On this day — 23 October
217 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 23 October during the Second World War.
1940
- Warrant Officer Alfred Berry
- Air Vice Marshal Charles Hubert Boulby Blount
- Flying Officer Ian Forbes Davies
- Sergeant William Alfred Dismore
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Donkin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur John Elson
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Gooch
- Pilot Officer George Grant
- Sergeant Cyril Sidney Garrick Green
- Pilot Officer Peter Richard Scott Hurst
- Flying Officer William Ledlie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Owen Reginald Lock
- Second Lieutenant Alastair McDonald
- Sergeant James McMaster
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Meade Bertram Newton
- Sergeant Derrick Edward O'Flaherty
- Corporal Alexander Hamilton Knighton Robertson
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Donald Rudling
- Flying Officer Reginald Trevor Shaw
- Pilot Officer Frederick Eustace Stronge
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Wiffen
- Leading Aircraftman Walter John Wynne-harley
1941
- Sergeant Charles Patrick Allsop
- Sergeant Samuel Barton
- Sergeant Richard Cubitt Blamey
- Pilot Officer John Fisher Boyd
- Sergeant David Alexander Edward Bremner
- Pilot Officer George Russell Bruce
- Leading Aircraftman Robert William Burns
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Tyrrell Cooper
- Sergeant Derek Rudyard Davis
- Pilot Officer Frantisek Dittrich
- Sergeant William Des Brisay Gilmour
- Air Corporal Horace Nathaniel Voss Hawke
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Horan
- Sergeant Norman Leonard Hornsey
- Sergeant Karel Hurt
- Sergeant Otakar Januj
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Robert Johnson
- Sergeant Robert Frederick Kelley
- Sergeant Abie Kirsch
- Pilot Officer Josef Kloboucnik
- Sergeant Josef Klvacek
- Sergeant Stewart William James Lamerton
- Pilot Officer Richard Aubrey Luard
- Sergeant Francis Mervyn McCaffry
- Leading Aircraftman Albert James Morris
- Pilot Officer Charles Beeching O'Hanley
- Sergeant Jaroslav Polednik
- Sergeant Charles Thomas Robinson
- Sergeant Jaroslav Rolenc
- Flight Sergeant Eric Vernon Sansom
- Major Samuel Barr Ferguson Scott
- Flight Lieutenant George Arthur Steward
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Percy Stockton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Victor Charles Taylor
- Sergeant William Virgo
- Pilot Officer Alan Ewart Gilbert Wainwright
- Sergeant William Conyers Wright
1942
- Wing Commander Horace Roy Allen
- Sergeant Alfred Anderson
- Pilot Officer William Bain
- Leading Aircraftman Frank James Beairsto
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Layton Bowker
- Sergeant Arthur Brown
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Denzil Clark
- Pilot Officer Rodney George Dandy
- Flight Sergeant Albert George Declerck
- Sergeant Edward Reid Dodson
- Flying Officer Raymond Dopere
- Flying Officer Frank Eagling
- Sergeant Leslie Walter Giles
- Sergeant Petr Haas
- Sergeant Frederick Cecil Hall
- Sergeant Harry Hardy
- Pilot Officer Gordon Shotton Hughes
- Flight Lieutenant Vaclav Jelinek
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Francis Johnson
- Pilot Officer Kenneth William Leakey
- Flight Lieutenant Alec Ian Lindsay
- Sergeant Charles Lunny
- Sergeant Graham Macleod Martin
- Sergeant Douglas Gordon Martyn
- Sergeant Joseph Gerard Millinger
- Sergeant Huon Tasman Nation
- Lieutenant Ian Hugh Nolte
- Pilot Officer Thomas Edward Oliver
- Sergeant George Arthur Francis Pamenter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gilbert Ernest Parkes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Penkethman
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Henry Pepper
- Flight Sergeant Norman George Edmund Perrett
- Sergeant Stanley Victor Price
- Pilot Officer Walter Rogers
- Flight Lieutenant Lester Vincent Sanders
- Squadron Leader Joseph Cunningham Simpson
- Flying Officer Reginald Arthur Studd
- Flying Officer Wilbert Harry Thomas
- Warrant Officer Class I Eric Keith Tomlinson
- Flight Sergeant John Wilson Tyson
- Flight Sergeant George Thomas Vuilleumier
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Robert Wallace
- Flight Lieutenant Claud Bransby Walter
- Squadron Leader Joseph James White
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Hughes Whitmore
- Flying Officer Eric Bernard Williams
- Pilot Officer Derek Gordon Wilmer
- Flying Officer Louis Rousseau Youngman
1943
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas David Baker
- Sergeant George Charles Bangs
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James William Cowan Blake
- Sergeant George Blake-hales
- Sergeant Frank Harry Bloomfield
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Hugh Ernest Bradley
- Flight Sergeant Clayton Perry Brown
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alan Edmond Catherall
- Sergeant Sidney Cossey
- Flight Sergeant Donald Joseph Cotter
- Pilot Officer John Edward Cox
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Maynard Craig
- Sergeant Albert Francis William Noble Croft
- Flying Officer John James Dance
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Du Burgh Dow
- Flight Sergeant Gregory Terence Duane
- Flying Officer David Gwynne Evans
- Flying Officer Harry Prior Farr
- Sergeant Norman Stewart Forbes
- Sergeant William Kemp Fraser
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Frank Fry
- Flying Officer Gerald Patrick Godwin
- Wing Commander Arthur Leslie Grice
- Flight Sergeant Francis John Guay
- Sergeant Alfred Holloway
- Sergeant John Blair Hunter
- Flight Sergeant Joseph William Jackson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Denis Matthew Kelly
- Flight Sergeant Albert Aubrey King
- Warrant Officer Douglas Ronald Charles Mace
- Sergeant Albert James Francis May
- Sergeant Robin Opal Patrick Joseph McCart
- Flight Sergeant Gordon John McFadyean
- Corporal Andrew Leitch Moffat
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Christopher Morfitt
- Sergeant Joseph Murphy
- Flight Sergeant Paul Newns
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Oates
- Leading Aircraftman Issie Padveen
- Sergeant Cecil Frederick Parmenter
- Flight Lieutenant William Stephens Pitt-payne
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Gillies Alfred Poudrette
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Reginald Royle
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Bruce Russell
- Warrant Officer John Shepherd
- Leading Aircraftman Edgar James Stevens
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Rex Stewart
- Flying Officer John Strickland
- Flight Sergeant Harry Telford
- Sergeant William Henry Thornhill
- Sergeant Douglas Leslie Thornley
1944
- Pilot Officer Robert Howard Armstrong
- Flight Sergeant Edward Phillip Austin
- Flight Sergeant Rupert William Bergelin
- Flying Officer John William Brady
- Sergeant Ernest Campbell
- Air Corporal Jasper L. Coetzee
- Flying Officer Joseph Vincent Collingwood
- Flight Sergeant Robert Coward
- Sergeant Vincent Joseph Davoren
- Pilot Officer Thomas Arthur Ellison
- Flight Sergeant Allan Farmer
- Flight Sergeant Ian Hunter Fleming
- Corporal George Henry Frank
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Thomas Frankish
- Flying Officer Joseph (joe) Futoranski
- Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Lawrence Matthew Gillis
- Flight Sergeant George Theodore Hallam
- Sergeant James Ashworth Holding
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas John Hughes
- Pilot Officer Lloyd John Innes
- Flight Sergeant John Edmund Joseph Kelly
- Warrant Officer Class II Harry Joshua Lepper
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Bevan Llewellyn
- Flying Officer Douglas Wallace Maclean
- Warrant Officer James Fraser Maple
- Squadron Leader William Chester McGuffin
- Sergeant John Allan McKendry
- Aircraftman 1st Class Howard Herbert Delaine Mills
- Pilot Officer Peter John Felix Mitchell
- Flying Officer Robert Molloy
- Flight Sergeant Lorne Joseph Moore
- Warrant Officer Rae Latham Morris
- Flying Officer Norman Charles Muir
- Flying Officer Frank Edward Nelder
- Pilot Officer Edmund Neufeld
- Pilot Officer Robert Thomas Neville
- Warrant Officer John Philip
- Flying Officer Douglas Campbell Pole
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Hartley Richardson
- Pilot Officer Denis Richard Garth Richins
- Flying Officer Edward Berkley Rowell
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Harold Rowley
- Pilot Officer Roy Cecil Schlievert
- Pilot Officer Gerald Adams Simpson
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Sidney Smith
- Sergeant Desmond R. Smith
- Warrant Officer Wren Stobo
- Flight Sergeant Desmond John Taylor
- Warrant Officer John Richings Treloar
- Corporal Charles Ernest Turvey
- Pilot Officer Lloyd Allan Tweter
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Langley Wood
1945
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Henry Glister
- Flight Sergeant Charles William Potter
- Sergeant William Alfred Rowe