On this day — 23 August
208 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 23 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 1st Class Geoffrey Owen Clarke
- Pilot Officer Bertrand David Clarkson
- Sergeant Robert Henry Clifford
- Leading Aircraftman David East Douglas
- Sergeant Thomas Samuel Duncan
- Pilot Officer Arnold Thomas Harrison
- Pilot Officer Stephen Jack Herring
- Squadron Leader Charles Constantine House
- Sergeant Percy Thomas Lefevre
- Sergeant Laurence Mortimer Lowry
- Corporal Douglas Wardlaw Marwick
- Squadron Leader Robert Hay Stewart McConnell
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Ralph Morton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Naylor
- Sergeant Edward Albert Pearce
- Aircraftman 1st Class James William Watson
- Sergeant Henry Victor Watts
1941
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel Ballance
- Sergeant Patrick John Nelson Coady
- Pilot Officer John Maxwell Dobson
- Sergeant Gordon Fletcher
- Flying Officer Alfred Lawrence Fowler
- Pilot Officer Henry John Fuller
- Flying Officer Maurice Arthur Frank Hirst
- Flight Sergeant David Hedley Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William John Keenan
- Sergeant Richard Lyle Killen
- Pilot Officer Kenneth William Liebeck
- Sergeant George Horace Macnamara
- Pilot Officer Jack Matthews
- Sergeant Russell Naylor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter Quinlan O'Brien
- Flying Officer George Denis Sproule
- Sergeant Alan Thompson
- Pilot Officer Norman Frederick Thompson
1942
- Sergeant Adolph Willard Anderson
- Sergeant John McLaren Barrell
- Sergeant Charles Franklin Beeching
- Pilot Officer David Bruce Bridger
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Arthur Brunsdon
- Flight Sergeant John William Cannell Cowan
- Pilot Officer Everard Thomas Cox
- Sergeant Douglas Brooks Crabb
- Flight Sergeant Mervyn Cram
- Pilot Officer Evelyn Arthur Crane Dawkins
- Pilot Officer Mason Irvine Elliott
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Stanley Graeme-cook
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Graver
- Flight Sergeant Frank Deane Hamilton-wilkes
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Henderson
- Sergeant Kenneth Earl Hope
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Alfred Bernard Horn
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Ibbetson
- Pilot Officer Donald Munro Iverach
- Sergeant Daniel Thomas Jones
- Sergeant Robert Joyce
- Wing Commander Edward Vincent Knowles
- Sergeant Robert Laidlow
- Sergeant Gordon William John Lovell
- Sergeant Reginald McCulloch
- Sergeant Leslie Oldford
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Norman Owen
- Flying Officer Andrew Bryce Paton
- Sergeant Robert Wilmore Patrick
- Warrant Officer Herford Linton Pendal
- Flight Sergeant Lionel Miller Petersen
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Albert Reiss
- Pilot Officer George Jewitt Rix
- Warrant Officer Class II Jack Lloyd Roach
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter Graham Scott
- Aircraftman 1st Class Andrew Smyth
- Flight Sergeant Robert Bruce Stuart
- Sergeant Alexander Murdoch Temple
- Sergeant David Thomas Benjamin Williams
- Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Wilson
- Sergeant John Bernard Wood
1943
- Flight Lieutenant John Theodore Anderton
- Sergeant Luther Arthur Appelt
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Austin
- Pilot Officer Cyril Peter Backlog
- Sergeant Joseph William Bailey
- Sergeant Stanley James Banting
- Sergeant Gideon Barsky
- Flight Sergeant Norman Garnet Betts
- Flying Officer John Bruce Bowden
- Sergeant Howard Raymond Boys
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Breckon
- Flight Lieutenant John Brownlee
- Sergeant Harold Chadwick
- Flying Officer James Murdoch Clark
- Warrant Officer Class II William Benzie Forbes Climie
- Flight Sergeant James Geoffrey Collins
- Flying Officer Robert Warren Conway
- Squadron Leader John Anthony Crompton
- Warrant Officer Herbert Edward Curtis
- Sergeant Sydney John Datson
- Sergeant Robert Davie-speirs
- Sergeant Thomas Davison
- Sergeant George Duncan
- Flight Sergeant Henry Bernard Ebbers
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Stanley Emerson
- Sergeant Donald Fells
- Sergeant William Armstrong Finlay
- Sergeant William Stephen Fletton
- Flight Sergeant Ernest John Allenby Ford
- Corporal Charles Arthur Franklin
- Pilot Officer George Eitaro Fraser
- Flying Officer Jens Henning Gielstrup
- Sergeant John Frederick Godfrey
- Pilot Officer Hugh Gray
- Sergeant John Green
- Sergeant Lawrence Green
- Sergeant Henry George Griffiths
- Flight Sergeant Henry Joseph Hahn
- Flying Officer Reginald Henry William Harris
- Pilot Officer Richard Samuel Harrison
- Sergeant John Harwood
- Leading Aircraftman Christopher Cyril Hiles
- Corporal Bruce Hill
- Sergeant Ronald William Horwood
- Sergeant Maurice Hunter
- Sergeant William Burt Jamieson
- Flight Sergeant Clement John Jamison
- Flight Sergeant Einar Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Claude William Jones
- Flying Officer George Donald Kain
- Flying Officer James Reginald Keevil
- Flight Sergeant John Allen Kingsmill
- Warrant Officer Class I William Holt Ledford
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Lefort
- Flight Sergeant William Huskins Lennards
- Sergeant Charles Kenneth Marsh
- Flight Sergeant John Marsh
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Chesley Matthews
- Pilot Officer John Malcolm McIver
- Sergeant Thomas Elder Charles McKeith
- Flight Sergeant Alan Storey McPherson
- Flight Sergeant William McQueen
- Warrant Officer Class II Banks Earle Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Robert Angus Moore
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Edward Morgan
- Warrant Officer Class II Edward Allen Morgans
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Angus Gillespie Mulligan
- Warrant Officer Class II Raymond Guy Needham
- Pilot Officer Lancelot Kenneth Needs
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward George Nunn
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred Oldfield
- Pilot Officer George William Osmer
- Warrant Officer Class II Jack Loree Perkins
- Warrant Officer Class I Keith Oliver Perry
- Pilot Officer Francis Albert Preston
- Sergeant Jack Punter
- Sergeant Deryck Stephen Rastall
- Flying Officer George Neil Rattee
- Sergeant Robert Gordon Reay
- Sergeant William Martin Ewing Reid
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Alan Sawtell
- Sergeant Jeffrey Arthur Silcock
- Sergeant Thomas Smale
- Flight Sergeant Roy Hamilton Smith
- Pilot Officer Joseph Aloysius Spencer
- Sergeant John Ward Standish
- Sergeant Arthur Stansfield
- Warrant Officer Class I William Allan Tennant
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Rae Urquhart
- Sergeant David Humphrey Walshaw
- Flight Sergeant Harold Claude Ward
- Sergeant Thomas Frank Watkins
- Sergeant William John Wearn
- Sergeant Norman George Webb
- Sergeant Harry Sidney Wheeler
- Sergeant Phillip Arthur Whitter
- Flight Sergeant Albert Charles Wilder
- Sergeant Carey Williams
- Sergeant Newton Hunter Middleton Williams
- Sergeant Frederick Roy Wills
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Vincent Young
1944
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Kenneth Bateman
- Flying Officer Sterling Lorne Braaten
- Sergeant Arnold Douglas Daniels
- Flying Officer Lemuel William Gray
- Flying Officer Ronald Greavison
- Sergeant Robert Clarke Green
- Flight Sergeant Peter Frederick Guster
- Second Lieutenant Hoyle
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander William Irwin
- Sergeant Jack Albert Lano
- Flight Lieutenant Richard William Litchfield
- Squadron Leader Peter David Keith Macglashan
- Flying Officer Duncan George Fletcher Macrae
- Pilot Officer Franklin L. Maw
- Flight Sergeant James Lowther Murray
- Sergeant William Stocks Paton
- Flying Officer James Molloy Rinahan
- Sergeant Frederick Irwin Stata
- Flight Lieutenant Glen Whitcomb Taylor
- Sergeant Howard Peter Veregin
- Sergeant Richard William Walters
- Lieutenant Westlake
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Wilson
- Pilot Officer Raymond Wilson
- Sergeant John Fredrick Yacko
1945
- Leading Aircraftman George Edmund Davidson
- Flight Sergeant Robert Dearden
- Flying Officer Keith Leslie Kelly
- Flying Officer George Mansell Proctor