On this day — 12 October
211 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 12 October during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Rupert Victor Baron
- Pilot Officer Herbert Robert Case
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie James Eaton
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Hall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred James Hobbs
- Sergeant Peter Roy Charles McIntosh
- Sergeant Malcolm Parker
- Flying Officer Aberconway John Sefton Pattinson
- Sergeant Charles Edward Petitt
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Kenneth Spencer
- Sergeant John Victor Wadham
- Corporal Roy Fenning Warren
1941
- Sergeant Samuel Haywood Alsop
- Sergeant John Richard Ashley
- Sergeant John James Ashurst
- Sergeant Francis Edward Austin
- Sergeant Reginald John Banks
- Pilot Officer Bernard Bowers
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Thomas Bransgrove
- Sergeant Raymond George Butt
- Flight Sergeant William Harold Stanley Byers
- Sergeant Herbert Edward Chamberlain
- Squadron Leader Paul Burton Chamberlain
- Sergeant Henry Raymond Gordon Chapman
- Flying Officer Jack Rua Coath
- Sergeant Francis Cocking
- Sergeant Paul Fraser Collis
- Sergeant Percy Frederick Meadows Cooke
- Sergeant Michael John Counter
- Sergeant Aidan Francis Cullen
- Corporal Norman Graham Darrah
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Leslie George Davies
- Sergeant Frederick Ernest Victor Day
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Dickenson
- Sergeant Richard Anthony Dundon
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Lincoln Duxbury
- Pilot Officer Ian Murray Vass Field
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Edward Garrett
- Sergeant Edward Jack Gill
- Sergeant Edgar Antoine Hafner
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Ronald Harwood
- Sergeant Edgar Walter Hawkins
- Sergeant Douglas Cecil Holley
- Sergeant Arthur William Jeffries
- Sergeant Frederick Valentine Francis Lane
- Sergeant Douglas Charles Laws
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Lynch
- Sergeant Henry Blanchard Morgan
- Sergeant Cyril Midford Morris
- Pilot Officer Hilyard Lowell Myers
- Sergeant Thomas Dudley Parker
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Cameron Paterson
- Sergeant Maxwell William Elliott Paul
- Sergeant George Platon Phitidis
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Walter Pierce
- Leading Aircraftman William Reid
- Sergeant Geoffrey Alfred Robbins
- Pilot Officer Joseph Allan Robinson
- Sergeant Sidney John Sculley
- Flying Officer Robert Geoffrey Setchell
- Sergeant Thomas Victor Steele
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Keith Burton Stewart
- Corporal Robert Stewart
- Flying Officer Eric John Sugg
- Sergeant John Allan Ryerson Turner
- Sergeant Charles Alexander James Webster
- Lieutenant Charles Albert Whaits
- Pilot Officer George Stephen Willsher
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Wilson
- Sergeant Percival Harry Clifford Windett
- Sergeant William Christopher Wood
1942
- Flying Officer George Alexander Gorden Baxter
- Flight Sergeant Ronald James Behrens
- Lieutenant Bruton-simmonds
- Sergeant Thomas Ian Butterfield
- Leading Aircraftman Hubert Cecil Cromack
- Flight Sergeant John Kennedy Cullen
- Sergeant Alan Dabbs
- Sergeant Frederick Verdun Dacey
- Pilot Officer Albert James Drake
- Lieutenant Willem Jacobus Du Plessis
- Flying Officer Richard Frederick Elliott
- Sergeant Ernest William Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Pearson Frost
- Sergeant Raymond Albert Wilfred Hacker
- Sergeant Alexander Rae Hendrie
- Sergeant Gordon Hodge
- Flying Officer John William Beresford Horne
- Sergeant Gareth Howell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Hutchinson
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Laurence Norton Johnson
- Squadron Leader Peter Langley Keeble
- Pilot Officer Graeme Lonarch Laidlaw
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred Larcombe
- Air Mechanic McCormick
- Sergeant Robert Percy Nicholls
- Lieutenant Gunnar Reinhold Norenius
- Sergeant Sydney John Page
- Sergeant Sydney Harold Parker
- Flying Officer Anthony Irving Phelps
- Sergeant Michael Howard Rawlins
- Warrant Officer Donald Brownlee Ross
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Henry Ross
- Flight Sergeant Vincent David Savage
- Sergeant Stanley William Shadrack
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Alfred Stevenson
- Sergeant Kent Oswald Thompson Summerville
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Thatcher
- Sergeant John Douglas Vinall
- Flying Officer Ronald Blair Forrest Walker
- Pilot Officer William Thomas Walton
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Julius Warner
- Squadron Leader Bryan John Wicks
- Sergeant James Rupert Wilson
- Sergeant Thomas Walter Yapp
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Bailey
- Sergeant Lewis Victor Beesley
- Sergeant John Frederick Bickley
- Flying Officer George Francis Herbert Booth
- Sergeant Norman George Boxshall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Edward Bradley
- Pilot Officer John Christie
- Sergeant Ian William Colvin
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Coppard
- Flying Officer John Coughlan
- Flight Sergeant David Couser
- Flying Officer Harold Gordon Dayman
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Llewellyn Fennell
- Flight Sergeant Melbourne Glaister Fraser
- Flight Sergeant Albert Griffin
- Air Mechanic Charles Griffin
- Flight Sergeant Micheal Frank Hall
- Pilot Officer George Robert Hilton
- Sergeant Thomas James Kelly
- Flying Officer Francis Lussier Kirkwood
- Sergeant Arthur William Lawrence Knight
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Lambeth
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Langley
- Sergeant Gordon Frederick William Lawrence
- Sergeant Charles Alfred Lockett
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Ernest Mark Marsh
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Marshall
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Graham Mark McCarthy
- Flight Sergeant David William Meikle
- Flying Officer Edward Burford Morris-hadwell
- Warrant Officer Class I Frank Richmond Vincent Nello
- Leading Aircraftman John Openshaw
- Sergeant William John Pollard
- Warrant Officer Class I John Albert Pollock
- Flight Sergeant Mitchell Ridland
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Ritchie
- Group Captain William Alexander Robertson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leighton Howell Rosser
- Flying Officer John Warren Roussel
- Leading Aircraftman John Gordon Rynn
- Flying Officer Patrick Crawford Simpson
- Sergeant Edward James Stickland
- Flight Lieutenant Derrick Robert Stone
- Sergeant Sydney Ernest Tilley
- Flying Officer Albert Richard Theophiol A. Van Hecke
- Sergeant Reginald Whitford
1944
- Lieutenant Armstrong
- Leading Aircraftman John Douglas Beck
- Warrant Officer Class I Bloch
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Bolton
- Lieutenant Collard
- Sergeant Gerald Coyle
- Sergeant William David Crail
- Sergeant John Derbyshire
- Flight Sergeant Edward Charles Fitzgerald
- Warrant Officer John Richardson Gibson
- Warrant Officer Class I Edward William Goodchild
- Lieutenant Harrison
- Lieutenant Ross Henry
- Leading Aircraftman William David Houston
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Robert Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Ronald George Kingsley
- Warrant Officer Jack William Langley
- Leading Aircraftman Oscar Frederick Larson
- Flight Sergeant Clarence William Lawton
- Lieutenant Lloyd
- Second Lieutenant Lordan
- Flight Sergeant Harold James Maddalena
- Pilot Officer Lyle William McChesnie
- Pilot Officer Alexander Charles Ernest McIntosh
- Sergeant Gordon Russell McWhirter
- Flying Officer Thomas Roberts Millar
- Lieutenant Nel
- Leading Aircraftman Maxwell Olshansky
- Flight Sergeant Robert Arnold Pratt
- Flight Sergeant Donald James Rodgers
- Flight Sergeant William Mathew Schafer
- Flying Officer John Ross Stoneman
- Leading Aircraftman John Edward Sykes
- Flight Sergeant Angus Reginald Telford
- Flying Officer Frank Gilmour Todd
- Major Urry
- Lieutenant Coen Brits Vorster
- Leading Aircraftman William Robert Lloyd Wabb
- Flight Sergeant Desmond Vincent Watson
- Flight Sergeant Bertram Louis White
- Flight Sergeant Desmond Victor White
- Pilot Officer Douglas John White
1945
- Corporal Robert Lawson
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Ernest (fred) Lewis
- Flying Officer Edward Henry Neufeld
1946
- Flight Lieutenant John Joyce Bingley-pullin
- Leading Aircraftman John Henry Ivin
- Leading Aircraftman Claude Alfred March