On this day — 20 October
305 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 20 October during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Wing Commander Alexander Henry Allan
- Flying Officer Heslop Miles Frederick Barnitt
- Sergeant Richard Copcutt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Harry Thomas Drake
- Flight Lieutenant William Vernon Emanuel
- Pilot Officer Sidney Russell Gane
- Pilot Officer Maurice David Green
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Henry Pearson
- Sergeant Norman James Stocks
1941
- Sergeant Richard Butt Allport
- Sergeant William Alton
- Squadron Leader Herbert George Percy Blackmore
- Leading Aircraftman Paul Russell Brimberry
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Thomas Brooks
- Flying Officer Donald Warren Brubaker
- Second Lieutenant Burr
- Sergeant Francis Leo Capstick
- Pilot Officer Norman John Choppen
- Sergeant William Dudley Linter Cole
- Sergeant Andrew Young Condie
- Sergeant Philip George Crittenden
- Sergeant Harry Edward Dance
- Sergeant Kenneth Isaac Duffin
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Farnes
- Sergeant Lindsay Gordon Faunt
- Pilot Officer David Kimber Fawkes
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Fullerton
- Sergeant Kenneth Sidney Furley
- Sergeant Ronald Joseph Gardner
- Sergeant Peter John Maxwell Hamilton
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Thompson Hanley
- Sergeant Alan Hendy
- Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Lang Hodge
- Sergeant James Wilfred Horrocks
- Sergeant Nigel Frederick Hunt
- Sergeant Thomas Jackson
- Sergeant Edwin Ralph James
- Sergeant Christopher Lewis Jenkinson
- Sergeant John St. George Johnston
- Sergeant Thomas Gronwy Jones
- Sergeant Philip Kay
- Sergeant Charles Caesar Kolar
- Pilot Officer William Laidlaw
- Sergeant John Lawson Lockwood
- Air Mechanic Lombard
- Sergeant Ian Alistair Macdonald
- Sergeant Charles Francis McCullough
- Sergeant John Anthony McDonough
- Flying Officer Patrick Claude Nangle
- Sergeant Robert Pinkerton
- Sergeant Albert Raw
- Sergeant Leslie Colin Rhoades
- Sergeant William Arthur Saunders
- Sergeant Felix Victor Savy
- Sergeant Leonard Eric Scantlebury
- Sergeant Stephen Alfred Symons
- Sergeant White
- Sergeant Geoffrey Fraser Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Remsen Taylor Williams
- Flight Sergeant William Philip Wright
1942
- Pilot Officer Edward Henry Thomas Alderson
- Sergeant John Bracegirdle
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Charles Burne
- Lieutenant Stanley Victor Coleman
- Corporal Peter Robert Compton
- Sergeant George Christopher Cowley
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Walter Deeth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Donnelly
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Henry Grain
- Corporal Thomas Crowe Green
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sydney John Grimes
- Corporal George Arthur Harper
- Flight Lieutenant Gilbert McLean Hayton
- Warrant Officer Frank Edward Malcolm Hicks
- Pilot Officer George Hoskins
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Joseph Howson
- Second Lieutenant Peter Harley Molineux Jackson
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Leslie Johnston
- Flight Sergeant George Alvin Keil
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander Kerr
- Flight Sergeant Rex Clifton Lambert
- Squadron Leader George Rodoway Macdonald
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel George Martyn
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Arthur Merchant
- Corporal James Murphy
- Sergeant Edgar Neve
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Charles Norman
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Prendergast
- Flight Lieutenant John Robertson Ross
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Clifford Taylor
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Robert Thatcher
- Air Sergeant Etiene Sebastian Van Der Merwe
- Flight Sergeant Joachim Christoffel Van Loggerenberg
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Mervyn Weymouth
- Flight Sergeant Horace James Woollatt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Edward Worsdale
- Flying Officer Sidney William Young
- Warrant Officer Class II Moses Zumar
1943
- Flight Lieutenant John Thomas Anderson
- Flying Officer Frank George Andrews
- Sergeant Dennis Walter Angell
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Tallintire Athey
- Sergeant James Edward Bacon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Baines
- Flying Officer Ronald Lavender Baker
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
- Sergeant Edward Frederick Maurice Barham
- Sergeant Donald Bartley
- Sergeant Gilbert Herbert McDonald Batten
- Corporal Harold David Beattie
- Flying Officer Douglas James Boston
- Sergeant William George Bougourd
- Flight Sergeant Albert Charles Branch
- Warrant Officer Class II Ernest Charles Brunet
- Sergeant Francis William Bundy
- Sergeant Derrick Percy Burton
- Flight Sergeant John Raymond Burton
- Flying Officer William Parmenas Cameron
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Chumbley
- Flying Officer Ronald Cyril Saville Clements
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Maynard Close
- Squadron Leader Archibald George Alexander Cochrane
- Sergeant Leonard Cohen
- Flight Sergeant James Clement Cole
- Sergeant Donald Alfred Ross Colegate
- Flight Sergeant Howard Frank Collins
- Flight Lieutenant Gerald Charles Cooper
- Flight Sergeant Frank Norman Simpson Cowie
- Flight Sergeant Harold Cowley
- Sergeant Peter Radford Cowling
- Warrant Officer John Joseph Craner
- Flying Officer William Denys Crew
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Henry Crosbie
- Sergeant Douglas Edward Day
- Sergeant Thomas Deacon
- Sergeant Zeger Willem Casper Dekkers
- Sergeant Douglas Demaine
- Sergeant John Wilson Diggle
- Sergeant George Walter Dillnutt
- Sergeant George Alexander Dixon
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Laurie Dynes
- Sergeant Frank Earnshaw
- Sergeant Terry Edwards
- Sergeant Franklin Hicks Elliott
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Ernest Elliott
- Flying Officer Francis Gregory English
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Evans
- Sergeant Stanley Fairhurst
- Sergeant Eric Morgan Finn
- Pilot Officer Christopher Firth
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Frank Fisher
- Flying Officer Peter Raymond Flyte
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Foot
- Flight Lieutenant William Ross Forester
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Kevin Forsyth
- Leading Aircraftman Victor Frederick William C. Forward
- Flight Sergeant Clarence William Foster
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Joseph St. Clair Fraser
- Flight Sergeant James Kenneth Fraser
- Sergeant Kenneth Joseph Gehrmann
- Sergeant Clarence William Gibb
- Sergeant Ernest Alfred Gibbs
- Sergeant Gerald James Godseff
- Sergeant Leslie Ronald Hall
- Corporal Howard Kenneth Hambly
- Pilot Officer Philip Hanavan
- Sergeant Joseph Hardy
- Sergeant James Hargreaves
- Warrant Officer Class II Victor Keith Harris
- Sergeant Cyril Thomas Harston
- Sergeant John Henry Hawkins
- Sergeant William Ernest Hawksworth
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Hedley
- Sergeant Sydney Francis Hone
- Flight Sergeant Derrick Leslie Walter Horn
- Warrant Officer Class I Wilfred Howlett
- Flying Officer Francis Jack Hunter
- Sergeant Leonard Charles James
- Warrant Officer Class I Franklin Elwood Jenkins
- Corporal Alec Clare Johnston
- Flying Officer Jay Syver Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Charles Benjamin Jolliffe
- Sergeant Ivor George Jones
- Sergeant Myrddin Jones
- Flight Sergeant Wallace Edgar Jones
- Pilot Officer James Lamont
- Sergeant Maurice Charles Russell Lang
- Sergeant Patrick Lavelle
- Sergeant Cyril John Lawrence
- Flying Officer James Westwood Leitch
- Sergeant James Henry Lovelock
- Sergeant Alfred William Nelson Lower
- Corporal Henry William Luck
- Pilot Officer Robert William Macdonald
- Sergeant Peter Hector Mackintosh
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur George Macleod
- Sergeant William Gordon Macnaughton
- Sergeant Leslie Thomas Macswayne
- Squadron Leader Richard John Manton
- Corporal Ronald Douglas Marr
- Sergeant Cecil Arthur Maskell
- Squadron Leader Kenneth Mathews
- Leading Aircraftman Donald John McCaskill
- Pilot Officer Clifford Wallace McFarlane
- Sergeant Albert McGurty
- Flight Sergeant Harry Hal Millard
- Flying Officer Nigel William Monk
- Flight Lieutenant Richard William George Moore
- Sergeant Leonard Mortimer
- Flying Officer Edmond Frank Myers
- Flying Officer Walter David Newel
- Warrant Officer Ivan Kenealy Nicoll
- Flight Sergeant Francis Edward Noble
- Sergeant John O'Leary
- Sergeant Alfred George Osborne
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander Gordon Osmand
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Painter
- Pilot Officer Frank Ernest Saville Parker
- Leading Aircraftman Guy Ridgewood Patterson
- Sergeant Charles Dennis Peary
- Sergeant Eric John Plumridge
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Alfred Raymond Poirier
- Sergeant Kenneth William Pollitt
- Flying Officer Peter Simpson Porteous
- Flying Officer Allister Wilson Porter
- Sergeant Frederick Allan Porter
- Flying Officer Stanley Potts
- Leading Aircraftman Albert James Radcliffe
- Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Hunter Ramage
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read
- Sergeant Graham Read
- Flight Sergeant John Knox Read
- Flying Officer John Norman Ralston Redpath
- Sergeant Tudor Robert Musgrave Robertson
- Flight Sergeant Christian James Waldemar Rothe
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Austen Bentinck Salmond
- Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson
- Sergeant Robert Edward Scott
- Flight Lieutenant William Richard Percival Sewell
- Flight Lieutenant William Alfred Shillitto
- Pilot Officer Leslie Reginald Vincent Sibley
- Warrant Officer Class I Jacob Silverstein
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Henry Pete Simmonds
- Pilot Officer Theodore Leonard Simpson
- Flight Sergeant William Ellwood Smillie
- Sergeant Frederick George Smith
- Sergeant Peter Lewis Smith
- Flying Officer Stanley Smith
- Flying Officer Albert Veron Snook
- Flight Sergeant Harold Omond Spence
- Flight Sergeant Ervine Eugene Spencer
- Sergeant Leslie Arthur Steele
- Sergeant Maxwell Emil Stellig
- Warrant Officer Class II Douglas Simpson Storey
- Sergeant Leonard Ernest Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Roy Leonard Taylor
- Flying Officer John Gordon Thomson
- Leading Aircraftman Murray Percival Thorburn
- Sergeant Peter Twiddy
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Achille Jean Paul Veilleux
- Flight Sergeant George Rodney Alexander Walkem
- Sergeant Tom Kenneth Wardley
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Frank Ware
- Sergeant George Myron Weighell
- Sergeant Charles Wharton
- Sergeant Leonard Wild
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Clifford Williams
- Flight Sergeant Harold Williams
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Clifford Williams
- Sergeant James Ivan Wilson
- Flying Officer Kemble Russell Wood
- Sergeant Stanley Albert Wood
- Warrant Officer Class II Charles Notley Dawson Wright
- Sergeant George Arthur Yates
- Sergeant Russell Clare Stedman Young
1944
- Flying Officer Robert William Brown
- Flight Sergeant William James Carpenter
- Pilot Officer Frederick Robert Charnock
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Leslie Cox
- Sergeant Joseph John Cunningham
- Flying Officer Ronald William Doidge
- Pilot Officer James Earl
- Flight Sergeant Eric Clifford Fagg
- Lieutenant Fisher
- Flying Officer Gunnar Freese
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Boyd Hamilton
- Flight Sergeant John Leonard Jago
- Flight Sergeant Peter Morris Low
- Leading Aircraftman John Maurice McManus
- Flight Sergeant David James Oliver
- Flying Officer Allan Edward Parker
- Flying Officer John Norman Richardson
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Allan Skea
- Corporal Eustace Charles Stephens
- Sergeant John Wakefield
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Richard Walley
1945
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander Fotheringham
- Corporal John Donald Hill
- Flight Sergeant Robert Horton
- Sergeant Frank Edward Moore