On this day — 17 August
323 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer George Malcolm Bardolph
- Sergeant Frederick Allen Beale
- Pilot Officer Derek Elliott Stafford Charles
- Sergeant Roy Desmond Edward Clarke
- Flying Officer John Hunter Coghlan
- Sergeant Harry Dickinson
- Sergeant Donald Duncan
- Pilot Officer William Mead Lindsley Fiske
- Sergeant Brian Holmes Foster
- Pupil Pilot Frank
- Sergeant Harry Haggett
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Joseph Hartmann
- Sergeant Walter Frank Haywood
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Holdsworth
- Pilot Officer David Hutchins
- Sergeant Sidney George Jermond
- Sergeant Eric Wilfred Osborne
- Sergeant James Patterson
- Sergeant Maurice William James Pollard
- Squadron Leader Peter Henry Rebbeck
- Flying Officer Mark Hubbard Rogers
- Sergeant Peter Duncan Salmon
- Flight Lieutenant John Stanley Scott
- Squadron Leader Evelyn Harry Toller Thwaites
- Pilot Officer Jack Wilk
1941
- Sergeant Leonard Acres
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Alfred Archer
- Sergeant John Gordon Armstrong
- Pilot Officer John Lambert Asprey
- Sergeant John Clifford Beardmore
- Pilot Officer Harry Fletcher Binns
- Sergeant Stuart Frank Beeching Bott
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Brown
- Sergeant George Henderson Pepper Buchanan
- Flight Lieutenant Cecil Cakebread
- Sergeant Stanley Vivian Calvetti
- Sergeant David Adams Campbell
- Pilot Officer William Aloysius Casey
- Sergeant Albert Edward Cleary
- Sergeant Gerald Crane
- Sergeant Hugh Currie
- Pilot Officer Norman Dotchin
- Sergeant Arthur Edward Earle
- Sergeant Sydney Cyril Edwards
- Flight Sergeant Charles John Fletcher
- Sergeant John Flint
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Griffen Sidney Freeman
- Flight Sergeant Colin George Charles Frost
- Sergeant Derek Hall Fugill
- Pilot Officer James Grant
- Sergeant Denis Farmbrough Hawkes
- Leading Air Mechanic James Emanuel Hayter
- Sergeant Hewison
- Flying Officer Kenneth Marshall Hicks
- Sergeant Kenneth Hutchinson
- Sergeant Allan Jackets
- Flight Sergeant Robert Jopling
- Sergeant Eric Harry Lager
- Sergeant Alec John Lane
- Sergeant Sidney Arthur Loveday
- Sergeant Samuel John Luke
- Sergeant John Hamish Malet-warden
- Pilot Officer George Joyce Matthews
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Cyril May
- Sergeant Anthony John Rylands Millard-tucker
- Pilot Officer Ian Good Mitchell
- Sergeant Herbert George Mole
- Sergeant John Francis Moore
- Sergeant Charles Richard Morley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cuthbert William Nairn
- Flight Sergeant Edward Horatio Nancarrow
- Sergeant John Walter Nowlan
- Sergeant Gordon Leonard Olsen
- Sergeant Reginald Percy Payton
- Pilot Officer Henry Hetley Pearson
- Sergeant Thomas Penrice
- Flight Sergeant Eric Arthur Redfern
- Sergeant John Elwyn Rees
- Sergeant Vernon Young Hodgson Sewell
- Sergeant Thomas Anthony Sherman
- Pilot Officer Leonard Ashton Smith
- Sergeant Charles Figsby Colville Steele
- Sergeant William Thomas Ross Stephenson
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Charles Steward
- Sergeant James Francis Paul Stuart
- Pilot Officer Bernard Montague Jeffrey Vincent
- Pilot Officer Donald William Hirst Walker
- Pilot Officer Gordon Geoffrey Watts
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells
- Sergeant John Ian Welsh
- Sergeant Alan David Wills
- Sergeant Douglas Anderson Wilson
- Sergeant Frederick Walter York
1942
- Corporal William Amos Banks
- Flying Officer John Shirley Bunbury
- Corporal Stanley Wallace Butland
- Pilot Officer Andre Joseph Emile Gregoire Cantillion
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrence Edward Cassidy
- Pilot Officer Kenneth William Clugston
- Flight Sergeant Eugene Hastings Connell
- Sergeant William Arthur Davis
- Sergeant Walter De Martino
- Pilot Officer James John Pierre Hector Doran
- Sergeant Thomas Douglas
- Flying Officer Wilfrid Milton Edmonds
- Pilot Officer Jack Kenneth Ferguson
- Pilot Officer Richard Filson-young
- Sergeant Harold Firth
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Warren Flatau
- Sergeant William Joseph Alexander Fleming
- Sergeant John Fletcher
- Sergeant Maurice Patrick Gallagher
- Flying Officer Basil Douglas Gay Gibson
- Pilot Officer Edward Goodhead
- Sergeant Basil Keith Hatch
- Flight Sergeant John William Hutchison
- Flight Sergeant Edward Charles George Jackman
- Flight Sergeant Edward Austin Jones
- Warrant Officer Henry Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Norman Alfred Keen
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth McKenzie Leslie
- Sergeant William Edwin Logan
- Sergeant George Frederick Lyman-dixon
- Flying Officer Alexander Gordon Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant Walter Douglas Maconnell
- Sergeant Albert Marshall
- Sergeant Kenneth Stewart McDonald
- Flight Sergeant John Andrew McLean
- Sergeant Ashleigh Thomas Mears
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Frank Melson
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Roger Rolland Metivier
- Pilot Officer William Alexander H. (bill) Millar
- Sergeant Stewart Robertson Mitchell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney George Perry
- Sergeant Glyndwr Phillips
- Sergeant Edward Robert Phillipson
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Vernon Platts
- Flying Officer Dennis John Quinlan
- Squadron Leader Geoffrey Robinson
- Sergeant Robert Robson
- Pilot Officer Peter John Christie Savage
- Sergeant Peter Simpson
- Aircraftman 1st Class William George Smith
- Pilot Officer Anthony Jeaffreson Southwell
- Lieutenant Clifford Trenchard
- Flying Officer John Hugh Trethewy
- Lieutenant Wilfred Jeffrey Vine
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Lionel Vinten
- Pilot Officer Alfred Cecil Williams
- Leading Aircraftman George Timothy Williams
- Flight Sergeant George William Workman
1943
- Sergeant Horace George Ansell
- Sergeant James Dennis Bates
- Flight Sergeant Harold Beaumont
- Pilot Officer William Edward Beavo
- Sergeant Leonard Alan Bell
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Henry Bewg
- Flight Sergeant Ian F. Blair
- Sergeant Francis Boles
- Leading Aircraftman Dryden Ernest Mountney Bott
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Butterworth
- Pilot Officer Richard Alexander Carney
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald James Carter
- Sergeant Raymond Charles Ciglander
- Sergeant Leslie George Dalgleish
- Warrant Officer Stanley John Darnell
- Flying Officer Lewis George Davis
- Sergeant Donald Deans
- Leading Aircraftman Ainslie Ivor Dent
- Pilot Officer Michael Perry Stowell Dicken
- Flying Officer Eric Hayden Douglas
- Pilot Officer Herbert Joseph Dowds
- Sergeant George William Francis Duckett
- Flying Officer Allan Thomas Duke
- Sergeant John Thomas Farrelly
- Flying Officer Averell Whitman Freeman
- Flying Officer Robert Williams Griffiths
- Squadron Leader Patrick Archibald Haggarty
- Corporal Gordon James Hardy
- Sergeant John Furniss Harkness
- Wing Commander Walter Ralph Haskell
- Flying Officer John David Hawkins
- Flight Sergeant Norman Wood Hayter
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Irvine Hill
- Flight Sergeant Gordon William Holditch
- Sergeant John Albert Hutchinson
- Flight Sergeant Noel Swanston Jay
- Sergeant John Elwyn John
- Flight Sergeant Frederick David Johnson
- Flying Officer James Jones
- Flying Officer Peter Keene
- Sergeant Kenneth Stanley (tinker) Kent-phillips
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Henry Lazenby
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Manley
- Flying Officer Peter William Manning
- Sergeant Roy Matthews
- Aircraftman 1st Class John McCann
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Campbell McKay
- Sergeant George Connelly Mutch
- Flying Officer David Walter Noad
- Pilot Officer Brian Wilfred Norman
- Sergeant Donald Edwin Nye
- Warrant Officer Class II Patrick Vernon O'Brien
- Sergeant Bryan Patrick Phelan
- Flying Officer Stanley John Porteous
- Flying Officer Thomas Philip Power
- Leading Aircraftman Svend Aage Rasmussen
- Sergeant Donald Peter Jack Rawlings
- Flight Sergeant Allan Blakiston Robinson
- Second Lieutenant John Robinson
- Sergeant John Robson
- Sergeant Louis Sabine
- Flight Sergeant George Henry Scully
- Pilot Officer Graham Milton Shouldice
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Henry John Sumner
- Sergeant Charles Edward Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Taylor
- Sergeant Harold Stuart William Thomas
- Sergeant James Arthur Vanlint
- Leading Aircraftman John Going Versturme-bunbury
- Leading Aircraftman Esmond James Vowles
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Ward
- Flight Lieutenant Morris John Alfred White
- Flying Officer Leonard John Wood
- Lieutenant John Bailey Yeats
1944
- Captain Allen
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Louis Baillargeon
- Pilot Officer Thomas Lloyd Baker
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Bean
- Pilot Officer Edwin George Beard
- Pilot Officer Bernard Bercuson
- Pilot Officer Keith Thomas Bielby
- Pilot Officer Forast Deloise Billingsley
- Flying Officer Dalton Irvon Block
- Flying Officer Albert Milvron Bonney
- Pilot Officer Kenneth George Boucock
- Pilot Officer Robert Richardson Boyce
- Flying Officer Harry Vern Boyle
- Warrant Officer Class I Brandsma
- Sergeant Herbert Brown
- Warrant Officer Class II Herbert James Brown
- Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
- Pilot Officer Gordon Van Allen Butchart
- Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Boyd Calhoun
- Pilot Officer Daniel Newton Carter
- Pilot Officer Joseph William Carter
- Flight Sergeant John Douglas Clarke
- Lieutenant Coleman
- Pilot Officer Frederick William Crawley
- Flying Officer Truman Helmer Dahle
- Pilot Officer Robert Henry Davies
- Pilot Officer Alfred Wallace Jack Drennan
- Warrant Officer George William Duncan
- Warrant Officer Class I Erasmus
- Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Douglas Fackrell
- Sergeant Michael John Fahey
- Pilot Officer Maurice Elmer Fairall
- Flying Officer William Chard Fairgrieve
- Flying Officer Lloyd George Falconer
- Pilot Officer John Faragher
- Flying Officer Walter George Frederick Filby
- Flying Officer Charles Harold Fisher
- Flying Officer Malcolm Henry Fleming
- Lieutenant William Allan Gale
- Pilot Officer George Edward Germiquet
- Pilot Officer John Joseph Grant
- Flying Officer Henry Grimble
- Lieutenant Arthur Hastings
- Flying Officer Charles William (sam) Haythornthwaite
- Warrant Officer Joseph Albert Hopper
- Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
- Lieutenant Impey
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Donovan Kemp
- Lieutenant Klokow
- Pilot Officer William Alexander Lamb
- Captain Lawrie
- Lieutenant Lewis
- Squadron Leader John Philip Liversidge
- Warrant Officer Class II Dennis Budd Herman Lorenz
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Robert Loveridge
- Lieutenant Loxton
- Flight Lieutenant Harvard Darrell Frederick Macallister
- Lieutenant McInnes
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Eugene Miron
- Flying Officer Francis Wilfred Moffit
- Lieutenant Munro
- Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
- Sergeant John Richard William Nickerson
- Flying Officer Kenneth Albert Nordheimer
- Major Odendaal
- Flying Officer Cecil Frederick O'Donnell
- Warrant Officer Class I Palmer
- Flying Officer Gordon Featherstone Pritchard
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Stanley Pudney
- Flying Officer Antonio George Roski
- Pilot Officer Joseph Georges Marcel Savard
- Flying Officer George Scott
- Corporal Arthur Joseph Sevigny
- Flying Officer Harry Slater
- Pilot Officer Dennis Edward Snell
- Flying Officer John Coles Sprott
- Flying Officer Joseph Ralph Gordon Srigley
- Warrant Officer Class II Steel
- Flying Officer Arthur Stienstra
- Pilot Officer Charles Pittman Surles
- Pilot Officer John Andrews Tolmie
- Flight Lieutenant John Chester Valk
- Pilot Officer James William Waddell
- Lieutenant Watson
- Sergeant Denis James Thomas Watts
- Flying Officer Dorrien Guy Corbin Wilson
- Flying Officer John Henry Wilson
1945
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter George Baguley
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth William Frazer Blundell
- Leading Aircraftman John Patrick Joseph Carmody
- Leading Aircraftman Francis James Raymond Dimond
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Gazzard
- Wing Commander Anthony Desmond Joseph Lovell
- Warrant Officer Joseph Patrick Shanahan
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur John Tucker
- Flying Officer Samuel Driffield Woodman