On this day — 15 December
163 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 15 December during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Charles Alexander
- Sergeant Kenneth Gordon Allardice
- Sergeant Joseph Beattie
- Sergeant John Erik Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Dowling Clarke
- Sergeant John Alfred Clemett
- Sergeant Walter Frederick Dennis
- Sergeant Alfred Russell Fox
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Thomas Hannah
- Sergeant Alan Sedgley
- Pilot Officer Neil Anzac Svenson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Bernard James Trewin
- Sergeant Edward Frank Wilson
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert William Adams
- Pilot Officer Leonard William Almquist
- Sergeant Gordon Herbert Andrews
- Sergeant Edward William Armer
- Pilot Officer James Alexander Bitcon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Albert Blakely
- Sergeant Dennis James Dempsey
- Sergeant Douglas Arthur Ferguson
- Pilot Officer Percy George Ford
- Sergeant Cyril Charles Gibson
- Sergeant Harold Bryan Livingston Gittins
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Gould
- Sergeant Basil Leonard Grove-palmer
- Sergeant John Cunningham Gunn
- Aircraftman 1st Class Isaac Hackett
- Sergeant Philip David Harrison
- Sergeant Claude Malcolm Waring Howard
- Sergeant Brinley Howells
- Sergeant George Hunniford
- Flight Lieutenant Colin Gordon Imlay
- Sergeant Keith Robertson Jack
- Sergeant Stanley Peter Kurek
- Flying Officer Kenneth Ernest Langley
- Sergeant Peter Norman Lister
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Maxwell Lloyd
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Clark Macdougall
- Pilot Officer Alexander John Macfarlane
- Sergeant William Armour Magrath
- Lieutenant George McCrudden
- Sergeant Russell Tremaine Mitchell
- Sergeant William Reginald Myles
- Sergeant William Oates
- Flight Sergeant Peter Griffin Pearce
- Sergeant Bernard Poupard
- Sergeant Derrick Ellis Prior
- Sergeant John Percival Ranger
- Leading Aircraftman William Dennis Riley
- Sergeant Patrick Redmond Roach
- Sergeant Albert Leonard Sanderson
- Sergeant Eric William Sterling
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Playne Stevens
- Sergeant Dennis Alfred Gilbert (den) Sullivan
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Lloyd Thompson
- Sergeant John Charles Tomlin
- Sergeant Wilfred Turley
- Sergeant John Leslie Vaughan
- Pilot Officer Louis George William Volzke
- Leading Aircraftman William Joseph Werner
- Sergeant Frederick Alexander White
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Roy Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Collard Willis
- Pilot Officer Richard Wood
- Sergeant William John Young
1942
- Flying Officer Henry Desmond Fitzmaurice Amor
- Flying Officer Albert William Middleton Anderson-parfett
- Flight Sergeant William Caverhill Cameron
- Sergeant George Stewart Crossan
- Sergeant Raymond Culshaw
- Flight Sergeant Leslie James Felton
- Pilot Officer William Easton Foot
- Sergeant Thomas Gallagher
- Sergeant Albert George Henry Gapes
- Sergeant Harold William Gunn
- Flight Sergeant George Hamilton
- Flight Sergeant William Robert Hawthorne
- Flight Sergeant Alan John Hayter
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Gordon Ide
- Sergeant Arthur Rupert Itzerott
- Flying Officer Edward Norman Jackson
- Flying Officer Frank Tempest Keeping
- Flying Officer Donald Beviss Kerr
- Warrant Officer Class II Giles James Daniel Kerswill
- Flight Lieutenant Bliss Dunfield King
- Flight Sergeant Peter Donald Mace
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Maclean
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Robert McCallum
- Sergeant William Henry McCammond
- Pilot Officer Patrick Francis McDermott
- Flight Sergeant John Richard Graham McFarland
- Pilot Officer William George Milne
- Second Lieutenant David Mitchell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sydney Maurice Nethaway
- Corporal James Leslie Parker
- Squadron Leader William Allan Pedrina
- Pilot Officer Edward Hewitt Petley
- Leading Aircraftman William George Thomas Pottle
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William John Prince
- Sergeant Dennis Sowden Procter
- Flight Sergeant Richard Alan Rollins
- Sergeant James Ryan
- Sergeant Robert James Abadore Shaw
- Sergeant Arthur George Shum
- Flight Sergeant Arthur James Skirten
- Air Mechanic Steere
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert William Stewart
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Charles Stratford
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Eric Street
- Sergeant Leonard Keith Tempest
- Flying Officer John Brian Thornton
- Second Lieutenant Toombs
- Leading Aircraftman Derick George Turner
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Harvey Walker
- Corporal Hugh Rowland Watkinson
- Flight Sergeant Louis Gilbert Watson
- Lieutenant Weeks
- Sergeant Arthur Grosvenor Eric Wilson
1943
- Sergeant Herbert Keith Burleigh
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Albert Carter
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Sidney Davies
- Flying Officer Walter Houghton Davies
- Leading Aircraftman David Allen Evans
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Neville Floyd
- Flight Sergeant Donald Cockburn Grant
- Flying Officer Arthur Julian Greatrex
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Hayes
- Warrant Officer Class II Wallace David Kearney
- Flight Lieutenant David William Metherell
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Henry Monk
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Leonard Ready
- Flying Officer Charles Gordon Richards
- Flying Officer John Corry Robertson
- Leading Aircraftman Charles James Rowbotham
- Sergeant Graham Frederick Simpkin
- Flight Sergeant Stephen George Thomas
- Pilot Officer Wilfred Edward Bolton Turner
- Flight Sergeant Frank Robert Tuxill
1944
- Corporal Robert Emerson Bruce
- Flying Officer Cecil Alexander Dickson
- Flying Officer Alec Otley Ellis
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Lundy Flynn
- Flight Lieutenant Horace Brougham Hillcoat
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Blair La Brish
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Albert Lambert
- Leading Aircraftman Ivor Douglas Marshall
- Flying Officer Eric William McCann
- Warrant Officer John Norman Messenger
- Flight Lieutenant William Stewart Pullar
- Flight Lieutenant Alfred John De Laune Ruttledge
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Haig Sharpe
- Leading Aircraftman Earl Lewis Townsend
- Flight Lieutenant Clifton Webbe Verran
- Flight Lieutenant William Laurel Wilson