On this day — 17 July
120 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer John Burrows Ashton
- Leading Aircraftman Brock
- Pilot Officer Brian Stuart Todd Brookes
- Sergeant Donald Leigh Griffiths
- Sergeant John Arthur Hunter
- Pilot Officer Alan Kinnear Jackson
- Sergeant Reginald Vincent Kingshott
- Flying Officer William George Middlebro'
- Sergeant Eric Edwin Heaton Osgood
- Sergeant Ronald Arthur Osgood
1941
- Air Sergeant Adams
- Sergeant Lewis Ernest Badland
- Sergeant Alan William Porteous Bird
- Second Lieutenant Reginald A. W. Blatherwick
- Pilot Officer John Nesbitt Bowker
- Air Sergeant Bowley
- Leading Aircraftman John Robert Brumpton
- Sergeant Dominico Guiseppe Calderone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Vincent Lee Colling
- Sergeant David Henry Conibear
- Flight Lieutenant William Macpherson Cross
- Sergeant George Devereux Davies
- Air Sergeant James Selwyn Dunn
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Edwards
- Pilot Officer Lennard Basil Fordham
- Air Sergeant Adam Morthimus Fowler
- Sergeant Maurice Guest
- Sergeant Leslie James Harrison
- Sergeant Bernard Hassall
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Sterling Jackson
- Sergeant Bramwell Frederick Thomas Johnson
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Francis Kerr
- Sergeant Francis Mackay Laing
- Sergeant Jiri Mares
- Pilot Officer Alan Stewart Middleton
- Pilot Officer Robert George Mitchell
- Sergeant Roy William Owen
- Pilot Officer Henry Moncrieff Owens
- Sergeant Orville Insell Platt
- Sergeant Robert Plume
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Leonard Rayment
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Stanley Redding
- Sergeant John William Rowe
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Edward Russell
- Sergeant Raymond Sadler
- Sergeant Allan Douglas Scott
- Corporal Frederick William Smith
- Pilot Officer George Frank Talent
- Sergeant Thordar Thordarson
- Flight Sergeant Denys Hull Todd
- Flying Officer Eric Charles Whitehead
- Sergeant Alec Windle
- Pilot Officer Walter Harold Zillessen
1942
- Flight Lieutenant Brian Stanley Bannister
- Squadron Leader Richard George Arthur Barclay
- Corporal David Bates
- Warrant Officer Thomas Derrick Butcher
- Sergeant Peter Anselm Dorman
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Cameron Gibson
- Pilot Officer Ralph Harrison Groom
- Squadron Leader Arthur William Hoggar
- Leading Aircraftman Sylvester Claude Holloway
- Flying Officer Neville Patrick Peter Kearney
- Leading Aircraftman Claude Verchmans King
- Wing Commander Malcolm Morgan McMullan
- Flight Lieutenant Guy Montague Osborne
- Sergeant Stanley James Parsons
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Reid
- Flight Lieutenant John Bryan Gloster Rogers
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Manley Tucker
1943
- Sergeant Kenneth Ross Allen
- Aircraftman 1st Class Macduff Stuart Carson
- Pilot Officer Arthur Henry Coates
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Stanley Fisher
- Pilot Officer Russel Max Furman
- Flight Sergeant Cameron McKenzie Goudy
- Corporal John Thomas Halligan
- Warrant Officer Class I James Waclaw Hoba
- Flight Sergeant Harry Alfonzo Huntington
- Leading Aircraftman Clarence Desmond Ingleby
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Laurent Leonard Janisse
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Adelbert Keeble
- Flying Officer Eric Mawson
- Sergeant Robert Caven Mitchell
- Sergeant Eric Anthony Murray
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Walter James Norton
- Sergeant William O'Brien
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Rowe
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Alfred Steele
- Flying Officer Vivian Claude John Steer
- Pilot Officer Leonard Emmerson Stubbs
- Flight Sergeant Robert Francis Thayer
- Squadron Leader Edward George Titley
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Tunstall
- Flight Sergeant Rowland Walter
1944
- Sergeant Richard George Foster
- Squadron Leader Walter William Beresford Gale
- Flight Sergeant Robert Owen Gregory Ives
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Samuel Charles Jackson
- Sergeant James Magee
- Pilot Officer Frederick Edward McDonald
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Melne McKenzie
- Flying Officer John Michalec
- Sergeant Arthur Willoughby Radley
- Pilot Officer Normand John Walford Smith
- Pilot Officer David Adderton Strachan
- Flying Officer Frederick Percy Ogilvie Weary
- Flight Sergeant Harold Fenwick Whalen
1945
- Flying Officer Brian Joseph Bohane
- Flight Sergeant Edward George Burton
- Lieutenant Hulley
- Sergeant George Byron McLean Lucas
- Warrant Officer Class II Magid
- Lieutenant Magid
- Flying Officer Charles Govan Middleton
- Warrant Officer Denis John Sims
- Flying Officer William Pyle Thomas
- Flight Sergeant William McIldowie Turnbull
- Warrant Officer Valentine Ralph Lewis Turner