On this day — 17 November
161 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 November during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Alexander Buckley
- Flight Lieutenant Gilbert Frederick Clay
- Sergeant Bernard Henson
- Leading Aircraftman Hollis Eugene Howard
- Sergeant Frederick Roy Jervis
- Flight Lieutenant John Gordon Richardson
- Pilot Officer Frank Albert Toombs
- Sergeant James Beaumont White
1941
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Aho
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roland Horace Bellamy
- Pilot Officer Archibald William Black
- Flight Sergeant Robert William Chubb
- Sergeant Mark Radford Cuke
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Thomas Darby
- Sergeant Raymond Frederick Charles Dean
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Langdon Ellis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Ewen
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Thomson Ferrier
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Murray Thomas Forster
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Hartley
- Leading Aircraftman Richard David Hiles
- Flight Sergeant Brian Leslie Jenkins
- Sergeant Joseph John Lammin
- Pilot Officer Donald Sunman Martin
- Sergeant John Henry Pott
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Alexander Tait
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Taylor
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Seymour Wilson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Peter Wright
1942
- Sergeant Arthur Albert Adolph
- Sergeant George Victor Andrews
- Sergeant Jack De-la-war Anstruther
- Flying Officer George Harry Berry
- Flight Sergeant Harold Joseph Beswick
- Flying Officer Thomas Robert Brownfield
- Sergeant Ivor Pestell Bygrave
- Sergeant Robert Joseph Cavanaugh
- Sergeant Richard John Cheyne
- Warrant Officer Robert Douglas Clarke
- Flying Officer Eric Gordon Clegg
- Sergeant Arthur John Dolding
- Corporal John Henry Cameron Embury
- Flying Officer Leonard John Fairbairn
- Leading Aircraftman David Clifford Finch
- Leading Aircraftman Wilfred William John Foot
- Sergeant Ian Waldock Garside
- Sergeant Harold Leonard Francis Goggin
- Sergeant Richard Barton Greensmith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Donald Reginald Harold Guest
- Flying Officer Francis Seymour Haden
- Sergeant Frederick Edward Hewitt
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Ives
- Sergeant George Johnson
- Flying Officer Charles William Kaye
- Flying Officer Hyme Landau
- Sergeant William Leadbetter
- Flying Officer John Keith Matthews
- Flight Sergeant Roderick Kenneth Mead
- Sergeant Cecil John Murray
- Sergeant Alan Francis Musgrave
- Flight Sergeant Edward Ranald Newson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cornelius Patrick O'Sullivan
- Sergeant Richard Edward William Page
- Flying Officer George Pepper
- Sergeant Benjamin Pickering
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Hubert Richards
- Wing Commander Douglas Carson Riding
- Leading Aircraftman David Nicol Robb
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Robert Denham Rodwell
- Sergeant Victor George Rowen
- Squadron Leader Paul De Grey Horatio Seymour
- Sergeant James Maden Sutcliffe
- Pilot Officer William Roderick Taylor
- Warrant Officer Robert Thompson
- Pilot Officer Joseph Henry Toone
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Tudor-jones
- Flying Officer John William Upward
- Leading Air Mechanic Vorster
- Air Mechanic Wait
- Sergeant Jack Walder
- Sergeant Ronald James Walker
- Flying Officer Frank Watson Wildy
- Pilot Officer Evelyn Creen Stuart Wilson-steele
1943
- Flying Officer Terence Norman Alderdice
- Flight Sergeant Jack Shaw Alexander
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Allibone
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Carl Behrndt
- Sergeant John William Bradshaw
- Sergeant Francis Brady
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Thomas Brooking
- Flying Officer Kenneth Chapman
- Sergeant Kelvin Coghill
- Sergeant Leonard Walter Coleman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert James Condon
- Sergeant George Walter William Crick
- Sergeant Richard Curnow
- Flying Officer Alexander Frederick Davis
- Sergeant Douglas George Black Day
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Paul Henri Dube
- Flying Officer William Graham Lloyd Duhr
- Sergeant Peter Geoffrey Edyvean-walker
- Sergeant John Blackburn Errington
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Fairhurst
- Pilot Officer John Fenner
- Corporal Reginald William Mully Francis
- Pilot Officer Clarence Furzer
- Sergeant David Hastings Hall
- Flying Officer Allen George Hartwig
- Warrant Officer Herbert John Hicks
- Sergeant Ivan Henry Hill
- Flying Officer James Harper Greig Horne
- Corporal Grahame Jones
- Flight Sergeant John Trevor Reid Jones
- Leading Aircraftman James Cecil Keech
- Flight Sergeant Henry Edward Knights
- Pilot Officer Richard Henry Larson
- Flight Sergeant Charles Harry Stringer Leggo
- Flight Sergeant Graham Vickers Berkeley Lloyd
- Flying Officer Norman Earl Long
- Pilot Officer Gordon Thomas Lowe
- Flying Officer John Douglas Maddex
- Warrant Officer Ernest Merralls
- Flying Officer Harold Mitchell
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Murray Moore
- Pilot Officer Robert Douglas Mutch
- Sergeant Roy Arthur Nichols
- Flight Sergeant William Herbert Oakley
- Warrant Officer Class I John Brian De Courcy O'Grady
- Flight Sergeant Gordon John Partridge
- Lieutenant Paton
- Sergeant Alexander Bernard Pilbeam
- Pilot Officer Leonard Plishka
- Leading Aircraftman Wilfred Glen Potter
- Pilot Officer Sanford Bruce Schatz
- Flight Sergeant James Denis Sheeran
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Peter Simmonds
- Pilot Officer Arnold Galloway Simpson
- Sergeant Frederick Jasper Smith
- Sergeant Louis John Solomons
- Sergeant Philip Stanton
- Air Corporal Adam Ronald Tawse
- Sergeant Thomas Thomson
- Sergeant Edwin Florence Uren
- Pilot Officer Michael Hilary Watson
- Flying Officer William Stuart Wilson
- Sergeant James Wood
1944
- Lieutenant Bosch
- Warrant Officer Class I William Harold Cyples
- Wing Commander Hilson Christopher Newton Daly
- Warrant Officer Ian Griffiths Hardy
- Corporal Edward Leckey
- Lieutenant Leonard McDermot
- Flight Sergeant Robert Learmonth Melville
- Flight Sergeant David Jerome Spence
- Sergeant Harry Arthur Stock