On this day — 16 October
209 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 16 October during the Second World War.
1939
- Pilot Officer Trevor Anthony Peeler
- Leading Aircraftman William Albert James Powell
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Edward Shrapnell-smith
1940
- Sergeant Josef Albrecht
- Sergeant Jan Chalupa
- Sergeant Frank Corbett
- Pilot Officer Ronald John Davies
- Sergeant Kenneth Charles Friend
- Sergeant Sidney John Howard
- Sergeant Arthur Hurst
- Sergeant Dennis Sydney Imber
- Pilot Officer Hubert Jarosek
- Sergeant Otto Jirsak
- Sergeant Karl Klimt
- Pilot Officer Bohumil Landa
- Pilot Officer Jaroslav Matousek
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Charles Morman
- Sergeant Cyril Murray
- Sergeant Alfred Ballantine Nayler
- Sergeant Ian Forbes Pearson
- Sergeant Robert Frederick Rose
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Colin Scott
- Pilot Officer Jaroslav Slaby
- Sergeant Stanley Robert Sumner
- Sergeant Arthur Frederick Thomas
- Flying Officer Anthony Beresford Tisdall
- Sergeant Thomas Huntley Todd
- Flying Officer Thomas Dowell Trouncer
- Squadron Leader Jan Vesely
- Sergeant Frant Zapletal
1941
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Stanley Aldous
- Flight Sergeant Walter Barker
- Aircraftman 1st Class James John Boyd
- Sergeant Edward Harry Brenton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Campbell Davie
- Sergeant James Ferguson
- Sergeant Eric Henry Charles Hardman
- Sergeant George Gibson King
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick William Lawson
- Flying Officer Samuel McAllister
- Sergeant Cubitt Henry Benjamin Page
- Air Mechanic John Matthew Poulter
- Flight Sergeant Roy Longden Robinson
- Sergeant Allan Gillard Shea
- Pilot Officer Maurice Henry Sherley-price
- Corporal David Christopher Simpson
- Flying Officer Arthur Evans Snell
- Lieutenant Alexander Thomson
- Sergeant Hayward Fred Tomkins
- Pilot Officer Godfrey Sydney Turner
- Sergeant Tom Varley
- Sergeant Charles Ewart White
- Sergeant James Wright
1942
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Baythorp
- Sergeant Reuben John Benn
- Flying Officer John Stanbridge Bird
- Sergeant Stephen William George Bishop
- Pilot Officer Arthur Hugh Steyning Brown
- Sergeant David Buchanan
- Pilot Officer John Leslie Gordon Campbell
- Warrant Officer Class II Peter Carter
- Flight Sergeant David Buchanan Clark
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Levi Cole
- Sergeant William John Cornish
- Sergeant Harold Stanley Cutler
- Pilot Officer Edward Terence Daintith
- Sergeant Rythwyn Ivor Davies
- Sergeant Edward Lawrence Eaves
- Warrant Officer Class II John Herbert Ekelund
- Leading Aircraftman James Bett Ferguson
- Sergeant Ronald Smith Fielding
- Pilot Officer Desmond Francis Fitzgerald
- Aircraftman 1st Class Noel Louis Fowler
- Flying Officer Morris Searle Gilberd
- Sergeant Andrew Arthur Gillies
- Sergeant Douglas Huntly Gordon
- Flight Sergeant Mason Hand Hargreaves
- Sergeant George Francis Hitch
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Hallright Howell
- Sergeant Ronald Jackson
- Sergeant Kenneth Jones
- Sergeant Philip Marsden Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Walter Keeling
- Flight Sergeant Jack Vage Kerr
- Flying Officer William James Little Lauchlan
- Sergeant Charles Lawrence
- Sergeant John Clifford Leach
- Sergeant Harry George Lester
- Sergeant John Reginald Mackinnon
- Flight Sergeant Charles Grant Maclennan
- Sergeant Angus Martin
- Aircraftman 1st Class John McCormack
- Sergeant Albert Victor Bolduc Milot
- Flight Sergeant William John Mollard
- Flying Officer Lister Charles Mulholland
- Flying Officer William Arnold Nugent
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter John Parkes
- Sergeant Cyril George Parr
- Sergeant Raymond Armand Patenaude
- Corporal John Michael Crispin Pemberton Pigott
- Sergeant Edwin Thomas Port
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Alfred Thomas Pyle
- Flight Sergeant John Leonard Rayner
- Sergeant Douglas Arnold Alexander Saunders
- Corporal Royce Charlton Shaddock
- Sergeant Thomas George Sinnett
- Flight Lieutenant Denis Maximilian John Spencer
- Lieutenant Willem Frederick Steenkamp
- Sergeant Cyril Robert Stoward
- Sergeant Maurice Allan Torrance
- Sergeant Edward Howard Uzzell
- Sergeant Maxwell Herbert Walker
- Sergeant William Spence Walker
- Flying Officer Edward Wilson Wallace
- Sergeant Edward Wilde
- Flight Sergeant William Renton Wilson
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Worsley
- Squadron Leader Claud Mandeville Wright
1943
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Allcorn
- Sergeant James Millard Allen
- Sergeant Peter Daniel Bainton
- Sergeant Henry Leonard Brittain
- Sergeant John Brown
- Sergeant Benjamin Lawrence Bryant
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Parrington Carling
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Clark
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Frederick Lancelot Cole
- Flight Sergeant Donald Kevan Cooper
- Squadron Leader Patrick George Cooper
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Keith Cornish
- Flying Officer Roy Henry Cox
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Arthur Creek
- Sergeant Phillip Croft
- Flight Sergeant John Francis George Cullen
- Sergeant Francis Richard Drake-brockman
- Flight Sergeant Robert Duckworth
- Flying Officer Frank Herbert Grainger
- Pilot Officer Dennis Norman Green
- Flying Officer Albert Keith Hancock
- Warrant Officer Gerald Frederick Hardy
- Pilot Officer Robert Frederick Hayward
- Sergeant John Harvey Hodgson
- Sergeant Peter Francis Hornbrook
- Flight Sergeant Harry James Felbey Humphries
- Flying Officer James Ingham
- Sergeant Gilbert Edward Kendall
- Flight Sergeant Victor Edward Lawson
- Sergeant Valentine Hinton Louis
- Group Captain John Evelyn Matier Maccallum
- Flying Officer Frederick James Maloney
- Sergeant Terence O'Mohr Mears
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Charles Morris
- Flight Sergeant Donald Mudd
- Flying Officer John Pomeroy Oldridge
- Sergeant Herbert John Payne
- Sergeant David William Petch
- Pilot Officer Raymond Robert George Porter
- Sergeant Arthur Ronald Preston
- Flying Officer John Sigvald Rekdale
- Corporal Arthur Francis Rendell
- Flight Sergeant Donald Neal Rumble
- Sergeant Mervyn Charles Bruce Smith
- Flying Officer David Leigh Sproule
- Sergeant Clarence David Lowrie Stewart
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Arthur Wilde
- Flight Sergeant Eric Leslie Wilson
- Sergeant Donald Gregory Wilum
- Sergeant John Woolman
1944
- Lieutenant Ackerman
- Warrant Officer Class I Andrews
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Edgar Bastarache
- Flying Officer Daniel Charles Bermingham
- Lieutenant Botha
- Warrant Officer Class I Botha
- Squadron Leader Norman Leslie Bourke
- Flying Officer Percy John Castle
- Pilot Officer Henry Holmes Chapman
- Sergeant Ronald Cochrane
- Lieutenant Dennis Osborne Cullingworth
- Flying Officer Keith Russell Dumas
- Warrant Officer Douglas James Edmiston
- Flight Lieutenant Daniel John Falconer
- Lieutenant Franklin
- Squadron Leader Robert Harcourt Franklin
- Sergeant Henry Gowans
- Flying Officer Wilfred Pearson Heatley
- Leading Aircraftman Albert John Hewlett
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Leigh
- Lieutenant James Arthur Lithgow
- Lieutenant Keith Macwilliam
- Lieutenant Kenneth James McLeod
- Sergeant Tom Myers
- Pilot Officer Ronald Charles Parker
- Sergeant Charles Edmund Potter
- Lieutenant George Ray-howett
- Lieutenant Ezra Jonathan Rollnick
- Warrant Officer Class II Solomon Sackstein
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Bruce Hope Sandilands
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Edward Burton Vallender
- Squadron Leader Arthur Lushington Vipan
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Alexander Walker
- Pilot Officer Erwin Curtis Wilson
- Sergeant John Kinnersley Yates
1945
- Air Mechanic Bailey
- Wing Commander James Henry Banning Blake
- Flight Lieutenant Theodore Doubassoff
- Lieutenant Polson