On this day — 20 September
239 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 20 September during the Second World War.
1939
- Pilot Officer James Lionel Calvert
- Sergeant Alfred William Eggington
- Sergeant William Stanley Everett
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Joshua John
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Leonard Marsh
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Aubrey Page
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Arthur William Radford
- Sergeant Thomas Baker Woodmason
1940
- Sergeant Lindsay Douglas Anderson
- Pilot Officer Michael Ryves Braun
- Corporal Ronald Brodley
- Sergeant Nicholas William Cantwell
- Sergeant George Alfred Coleman
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Holman Duff
- Sergeant Peter Raoul Eyles
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Goss
- Sergeant Alfred Joseph Green
- Second Lieutenant Hardy
- Sergeant Cyril Clifford Henderson
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Benjamin High
- Pilot Officer Howard Perry Hill
- Pilot Officer Dennis Frederick Holland
- Sergeant Frederick Sidney Jenkinson
- Corporal John Stephen Lakeman
- Sergeant Norman Macdonald
- Sergeant Joseph Edward McCormick
- Sergeant Charles Victor Meeson
- Leading Aircraftman Daniel Morrison
- Sergeant Neville Murphy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Abraham Myers
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Victor Palmer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Pycroft
- Sergeant Toby Howard Sturgis
- Leading Aircraftman Malcolm Alan Robert Sutherland
- Sergeant Douglas Allan Walters
- Pilot Officer Herbert Laurance Whitbread
- Sergeant Lewis Alan White
- Sergeant Ernest Edward Wright
1941
- Sergeant Robert Francis Abernethy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric George Henry Alderton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Charles Attwood
- Sergeant Gordon Kenneth Bartlett
- Sergeant Ivor Morrison Brown
- Pilot Officer Ian Campbell Burke
- Flight Lieutenant Patrick Joseph Anthony Byers
- Sergeant Alexander Carstairs
- Flight Sergeant David Gifford Chattell
- Sergeant James Cecil Valentine Colmer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Benjamin Coombes
- Pilot Officer David Ivor Evans
- Sergeant Robert Moffatt Forster
- Corporal Desmond Mary Grant
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Creed Douglas Henly
- Sergeant Kenneth Fredrick Hood
- Sergeant John Howard Ixer
- Sergeant John Graham Jones
- Sergeant William Duncan Lambert
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Albert Langton
- Sergeant Robert Leagas
- Sergeant Alfred John Lipscombe
- Sergeant Trevor Gordon Lister
- Pilot Officer William Rand Lugar
- Sergeant David John Mackintosh
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Eric McIntyre
- Sergeant Walter Meadows
- Flight Lieutenant Mayer Henry Richard Namias
- Flight Sergeant Eric George Newnham
- Flight Sergeant John Murray Nickleson
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Leslie Packham
- Sergeant Derek Alfred John Paine
- Sergeant Eric Bramwell Parker
- Sergeant John Edward Pearson
- Flight Lieutenant Lionel Sanderson Pilkington
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Ernest Reynolds
- Sergeant John Joseph Robson
- Sergeant Frank Denis Rogers
- Sergeant Frank Ian Russell
- Flying Officer Douglas Shaw
- Flying Officer John Basil Shipman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Arthur William Smart
- Sergeant Charles James Squibb
- Sergeant Robert Steel
- Leading Aircraftman Dudley Harold Gordon Talbot
- Sergeant Joseph Tankard
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Teasdale
- Sergeant Charles Alfred Frederick Thomas
- Sergeant Lewis Llewelyn Thomas
- Sergeant Sidney William Todd
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Edwin Topp
- Sergeant Leslie Trevor
- Sergeant Knud Fleming Van Der Aa Kuhle
- Sergeant Nicholaas Petrus Van Der Merwe
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas William Vickers
- Flying Officer Thomas Wardhaugh
- Sergeant Harold Douglas Weaver
- Sergeant John Leonard Whitticase
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Allan Widdowson
1942
- Sergeant Alan Richard Ashford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert John Asker
- Sergeant James Edwin Bailey
- Sergeant Robert George Bassett
- Sergeant Walter Alan Frederick Brannon
- Flight Sergeant Paul Franklin Brawley
- Sergeant Unich Edward Thomas Burford
- Pilot Officer Howard Houston Burton
- Warrant Officer Class II Russell Thomas Joshua Collett
- Pilot Officer Eric Arthur Coombes
- Pilot Officer William Herbert (bill) Day
- Pilot Officer Ernest Akos Frederick De Bartok
- Pilot Officer William Harry Donovan
- Corporal Charles Dorman
- Sergeant Charles Drury
- Sergeant James Ladas Dyhouse
- Corporal Sydney Elliott
- Pilot Officer Edward Gatis
- Flight Sergeant Robert Dudley Gibson
- Flight Sergeant Michael Joseph Glynn
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest George Goodall
- Sergeant Joseph Edward William Hale
- Sergeant Frank Hamer
- Sergeant Colin Leslie Hanna
- Sergeant Reginald Alfred Haskins
- Pilot Officer Lewis Boyd Haward
- Sergeant James Holland
- Warrant Officer Thomas William Jupp
- Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Kemp
- Sergeant Frederick Henry King
- Sergeant Michael Klimenko
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Charles Lord
- Flight Sergeant Frank McLeod Macdonald
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Camillus Macdonald
- Sergeant William Arnold Cecil Mann
- Sergeant Peter John Maxwell
- Sergeant Hugh Currie McDougall
- Sergeant Charles McGough
- Sergeant Donald Tennant McLean
- Leading Aircraftman Wesley Earl Meier
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Arthur Mewhort
- Sergeant Douglas Northey
- Sergeant Albert James Ottaway
- Sergeant Robert Rupert Bisgrove Owen
- Sergeant Harry Pateman
- Sergeant Jacob Henry Roden
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Harry Rowe
- Sergeant Arthur Gladstone Sale
- Leading Aircraftman Vernon Holman Shute
- Sergeant Ronald Spencer
- Sergeant Kenneth Richard Stansfield
- Sergeant Dennis Steadman
- Flight Lieutenant Antony Peyton Ventris Strachan
- Pilot Officer Michael Robert Symonds
- Warrant Officer Class II Harold Jason Thurston
- Flight Sergeant John Olmstead Tuller
- Flight Sergeant James David Walls
- Flying Officer Clifford John Whittingham
- Sergeant David Williams
- Sergeant Ewart Wright
- Sergeant Walter Ernest Ruskin Wright
1943
- Pilot Officer Robert Arthur Baker
- Sergeant Thomas Baker
- Flying Officer Harry Everard Bazell
- Pilot Officer George Alfred Berwick
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hymie Bonder
- Sergeant Arthur Bracey
- Flying Officer Beverly Ward Bristol
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Frederick Broad
- Flying Officer James Wilfred Henry Brown
- Sergeant Bertram Sidney Burch
- Flying Officer Hugh Burke
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Garnet Byrne
- Sergeant Richard Thomas Chinn
- Sergeant Henry Jules Davey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Dumbleton
- Pilot Officer Arthur William Foster
- Warrant Officer John James Fox
- Warrant Officer Leonard William Jack Goodfellow
- Sergeant Charles Augustus Gough
- Flight Sergeant James Sutherland Gunn
- Flight Sergeant Albert Hughes
- Warrant Officer Class I John Daryl McIntosh
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ross McKay
- Leading Aircraftman George Moss
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Lynford Nield
- Flying Officer Raymond Noble
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Thomas Nunn
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Thomson O'Dea
- Lieutenant Passmore
- Flight Sergeant William Goodwin Perkin
- Flight Lieutenant Harold George Henry Phipps
- Flight Sergeant Norman Louis Sherwood
- Lieutenant Benjamen Swart
- Flight Sergeant Edward Sidney Taylor
- Flying Officer Ronald Harvey Peet Tucker
- Pilot Officer David Weston Wacher
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Dawson Webster
- Squadron Leader Richard Pennington Wilkin
1944
- Flight Sergeant James Main Adams
- Warrant Officer Class I Thomas William Allen
- Flying Officer Leonard Nixon Arkless
- Flying Officer Henry Lendrum Atkins
- Warrant Officer Class I Ernest Walter Bancroft
- Wing Commander Massey Williamson Beveridge
- Warrant Officer Class I David Lorne Brouse
- Sergeant Alan Ronald Collins
- Pilot Officer Neil Banks Couper
- Flight Lieutenant John Wesley Cowling
- Pilot Officer Reginald Austin Davis
- Flight Sergeant Gordon William Fitness
- Flying Officer Ronald Edward Gehrmann
- Flying Officer Alexander Thomas Gill
- Aircraftman 1st Class Laurence Louis Harris
- Sergeant Harry Garft Hatton
- Flying Officer Murray Leonard Hogg
- Flying Officer Claud Roy James
- Pilot Officer Karl Benjamin Ketcheson
- Pilot Officer Raymond Joseph Lamont
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Franklin Law
- Flying Officer Roderick James Matheson
- Warrant Officer Edward Joseph McGilvray
- Pilot Officer Maurice McHugh
- Flight Sergeant George Merrill
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Joseph Murphy
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick John Martin O'Loughlin
- Corporal Douglas Hadrian Pepper
- Sergeant Richard Bruce Prest
- Leading Aircraftman John Primok
- Flying Officer Howard Edward Pritchard
- Flying Officer Athol Richard Scanlon
- Corporal Edward George Smith
- Warrant Officer Class I William Robert Tait
- Flight Lieutenant John Allen Walton
- Pilot Officer Keith Willett
1945
- Sergeant Alexander Charles Carter
- Leading Aircraftman George Arthur Harley
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Edward Lowe
- Leading Aircraftman Daniel McDonald
- Sergeant Henry James Pretty
- Flight Sergeant Alec Wallace Teschner