On this day — 23 November
346 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 23 November during the Second World War.
1939
- Corporal Archibald McDonald Henderson
- Pilot Officer Oliver Carlisle Hume
- Corporal Thomas Alexander Keating
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Gerald Kelly
- Leading Aircraftman George Thomas Landing
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie McGarvie
- Pilot Officer Robert John Ohlmeyer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Leslie Talbot
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Taylor
- Squadron Leader P. McGregor Watt
1940
- Pilot Officer Jack Cornelius Emil Beelaerts Van Blokland
- Sergeant Robert Charles Bishop
- Sergeant Harold Wignell Brook
- Corporal James Sharp Cameron
- Sergeant Lawrence Samuel Carvil
- Sergeant Stanley Charles Chester
- Aircraftman 1st Class Geoffrey Leonard Clarke
- Leading Aircraftman Vincent Edwin Dawes
- Corporal Rupert Charles Connaught French
- Sergeant Samuel Goldberg
- Sergeant Alfred Hyam
- Aircraftman 1st Class Geoffrey Frank Lidgerwood
- Pilot Officer Edward Robert Matheson Pears
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Sole
- Sergeant Albert Edward Taylor
- Sergeant Frederick Edgar Wellington
- Flight Sergeant Donald Fieldon Whitaker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Rhys Williams
- Sergeant John Cary Woodcock
1941
- Sergeant Frank Armitage
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Baker
- Corporal Robert Breeze
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Joseph Burke
- Flight Lieutenant George Christopher Challis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Cross
- Lieutenant Paul Aroma Du Plessis
- Sergeant Douglas Fleming
- Flight Sergeant George Noile Fullerton
- Flight Lieutenant Roger Arnold Henderson
- Corporal Bernard Frederick Holder
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Major Johnson
- Sergeant Ross Alexander Mackay
- Flight Sergeant Russell Hamilton Macmillan
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry McMillan
- Pilot Officer William Grenbry Rentoul Outhwaite
- Flight Sergeant Donald Moir Palethorpe
- Sergeant Kenneth George Parker
- Sergeant Douglas William Pike
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Riley
- Flying Officer Ralph Edward Sellar
- Sergeant Walter Shearsby
- Sergeant John Short
- Corporal Jack Herbert Stephens
- Pilot Officer John Roger Stideford
- Flying Officer John Edward Sulman
- Pilot Officer David Carl Taylor
- Squadron Leader Murray James Tully
- Leading Aircraftman George Henry Webb
- Sergeant George Hammond Willis
- Sergeant Douglas Anthony Wither
1942
- Sergeant Richard William Andrews
- Flying Officer David John Appleton
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Rodham Armstrong
- Warrant Officer Harry Albert Artis
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas John Blundell
- Flying Officer Elwood Maurice William Bolton
- Flying Officer William Richardson Bower
- Sergeant Thomas William Brock
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick George Brookes
- Pilot Officer Douglas Frederick Button
- Leading Aircraftman John Patterson Campbell
- Sergeant Thomas William Catchpole
- Sergeant Ernest Cookson
- Sergeant Herbert James Everett
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Filmore
- Flying Officer Edmond David Fleishman
- Leading Aircraftman Claude Powell Fotheringham
- Flight Sergeant Austin Herbert Dickson Gardiner
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Giles
- Pilot Officer Richard Owen Gray
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Llewelyn Harrison
- Sergeant George Richardson Haugh
- Flight Sergeant John Alistair Hey
- Corporal Ralph Howard Hilchie
- Second Lieutenant Hopper
- Flight Lieutenant Carl Lee Johnson
- Sergeant Cyril Raphael Kenzie
- Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Edgar Mathews
- Flying Officer John Owen Mathias
- Sergeant Herbert Metcalf
- Flight Sergeant John Herbert Miller
- Sergeant Harry Moxon
- Sergeant Walter Kenneth Drummond Page
- Warrant Officer Class II Douglas Leroy Rawson
- Sergeant Frank Alfred Sinclair
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Henry Snoxell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert William South
- Pilot Officer Lynn Thomas
- Warrant Officer Class II John George Ross Tough
- Flying Officer Douglas Truscott
- Sergeant Thomas Wallace
- Sergeant Edward Ashton Waters
- Sergeant Ralph Edward Webb
- Sergeant Thomas Cecil Westwood
- Sergeant Charles Anthony Weymouth
- Sergeant Hugh Garth Williams
- Flying Officer Peter McKenzie Willis
- Pilot Officer Stanley Ryder Young
1943
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Buchanan Aberle
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Adams
- Flying Officer George Ainsworth
- Sergeant Donald Paget Aitken
- Sergeant Eric Ambrose
- Pilot Officer William Anderson
- Sergeant George Edward Apps
- Flying Officer Irving Armitage
- Sergeant Roland Atkins
- Sergeant Frederick Atkinson
- Flight Sergeant George Addison Atkinson
- Sergeant Arnold William Henry Atyeo
- Sergeant Richard Ernest Charles Bacon
- Flight Sergeant Ross Gordon Norman Barber
- Flight Sergeant John Beebe
- Flying Officer Charles Henry Bell
- Sergeant John Bell
- Sergeant Thomas Walter Blanc
- Flight Sergeant Thomas William Boynton
- Sergeant Alan Alfred Brandon
- Sergeant Peter Brdsky
- Sergeant Harry Brown
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Charles George Brown
- Flight Sergeant Roy Brown
- Pilot Officer William Buckel
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest Alfred Bunce
- Sergeant Cyril Burton
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Edward Burton-burgess
- Sergeant Gilbert Simpson Camm
- Sergeant Robert Allison Campbell
- Flight Lieutenant Dennis Edward Caudrey
- Sergeant Stanley Chadwick
- Sergeant Alfred George Chandler
- Squadron Leader Alexander Frederick Chisholm
- Pilot Officer John Clapperton
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Clark
- Leading Aircraftman George Gilbert Clarke
- Flight Sergeant William Edward Coates
- Sergeant William Collingwood
- Sergeant Leon Harvey Cooper
- Sergeant John Robert Cowen
- Flight Lieutenant John Percival Crebbin
- Flight Sergeant Noel Stuart Curtis
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey McDowall Curwood
- Flight Sergeant Stanley James Davis
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Rhodes Davis
- Sergeant Frank Ernest Deavin
- Pilot Officer Stanley George Dorrell
- Flight Sergeant Paul William Dries
- Sergeant Thomas Elliott
- Flight Sergeant Clive Thomas Blackburn Fail
- Sergeant Brian Harold Farndell
- Sergeant Richard Thomas Fathers
- Flying Officer Alfred Gerald Fleet
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon William Fordyce
- Sergeant James Forrest
- Pilot Officer Maurice Joseph Freeman
- Sergeant Peter Henry Fryer
- Sergeant Pavel Fuchs
- Sergeant Frank Anthony Fuller
- Sergeant David Gadsden
- Flight Lieutenant John James Gale
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Gardiner
- Sergeant John Gordon
- Sergeant Norman James Yates Goulding
- Sergeant James Graham
- Leading Aircraftman James Gregory
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas William Grizzell
- Flying Officer Albert Frederick Hague
- Flight Sergeant John Cranston Hamer
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Henry Hardy
- Sergeant Frank William Harris
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Laurence Hartman
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Vincent Harvey
- Sergeant John William Harvey
- Flight Sergeant Ian Angus Hastings
- Flying Officer Norman Alfred Hattersley
- Sergeant Gerald Hawgood
- Sergeant Walter Hazeldine
- Flight Sergeant Robert Malcolm Henderson
- Sergeant Jack Douglas Higson
- Leading Aircraftman Francis William Hiles
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Ellison Hill
- Sergeant Clifford Hill
- Wing Commander Raymond Hilton
- Sergeant John Hindley
- Flying Officer Charles Godfrey Hinton
- Sergeant Ronald Horace Hodges
- Sergeant Cyril Henry Hollingsworth
- Flight Sergeant Brian Edwin Hopkinson
- Sergeant James Alfred Henry Hough
- Pilot Officer Joseph Howe
- Sergeant Kenneth Frank Charles Imeson
- Sergeant Robert Inglis
- Pupil Pilot Herbert Irlam
- Sergeant Harold Jessup
- Sergeant George Johnson
- Flying Officer John David Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Johnston
- Flying Officer Charles Edwin Jones
- Sergeant Walter Espley Jones
- Flight Sergeant John Hall Jowett
- Warrant Officer Joseph Garnet Stewart Kavanaugh
- Pilot Officer Stanley Martin Kent
- Flight Sergeant Francis Peter King
- Flight Sergeant Eric Gordon Kirkland
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald William Knap
- Sergeant Sidney Knight
- Flying Officer Albert John Reginald Knights
- Sergeant Rupert Krupica
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Lang
- Flying Officer William John Lawrence
- Sergeant Ronald Ledsham
- Sergeant Peter Middleton Lees
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Keith Lefroy
- Sergeant Richard Wilson Lenton
- Sergeant Leonard James Lewis
- Sergeant William Eric Lloyd
- Flight Sergeant Donald Louthean
- Flight Sergeant Eric James Lovell
- Flying Officer Robert Haynes (ronnie) Macdonald
- Flying Officer Robert Edward Mair
- Sergeant George Heathcote Manley
- Pilot Officer James Marsden
- Sergeant Norman Martin
- Flight Lieutenant Roy Frank Martin
- Pilot Officer Arthur James Matthews
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Harvey McCarthy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas McDonnell
- Flying Officer Ernest Raymond Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Richard Sidney Mortham
- Flight Sergeant John Angus Earl Munroe
- Flight Sergeant Joseph William Muntz
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Myerscough
- Flying Officer Charles William Nunn
- Sergeant Gilbert John O'Brien
- Sergeant Cornelius O'Connor
- Flight Sergeant Robert John O'Connor
- Pilot Officer James Gilmour Odell
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick St. John Page
- Pilot Officer Maxwell Morley Patrick
- Flying Officer Herbert Clarence Pavitt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Webster Payne
- Sergeant Charles Harry Pell
- Sergeant James Harry Pepper
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Leonard Perrers
- Flight Sergeant Homer Ejner Petersen
- Sergeant David Elwyn Phillips
- Flight Sergeant Bertram John Pitman
- Sergeant Kenneth George Plummer
- Flight Sergeant John Gilbert Potter
- Sergeant William Edward Pyne
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Raine
- Flight Lieutenant Derek Edward Reay
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Eynon Rees
- Sergeant James Black Reilly
- Sergeant John Richardson
- Sergeant Frank James Robinson
- Sergeant Frank Weldon Robson
- Corporal Frank Rolfe
- Pilot Officer Walter Henry Rose
- Pilot Officer Frank Edward Gordon Salmon
- Warrant Officer John Harold Saxton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Francis Scott
- Pilot Officer Peter John Macintyre Scott
- Flying Officer Josef Simandl
- Sergeant George William Smith
- Sergeant John George Smith
- Sergeant Peter Ivan Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Guy Soulsby
- Sergeant Norman Gwynne Speight
- Sergeant Ernest Stabler
- Lieutenant William F. B. Standen
- Flying Officer Herbert Stewart
- Flight Lieutenant Herbert William Joseph Stewart
- Flight Sergeant James Stewart
- Flying Officer Mark Arthur Stokes
- Warrant Officer Miloslav Styblik
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Sweeney
- Sergeant Wilson Sykes
- Sergeant Basil Frank Taylor
- Sergeant John Taylor
- Sergeant Robert George Taylor
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Walter Theobald
- Sergeant Ronald Thorn
- Flight Sergeant George William Tindle
- Sergeant James Titterington
- Sergeant Hanus Tomek
- Flight Sergeant James Gordon Tomlinson
- Flight Sergeant Bertram George Tucker
- Sergeant Kenneth Vincent
- Flying Officer Eric Wade
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Arthur Ward
- Sergeant Christopher Watson
- Sergeant Arthur Douglas West
- Sergeant Walter Wharton
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Stanfield White
- Sergeant Graham White
- Pilot Officer John Freebairn White
- Flight Sergeant Alfred John Charles Williams
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Williams
- Sergeant Frederick George Williamson
- Sergeant John Rodger Wilson
- Sergeant Desmond George Woods
- Sergeant Gilbert George Worley
- Wing Commander Christopher Louis Yser Wright
- Pilot Officer Edric George Wright
- Warrant Officer Class II James Joseph Zunti
1944
- Sergeant John Harvey Millar Adam
- Wing Commander Arthur Buckle
- Wing Commander Charles Frederick Burt
- Flight Sergeant Calvert Philip Byrne
- Flying Officer Francis Royden Clarke
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Daniel
- Flying Officer John McHardy
- Flight Sergeant Norman Stanley McNeilly
- Flying Officer Harold Perry Nelson
- Lieutenant Oddie
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Anthony Palme
- Lieutenant Pitt
- Flight Sergeant Forbes Porter
- Flying Officer Charles James Preece
- Flight Sergeant Basil Thomas Rogers
- Flying Officer Herbert Moore Sheed
- Sergeant Keith Raymond Smithwick
- Flying Officer John Henry Sutcliffe
- Lieutenant Swart
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Eugene Walton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick White
- Flight Sergeant John William White
- Group Captain David Gabb Williams
1945
- Flying Officer Peter William Crawshay-fry
- Flight Lieutenant George Handley Pemberton
- Wing Commander Richard Douglas (dickie) Speare
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald John Tibbitts