On this day — 17 December
377 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 17 December during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer Peter Aveline Slaney Baker
- Sergeant Arthur Joseph Patrick Casey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Coulson
- Sergeant George Edward Cowan
- Pilot Officer John Cottrell Leonard Hanmer-strudwick
- Pilot Officer Harold Herbert Jordain Hobday
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Walter Harris Joseph
- Pilot Officer William Edward Laceby
- Leading Aircraftman John Gray Lemon
- Sergeant George Mennie Leslie
- Sergeant Douglas Archibald George Matthews
- Pilot Officer Frederick George Nightingale
- Sergeant John Ogilvie Paul
- Pilot Officer Edwin Reeve
- Sergeant Harrnet Richard Richardson
- Sergeant Edwin Samuel Rimes
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Terence Nicholas Scoltock
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred Shayes
- Wing Commander Stanley James Smetham
- Flight Sergeant William Alfred Sutcliffe
- Warrant Officer George Douglas Thom
- Sergeant James Henry Tiedeman
- Flying Officer Francis Adrian Walton
1941
- Flying Officer Peter Owen Denys Allcock
- Flight Sergeant William Armour
- Sergeant Alfred Thomas Baber
- Second Lieutenant J Macr Barclay
- Leading Aircraftman Duncan Ewart Breck
- Flying Officer Douglas Gardner Buchanan
- Flight Sergeant Percy Ernest Clark
- Sergeant Raymond Keith Cook
- Sergeant Hugh James Cross
- Pilot Officer Owen Charles Bellamy Crump
- Pilot Officer Henry Richard (dick) Cutten
- Sergeant William Arthur Fradley
- Flight Sergeant Claude Raisin Freeman
- Pilot Officer Victor Erwin Friesen
- Sergeant Arthur Gibbons
- Sergeant Kenneth Esler Hall
- Sergeant John George Henderson
- Corporal Stanley Ernest Hobbs
- Lieutenant Hojem
- Sergeant Walter Ward Hughes
- Sergeant Peter Patrick Hussey
- Pilot Officer Therald Lionel Kaschula
- Second Lieutenant Kearns
- Sergeant Lloyd Duncan Kippan
- Sergeant Reginald Kirkup
- Flight Sergeant Laurence James Kuhrt
- Pilot Officer Rainford Gent Marland
- Aircraftman 1st Class Fred Mason
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Hutchinson McClure
- Lieutenant O'Reilly
- Sergeant William Johnston Peggie
- Pilot Officer William Marcus Pepper
- Sergeant Jack Pickup
- Flying Officer Alexander Gordon Smith
- Flight Sergeant John Alvah Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Stow
- Sergeant James Leslie Sudders
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Torbett
- Sergeant Edward Wade
- Sergeant Eric Welch
- Sergeant Frederick Walter Wheeler
- Pilot Officer Brian Robert Snowden Williams
1942
- Sergeant Colin Frederick Allen
- Flying Officer Gordon Dyson Armstrong
- Sergeant Eric Lumley Durham Ashwin
- Warrant Officer Trevor Horace Bagnall
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Guthrie Shields Bain
- Corporal John Vaughan Barraclough
- Sergeant Norman Arthur Albert Bastick
- Sergeant Geoffrey Beckett
- Sergeant Alphonse Michael Bellotti
- Sergeant Leonard Booth
- Sergeant Kenneth John Bowler
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Dennis Browne
- Flying Officer Eric Theodore Bugden
- Sergeant Glyn Bull
- Sergeant John Arthur Callan
- Flying Officer Alexander Bruce Campbell
- Sergeant Gerald Thomas Canterbury
- Sergeant Jack Charles Chittick
- Pilot Officer Mervyn Oliver Clark
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Clegg
- Sergeant Frederick Reginald Collins
- Sergeant Sidney James Conlon
- Sergeant Alan Frank Copplestone
- Flying Officer Richard Leslie Coulter
- Sergeant Robert Philling Crisp
- Leading Aircraftman William Critchley
- Flight Sergeant Edward Croal
- Pilot Officer Percival Allan Davies
- Sergeant Maurice Thorpe Denham
- Flight Sergeant John Glen Dening
- Sergeant Charles William Dickens
- Sergeant Robert Sidney Doore
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Earle
- Sergeant Trevor George Emery
- Flight Sergeant John Fellows
- Sergeant Norman Frater
- Sergeant Marcel Alec Fussell
- Sergeant Ronald Walter Game
- Sergeant Gregory Manuel Georges
- Flying Officer Harold Gilleland
- Sergeant Stuart John Goff
- Flying Officer Norman Edward Goldsmith
- Flight Lieutenant Graham Wellesley Hamlin
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Lewis Hammond
- Sergeant Robert Hart
- Flying Officer Samuel Tweedy Hewitt
- Leading Aircraftman David Gwilym Hodge
- Warrant Officer Class II Jack Athelston Hollinsworth
- Sergeant Stanley Holmes
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Noel Charles Hornidge
- Corporal Douglas Sidney Hounslow
- Flight Sergeant John Percival Iredale
- Sergeant John Oswald Irving
- Sergeant James Izatt
- Flying Officer Gerald Howard Jacobson
- Sergeant Gordon William Jones
- Sergeant William Henry Paul Kelleher
- Flight Sergeant James Harry Kellett
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Edward Kelly
- Sergeant Christopher James Kendal
- Flight Sergeant John Kinghorn
- Sergeant Charles Derrick Lamont
- Sergeant Michael William Lavelle
- Sergeant Alan John Claude Lavers
- Sergeant Richard Woffendale Lawton
- Sergeant Herbert George Lines
- Aircraftman 1st Class John William Logan
- Flying Officer James William Loree
- Sergeant Charles Lucas
- Warrant Officer Class II Angus Daniel Macdonald
- Sergeant Kenneth Robert Macleod
- Sergeant Thomas Irvine Manson
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Finice Mattoon
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Maun
- Pilot Officer Walter Duncan McAlpine
- Flying Officer Samuel Lorne McBurney
- Flying Officer Charles Curtis Merril McCann
- Flying Officer Raymond Norman McCleery
- Pilot Officer Ian McGregor
- Sergeant Monte Alan Gray McIntyre
- Sergeant Sydney Stewart McLean
- Flying Officer Lawrence Gerard Lyons McNamara
- Flight Sergeant Ewen Cameron McPhee
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Henry Miller
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Mitchell
- Wing Commander Victor Mitchell
- Sergeant Reginald Crosby Mocock
- Sergeant William Wilson Morton
- Sergeant Charles Henry Nadin
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph B. Nault
- Flying Officer Laurence George Newman
- Flying Officer Maurice Alfred Nias
- Sergeant Michael James O'Malley
- Sergeant Gerald Thomas Padden
- Flight Sergeant Albert Charles William Parker
- Warrant Officer Reginald William Pearson
- Flight Sergeant William Harvey Penn
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Sidney Phelon
- Sergeant Clifford Harry Pooley
- Sergeant Leonard George Powell
- Sergeant Glyn Price
- Sergeant Henry Welsh Pullar
- Sergeant Richard Rawcliffe
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Rider
- Sergeant Leonard Arthur Roff
- Flight Sergeant Henry Edwin Rousseau
- Sergeant Arthur Douglas Rowsell
- Sergeant William Llewellyn Scanlan
- Flying Officer Richard Scourfield-evans
- Flying Officer Francis George Shell
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Clarence Shepherd
- Flight Sergeant William George Sheppard
- Flying Officer George Cochrane Silver
- Sergeant Herbert Munro Sims
- Pilot Officer Harry Bernard Smith
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Walter Sotkowy
- Sergeant Dennis Spibey
- Flight Sergeant William McBain James Stark
- Pilot Officer Trafford Gregory Stephenson
- Sergeant Wallace Frederick Stokes
- Pilot Officer Robert Sword
- Sergeant Cyril Martin Taylor
- Sergeant William Henry Taylor
- Warrant Officer Leonard Everett Thorneycroft
- Warrant Officer Charles Chester Trudell
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard Arthur Vaughan
- Corporal Sidney Charles Wake
- Sergeant George John Warren
- Sergeant Alexander Clubb Watt
- Squadron Leader Jefferson Heywood Wedgwood
- Sergeant William George Henry White
- Sergeant Gordon Bowden Wilkinson
- Sergeant William Owen Howard Williams
- Sergeant Duncan Martin Wilson
- Sergeant Joseph Clegg Wood
- Flying Officer James Donald Woodman
- Sergeant Jack Worsnop
- Pilot Officer Vivian James Wotton
1943
- Sergeant Philip William Alderton
- Sergeant Harry Derek Gordon Aldiss
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Atkins
- Flight Sergeant James Richard Bateman
- Sergeant Joe Beever
- Sergeant William James Bellinger
- Flight Sergeant John Bayliss Bendall
- Sergeant Henry Roberts Bessent
- Sergeant Ronald Betts
- Sergeant Hubert Leslie Blackwell
- Pilot Officer Arthur Edward Brown
- Flying Officer John Thomas Brown
- Flying Officer Mark John Ford Burge
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Royle Burgess
- Sergeant Donald Frederick Butler
- Sergeant Hugh Campbell
- Second Lieutenant Lawrence Francis Chidell
- Sergeant James William Christmas
- Sergeant Frederick George Clark
- Flying Officer Harry Clark
- Sergeant Ronald George Cleeve
- Sergeant Charles William Collishaw
- Flight Lieutenant William Alfred Colson
- Flight Sergeant Joshua Cooper
- Pilot Officer Norman Maylin Cooper
- Sergeant Hubert Leonard Cornwell
- Sergeant William Corrigan
- Pilot Officer Ralph Crossgrove
- Sergeant Ernest Walter Crouch
- Sergeant Robert Corrie Custance
- Corporal John Edwin Davey
- Flying Officer Anthony John Davies
- Warrant Officer Herbert Percy Davis
- Sergeant Gilbert Charles Denman
- Squadron Leader Ernest Alfred Deverill
- Warrant Officer Class II Warren Lee Dobson
- Leading Aircraftman Ray Emmerson
- Flight Sergeant Francis Roy Farr
- Sergeant Donald Frederick Faulkner
- Flight Lieutenant George Fisher
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Edgar Foxcroft
- Wing Commander Trevor Owen Freeman
- Flight Sergeant Peter Austin Fry
- Sergeant Robert Myles Joseph Gaffney
- Sergeant Norman Montague Gillis
- Flying Officer Leslie Kenneth Alexander Grant
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Desmond Grant
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Nicholson Gray
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Malvern Green
- Sergeant Norman Nowell Griffin
- Sergeant George Grundy
- Sergeant Hubert Alfred Hadlow
- Sergeant Eric Halliwell
- Flight Lieutenant Stephen Alers Hankey
- Sergeant James Johnstone Hannah
- Warrant Officer William Henry Harris
- Sergeant Tom Bailey Hawkes
- Sergeant John Gregory Hayden
- Pilot Officer Peter Ewan Head
- Pilot Officer John Walter Hinde
- Sergeant John Robert Hoddinott
- Sergeant Clifford Lionel Hope
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon Worrall Horton
- Flight Sergeant Edward George Hubbard
- Sergeant Albert Frederick Hughes
- Sergeant David Wilson Inglis
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Raymond Irvine
- Sergeant Alfred Henry Johnson
- Corporal Alfred Thomas Jones
- Sergeant Godfrey Nimrod Jones
- Flight Sergeant Allen James Kevis
- Flight Sergeant John Killen
- Sergeant Herbert Donald King
- Flying Officer James Kirkwood
- Sergeant Robert Anthony Lawrence
- Sergeant Henry Rose Lintern
- Leading Aircraftman Anthony Simpson Lovett
- Sergeant John Lynch
- Squadron Leader Donald Forbes Mackenzie
- Sergeant Leonard Madeley
- Sergeant Robert Marshall
- Flight Lieutenant James McAllister McBride
- Flight Sergeant Harold Russell McDowell
- Flight Lieutenant John Osborne McFarlane
- Flying Officer Burns Alexander McLennan
- Flying Officer Wilson Frederick McMaster
- Flight Sergeant Victor Mienert
- Flight Sergeant Peter Yorke Morris
- Sergeant Alexander Colin Orme
- Sergeant George Osborne
- Sergeant Sidney George Parrott
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Joseph Peek
- Warrant Officer Donald Jamieson Penfold
- Sergeant Leslie Dennis Perry
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Anthony James Jewell Pierson
- Sergeant Jack Powell
- Pilot Officer John Towler Pratt
- Sergeant Robert Tettrell Purslow
- Sergeant Raymond Gordon Read
- Sergeant Ivan Arthur Redman
- Sergeant Charles Henry Reeve
- Sergeant Charles Clifford Reid
- Flying Officer John David Ernest Robertson
- Sergeant Maurice Francis Victor Roobroeck
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Robert Hector Ross
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Russell
- Sergeant Robert Kenneth Rye
- Flight Sergeant Harold Max Saunders
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Raymond Schneider
- Flight Sergeant Ian Macdonald Scott
- Flying Officer Walter Fitzgerald Sheppard
- Aircraftman 1st Class W. John Simpson
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Charles Smith
- Sergeant Maurice James Smith
- Sergeant Reginald William Melville Spelman
- Flight Lieutenant Henry James Stephenson
- Sergeant Robert Charles Stewart
- Sergeant Harry Street
- Flight Sergeant Vincent Gregory Tankard
- Flying Officer Edward Thackway
- Flying Officer Leslie Howard Thomas
- Sergeant Charles George Thompson
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Joseph Gerard Thornton
- Sergeant Charles Cecil Toms
- Flying Officer Reginald Alfred Van Walwyk
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Walker
- Flight Sergeant William Humphrey Watkins
- Air Mechanic Watson
- Sergeant Arthur William Watson
- Sergeant Derick Shand Watson
- Sergeant John Alan Watson
- Flight Sergeant John George Addison Watson
- Sergeant Maurice Edgar Webb
- Sergeant Wilfred Welby
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred Whitley
- Flying Officer George Alexander Wigley
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Williams
- Sergeant Henry Albert Williams
- Flight Sergeant Robert Alexander Cooper Wilson
- Sergeant Joseph Wunderley
1944
- Flying Officer Percy Barlow
- Flying Officer Harry James Scutchings Cargill
- Pilot Officer Frank Coulson
- Flying Officer Noel Somervell Culpan
- Pilot Officer Edmund Alfred John Davies
- Pilot Officer George Edward Deatherage
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Albert Falltrick
- Warrant Officer Hilton Alfred Hales
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Alfred Hast
- Flying Officer George Donald Frederick Hetherington
- Pilot Officer Raymond Ervin Hine
- Flying Officer Donald George Henry Ireland
- Corporal Graham John Jefferies
- Sergeant Wilfred John Lawrence
- Flying Officer John Lyle Leckie
- Flying Officer James Maxwell Levey
- Pilot Officer Melvin Joshua Macleod
- Flight Sergeant David William McCray
- Flying Officer James Cameron Munro
- Flying Officer Edward Roy Newland
- Corporal Roger Regan
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Lauret Roland Remillard
- Lieutenant Ribbink
- Flying Officer Harold Harrison Schopp
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Norman Spuffard
- Flight Lieutenant John Ridgeway Sturm
- Flight Sergeant Roger Joseph Sutherland
- Lieutenant Tayler
- Lieutenant Treu
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Keith Gilmour Davey
- Corporal Emyr Jones
- Corporal Alfred Kember
- Sergeant George Michael Jordon Richley