On this day — 21 October
207 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 21 October during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Sergeant Leonard Frank Percy Adlam
- Sergeant William Murly Batson
- Sergeant Russell Gordon Bennett
- Flying Officer Ernest Henry Brown
- Sergeant Marcel Cuthbert Caryll-tilkin
- Flying Officer Daniel Percy Crittall
- Sergeant Albin James Finch
- Sergeant Eric Grenville Greenwood
- Sergeant Charles William Hartop
- Sergeant Leslie Henry Hillelson
- Corporal Arthur Jackson
- Sergeant James Francis Ferguson Kerr
- Sergeant Richard Lindsley Milbourne
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Leonard Moore
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Thomas Neal
- Corporal John Wilkinson Parker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Christopher Piggott
- Sergeant Malcolm Stanley Smith
- Sergeant Cecil Vernon Stubbs
- Pilot Officer Wycliff Stuart Williams
1941
- Sergeant Ronald Lurring Aiken
- Flight Lieutenant John Collinson Alexander
- Corporal Sidney Francis Andrews
- Sergeant Walter Edward Austin
- Pilot Officer Bruce Bertram Barber
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Baseley
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Morton Boal
- Sergeant Desmond George Bradley
- Leading Aircraftman Michel Brady De Maynard
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles William Brown
- Pilot Officer William Hayward Budd
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Theodor Moorcroft Bullocke
- Leading Aircraftman Paul Cecil John Colling
- Flight Sergeant John Stewart Cooper
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Leslie Coppin
- Sergeant William Henry Cubbon
- Pilot Officer John Darby Davis
- Sergeant James Forrest
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth John Fuller
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Gardner
- Sergeant Kenneth Gaukroger
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Gauley
- Leading Aircraftman William Sidney Emilio Gianella
- Flight Sergeant George Charles Percival Haines
- Flight Sergeant Lester Louis Harrison
- Pilot Officer Cecil Harry Hayes
- Sergeant Allan Cruickshank Hendry
- Sergeant Michael Joseph Hughes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter Beattie Hunter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Joseph Leech
- Sergeant John Douglas Life
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Brian Long
- Pilot Officer George Sinclair Macdonald
- Sergeant William McKelvie
- Leading Aircraftman William Desmond John McLaughlin
- Sergeant Alexander Teryl McMillan
- Leading Aircraftman Sydney George Peter Medwin
- Pilot Officer Charles Henry Mills
- Flying Officer Lionel Abel John Mills
- Second Lieutenant Mullin
- Pilot Officer William Gershon Noble
- Sergeant Richard Hines Oakley
- Sergeant Roy Tufts Oliver
- Sergeant Edward William Paine
- Sergeant Arthur Gordon Palmer
- Flight Sergeant Alec John Park
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Edwards Parker
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Leslie Phillips
- Pilot Officer Henry Hodsmyth Pibus
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Fred Poulter
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Charles Powles
- Pilot Officer Howard Stanley Ray
- Sergeant Arthur Francis George Redwood
- Flying Officer John Frederick Reeves
- Sergeant Joseph Reid
- Pilot Officer James Harold Richardson
- Pilot Officer Johan Willem Yoshitaro Roeper Bosch
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Rosenthall
- Sergeant Harry Gervase Roughton
- Flying Officer John Charles Lancelot Ruck-keene
- Pilot Officer Donald Schafheitlin
- Sergeant Leonard Walter Shearing
- Pilot Officer Norman Jagoe Smith
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Stansfield
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Thomas Stokes
- Sergeant David Donald Taylor
- Sergeant Bryan Robert Thomas
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Douglas Thomson
- Flight Sergeant Simon James Williams
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Woodward
- Sergeant Robert Muirhead Colin Worthington
- Pilot Officer Lewis Taylor Younie
1942
- Sergeant Alfred Harold Akester
- Leading Aircraftman John Warner Benson
- Flying Officer Noel Stuart Brady
- Flight Sergeant Edward William Chessor
- Sergeant James Alexander Leckie Clark
- Sergeant John Donald Cooper
- Pilot Officer Joseph Edward Henry Croud
- Flight Sergeant Richard Alexander Cunningham
- Pilot Officer Eric John Dando
- Sergeant Arthur Davies
- Flying Officer Paul Nelson Dobie
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Clarence Elliott
- Flight Sergeant Robert Ernest Flavelle
- Sergeant Charles Stuart George
- Pilot Officer Erven Christopher Grierson
- Flying Officer Alexander Albert Harvey
- Squadron Leader Frederic Bright Harvey
- Flying Officer William Denzil Hollis
- Sergeant Donald Jackson
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Edward Langdon
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Marr Lount
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Macdiarmid Mackinnon
- Sergeant Andrew Noel Melling
- Pilot Officer Thurlow Proctor
- Sergeant Norman Edward Albert Ross
- Corporal William Schultz
- Sergeant Henry Taylor
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Cecil Todd
- Sergeant Jack Watkins
- Sergeant Kenneth Albert Wilkins
- Flying Officer Robert Gledhill Winder
- Flight Lieutenant Herbert Francis George Wood
- Sergeant John Ottwell Rowse Worrall
- Sergeant Harold Leonard Kerr Wright
1943
- Flight Sergeant Michael Antifaev
- Flying Officer Edwin Arthur Bater
- Pilot Officer Stanley John Bell
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Montague Bennett
- Sergeant Henry James Bird
- Sergeant Edward James Boardman
- Aircraftman 1st Class H. H. (michael) Brooks
- Flying Officer Frederick William Brown
- Aircraftman 1st Class Clement Bullock
- Sergeant Bernard William Burke
- Sergeant William George Cane
- Sergeant Edwin Carter
- Flight Sergeant William James Christie
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Robert Cole
- Corporal Stanley Collins
- Sergeant John Norman Connor
- Sergeant Harry James Crawford
- Sergeant Leslie Cross
- Sergeant Walter Crouch
- Sergeant Alexander McNaught Davidson
- Flying Officer Norman Gilbert Donald
- Sergeant Desmond Robert Feely
- Corporal Edward Gardiner
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Gore
- Leading Aircraftman John Greer
- Warrant Officer Stanley Gordon William Hall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Geoffrey Cecil Glover Hill
- Warrant Officer Class II William Harold Howson
- Pilot Officer Henry John Hamley Jones
- Sergeant Reginald Williams Lane
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Washington Lewis
- Sergeant James Manderson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Martin
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Milton McEachern
- Sergeant John Cook McLean
- Sergeant James Herbert McMaster
- Sergeant James Paterson Neville
- Flying Officer Maurice Edmund O'Donoghue
- Warrant Officer Aubrey Huia Pargeter
- Sergeant William Paterson
- Sergeant Ernest Charles Pocknell
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Alfred Powrie
- Sergeant John Ramsden
- Sergeant Richard Cowel Reid
- Pilot Officer Ivor Lloyd Richards
- Sergeant Leonard Walter Searle
- Leading Aircraftman Smith
- Pilot Officer Alan Finlay Smith
- Corporal Arthur Thomas Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Berry Smith
- Sergeant Harry Sykes
- Flying Officer George Sewell Thomas
- Sergeant Harry Edward Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Donald Moulton Watson
- Pilot Officer Robert Hamilton Watts
- Flying Officer Ronald Leslie Watts
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Charles West
- Sergeant Frank Edward White
- Flying Officer Paul Ernest Whitehead
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Wilkinson
- Flight Sergeant Edgar Harold Willcocks
- Sergeant David Strachan Wilson
- Sergeant Charles Edward Young
- Sergeant Thomas Bertram Young
1944
- Sergeant Peter Stockley Foster
- Pilot Officer Brian Charlton Jeffares
- Sergeant Frank Campbell Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Donald Valentine Loader
- Pilot Officer John McCormack
- Warrant Officer Vincent John O'Loughlin
- Pilot Officer George Arthur Palmer
- Leading Aircraftman Percival James Parker
- Flying Officer Alexander Mitchell Penman
- Warrant Officer Lawrence Geoffrey Robertson
- Flying Officer Donald Ansley Sandman
- Pilot Officer Norman Albert Stevens
- Leading Aircraftman Glen Joseph Stumph
- Warrant Officer Cecil Arthur Weston