On this day — 17 September
304 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 September during the Second World War.
1939
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Samuel Banfield
- Flight Sergeant Henry Edward Bashford
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward John Leslie Bath
- Flight Sergeant Charles Homer Bosworth
- Aircraftman 1st Class Elijah William Briggs Brewerton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred Henry Brown
- Corporal Gordon Henry Bryant
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick George Cail
- Aircraftman 1st Class Tom Collins
- Aircraftman 1st Class John George Dixon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Paul Edgar Duge
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lloyd Percival Hunnisette Ferve
- Aircraftman 1st Class Glyndwyr Vincent Fisher
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward John Ford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sydney John Gibbins
- Corporal Harold Hinde
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Barlow Hocken
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Ernest Hudson
- Leading Aircraftman John George Jacobs
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Johnston
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh William Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Victor Knott
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sydney Rupert Lee
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril William Walmsley Lovelock
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Ayton McNeil
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Linton Millward
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril John Moore
- Corporal George Edward Norrish
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Penman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James John Runnegar
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Edward Stribling
- Aircraftman 1st Class Samuel Albert Sumner
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Clifford Thompson
- Corporal Richard Cuthbert Watford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Granville Edward Coombe Webester
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Victor Williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class Chaseley Edward Thomas Wright
1940
- Sergeant John Henry Angus
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick William Batts
- Sergeant David Jack Blair
- Sergeant George Warden Brown
- Sergeant Trevor Budden
- Sergeant John Douglas Laing Cooper
- Sergeant Edward James Egan
- Pilot Officer Richard Gordon Goode
- Sergeant Denis Arnold Helcke
- Sergeant Thomas Valentine Henderson
- Sergeant John Lansdell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Andrew Meldrum McLauchlan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gerald Gabriel Murphy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Clement Albert Ratcliff
- Pilot Officer Basil York Sowter
- Sergeant James Sugden
- Group Captain Thomas Anthony Swinbourne
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edwin Sidney Harold Underwood
1941
- Sergeant Douglas Arthur Bartrip
- Flight Sergeant Jack Bendall
- Pilot Officer Stanley Haslop Birtles
- Pilot Officer Basil Bartholomew Bloom
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Thomas Bourne
- Sergeant Bernard Frank Brooks
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Brown
- Sergeant Frank Burrell
- Flight Lieutenant Dudley Conway Carleton
- Leading Aircraftman Barrington Vincent Castle
- Pilot Officer Glen Lewis Coats
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Edward Donovan
- Sergeant John Dudley Draper
- Sergeant Dennis Henry Farley
- Second Lieutenant Guiney
- Pilot Officer Courteney John Harper
- Sergeant Charles Herbert Hill
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest Hughes
- Sergeant Gordon Bert Jackson
- Flying Officer Brian William Jeffery
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Jeffery
- Pilot Officer Laurence Rupert Marshall
- Pilot Officer Thomas Paul McGerty
- Pilot Officer John Edwards Millns
- Squadron Leader Newell Orton
- Sergeant Raymond Albert Overson
- Pilot Officer John Bridges Patterson
- Sergeant George Radford
- Pilot Officer Peter Edmund Covell Robinson
- Pilot Officer Alfred Roberts Tidman
1942
- Sergeant Kenneth Gordon Adcock
- Sergeant William James Anderson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Baillie
- Squadron Leader Henry Walter Barnard
- Pilot Officer Leslie John Barnes
- Leading Aircraftman David Barnett
- Flight Sergeant Leslie John William Beckman
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Edwin Bell
- Sergeant Richard Bell
- Sergeant Jack Berry
- Sergeant Eric Denis Booty
- Sergeant Keith Arnold Bouffler
- Sergeant Harry Mayo Richard Broadhead
- Sergeant Fred William Brogden
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Bryan Brooks
- Sergeant William Buckley
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Samuel Thomas Bugg
- Sergeant Lawrence Byrne
- Flying Officer Alexander Craven Campbell
- Sergeant Aime Leon Caron
- Flight Sergeant James Cannon Carswell
- Pilot Officer Robert Fleming Chase
- Pilot Officer Robert Edward Clarke
- Sergeant John Collumbell
- Sergeant Armand Emile Confait
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Cooper
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Harold Cowley
- Sergeant Ronald Hugh Crabtree
- Flight Sergeant Murray Rowe Crocker
- Sergeant Lennox Ashton Crossley
- Pilot Officer Ben Dallenger
- Sergeant William James Davies
- Pilot Officer John Stuart Dicker
- Sergeant Francis Arthur Digby
- Pilot Officer Stanley Wilbur Dodge
- Pilot Officer Desmond James Downer
- Sergeant Kenneth Dean Downing
- Sergeant Thomas Alexander Drew
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Henry George Dumont
- Sergeant James Harold Evans
- Sergeant Raphael Finklestone-sayliss
- Sergeant Thomas James Fraser
- Flight Sergeant William Norman Geddie
- Sergeant Arthur Henry George Genny
- Sergeant Donald Richard Gilchrist
- Sergeant Harry Oldfield Goddard
- Pilot Officer Ian Alexander Grant
- Sergeant William Seaman Grant
- Sergeant David James Green
- Pilot Officer Robert Henry Groom
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Mark Harris
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald William Harris
- Sergeant Jay Andrew John Duke Hatton
- Pilot Officer Claud Christopher Hendley-cross
- Sergeant Dennis Hill
- Sergeant Walter John Hoban
- Sergeant Frederick Hope Huntley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Keith Ireland
- Flight Sergeant Hubert Clodomir Johnston
- Leading Aircraftman James Andrew Johnston
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Jones
- Sergeant George Edward Jones
- Flight Sergeant John Nelson Secord King
- Flight Sergeant Charles Albert Kitson
- Flight Sergeant Maurice James Kynaston
- Flight Sergeant Jules Joseph La Bossiere
- Flight Sergeant Donald Trevor Lamb
- Warrant Officer Stephen Austin Levenson
- Sergeant Ronald Albert Low
- Pilot Officer Richard Challenor Lynch
- Sergeant William Macphee
- Flight Lieutenant Maurice Bradsury Mallet
- Flight Sergeant William Charles McBean
- Sergeant Hunter Rutledge McGowan
- Pilot Officer Charles Gordon Tassie McGregor
- Sergeant George Bullimore Melton
- Flight Sergeant Donald Miller
- Flight Sergeant Alan Moffat
- Pilot Officer John David Moffatt
- Pilot Officer Donald Beverley Moody
- Flight Sergeant John William Murphy
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Murray
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Spencer Newcomb
- Sergeant Walter John Nobbs
- Warrant Officer Aubrey William Osman
- Sergeant Charles Andrew Paton
- Sergeant Kenneth Gordon Patrick
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Penn
- Flying Officer Arthur Thomas Persian
- Pilot Officer Anthony Hollis Pontius
- Sergeant Alfred Charles Rault
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Roake
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Bentley Robson
- Sergeant Jack Ralph Runnicles
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred Russell
- Sergeant Peter Sandison
- Pilot Officer John McLean Buist Scott
- Pilot Officer Joseph Simpson Shaw
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Ernest Short
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Bensted Smith
- Sergeant Kenneth James Smith
- Pilot Officer John Scott Smyth
- Pilot Officer Harold Leroy Spangler
- Pilot Officer James Lyders Speedy
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm John Standley
- Sergeant John Henry Stirk
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Gordon St. Louis
- Sergeant Norman Leslie Streeter
- Flight Sergeant Charles Edwin Stuart
- Sergeant Stanley Swain
- Flying Officer Owen Dixon Thomas
- Sergeant Charles Maxwell Thorn
- Sergeant Laurence Charles Tillin
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Duncan Van Norman
- Sergeant Vernon Frederick Vinnicombe
- Sergeant Walker
- Sergeant Stanley George Walton
- Sergeant Ronald George Ware
- Sergeant John Andrew Waterman
- Sergeant Samuel Cliff Wedgwood
- Sergeant Harold Henry Welby
- Sergeant Stanley George White
- Sergeant Alcwyn Williams
- Sergeant Robert James Wilson
- Sergeant Samuel Arundall Witchell
- Sergeant Thomas Charles Woodhouse
- Corporal John William Thomas Worrall
- Sergeant Kenneth Yates
- Sergeant Archibald Young
1943
- Second Lieutenant Alexander
- Sergeant Jackson Dunbar Arthur
- Sergeant Alfred Victor Martin Barron
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest William Bates
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Worsley Bellis
- Warrant Officer Class I Bruce Martin Berven
- Sergeant Keith Charles Blanch
- Sergeant John Gordon Boundy
- Bandsman Joseph Boyce
- Sergeant Victor George Edward Briant
- Flying Officer Brian Edward Brown
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Morley Craig Brownscombe
- Flying Officer Leslie Albert Buck
- Sergeant Colin Anthony Budd
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Charles Burrell
- Flying Officer Hugh Cameron
- Sergeant Gerard William Clements
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth William Coaster
- Second Lieutenant Cock
- Sergeant Douglas Cockerill
- Flying Officer Howard Elfric Davis
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Charles Dumont
- Sergeant Alec William Vernum Fear
- Corporal Edwin John Marr Ferrier
- Sergeant Stephen Thomas Flatman
- Flying Officer James Gibson
- Sergeant Wilfred Arthur Gilbert
- Leading Aircraftman George Greenall
- Sergeant Joseph Ronald Grimmond
- Flight Sergeant James Hawkyard
- Sergeant Philip Frederick Jones
- Sergeant Gordon Esmond Kane
- Flying Officer Harold Allen Nelson Kitchen
- Sergeant Eric Le Huray
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Robert Lumsden
- Lieutenant Meyer
- Flying Officer Maurice William Moore
- Leading Aircraftman William Mort
- Flight Sergeant Myburgh
- Warrant Officer Class II Paul Eaton Nichols
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Allan Norris
- Aircraftman 1st Class John O'Brien
- Sergeant Harold Pennell
- Warrant Officer Class II Harry Allen Pennell
- Flying Officer John Walter Pike
- Pilot Officer Trevor Alfred Pittock
- Flying Officer Henry Victor Plumb
- Sergeant Graham Francis Pyott
- Sergeant Thomas Ainslie Roberts
- Aircraftman 1st Class Fred Robinson
- Flying Officer Allan James Rutherford
- Sergeant Herbert Edgar Scarborough
- Squadron Leader John Edgar Scott
- Sergeant Francis Graham Shaw
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Short
- Flight Sergeant Graham Ernest Snook
- Sergeant William Richard John Spry
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cecil Thomas Stevens
- Sergeant Alexander Sargant Taylor
- Flying Officer Arthur Francis Thorley
- Sergeant Jack Toyne
- Sergeant Eric Vose
- Flight Sergeant Noel Nathaniel Wakely
- Flight Sergeant Walter George Webster
1944
- Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Addison Argument
- Aircraftman 1st Class Colin Boyd Begg
- Flight Lieutenant Peter William Bickford
- Flight Lieutenant Roy Russell Boulter
- Flight Lieutenant George William Brown
- Pilot Officer Douglas Dawson
- Lieutenant Dunstan Patric Farrell
- Pilot Officer Donald George Flood
- Flight Sergeant Nolan Alexander Good
- Flight Lieutenant Maurice Hemingway
- Flying Officer Arnold Ney Johnston
- Pilot Officer Allan Frank McNally
- Flying Officer James Cuthbert Morgan
- Flying Officer Henry James Muir
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Nightingale
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Sydney Reader
- Sergeant Eric Colin Riches
- Flying Officer Wilfred George Scanlan
- Flying Officer Denis Charles Shea
- Captain Ronald Carby Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Bruce Waugh