On this day — 16 September
312 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 16 September during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Trevor George Adams
- Pilot Officer Arthur Frederick Copithorne Carson
- Pilot Officer Anthony Hugh Cholmeley
- Sergeant Norman Cyril Manser
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dugald Forbes McCallum
- Sergeant Humphrey Lawrence Stewart Price
- Pilot Officer Eric Samuel Roberts
- Pilot Officer Napier George Henry Sturt
- Squadron Leader Chester William McKinley Thompson
- Pilot Officer Grahame Edmund Walker
1941
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Barry
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Bond
- Pilot Officer David Darling Christie
- Sergeant Kenneth William Charlton Clark
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Pinder Collins
- Sergeant Leslie Roy Cox
- Pilot Officer Hedley James Allen Dyer
- Pilot Officer James Edwards Falconer
- Sergeant James McIntosh Fawkner
- Pilot Officer Edward John Douglas Guild
- Sergeant Frederick Edward Gunther
- Leading Aircraftman Melville Mason Hart
- Sergeant Albert Henry Higgs
- Sergeant Leonard Hunt
- Sergeant Gordon McDonald (don) Jackson
- Sergeant James Sidney Jacobs
- Sergeant Trevor Henry Barton Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Lamb
- Leading Aircraftman George William Lee
- Flight Sergeant Walter Cameron Mackenzie
- Sergeant Edward McCormack
- Leading Aircraftman Claude Russell Moore
- Sergeant Arthur Needham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Walter Newson
- Sergeant Arthur Russell Patrick
- Pilot Officer Jack Hartley Rodgers
- Sergeant Snead
- Sergeant Charles Alfred Tracey
- Sergeant Alexander Dempsey Wallace
- Sergeant Arthur John Witherington
1942
- Pilot Officer Francis James Adams
- Sergeant William Gordon Archer
- Sergeant Douglas Gordon William Arnold
- Sergeant Sam Hawley Atkinson
- Sergeant Joseph Smillie Balfour
- Sergeant Alexander Mackenzie Bartlett
- Flying Officer Victor Dominic Benefield
- Sergeant Jack William Augustus Bennett
- Warrant Officer Class I Philip Sibbald Ogilvie Brichta
- Pilot Officer James Watson Brown
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Emanuel Buechler
- Sergeant Alfred Eric William Butler
- Sergeant Clarence Gilbert Calcutt
- Sergeant Gordon Miles Caldwell
- Pilot Officer Harry Casimiri
- Sergeant George Elliott Charlesworth
- Flight Sergeant Terence George Clark
- Sergeant Albert Morriss Clarke
- Sergeant Michael James Clayton
- Flight Sergeant George Olaf Clement
- Pilot Officer Alan Edward Coates
- Sergeant Alexander Bridges Cockburn
- Sergeant Dennis Winstone Constance
- Sergeant Owen Richard O'Hara Cotter
- Sergeant Leon Cowen
- Sergeant Herbert Windsor Crock
- Sergeant Frederick Walter Darley
- Sergeant Wilfred Davis
- Sergeant Dan Oliver Richard Dawson
- Flight Lieutenant John Dawson
- Sergeant George Dennison
- Leading Aircraftman Jean Maurice Julien Derome
- Flight Sergeant John Donaldson
- Pilot Officer Alexander Easton
- Sergeant John Reuben Ellam
- Sergeant Robert Edwin Evans
- Pilot Officer Albert John Fawcett
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Gifford Felce
- Pilot Officer Isaiah Derry Ferguson
- Sergeant William John Ferguson
- Sergeant Alan Watson Firth
- Sergeant Kenneth Forster
- Sergeant Robert Harry Fuller
- Pilot Officer Grahame Cyril Ralph Goodwin
- Pilot Officer George Clarence Goold
- Pilot Officer Clifford Harry Grant
- Flight Sergeant Robert Kitchen Griffith
- Warrant Officer Class II Clement William Hall
- Sergeant Edmund Arden Hall
- Sergeant James Hall
- Flight Sergeant David Harry Halstead
- Flight Sergeant William Harvey
- Pilot Officer James Gilmer Heath
- Sergeant Edward Hamilton Henderson
- Pilot Officer Ronald Horace Hill
- Sergeant Kenneth Beresford Hobbs
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Ellison Holland
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Holloway
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Horn
- Pilot Officer William Arthur Hoskins
- Squadron Leader Cecil Moreton Howell
- Flight Sergeant William Kilpatrick Hughes
- Sergeant Maurice Hull
- Sergeant William Hunt
- Sergeant John Lawson Main Illingworth
- Leading Aircraftman Daniel James Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Howard Edward Johnson
- Flight Sergeant William Ernest Johnson
- Sergeant Allen Hartwell Jones
- Sergeant Francis Terence Pargeter Jones
- Sergeant Alfred William Kendall
- Sergeant James Cyril Kent
- Sergeant Thomas Harold Kidd
- Sergeant Ronald Frederick John Lane
- Pilot Officer Joseph Frederick Lawless
- Warrant Officer Class I Lorne James Lemoine
- Pilot Officer Henry William Long
- Sergeant Patrick Lawrence Looney
- Pilot Officer Fred Lupton
- Flight Sergeant Frank Alfred Conway Macauley
- Pilot Officer John Donald Macleod
- Flight Sergeant Jack Hubert Edward Marriott
- Sergeant Dennis Charles Marsh
- Pilot Officer Peter John Ernest Mason
- Sergeant Robert George McCarthy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Daniel McMillan
- Sergeant Reginald Walter Michelin
- Sergeant Stanley Victor Miles
- Pilot Officer Theodore Benjamin Thomas Moore
- Warrant Officer Class II Max Louis Morelly
- Sergeant Robert Semple Morton
- Sergeant Ronald John Mumford
- Flying Officer Leslie James Musselwhite
- Flight Sergeant John Needler
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Linwood Nibblet
- Sergeant James Francis Oakley
- Warrant Officer Class I John William O'Brien
- Pilot Officer Leonard William O'Hara
- Sergeant Thomas Clarence Field Orr
- Pilot Officer Michael Joseph O'Sullivan
- Sergeant Ernest Joseph Outen
- Sergeant Graham Leslie Parish
- Sergeant James Thomas Pate
- Flight Sergeant Donald Robert Philp
- Warrant Officer Morris Leslie Pierpoint
- Sergeant John Fisher Smith Ritchie
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Arthur Roberts
- Sergeant Stanley Orton Rogers
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Ruben Rozon
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Jean Paul Sabourin
- Pilot Officer Anthony Henry Gauvain Sandon
- Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Ferrier Santy
- Sergeant Arthur Skinner
- Pilot Officer Francis Charles Smith
- Sergeant Jack Arthur Charles Smith
- Flight Sergeant William Oliver Snow
- Sergeant Leonard William Stephenson
- Flight Sergeant Peter Stewart
- Sergeant Walter Lyle Strang
- Sergeant Lawrence William Streeter
- Flying Officer Terence William Sutton
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Boyd Tanner
- Sergeant Leslie Tate
- Sergeant Leonard Thompson
- Sergeant George Comrie Thomson
- Flight Lieutenant Theodore Frank Tyrrell
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Udell
- Pilot Officer Bryan Lister Walker
- Sergeant Peter Alan Walker
- Flight Sergeant John Willard Whear
- Pilot Officer Ernest John Clifford Wheble
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Arthur White
- Sergeant Norman Whitfield
- Sergeant Bernard Wayne Williams
- Pilot Officer William Ogwyn Williams
- Corporal Norman Pitts Wilson
- Sergeant Philip Witcomb
1943
- Sergeant Daniel Allatson
- Flight Lieutenant Ralf Athelsie Pole Allsebrook
- Flying Officer Alan Roy Bradford Ball
- Flying Officer Kendall Bell Begbie
- Flight Sergeant David Bennett
- Sergeant Ernest Cecil Allan Blake
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Howard Boon
- Pilot Officer Norman Arthur Botting
- Flying Officer James Reid Bradley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Arthur Bridge
- Flight Sergeant Alexander James Chabara
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Chibanoff
- Sergeant David Richard Coe
- Flying Officer George Henry Coles
- Flight Sergeant John Colhoun
- Flying Officer Neville Frank Crisp
- Sergeant Edward James Cuming
- Sergeant Desmond Day
- Flying Officer George Andrew Deering
- Flying Officer William George Divall
- Flying Officer Peter Rodney Driver
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Frederick Fagence
- Flight Lieutenant Robert William Ferguson
- Flying Officer John Ernest Fisher
- Leading Aircraftman George Henry Fowler
- Sergeant Harold William Frost
- Sergeant Alfred Richard John Gaiger
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Ronald Robinson Gilpin
- Flying Officer Lindsay David Glenday
- Flying Officer Jacob Maurice Grant
- Sergeant William Green
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Hitchen
- Squadron Leader George Walton Holden
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Holt
- Flight Sergeant Eric Hornby
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Edward George Hutchison
- Pilot Officer Thomas William Johnson
- Sergeant Henry Johnston
- Sergeant Ivor Glyn Jones
- Pilot Officer Murray Osborne Jorgensen
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Noble Keith
- Flying Officer Frederick Robert Anthony Kennedy
- Flight Sergeant Richard Maurice Kershaw
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Gordon Knight
- Sergeant Clifford Morrell Knox
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Bertram Sidney Lulham
- Squadron Leader Daniel Kerr Matthews
- Flight Sergeant Robert Campbell McArthur
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Dale McMahon
- Pilot Officer Thomas Alfred Meikle
- Flying Officer Murray Metcalfe
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Tulloch Middlemiss
- Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd Mieyette
- Pilot Officer Gerald Stanley Miles
- Leading Aircraftman Vernon Russell Miller
- Sergeant Charles Mollison
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Walter Monks
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Moore
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard Charles Murch
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Alfred Murray
- Warrant Officer Alexander William Niall
- Flight Sergeant Pryce Owen
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Herrington Payne
- Sergeant Thomas Kennedy Prentice Peters
- Sergeant George Rowland Potter
- Flying Officer Anthony Brice Potts
- Sergeant Eric Thomas Potts
- Sergeant Dennis John Dean Powell
- Pilot Officer Norman Edward Preston
- Flying Officer Henry James Pringle
- Pilot Officer David Ridgway
- Leading Aircraftman Vincent Clifford Hastings Roberts
- Flying Officer James Alexander Rodger
- Sergeant Leonard Everard Scarisbrick
- Sergeant Howard William Scott
- Flying Officer William Harold Sebastian
- Flight Sergeant James Stevenson Simpson
- Sergeant Robert Skillin
- Flying Officer Frederick Michael Spafford
- Pilot Officer Charles Herbert Spiers
- Flying Officer Ian Sydney Alexander Stevenson
- Flight Lieutenant Torger Harlo Taerum
- Flight Sergeant William Walker
- Flying Officer Douglas William Warwick
- Flying Officer Frederick Vere Webb
- Flight Sergeant Donald Alexander Webster
- Sergeant Austin Ainsworth Williams
- Flying Officer Peter Royce Wilmot
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Sydney Wilson
1944
- Flight Sergeant John Cashel Barry
- Flight Sergeant Albert Bullock
- Pilot Officer James Duncan Campbell
- Squadron Leader John Harry Mackellar Chisholm
- Flight Sergeant John James Collins
- Major James Wilfred Cross
- Pilot Officer Charles David Crowe
- Corporal William Davey
- Pilot Officer Gordon Joshua Dennison
- Flight Sergeant Keith Courtney Donald
- Flying Officer John Bernard Fitzgerald
- Pilot Officer James Cornelius Gallagher
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Philip Jeffrey Gray
- Flight Lieutenant Nelson Maxwell Harding
- Warrant Officer David Thomson Hughes
- Leading Aircraftman James Thomas Hunt
- Sergeant Roy Kelsall
- Pilot Officer Murray Kesselman
- Pilot Officer Joseph Gaston Gustave Andre Labelle
- Flying Officer Oswald John Lander
- Pilot Officer Lloyd George Langley
- Flying Officer Joseph Edouard Gerard Leblanc
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Walter Long
- Pilot Officer Dermot Reagh Maccarthy
- Pilot Officer William Edmund Maloney
- Sergeant William Robert Mattless
- Flying Officer John William Hugh McEachern
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick Joseph McGovern
- Flight Lieutenant Andrew Clark McLean
- Pilot Officer Hugh Norman McLeod
- Corporal Albert Charles Meredith
- Flying Officer John Earl Moon
- Lieutenant John William Moor
- Warrant Officer Class I Ivor Donald Olson
- Flying Officer Edward Walter Osborne
- Warrant Officer Class II John Raike
- Flight Lieutenant Bert Howard Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Theodore William John Speet
- Flight Sergeant Clive William Thomson
- Pilot Officer James Arthur Walker
- Flying Officer Herbert Wilkins