On this day — 22 October
428 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 22 October during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman William Rodney Louis Coombes
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Albert Coward
- Sergeant Vernon Colin Durrant
- Sergeant Raymond Mortimer Cleveland Edwards
- Flying Officer Alan Robert Adair Forbes
- Sergeant Robert Henry Braund Fraser
- Sergeant David Bruce Gordon
- Sergeant Arthur Anthony Heaney
- Pilot Officer Norman Bagshaw Heywood
- Sergeant William Arthur Lofthouse
- Sergeant Christopher Parker Mapplethorpe
- Sergeant Peter Frank Morris
- Sergeant Joseph Pearson Morrison
- Flight Lieutenant Allan Smith Phillips
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Henry Pickering
- Flying Officer Peter Cape Beauchamp St. John
- Sergeant Ian George Wills
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Harry Agus
- Sergeant Henry Ivison Shipley Armes
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Harvey Atkin
- Sergeant Robert Edward Austin
- Pilot Officer Anthony Baerlein
- Sergeant James Morland Forrester Bell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Benson
- Sergeant Arthur Leslie Bradshaw
- Wing Commander Richard Gustav Briese
- Pilot Officer Maurice Alec Bunn
- Sergeant Keith Carter
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Albert Chatterton
- Sergeant Ernest Morton Gwynne Davies
- Pilot Officer Joseph Alfonse Deneys
- Sergeant Lloyd Eldon Dodge
- Sergeant Phillip Peter Francis Du Pre
- Sergeant Mowbray Ronald Forty
- Sergeant Ramsay Gordon
- Sergeant Cyril Roland Hall
- Sergeant Leonard Joseph Harris
- Sergeant Raymond John Hobbs
- Leading Aircraftman Wylie Macdonald Hogg
- Sergeant Stanley Keith Holland
- Pilot Officer Walker Julius Hoover
- Sergeant Reginald Lewis Hunt
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Herbert Jackson
- Sergeant William Leo Newton Johnston
- Sergeant John Hampson Kay
- Sergeant Kenwyn Charles Lawry
- Sergeant Lawrence Lawson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrence Ernest Kitchener Lax
- Sergeant Sidney Joseph Lawrence Levack
- Sergeant John David Henry Lewis
- Sergeant Theophilos Harry Cardew Mahon
- Flight Sergeant George Frederick Marr
- Flight Sergeant William Howe Martin
- Sergeant Geoffrey Louis McInerny
- Sergeant James Keiller Millar
- Pilot Officer Gordon Campbell O'Neill
- Sergeant Robert Douglas Partridge
- Sergeant John Lyon Perrin
- Flying Officer Carson Carysfort Proby
- Sergeant Percy Albert George Ragg
- Sergeant James Roberts
- Sergeant Eric Robinson
- Sergeant Geoffrey Robinson
- Sergeant Lawrence William Rogers
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Gilbert Savin
- Sergeant Ronald Ernest Sayer
- Leading Aircraftman Barry Alfred Smith
- Sergeant Denis William Soden
- Sergeant Frederick Alexander Spark
- Sergeant William Reid Steele
- Lieutenant Denis Hubert Byrne Sturman
- Sergeant Robert Holtby Tasker
- Sergeant Cyril Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Francis Albert Titcomb
- Flight Sergeant Peter Frederick Tracey
- Sergeant Stephen Vincent
- Sergeant Percy Thomas Walter Walker
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Roderick Walker
- Sergeant Stanley Gordon Westbrook
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Whitford
- Flight Sergeant James Douglas Woodburn
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Zarraga
1942
- Flying Officer George Douglas Rutherford Avery
- Flying Officer Douglas Crawford Bell
- Corporal Reginald Benson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Philip Stanley Chilton
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Francis Victor Copsey
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Norman Gillitt
- Corporal Gerald Alexander Grant
- Flight Sergeant Mark Hanna
- Flying Officer Roy Anderson Harper
- Sergeant Robert Harris
- Flying Officer Ronald Harrison
- Pilot Officer Corliss St. Leger Hawkes
- Warrant Officer Class II Vern Selby Irwin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Matthew Kennedy
- Corporal Andrew Walter Knights
- Lieutenant John De La Harpe Lane
- Sergeant George Rollinson Macbryde
- Sergeant Hector McKenzie Middleton
- Sergeant Arthur William Mills
- Pilot Officer Garth Angus Neill
- Flight Sergeant Brian Joseph O'Connor
- Corporal Leonard Thomas Parker
- Warrant Officer Class I Walter H. Plant
- Flying Officer Leslie Joseph Schwartz
- Flying Officer Thomas Roland Scott
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Willie Smith
- Pilot Officer Wreford William George Smith
- Wing Commander John Patrick Stracey Smyth
- Sergeant John Robert Naylor Thorpe
- Pilot Officer John Cecil Oliver Trench
- Pilot Officer David Maxwell Walker
- Flying Officer Neil Stewart Wilson
1943
- Flight Lieutenant Cyril Howard Abbott
- Flight Sergeant Dene Adams
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Bean Adams
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Adey
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Edward Aitken
- Pilot Officer Basil Eric Edward Allden
- Sergeant Geoffrey Frank Allison
- Flying Officer Peter Anderson
- Pilot Officer Peter Ronald Andrews
- Flying Officer Roy Elkington Ault
- Flying Officer Robert Lionel Harman Ball
- Flying Officer James Hamilton Balloch
- Flying Officer John Stuart Barber
- Pilot Officer Alfred Vernon Cecil Barden
- Sergeant Victor Joseph Barnes
- Flight Sergeant Melville Collinson Baynes
- Sergeant George Herbert Bennett
- Flying Officer Alexander Edward Beyak
- Sergeant Charles Clifford Bishop
- Warrant Officer Ian Harold Blackburn
- Sergeant Stanley Kendal Blandford
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Jones Blurton
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Stuart Booth-russell
- Sergeant George Thomas Boswell
- Flight Sergeant Aubrey Ronald Brace
- Sergeant Leonard Thomas Brawn
- Flying Officer John Robertson Brice
- Pilot Officer Alec Bridgewater Broadbent
- Pilot Officer Dennis William Brookes
- Flying Officer Donald Rowland Rennie Brown
- Sergeant Kenneth Alfred Brown
- Flight Sergeant William Richard Brown
- Flight Sergeant Hilton George Brownjohn
- Sergeant John Anthony Buck
- Sergeant Richard Thomas Burman
- Flight Sergeant William Burns
- Sergeant Arthur Blackburn Burton
- Flight Sergeant William Harvey Burton
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Harris Butler
- Sergeant John Cahill
- Sergeant James Barkess Cameron
- Pilot Officer Philippe Emmanuel Camille
- Sergeant John Louis Campbell
- Sergeant William Arthur Cassell
- Sergeant John Frederick Challis
- Sergeant Richard Chambers
- Pilot Officer Verdun James Chorley
- Flying Officer Athanazie Chorneyko
- Warrant Officer Floyd Raymond Christenson
- Sergeant Mervyn Eugene Cipriani
- Sergeant Douglas Clarke
- Sergeant Thomas Frederick Clemenhagen
- Sergeant Desmond Owen Collen
- Sergeant Thomas James Colston
- Sergeant John Terrance Costello
- Sergeant Sidney Frederick Cowcher
- Sergeant John Campbell Cowie
- Warrant Officer James Ferrie Craig
- Flight Sergeant William Gilbert Crain
- Sergeant Stanley Bridson Cribb
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Crinkley
- Flying Officer Herbert Wilfred Cudney
- Flight Sergeant Frank Cunningham
- Flight Sergeant George Bruce Davies
- Sergeant Gordon Alfred Davis
- Flying Officer Victor George Deacon
- Sergeant Albert Henry Denton
- Sergeant Desmond Dickson
- Sergeant Ivan Keith Doncaster
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Gordon Dunn
- Sergeant Joseph Arthur Charles Dupont
- Sergeant Donald Durrell
- Flight Sergeant Edward John Dutton
- Flight Sergeant Mason Argue Edwards
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Clifford Elstub
- Sergeant Philip Leslie Emms
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie William Dudley Fagan
- Flight Sergeant Edward Fairfield
- Flight Sergeant Raymond James Farrelly
- Warrant Officer Class II John Sherman Ferris
- Sergeant George Prosser Finlay
- Sergeant Arthur George Fisher
- Flight Sergeant John Foley
- Sergeant Roy Arthur Ford
- Pilot Officer Ivor Russell Forster
- Sergeant Roger Moise Fournier
- Flight Sergeant Richard Fowler
- Sergeant Arthur William Franklin
- Sergeant Walter George Gamage
- Pilot Officer Neville Gardner
- Pilot Officer Victor Charles Gerrard
- Sergeant Robert Gibson
- Flying Officer Leonard Cecil Gilding
- Sergeant James Grainger
- Pilot Officer Albert Lionel Gray
- Sergeant Cecil William Gray
- Sergeant Henry Thomas Green
- Pilot Officer Samuel Greenlees
- Flight Sergeant Elfod Gwynne
- Flight Sergeant Clowes Edwin Hall
- Sergeant Daniel William Hall
- Sergeant Jack Hamer
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Neville Hammond
- Sergeant Roy Owen Hand
- Pilot Officer John Walter Hardcastle
- Sergeant Ronald Edward Harnett
- Flying Officer Edwin Arthur Harris
- Warrant Officer George Albert Harris
- Sergeant Raymond Albert Harris
- Flying Officer James Robert Harrison
- Sergeant William Hartley
- Sergeant Ian Hayward
- Sergeant Joseph Michael Healey
- Flying Officer Lawrence Healey
- Sergeant Harry Longdon Hembrough
- Pilot Officer John William Heppell
- Flying Officer Frank Hewitt
- Pilot Officer George Peter Hewson
- Flight Sergeant Albert Henry Hines
- Flight Sergeant Alan Hodgkinson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Arthur Hodson
- Pilot Officer Thorkild Hoeg
- Sergeant Geoffrey Hood
- Sergeant Sydney Howell Hopson
- Flight Sergeant Graham Wilson Howard
- Pilot Officer Squire Ronald Hughes
- Sergeant Kenneth Irvin
- Sergeant Lawrence Ivory
- Pilot Officer Edward Laming Jackson
- Flying Officer Frederick Roy Jackson
- Flight Lieutenant Ralph Henry Burgess Jackson
- Pilot Officer Ross Banting Jackson
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Lascelles Jenkins
- Pilot Officer Edward Ellis Jones
- Sergeant Harold Kearsley
- Flying Officer Patrick Gregory Keogh
- Sergeant Charles Kershaw
- Pilot Officer Walter Kerslake
- Flight Sergeant Robert Stanley Kift
- Pilot Officer Albert Ernest Kindell
- Sergeant George Charles King
- Pilot Officer John Elliott Kirkup
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Charles Kitchen
- Sergeant Dudley Noel Lambert
- Corporal Lucien George Lane
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Omer Andre Lapointe
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Reuben Lee
- Sergeant Thomas Vardare Lewis
- Flying Officer Michael Lloyd
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Lomas
- Sergeant Bernard Desmond Stuart Lovell
- Sergeant Mervyn Courtney Lye
- Sergeant Frederick Norman Macauley
- Sergeant Raymond John Kellett Machan
- Sergeant John Anthony Macnish Porter
- Sergeant Charles Lewis Manuel
- Pilot Officer Barrington Horsfield Marshall
- Sergeant Peter Howard Maudling
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Dunwoody Mayne
- Sergeant Denis Joseph McCarthy
- Sergeant Harold Samuel McCartney
- Pilot Officer Roy Ernest McComb
- Sergeant James Irvine McCullagh
- Pilot Officer Edwin Terrance McDermott
- Squadron Leader Alexander Lyons McDowell
- Flying Officer Walter Harry McDowell
- Flight Sergeant John Finlay McEwen
- Sergeant Eric John McMillan
- Wing Commander Gordon Archibald McMurdy
- Sergeant William James Bryden McNaught
- Flying Officer Walter Fanning Mellor
- Pilot Officer Bruce Fitzgerald Henry Miller
- Pilot Officer David Miller
- Flight Sergeant Ronald William Miller
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Perram Mills
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Aubrey Minter
- Flight Sergeant William Raymond Minter
- Sergeant Alexander Mitchell
- Sergeant Michael Monaghan
- Sergeant Peter John Moore
- Sergeant William Lewis Morpeth
- Pilot Officer Vincent George Muddell
- Pilot Officer Cyril Marshall Murfitt
- Warrant Officer Hugh George Murray
- Flying Officer Murdoch Campbell Murray
- Pilot Officer Joseph Antoine Maurice Nadeau
- Sergeant Gordon Abraham Nelson
- Sergeant Henry Newlove
- Flight Sergeant Robert Alexander Nield
- Flight Sergeant Philip Norton
- Sergeant Leslie Williamson Noton
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander Novick
- Flying Officer Charles Edward Oakley
- Flying Officer Donald William Owen
- Sergeant Edward Parker
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Earle Parker
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Edward Parkes
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Joseph Paull
- Flying Officer John William Payne
- Sergeant Robert Edward Pedder
- Corporal George William Pedge
- Flight Sergeant Francis W. Peterkin
- Pilot Officer Henry Edward Morgan Plant
- Flight Sergeant Ernest John Cecil Plouffe
- Sergeant John Pretsell
- Flying Officer Eric Raymond Price
- Sergeant Harold Priestley
- Pilot Officer Lawrence James Pringle
- Sergeant John Henry Procter
- Sergeant Gilbert George Provis
- Sergeant Raymond Puddle
- Sergeant Thomas Rawlings
- Sergeant David Gareth Rees
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Cecil Reynolds
- Warrant Officer John Thomas Campbell Rhodes
- Sergeant Alan John George Richards
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Arthur Richardson
- Sergeant Richard Frank Ricketts
- Flight Sergeant Karl Riep
- Flying Officer Leone Joseph Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Humphrey Peter Robinson
- Sergeant Clifford Rodham
- Flight Lieutenant Derek Ralph Rogers
- Sergeant Albert Rooks
- Sergeant Harry Russell
- Sergeant John Saffrey
- Sergeant John Edwin Savage
- Pilot Officer Andrew Franklin Scanes
- Flying Officer Ivor Schilansky
- Warrant Officer Mark Herbert Seall
- Squadron Leader Gordon Arthur Sells
- Flying Officer William Stuart Sewall
- Sergeant Kenneth George Sewell
- Sergeant Arthur Edwin Shaw
- Sergeant Michael Sheedy
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Robertson Simmons
- Pilot Officer George Simpson
- Sergeant Malcolm Simpson
- Sergeant Ronald Stephen Sitch
- Sergeant Frank Edward Skinner
- Sergeant Alfred Jack Smith
- Sergeant Charles Chester Smith
- Pilot Officer Cyril Frankham Smith
- Sergeant Ivor Melvyn Smith
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Stanley Smith
- Sergeant Frederick Southern
- Flight Sergeant William Ernest Arthur Spencer
- Sergeant Charles Leonard Spink
- Flying Officer John Lawrence Stalker
- Sergeant Robert Jean-baptiste Edmond Stenuit
- Sergeant Edward Percy Stock
- Sergeant Derick Waters Stribley
- Warrant Officer Class II Glen Geoffrey Sveinson
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Sweeney
- Sergeant Ralph Sykes
- Pilot Officer Philip Ackroyd Taverner
- Flight Sergeant Edgar Francis Taylor
- Pilot Officer Ewan Moore Taylor
- Sergeant Harold Robert Thompson
- Squadron Leader William Nairne Thomson
- Pilot Officer Richard Andrew Thornton
- Sergeant John Fisher Thwaite
- Sergeant Bertil M. E. Unger
- Sergeant James Daniel Walton
- Sergeant Herbert Ward
- Sergeant Wilfred Ward
- Warrant Officer Class II Floyd Bertram Watson
- Warrant Officer Class II Harry Arthur Weber
- Warrant Officer Douglas Harold Welch
- Flight Sergeant Roy Arthur Wells
- Flight Lieutenant William James Weston
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur James Whiston
- Sergeant Ashley Bertram White
- Flight Sergeant James Standley Whitecross
- Flying Officer James William Whitehouse
- Flight Sergeant William John Whitney
- Sergeant Frank Wilkinson
- Flight Lieutenant Herbert Henry Vincent Wilkinson
- Flying Officer Eric Williams
- Sergeant Melville Sidney Williams
- Sergeant John Paul Williamson
- Sergeant Richard Oliver Williamson
- Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Bruce Willson
- Sergeant Charles Henry Morgan Wilson
- Sergeant Donald Wesley Wilson
- Sergeant Henry Robert Wilson
- Flying Officer Richard Peter Wissler
- Squadron Leader Clifford Sinclair Farquhar Wood
- Pilot Officer Percival Robert Wood
- Flight Lieutenant William George Wood
- Sergeant Alfred William Leonard Worrad
- Warrant Officer Class II Frank Yackison
1944
- Flying Officer Francis Aubrey Bell
- Flight Sergeant Earl William Bock
- Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
- Flying Officer Walter William Ronald Dawes
- Flight Lieutenant Noel James Gibbons
- Leading Aircraftman William Eric Hall
- Flying Officer John Armstrong Johnston
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Boyd Lalonde
- Lieutenant John Raymond Lund
- Sergeant Harvey Ellsworth Pyche
- Sergeant George Riddoch
- Leading Aircraftman George Patrick Tait
- Sergeant Donald Fraser Titt
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Thomas Valentine
- Flying Officer Robert Newton Whitley
- Sergeant Calvin George Whittingstall
1945
- Flight Sergeant John Bushby
- Corporal Douglas Victor Martin
- Air Mechanic William Mudge
- Warrant Officer James Harold Ratcliffe
- Leading Aircraftman Vincent George Wilson