On this day — 17 October
173 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 October during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Pilot Officer Ronald Atkinson
- Sergeant James Brown
- Sergeant John Herbert Brown
- Pilot Officer Norman Neil Campbell
- Pilot Officer William Herbert Clemerson
- Sergeant John Adam Ferguson
- Sergeant Dominick Flanagan
- Sergeant Peter Flanagan
- Sergeant Eric Thomas Frith
- Flying Officer Edwin Charles Gardner
- Flying Officer Maurice Norman Hesketh
- Sergeant William Hutchinson Hewitt
- Pilot Officer Ernest Edward Hives
- Sergeant James Joseph Jackson
- Sergeant Bertram Dennis Jones
- Sergeant Edward Jones
- Sergeant Karel Lang
- Flying Officer Wynton Scott Munday
- Flying Officer Richard Cecil Parker
- Flying Officer Charles Derek Pitman
- Sergeant Robert Potter
- Sergeant Edward Anthony Gaston Rands
- Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley
- Flying Officer Alan Leslie Ricalton
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Reginald Spencer
- Sergeant Oldrich Tosovsky
- Pilot Officer Miloslav Vejrazka
- Corporal Robert Edward Wann
- Sergeant George Thomas Watt
- Sergeant Robert Gilmour Young
1941
- Sergeant Charles William Almond
- Sergeant Ronald Ernest Arnold
- Pupil Pilot Banks
- Sergeant Alfred William Bissell
- Sergeant Thomas Blackburn
- Leading Aircraftman John Michael Bracher
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Xavier Bradbury
- Sergeant Thomas Craig Bramley
- Sergeant Cuthbert Jermy Stuart Buckle
- Flying Officer Peter Clifford Campbell-martin
- Sergeant Frederick William Church
- Sergeant Leslie Gordon Cockram
- Sergeant William Alexander Caleb Dickinson
- Pilot Officer Richard Maurice Wilfrid Gosnell
- Sergeant Harman
- Flight Sergeant Hennigan
- Sergeant John Allen Jacques
- Sergeant John Alan Lamb
- Corporal Terence Edward Edwin Leahy
- Sergeant Peter John Masini
- Corporal Frederick Arthur Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Thomas Percival
- Sergeant Sidney Ernest Sales
- Sergeant Leslie Albert Harry Saul
- Pilot Officer John Alexander Douglas Scroggie
- Pilot Officer Ronald Reginald Sly
- Sergeant Harold Tattersfield
- Leading Aircraftman William Charles Vocking
- Sergeant Richard Frederick Whittington
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Eastwood Youngman
1942
- Corporal Clifford John Anderson
- Flight Sergeant James Sangster Anderson
- Flying Officer John Ellsworth Avise
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Ernest Barnett
- Sergeant Eric Herbert Boreham
- Sergeant Kenneth Stuart Chalmers
- Squadron Leader William Duncan Corr
- Sergeant Richard James Delve
- Sergeant Joseph Ernest Desjardins
- Sergeant Owen Glynne Edwards
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Charles Frewin
- Pilot Officer John Douglas Hayes
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Higson
- Sergeant Leonard Hodgson
- Flying Officer Roy Wesley Hooper
- Sergeant Leonard Harlow Horton
- Flight Lieutenant Ripley Ogden Jones
- Pilot Officer Harold Francis Lawrence Longworth
- Sergeant Robert William Lovell
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Miller
- Flight Sergeant James Roland Moore
- Sergeant Laurence James Pearce
- Flying Officer Frank Rawle
- Sergeant Noel Edward Stone
- Air Sergeant Sutton
- Sergeant Arthur James Tanner
- Sergeant Donald Charles Tanner
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Ron Taylor
- Sergeant Ronald Walker
- Pilot Officer John Colin Webster
- Flight Sergeant George John Anstey Willis
- Sergeant Thomas Wood
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Alexander Wood
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Fredric Charles Addis-bennett
- Flying Officer Ronald Sidney Ball
- Warrant Officer John William Clarence Barnard
- Leading Aircraftman George Barnett
- Wing Commander Arthur Samuel Barton Blomfield
- Aircraftman 1st Class Roy Brown
- Warrant Officer Class II Nolan Butts
- Sergeant Thomas William Chambers
- Flying Officer Frederick John Chapman
- Warrant Officer Clement Cyril Dacey
- Flying Officer James Lyall Deans
- Warrant Officer William John Doude
- Sergeant Joseph Andrew Jean Duhamel
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Emmerson
- Flight Sergeant David Graham Frew
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard William Frowd
- Flight Sergeant Gordon John Gebbie
- Flight Lieutenant John Gordon Griffith
- Flight Sergeant Richard George Holding
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard Lawrence Holmes
- Pilot Officer David Reginald King
- Sergeant James Lionel Lane
- Sergeant Joseph Jean Marie Paul Marchessault
- Sergeant Sidney Meredith Mather
- Sergeant Terence McDonnell
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Gonzague Andre Gilles Meilleur
- Flight Sergeant William Harvey Milne
- Flying Officer Joseph Arthur Lucien Morissette
- Sergeant Robert Musgrove
- Flight Sergeant Leo Thomas Needham
- Flight Sergeant William Bernard Ralph
- Flight Lieutenant Paul Treneman Sargent
- Flight Sergeant Harold Cameron Seymour
- Sergeant James Simpson
- Warrant Officer Class II George Smith
- Flying Officer Chesley Borden Steeves
- Flying Officer Ernest Grant Hervey Stevenson
- Corporal George Richard Stevenson
- Flying Officer Ernest Edward Tatt
- Sergeant Kenneth Leonard Wallace
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Anthony Stanley Woodwark
1944
- Leading Aircraftman William Morley Brotherston
- Pilot Officer John Frederick Dowding
- Flying Officer Norman Charles Dumont
- Flying Officer Sydney James Emery
- Leading Aircraftman Gilles Arthur Ferron
- Sergeant John Richard Wharton Forshaw
- Leading Aircraftman John George Jardine
- Flying Officer Athol Eric Kilner
- Flying Officer John Frederick Landsky
- Flying Officer William John Lee
- Flight Sergeant John Bagrie McDonald
- Flight Sergeant Robert Muir McGregor
- Flying Officer James Robert Menzies
- Air Corporal Curtis M. Murray
- Sergeant Elmer John Neumann
- Sergeant Leslie John Olmstead
- Flying Officer Maurice Francis O'Neill
- Flight Sergeant Robert Clifford Orrock
- Sergeant Eric James Post
- Sergeant James Lee Powell
- Flying Officer William George Preston
- Flying Officer Kenneth Reed
- Sergeant Gordon Leonard Spencer
- Flight Sergeant Charles Gibson Steele
- Corporal John Frederick Stenhoff
- Flying Officer George John Strickland
- Pilot Officer Alexander Lorne Sunstrum
- Flying Officer Walter Douglas Wall
- Flying Officer John Walter Wood
1945
1946
- Group Captain Cecil Stanley Ellison
- Flying Officer Lionel Donald Thorne
- Wing Commander Edward Charles Crocker Tomkins
- Warrant Officer Maurice Walters
- Corporal Edward Melvin Winter