On this day — 12 December
228 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 12 December during the Second World War.
1939
- Pilot Officer Michael Fortnum
- Pilot Officer Patrick Constable Fraser
- Pilot Officer Maxtone Eric Gibson Mailer
1940
- Pilot Officer Ronald George Ash
- Sergeant Kenneth Aldred Baldry
- Flying Officer Allan Walter Naylor Britton
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Robert John Clatworthy
- Sergeant Gilbert Alan Collins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Roy Dalton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James George Forbes
- Pilot Officer William Henry Franklin
- Pilot Officer Vincent Dennis Fry
- Sergeant Geoffrey William Hartland
- Sergeant Merrik Hubert Eric Hine
- Leading Aircraftman Clayton Peder Hopton
- Sergeant Tom Osborn Liggins
- Leading Aircraftman Roderick George Lyall Mackenzie
- Pilot Officer Kenneth John Marston
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Crossan McDonald
- Leading Air Mechanic Moore
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Morton
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Richard Phillips
- Sergeant Harry Leonard Ralls
- Sergeant Laurence William Scott
- Sergeant Jack Swain
- Pilot Officer Patrick Cullimore Traill-smith
- Sergeant Robert Winterbottom
- Pilot Officer Basil Baxter Witty
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman John Abdee
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Harold Anderson
- Pilot Officer William Francis Avery
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Clinkskill Bailey
- Sergeant James Snelgrove Bird
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Corliss Black
- Sergeant Alan Cameron Bone
- Sergeant Samuel Royden Bottomley
- Sergeant Maurice Frank James Boulton
- Sergeant Derrick Augustus Brunton
- Sergeant Tom Brunyee
- Second Lieutenant Roy Inglis Burrage
- Second Lieutenant William George Carthew
- Air Sergeant Chalmers
- Sergeant Kenneth Connell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Bernard Douglas Crisp
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Victor Crowhurst
- Pilot Officer Albert George Day
- Air Sergeant De Klerk
- Sergeant William John Dillon
- Sergeant Noel Gibson Sterling Drummond
- Sergeant John Evans
- Major Fisher
- Major Fowler
- Flying Officer John Anthony Galvin
- Lieutenant Goldfoot
- Sergeant Bertie Gray
- Sergeant Leonard Griffiths
- Sergeant Graham Melville Hart
- Sergeant Ernest Leslie Harvey
- Air Sergeant Jacobus Johannes Hattingh
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Le Roy Holder
- Sergeant Eric Charles Hoskin
- Sergeant William Earl Houston
- Sergeant Ernest Philip Jackson
- Flying Officer Robert James Daniel Jeffries
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Arthur Lowry
- Pilot Officer Arthur Climie Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant David Martin
- Sergeant Donald Robert McCullough
- Pilot Officer James McLaren
- Leading Aircraftman Charles William Mitchell
- Flying Officer William Geoffrey Monkhouse
- Sergeant Robert Tudor Morris
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Harry Morton
- Pilot Officer John Hunter Murchie
- Sergeant Frank Norman
- Lieutenant Michael Adrian Oberholzer
- Lieutenant Trevor Lloyd Parry
- Lieutenant Walter Gillons Parsons
- Air Sergeant John Edwart Phelps
- Lieutenant Lewis O. B. Player
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Kenneth Pollard
- Sergeant Leonard Lucas Purves
- Sergeant Robert Terrington Quilter
- Air Sergeant Radomsky
- Sergeant Robson-scott
- Sergeant Robert Smith
- Second Lieutenant Cedric N. Summersgill
- Pilot Officer Frederick Charles Taylor
- Pilot Officer Christopher Thomas
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Leonard Thompson
- Flying Officer Allan Willson Troup
- Air Sergeant Viljoen
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Dudley Webber
1942
- Flight Sergeant Frank Allen
- Flying Officer Joseph Ash
- Squadron Leader Glyn Ashfield
- Flying Officer Douglas Martin Barnes
- Flying Officer Douglas David Beale
- Leading Aircraftman Gomer Couture Bellerive
- Flight Sergeant Richard Manning Birdsall
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Earl Burton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Vincent Callery
- Flight Sergeant Wilfrid Stanley Townsend Carter
- Sergeant William Harry Casson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Benjamin Chapman
- Flight Lieutenant William Templeton Christie
- Flight Sergeant Darwin Jackson Clark
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Robert Cook
- Corporal Roy Henry Corner
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey William Cox
- Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Leland Croll
- Squadron Leader Kirkwood Dundee Currie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Edmund Cusack
- Air Mechanic Dance
- Sergeant Ivor Bowen Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Fred Charles Dowding
- Flying Officer D'Arcy Clive Melville Ducker
- Flying Officer Bertram William Glickman
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Lambert Grant
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey William Harrison
- Flight Lieutenant Colin Roy Hewlett
- Flying Officer William Archibald Hinselwood
- Sergeant Cecil Graham George Hobson
- Leading Aircraftman Lester Elwood Hoggard
- Sergeant Wallace Leslie Ibbotson
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Ardies Johnston
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Anthon Langley
- Sergeant Robert Balfour Lapsley
- Leading Aircraftman James Allison Lawrence
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Alphonse Irenee Roland Legris
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph George Ambroise Lepine
- Sergeant Richard Leslie Lines
- Pilot Officer Eric Crowe Loughead
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Norman Macleod
- Sergeant Albert Mannering
- Flight Sergeant Edward Henry McConnell-taylor
- Sergeant John Allen McPhee
- Sergeant Gerald John Morgan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stuart Clugston Murray
- Sergeant Basil Norris
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Francois Rene Aurele Ouellet
- Flying Officer Stewart William Pearce
- Sergeant Horace Ralphs
- Flight Sergeant John Peter Robinson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Joseph Sawada
- Sergeant Blake Francis Scott
- Sergeant Robert Patrick Stannard
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph George Sturgeon
- Sergeant Arnold Tanswell
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Ward
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Durbar Watson
- Flying Officer Clifford Wood
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Neville Wood
- Sergeant Carl Robert Woolley
1943
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Herbert Barlow
- Flying Officer Ernest Bartholomew
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Joseph Bell
- Flying Officer Michael Bentley
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Beukema
- Lieutenant Chadwick
- Flying Officer Kenneth Sidney Ewins
- Lieutenant Forrest
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Vincent Grieveson
- Lieutenant Heher
- Warrant Officer Harold Hutchins
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Glyndwr Jones
- Pilot Officer William David King
- Pilot Officer Frederick Charles McCrae
- Lieutenant Murray
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Roch Victor Pierre Normandin
- Flight Sergeant Albert Cyril Lauin Phillips
- Flying Officer John Douglass Phillips
- Flight Sergeant Bohuslav Prihoda
- Flying Officer Benjamin Frank Reynolds
- Squadron Leader Colin Robertson
- Flying Officer John Mansell Tabor Sanctuary
- Flying Officer Robert John Scott
- Sergeant Henry Alan Sheppard
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Daniel Thomas
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Arthur Tucker
- Sergeant Robert Roy Webb
- Leading Aircraftman Ivan Astbury Young
1944
- Flying Officer George Richard Barry
- Flying Officer Stanley James Bethel
- Flying Officer Ernest Henry Brautigam
- Warrant Officer Glyn Norman Bury
- Pilot Officer Kerry Gavan Byrnes
- Squadron Leader James Clark
- Flying Officer Leonard John Draheim
- Flying Officer Philip Edwin Edwards
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Sinclair Ellis
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Grantley George
- Sergeant Gordon Grant Goehring
- Flight Sergeant Mark Goldwater
- Flight Lieutenant Bertram Edward William Hall
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Martin Herapath
- Flying Officer Arthur Alexander Kennedy
- Flight Sergeant Reginald John Ketley-rolph
- Flight Sergeant David Levine
- Sergeant Neville Alfred L'Green
- Pilot Officer Gerald Lawrence Lister
- Flight Sergeant Murray William McCallum
- Sergeant Allan Fairbairn McMurtry
- Pilot Officer Robert McAuly Murray
- Flight Lieutenant Oscar Henry Oden
- Sergeant John Sven Overland
- Flying Officer Bruce Alexander Parker
- Pilot Officer John Richard Patterson
- Flight Sergeant William James Alexander Penney
- Flight Sergeant James Harold Preece
- Flying Officer Brian Clapham Reid
- Pilot Officer Robert Edward Roberts
- Flying Officer Robert Tait Roth
- Flying Officer John Maxwell Scott
- Sergeant Raymond Charles Starkey
- Pilot Officer Victor Stuckey
- Flying Officer Reginald Clive Veitch
- Flight Sergeant Dudley Wham
- Sergeant Frank Willmek
- Flight Sergeant Prince Edward Gooderham Yates
1945
- Flying Officer John Brian Hartland
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Brendon McGuiness
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth George McKenzie
1946
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Athol Mervyn Mansfield Austin
- Flight Sergeant John Willis Foster
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Leonard Sims
- Leading Aircraftman David Ernest Westlake