On this day — 24 October
259 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 24 October during the Second World War.
1939
- Sergeant Reginald Austin Bigger
- Sergeant George Jonathan Burrell
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Charles Hyland
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander Bernard Bogle Macdonald
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Alfred Topham
- Pilot Officer Philip Edwin William Walker
1940
- Sergeant Alexander Whyte Campbell
- Flight Lieutenant Eugene George Frederick Chivers
- Pilot Officer Frederick Bernard Cleak
- Pilot Officer Herbert Martin Coombs
- Sergeant William (bill) Cosgrove
- Sergeant Francis William Davis
- Pilot Officer William John Finlayson
- Sergeant Jack Gibbs
- Sergeant William Grice Hitchmough
- Sergeant Alan Joseph Hughes
- Sergeant Frank Hutson
- Sergeant Raymond Wallace James
- Pilot Officer Dudley Trevor Jay
- Sergeant Henry Knowles
- Sergeant John Bretland McConnell
- Flight Lieutenant Nigel Brook Mole
- Pilot Officer Thomas Russell Murfitt
- Pilot Officer Rex Martyn Sanderson
- Sergeant Ian Cowie Scoular
- Sergeant John Edward Redmond Sharvin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jack Shea
- Sergeant Douglas Albert James Smith
- Sergeant Donald Raymond Stoodley
- Sergeant Reginald William Bryant White
1941
- Flying Officer William Arthur Frederick Alderton
- Sergeant Ronald Henry Atkinson
- Sergeant Frederick Arthur Axe
- Sergeant Peter Hastings Bell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Edward Blake
- Sergeant Reginald Hermon Brickett
- Flight Lieutenant David Adye Buchan
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Frederick Bundey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Jeffrey Campbell
- Sergeant William Royal Crowther
- Sergeant Ross Walker Davidson
- Sergeant Charles Reginald Eastman
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Douglas Herbert Edworthy
- Sergeant Allan Ian Wilson Fairbairn
- Flight Sergeant John Robert France
- Sergeant Richard Elwyd French
- Flight Lieutenant Derek Ian Graham
- Sergeant Alfred Charles Hayter
- Sergeant Edward Walter Hewitt
- Sergeant James Cornelius Hill
- Aircraftman 1st Class Wilson Aubrey Hodges
- Sergeant Kenneth Amory Holmes
- Sergeant Robert Jackson
- Corporal James Henry Jones
- Sergeant Robert Charles Dillon Jones
- Sergeant Harold Christopher King
- Sergeant Alexander Turner Laing
- Sergeant Geoffrey Norman Leadley
- Sergeant Thomas Leo Leighton
- Flight Sergeant Charles Eric Levitt
- Sergeant William Frank Whittington Lewis
- Sergeant Mervyn Henry Morgan
- Sergeant Bruce Warren Nicholls
- Flight Sergeant Arthur John Page
- Sergeant James Douglas Paine
- Corporal Jack Bracewell Robinson
- Sergeant Christopher Keith Rutt
- Sergeant Eric Wilfrid Sherwood
- Sergeant Samuel Slater
- Sergeant Fred Chadwick Stephenson
- Sergeant Arthur Stringer
- Sergeant William Douglas Stuart
- Leading Aircraftman Edward James Perry (tony) Tapper
- Sergeant Leslie Henry Thackwell
- Sergeant Donald Roy Thompson
- Sergeant Patrick Godfrey Thompson
- Sergeant Peter Desmond Thompson
- Sergeant Charles Herbert Webb
- Sergeant Hugh Weir
- Sergeant Clarence Edmund Wheeler
- Sergeant Douglas Albert Woodman
1942
- Sergeant Frank Adey
- Sergeant Frederick George Allen
- Sergeant Derek Dundonald Audley
- Flight Sergeant Leonard John Bailey
- Sergeant Leonard Joseph Barnard
- Warrant Officer Class II Wilbert Francis Bauer
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Philippe Bedard
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Bednal
- Sergeant Lionel Horace Bell
- Sergeant William Bell
- Sergeant John Rutledge Bertram
- Sergeant John Beveridge
- Lieutenant Percival Henry Bingham
- Flight Sergeant Norman Birch
- Sergeant Arthur Bird
- Sergeant Reginald Alfred Blake
- Sergeant Douglas Joseph Bowden
- Warrant Officer Oswald Robert Bowerman
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Paul Albert Boyer
- Flying Officer William George Bradshaw
- Lieutenant Thomas Cecil McDonald Browning
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Reginald Bullen
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Henry Campbell
- Sergeant George James Chambers
- Sergeant William Clifford Colwill
- Sergeant Russell Lloyd Cumberland
- Sergeant Henry Arnold Dalzell
- Flight Sergeant Richard Desmond Dangerfield
- Pilot Officer John Lavery Davidson
- Lieutenant Anthony Erasmus
- Sergeant John St. K. Bernard Fern
- Sergeant Wilfred John Ferris
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Braid Fordyce
- Sergeant Gilbert Gordon Fraser
- Sergeant John James Glendinning
- Flight Sergeant John Leslie Goulter
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur James Graham
- Sergeant James Gray
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Green
- Sergeant Stanley Alfred Gregg
- Sergeant Bertram S. W. Grieve
- Flying Officer William Caldwell Hamilton
- Sergeant Arthur Francis Heffernan
- Corporal Wilfred Francis Hibbard
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Rex Higgott
- Leading Aircraftman John Holden
- Sergeant Ernest Edward Charles Holmes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Robert Holmes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Norris John Humphreys
- Sergeant Albert John Victor Hunt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Edward Johnson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Montague Lambert
- Flight Sergeant Raymond George Lawrence
- Flying Officer David George Walpole Leake
- Sergeant Alan Mahoney
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Nathaniel Mains
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Mason
- Flight Sergeant John Francis McCallum
- Sergeant Albert Ernest Messer
- Flying Officer John Thomas Norie Miles
- Flying Officer John Morris
- Pilot Officer William Henry Ingham Myers
- Lieutenant Brian Nichols
- Sergeant Leslie Nockels
- Sergeant James Temple Philpot
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Kilvington Potter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Charlton Prince
- Corporal Donald Morrison Pyne
- Flying Officer Frank Kinder Randall
- Flight Sergeant William Stanley Rausch
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Rhoden
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Arthur Rickey
- Lieutenant Hamilton Hubert Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Douglas Gowshall Roberts
- Sergeant Raymond Harold Saunders
- Sergeant Walter Scott
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Marc Seguin
- Sergeant Norman Holland Simms
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Ludovic Rodolphe Simoneau
- Flight Sergeant Adolph Antonio Siwak
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John William Thomas Skinner
- Sergeant Herbert Blatch Smith
- Sergeant Graham Ballantine Steele
- Flight Sergeant Donald Theodore Taylor
- Sergeant Joseph Gordon Taylor
- Sergeant Sidney Frederick Taylor
- Flying Officer Denis Frank Teague
- Flying Officer Walter McNaught Thompson
- Pilot Officer James Mulford Townsend
- Sergeant Walter John Wakelin
- Sergeant Robert Joseph Wallis
- Sergeant Eric Walton
- Sergeant Walter George Woodhouse
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Ritelli Wright
1943
- Leading Aircraftman John Jeffery Andre
- Warrant Officer Graham Nelson Banks
- Sergeant William John Barber
- Sergeant Sidney William Bridgman
- Flight Sergeant James Brock
- Sergeant Eric John Brown
- Squadron Leader Eric William Brown
- Sergeant John Geoffrey Stewart Browne
- Pilot Officer Douglas James Bullock
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Arthur James Clements
- Squadron Leader Leslie Frank Cooper
- Corporal Joseph Darwin
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Davis
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Andre Deschamps
- Flight Sergeant Patton Mason East
- Sergeant Edward Henry Edmonds
- Flight Sergeant Alec Grieve Emery
- Sergeant Joseph Evans
- Pilot Officer Donald McPherson Forbes
- Flying Officer John Henry Leslie German
- Flying Officer Ivor Michael Godby
- Squadron Leader Arthur Vincent Gowers
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Arthur Hackshaw
- Sergeant John Gerald Hagan
- Sergeant Carl Harlington
- Pilot Officer George Leslie Lachlan Hay
- Flight Sergeant Noel Keith Preston Hickson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Robert (bob) Hunt
- Warrant Officer Francis William Hutchinson
- Sergeant Frederick Thomas Alfred Jarvis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Leslie Jones
- Sergeant David Kirkwood
- Pilot Officer Charles Francis Knapp
- Sergeant John Horace Leach
- Warrant Officer Robert Hugh Livingstone
- Pilot Officer George Denis Mason
- Flying Officer Paul Thomas Richard Mercer
- Sergeant William Raymond Myhill
- Flight Sergeant Lyndsay Thomas Newton
- Flying Officer Martin Palmer Northmore
- Sergeant Sydney Westall Parr
- Flight Sergeant James Hansen Paterson
- Flying Officer John Maxwell Randall
- Flight Sergeant James Robert Randle
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Noel Ryder Raston
- Flying Officer Gerald Edmond Rawson
- Flight Sergeant Edgar George Reading
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Albert Hardie Richards
- Sergeant Alexander Robertson
- Flight Sergeant James Charles Richmond Robertson
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Aaron Simmons
- Sergeant Charles Denis Sims
- Leading Aircraftman Harold William Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Herbert John Southwood
- Flight Sergeant Douglas John Warner
- Sergeant Steve Wasylyke
- Flying Officer Arthur George Witt
- Flight Sergeant John Michael Wood
- Corporal Frederick Charles Harry Worsdell
1944
- Flying Officer Ross William Clarke
- Flight Sergeant H. Ernest Doonan
- Pilot Officer Selwyn John Down
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Ernest William Fox
- Flight Lieutenant Paul Langston
- Flight Lieutenant Maurice Henry Pinches
- Lieutenant Rachmann
- Captain Rochford
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie William (bill) Rookley
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Otto Schneider
- Warrant Officer Class II John Herman Soper
- Flying Officer Charles Wilfred Tetroe
- Flying Officer Archie Dareld Ulry
- Pilot Officer Charlie Reginald Verrier
- Leading Aircraftman Arnold Ward
- Pilot Officer William Henry Wright
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur John Davies
- Corporal Robert Leonard Jewson
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond George Lunn
- Flight Sergeant Wallace