On this day — 21 December
232 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 21 December during the Second World War.
1939
- Leading Aircraftman Terrance Gibbin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Henry Humphry
- Sergeant Samuel Hainey Potts
1940
- Sergeant Ronald Bracchi
- Sergeant Dennis Rushworth Briggs
- Pilot Officer Jack Cranwell Dale
- Sergeant Derrick Joseph Davey
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Richard Dickie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Ernest Daniel Forrest-adams
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James A. Grant
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric George Greenway
- Pilot Officer George Henry Hannan
- Squadron Leader William Joseph Hickey
- Pilot Officer Michael Hubbard
- Flying Officer Peter Johnstone Jenkins
- Leading Aircraftman Edmund John McGrath
- Squadron Leader George Wroughton Montagu
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie William Pearce
- Sergeant Kenneth Walsingham Boyd Perkins
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Derek Ripley
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Walter Shearmur
- Sergeant David William Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Maclaren Steven
- Sergeant Raymond Allen Mawson Stone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney William Summerell
- Sergeant Raymond Walter Willis
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class Daniel John Allin
- Sergeant Patrick Carnegie Bell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth William Bennett
- Pilot Officer Anthony Carter
- Corporal Robert Sidney Cohen
- Pilot Officer Arthur Howard Coulter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Cunningham
- Flying Officer Stuart Daniel John Dalgleish
- Leading Aircraftman James Wallace Douglas
- Sergeant James William Durrant
- Sergeant George Bevan Eathorne
- Sergeant Eric Eldershaw
- Flight Lieutenant David James Fletcher
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David James Gale
- Sergeant Arthur John Gearing
- Corporal Charles Eric Goodsall
- Leading Aircraftman Ivor Alexander Wimborne Guest
- Flight Sergeant Brian Hayes
- Sergeant Thomas Hayward
- Leading Aircraftman John Burnett Hides
- Flying Officer Eric Francis Holdaway
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander William Lacey
- Sergeant John William Leadill
- Corporal John Humphrey Martin
- Leading Aircraftman Martin McCluskey
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Frederick Mitchell
- Pilot Officer Richard Hastings Nitschke
- Sergeant John Edward Orton
- Sergeant Charles Harry Page
- Sergeant Earle Douglas Parrish
- Pilot Officer Errington Douglas Rawes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Robinson
- Sergeant Herbert Leslie Southall
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Wingate Terry
- Leading Aircraftman John Hay Wallace
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Watson
- Sergeant Ronald Leslie Watts
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter Gibson Woodward
1942
- Sergeant Arthur Leslie Abraham
- Sergeant Jack Hilton Baker
- Flying Officer Douglas Robert Bannerman
- Sergeant Harold Bate
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Clifford Bee
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Bentham
- Sergeant Gordon Joseph Bentley
- Flying Officer Denzil Francis Heriz Biggane
- Flying Officer Ronald Alfred Bowles
- Pilot Officer Harry Thomas Boyes
- Flight Sergeant John Derrick Brinkhurst
- Corporal Stanley Burns
- Pilot Officer Arthur Mussendine Camplin
- Sergeant Anthony Thorpe Carpenter
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Cashmore
- Flying Officer Stanley William Clark
- Pilot Officer Robert Guy Clarkson
- Sergeant Richard Cook
- Flying Officer Grimwood C Cooke
- Corporal Horace Cooke
- Flight Lieutenant William Samuel Crawford
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Steven Croft
- Leading Aircraftman Sydney H Crouch
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Julian Cybulski
- Sergeant Cecil Albert Davey
- Flying Officer John Davies
- Sergeant George James Dean
- Leading Aircraftman Denis Anthony Devenish
- Sergeant George Robert Dickinson
- Sergeant John Joseph Dixon
- Warrant Officer Class II Walter Arthur Dobson
- Sergeant Peter Laird Donald
- Sergeant John Arthur Drain
- Flying Officer Hector Duro
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Edwards
- Sergeant John Ellis
- Sergeant Leo Daniel Enright
- Pilot Officer Ivor George Arthur Faulk
- Pilot Officer Edward Fenwicke-clennell
- Sergeant Frank John Fisher
- Sergeant Frederick Foster
- Pilot Officer Albert Lloyd Fox
- Sergeant Henry William Frost
- Sergeant Patrick Joseph Gillan
- Pilot Officer Bernard Cuthbert Goodwin
- Flight Sergeant Victor Greenwood
- Sergeant Gordon Thomas Hawkins
- Pilot Officer Robert William Henly
- Sergeant Peter Clinch Hind
- Sergeant William Imrie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Russell James
- Flight Sergeant John Massey Jefferies
- Sergeant Arthur Jeffreys
- Sergeant George Henry Kitchen
- Pilot Officer Alwyne Clarendon Redfern Laundon
- Flight Sergeant Brian Gordon Louch
- Flying Officer Lloyd Robertson Mann
- Sergeant Peter Douglas McIntyre
- Sergeant Trevor Mellors
- Flying Officer William Alexander Milne
- Pilot Officer John Alexander Wilson Moffat
- Sergeant Fred Morrell
- Flying Officer Alexander Eric Mulholland
- Sergeant Gwilym Nicholls
- Second Lieutenant Northmore
- Sergeant Francis Anthony O'Dwyer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Eugene Parsons
- Sergeant Maurice Charles Pearman
- Sergeant Bernard Leslie Peterson
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Seymour Phillips
- Sergeant Henry Clifford Pont
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Neville Read
- Sergeant Michael Reynolds
- Flight Sergeant Robert Ian Robb
- Flight Lieutenant John Colin McIntosh Rose
- Pilot Officer John Kitchener Plummer Rumboll
- Flight Sergeant William Edward Ryan
- Corporal Donald Smith
- Sergeant Edward Jack Smith
- Sergeant Arthur Staff
- Corporal William McGee Stag
- Sergeant Cecil Raymond Stubbs
- Flying Officer Joseph Patrick Sullivan
- Pilot Officer Donald Martin Howard Taylor
- Corporal Sidney Thompson
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Fernly Tribe
- Sergeant Frederick Trimmer
- Leading Aircraftman William Herbert Valentine
- Sergeant James Roy Walker
- Flight Sergeant Jack Passmore Warren
- Corporal Frederick Donald Watson
- Leading Aircraftman William Edward Weatherley
- Corporal Claude George Wheeler
1943
- Flight Sergeant Henry Laurence Baetz
- Pilot Officer Edwin John Black
- Sergeant John Michael Blake
- Sergeant George William Briffett
- Sergeant William Roderic Christien
- Flying Officer Russell Stanley Clark
- Flying Officer Archibald Erle Clarke
- Pilot Officer Sydney Daniel Cunningham
- Flight Sergeant Francis William Doonan
- Sergeant Caleb Hugh Drakeford
- Flight Sergeant Gordon H. Dudley
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Dugdale
- Sergeant William Earl Edwards
- Pupil Pilot John Elliott
- Sergeant Kenneth Forster
- Sergeant James Graham
- Flying Officer John Melrose Grieve
- Flying Officer James Gaston Hatchwell
- Flying Officer Bronson Donald Heading
- Flying Officer Thomas William Wallace Hodgson
- Flight Sergeant Francis Edward Hothersall
- Sergeant Joseph Frederick Hughes
- Corporal Frank Ingram
- Sergeant Alan Jordan Clement John
- Flying Officer Griffith Stanley Jones
- Flying Officer Lionel Victor Jones
- Flight Sergeant George William Jubb
- Flight Sergeant John Alexander Lamb
- Leading Aircraftman John Alexander Laube
- Flying Officer Thomas Ernest Major
- Flight Sergeant Charles William Matthews
- Flight Sergeant David Stuart McClelland
- Flying Officer John Joseph McGavock
- Sergeant Aubrey Denys Meynell
- Flying Officer Charles Wesley Miller
- Warrant Officer Andrew Molloy
- Leading Aircraftman Tony George Moore
- Flying Officer Floyd J. Phillips
- Flight Sergeant Charles Russell
- Pilot Officer Ronald Sedgwick
- Flight Lieutenant Ellis Samuel Sellek
- Flight Sergeant Lorin James Sheean
- Flight Sergeant Svend Sondergaard
- Sergeant Ronald Frederick Taylor
- Sergeant Thomas Walter Thompson
- Squadron Leader Patrick Glynn Thornton-brown
- Sergeant Kenneth Ward
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cedric Wilkinson
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth George Wolkenhaar
1944
- Flying Officer Thomas Hudson Cambridge
- Leading Aircraftman George Eric Clay
- Sergeant John Joseph Connolly
- Lieutenant Gerald Patrick Cronin
- Air Corporal De Kock
- Squadron Leader Stanley Joseph Fulton
- Lieutenant Jooste
- Pilot Officer George Herbert Kendall
- Air Corporal Kilburn
- Lieutenant Allan Learmonth
- Lieutenant Moore
- Corporal Thomas Frederick Reynolds
- Leading Aircraftman Reuben Seefried
- Flying Officer William Robert Sinclair
- Warrant Officer Roland James Taylor
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Wahlers
1945
- Flying Officer Morris Davies
- Air Mechanic Sydney Fluke
- Flight Lieutenant James Gordon Gordon
- Corporal Stanislaus Pettiford
- Corporal Henri Paul Piche
- Flight Lieutenant John Charles Schofield