On this day — 23 July
223 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 23 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer William Appleby
- Pilot Officer Eric Wilfred Bell
- Sergeant James Wilson Candlish
- Sergeant John Kerr Easton
- Pilot Officer James Tayne Taine Fleming
- Sergeant Eric Hill
- Sergeant Charles Julius Holland
- Sergeant Jack Bramwell Jones
- Sergeant Lawrence Land
- Lieutenant Stephanus Meintjes
- Sergeant David Vivian Mobberley
- Sergeant William Patrick O'Heney
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfred Herbert Pearson
- Pilot Officer Trevor Jack Powell
- Flight Lieutenant Charles David Weaver Price
- Sergeant George Aidan Sewell
- Sergeant Charles John Smewin
- Sergeant George Bartle Smith
- Pilot Officer John Digby Smith
- Sergeant Reginald Alfred Steele
- Pilot Officer Robert Camac Sterling
- Pilot Officer Peter George Anthony Watson
1941
- Sergeant Ronald William Adamson
- Pilot Officer Philip Bernard Ashby
- Sergeant Peter Dorsan Baker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edwin Carl Julius Berry
- Flight Sergeant Gifford John Bishop
- Pilot Officer Hugh Blackall
- Sergeant William Charles Kenneth Bounds
- Sergeant Robert Murray Bryant
- Flying Officer Robert Balmain Campbell
- Pilot Officer Noel Alfred Campbell Cathles
- Sergeant Bertram John Child
- Flight Sergeant William Cockburn
- Flight Sergeant Jack Allenby Coleman
- Flying Officer Christopher Cookson
- Sergeant William Matthew Deakin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur William Deavy
- Sergeant William Matthie Gillam Dunham
- Pilot Officer Leonard Frederick Evans
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest Alfred Fidell
- Sergeant George Thomas Friend
- Sergeant Norman Joseph Giblin
- Sergeant Alfred Henry Gregory
- Flying Officer Andrew Terras Grieve
- Sergeant Frederick Griffin
- Sergeant Arthur William Handley
- Sergeant Norman Laurence Harding
- Sergeant Henry Percival Hartridge
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Cope Hoddell
- Leading Aircraftman William Wadden Hutchinson
- Sergeant Clifford Franklyn Jenkins
- Corporal John Eric Jones
- Flight Sergeant Reginald John Louis Larwood
- Sergeant Richard Harvey Laurie
- Pilot Officer Donald Alfred Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Magee
- Sergeant Kenneth Buck Minty
- Sergeant Arthur John Mitchell
- Pilot Officer Sidney George Newborough
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Edwin Oughton
- Sergeant Charles Douglas Phillips
- Pilot Officer Gerald Henry Seeley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Edward Sheppard
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Alfred Skinner
- Sergeant John Patrick Sullivan
- Flying Officer James Ronald Gabert Sutton
- Flight Sergeant George William Tabor
- Flight Lieutenant Howard Waples
- Pilot Officer John Henry Eric Warner
- Sergeant Arthur Ronald Norman Whitcher
- Flight Sergeant Claude Marriott Williamson
- Flight Lieutenant Earl William Young
1942
- Second Lieutenant Allen
- Sergeant Harvey John Austin
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Phillip Arthur Bail
- Air Sergeant Bayley
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Burnep
- Pilot Officer Vivian Lester Currie
- Sergeant Eustace Hedley Dunn
- Air Sergeant Eliastam
- Sergeant Arthur Conrad Essery
- Sergeant David Gordon Fuggle
- Lieutenant Grey
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Spencer Hanson
- Leading Aircraftman Graham Frank Hill
- Flight Lieutenant William Deveaux Woodruff Hilton
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Hogg
- Flying Officer David William Kent
- Second Lieutenant Lemmer
- Corporal Ernest Charles Leslie Lyas
- Sergeant Allan Macaskill
- Sergeant Donald Machin
- Lieutenant Graeme Butler Mackenzie
- Flight Sergeant John Melville McDonald
- Flight Sergeant John Malcolm McKerroll
- Air Sergeant Murray
- Lieutenant Leonard Anthony Nichol
- Leading Aircraftman Osborne Victor Nickerson
- Flight Sergeant James Sherman Peterson
- Pilot Officer Gerald Carrick Pizey
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Pearce Henry Sargent
- Leading Aircraftman Solwyn Saunder Schwartz
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Slater
- Pilot Officer John James Walker
- Pilot Officer John Dorset Webster
- Leading Aircraftman John Strainer Williams
- Sergeant Douglas Henry Yeo
- Sergeant Joseph Stanley Yurkowski
1943
- Flying Officer Sidney Wilfred Anderson
- Flying Officer Maurice John William Aspinall
- Flight Sergeant Edgar Francis Baker
- Warrant Officer Francis Paul Bayly
- Flying Officer Arthur Frederick Betteridge
- Lieutenant Bliss
- Pilot Officer Lionel Douglas Blomley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Vivian Brazier
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Douglas Bryson
- Sergeant Walter Charles Bull
- Sergeant Eric Charles Buttle
- Sergeant Stephen Hodge Carter
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Richard Childe
- Sergeant John Michael Alexander Clarke
- Leading Aircraftman James Henry Clayton
- Sergeant Harry Ernest Costley
- Flying Officer Christopher Frederick Cox
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Herbert Cullern
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joyda Howell Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Arthur Dennis
- Sergeant Reginald Douglas Eaglen
- Pilot Officer John Fletcher
- Flying Officer Robert William Fulton
- Corporal James Gant
- Warrant Officer Donald Bruce Giles
- Warrant Officer John Endacott Goddard
- Lieutenant Terence Tom Goulding
- Flight Sergeant Basil Purchon Hall
- Sergeant Leonard Thomas Halson
- Corporal William Handy
- Warrant Officer Geoffrey William Harnett
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Harper
- Warrant Officer Ronald Oswald Harris
- Flight Sergeant Paul Hey Hartley
- Leading Aircraftman Stephen Heron
- Pilot Officer Gordon Kirby Hignell
- Flight Sergeant Peter Holmes
- Sergeant David Alexander Horsley
- Flight Sergeant William George Imrie
- Flight Sergeant George Jason Jacobs
- Pilot Officer Louis Max Lavallee
- Flying Officer Eric Thomas David Lees
- Flying Officer John David Le Mare
- Sergeant Bernard Lillyman
- Air Corporal Marsh
- Sergeant William Thomas McKenzie
- Flying Officer Fabian Crothers McMaster
- Warrant Officer Louis Willis Moon
- Flight Lieutenant Theodor Mervyn Niemeyer
- Sergeant Reginald Derrick Frank Paskell
- Flying Officer David Skene Paterson
- Flight Sergeant Alan Gilbert Potter
- Sergeant Charles William Privett
- Pilot Officer Beresford Stanley Reilly
- Flying Officer John Frederick Rich
- Flying Officer Francis Joseph Robinson
- Corporal Reginald John Salts
- Flying Officer Alan Merris Shalless
- Pilot Officer George Henry Ivor Smith
- Sergeant Stanley Spedding
- Leading Aircraftman Alan Ronald Talbot
- Pilot Officer Arthur Ernest Tribbeck
- Warrant Officer Keith Stewart Wedgwood
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Reid Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Thomas Wright
1944
- Sergeant Lyall Kenneth Beattie
- Sergeant Walter Leonard Blunt
- Pilot Officer William Edward Bowhay
- Sergeant John Frederick Burgess
- Wireless Operator Daniel Eric Butters
- Flight Sergeant Robert George Carrothers
- Sergeant Laurence Richmond Carter
- Second Lieutenant Leonard Cohen
- Pilot Officer Jack Dodd
- Flying Officer Blake Gordon Foy
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Michael Galvon
- Pilot Officer Norman Harrison Gerrand
- Flight Sergeant Henry Lester Guy
- Warrant Officer Donald Anderson Harkness
- Flight Sergeant Luke Anthony Higgins
- Pilot Officer Jack Hutcheson
- Sergeant Robert Andrew Johnson
- Lieutenant Kerbel
- Flying Officer Leonard Alfred Arthur Kilgour
- Pilot Officer Ronald Angus McGregor
- Air Corporal William McLennan
- Flying Officer Middleton
- Flying Officer Ernest Cameron Oke
- Squadron Leader Hugh Paynter
- Flight Sergeant Brian Thomas Sloane
- Sergeant George Hiram Van Every
- Sergeant Roy Alexander Wagner
- Flying Officer William Douglas Watson
- Lieutenant Fox Youngleson
1945
- Warrant Officer Class II Stanley Wilfred Robert Brown
- Warrant Officer Class I Richard Lawrence Bulley
- Leading Aircraftman Frank George Chiverton
- Flight Lieutenant Lancelot Edward Hilmer Clarke
- Flight Sergeant Keith Thomas Cook
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Robert Henry Elmes
- Pilot Officer George Edward Farlowe
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Benjamin Francis
- Corporal William McPherson Gaze
- Squadron Leader Cuthbert Griffin
- Flight Sergeant Colin Henry Hamilton
- Warrant Officer Philip Vincent Helyer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Alfred Langridge
- Flying Officer Robert Gordon Murphy
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Kenrick Nielsen
- Flying Officer Stanley Martin Olson
- Squadron Leader Nigel Minter Pilcher
- Flying Officer Thomas John Steel
- Warrant Officer Class II Laurel Melvin Whitehead