James McEwin
- Pilot Officer Francis Max McKenzie
- Pilot Officer Patrick Colin McNair
- Warrant Officer Class II Roderick McNeil
- Pilot Officer Robert Edward Mercer
- Pilot Officer Melvin Maier Meyer
- Sergeant Peter Mills
- Sergeant Cederic Roland Minns
- Flight Sergeant Maynard Hazlett Moore
- Flight Sergeant William Linkous Cameron Moran
- Flight Sergeant Jack William Newport
- Sergeant William Richard Newton
- Corporal Robert William Nicholls
- Sergeant Thomas Nicholson
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Haig Northcoat
- Flight Sergeant Norman Frederick Notley
- Sergeant Frederick Thomas Nuttall
- Sergeant Thomas Ogle
- Sergeant Jack Osborne
- Flying Officer Armand Alphonse Pariseau
- Sergeant Stanley Payton
- Warrant Officer Leonard Ancliff Pearce
- Sergeant Geoffrey Michael Phillips
- Sergeant Jack Picton
- Sergeant Robert Mitchell Pinkerton
- Sergeant Albert Ernest Ponsford
- Sergeant John Smith Porter
- Sergeant Harry Arthur John Powell
- Corporal Arthur Purton Pratt
- Sergeant Robin Douglas Pryde-watson
- Flying Officer Harold Denis Quilter
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick Thomas Rafter
- Sergeant Kenneth William Read
- Sergeant Edgar Henry Reader
- Warrant Officer Class II John Joseph Reansbury
- Flying Officer Norman Duncan Reid
- Flight Sergeant James Leonard Richards
- Sergeant Alex Henry Richardson
- Flying Officer Ian Holdsworth Robertson
- Warrant Officer Class II John Wallace Robertson
- Sergeant Peter Brindley Robinson
- Flight Sergeant James Allan Robson
- Sergeant Gilbert Ernest Rose
- Pilot Officer Maurice Edgar Rust
- Sergeant Robert James Sage
- Sergeant Cyril Sampson
- Flight Sergeant George King Samson
- Sergeant Daniel Sanders
- Wing Commander Joseph Logan Savard
- Sergeant Gerald David Sharp
- Sergeant Kenneth Fazackerley Shaw
- Sergeant Frank Charles Simons
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Alfred Sims
- Sergeant Edwin Smith
- Flight Sergeant James Brooks Hamilton Smith
- Sergeant William Patrick Smith
- Pilot Officer William Alfred Sneath
- Flight Lieutenant Alfred Eugene Spurr
- Sergeant Ernest Charles Stally
- Pilot Officer Evan Rankin Strang
- Pilot Officer William Stuckey
- Sergeant Vincent Sugden
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Edward Taylor
- Flying Officer Charles Richard Thomas
- Sergeant Alfred Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Harold Edgar Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Osborne David Thompson
- Sergeant Peter Mytton Thornycroft
- Flight Sergeant Dalton Joseph Tickle
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Arthur Tipler
- Warrant Officer Class II Richard Douglas Tod
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Ernest Tod
- Flight Sergeant Oliver William Todd
- Flying Officer Thomas Beavan Tomkins
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Leslie Tucker
- Sergeant Douglas Eric Tuddenham
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Louis Tyrone
- Flying Officer George Thomas Vicary
- Sergeant Roy Arthur Waterhouse
- Sergeant Stanley Lawrence Webb
- Flight Lieutenant Keith Webster
- Sergeant Morven Webster
- Sergeant Harold James Wells
- Sergeant John Westbarn
- Sergeant Norman Geoffrey Whiting
- Flight Sergeant Walter Frederick Wilcockson
- Sergeant Arthur Edwin Wilkes
- Sergeant David Ellis Williams
- Sergeant Francis Henry Williams
- Sergeant Sydney Williams
- Flying Officer Ronald Walter Winfield
- Flight Sergeant John Trevor Winterbon
- Flight Sergeant Benjamin Brinley Wood
- Flying Officer William Henry Wood
- Sergeant Amos Alfred Thomas Woodard
- Sergeant James Ernest Woodward
1944
- Flying Officer Sydney James Allsep
- Flight Lieutenant Elliott Adams Armstrong
- Flying Officer John Leonard Arnell
- Flying Officer Alan Arnold
- Flying Officer James Joseph Battle
- Warrant Officer Class II Harry Blain
- Flying Officer Alfred Campbell Briant
- Sergeant Bernard Roy Clark
- Flight Sergeant Michael William Cosgrove
- Warrant Officer William Newth English
- Flying Officer Melville Alfred Foy
- Pilot Officer John Allan Fraser
- Flying Officer Harold Arthur Fuhr
- Flying Officer Herbert William Garwood
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Glen
- Flying Officer Arthur Paul Haacke
- Flying Officer Archibald Macmaster Hoar
- Flying Officer David Lloyd Irwin
- Flight Lieutenant Clive Fowler Jacobsen
- Warrant Officer Alfred Leonard Lambert
- Flying Officer Francis Stephen Lamble
- Flight Sergeant Philip Stroud May
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Scott Milliken
- Flying Officer John Joseph Minogue
- Flying Officer John James Murray
- Flying Officer Walter Gerard O'Hagan
- Warrant Officer Dennis Aubrey Orr
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Randolph Pearson
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Leslie John Perkins
- Warrant Officer Class I Jean Marie Charles Plante
- Captain Schalk William Rabie
- Pilot Officer Leonard Allan Scutt
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Mayall Shelton
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Harold Small
- Lieutenant Steenkamp
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth James Tomkins
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Stewart Van Raalte
- Flying Officer John William Walker
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert George Wallace
- Squadron Leader Robert George West
1945
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Frank Albert Clarke
- Flight Lieutenant James William George
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Sidney Hogan
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Hardy Leigh
- Flying Officer Peter James Lim
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Prosser
- Flight Lieutenant John Henry Skelly