On this day — 22 December
162 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 22 December during the Second World War.
1939
- Corporal Alfred Clive Horton
- Air Mechanic Lourens
- Aircraftman 1st Class Martin Hugh Molony
- Sergeant Reginald Mark Perry
- Sergeant John Winn
1940
- Sergeant Bertram Alfred Charles Brooker
- Sergeant Arthur Cruise
- Pilot Officer Jack Haverfield Dales
- Sergeant John Docker
- Sergeant Basil Drake
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Henry Fairclough
- Pilot Officer Ross Leslie Flewelling
- Sergeant James Frederick (jimmy) Gapp
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Alexander Hanlon
- Sergeant Robert Norman Harrison
- Sergeant Roy Frederick Henry
- Sergeant Maurice Holker
- Sergeant Harold Norman Howes
- Air Mechanic Hutton
- Sergeant Robson Thomas Jewitt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Edward Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Gray Keir
- Sergeant Wilfred Richard James Little
- Flying Officer Peter Fenton Miles
- Sergeant Archibald Payne Milk
- Sergeant Francis Gartly Moir
- Sergeant Alexander Newman
- Sergeant Leslie William Nichols
- Flight Lieutenant James Alan Richardson
- Sergeant William Riley
- Sergeant Alfred Henry Ritchie
- Pilot Officer Charles Sutherland Rombach
- Sergeant Alfred Llewellyn Sargeant
- Sergeant George Southall
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Francis Squire
1941
- Pilot Officer Richard Percival William Barker
- Pilot Officer William Stuart Beattie
- Flight Sergeant John Murray Cluff
- Sergeant Desmond Philip Darcy
- Sergeant Arthur Cyril Darrell
- Sergeant James Albert Denning
- Pilot Officer Robert William Drury
- Second Lieutenant Edwards
- Flying Officer Eric Arthur Fawns Gibb
- Sergeant George Gibson
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Greener
- Corporal James Anthony Hancock
- Sergeant Charles Norton Hardman
- Sergeant Roy Frederick Joseph Henley
- Sergeant Stanley Cecil Herbert
- Corporal William Howard Edgar Leach
- Flying Officer Robert Henry Matthews
- Sergeant Stanley Robert Mayston
- Sergeant Malcolm Hedley McDonald
- Sergeant Leslie Merrifield
- Warrant Officer Class I Donald Moss
- Leading Aircraftman John Nattrass
- Sergeant John Leslie Newell
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Fenwick Owen
- Sergeant Harold Frederick Dolland Parsons
- Corporal John Wyness Wilson Paul
- Sergeant Eric Anton Peterson
- Sergeant Malcolm Neville Read
- Leading Aircraftman William John Redford
- Squadron Leader Christopher Dermont Salmond Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Vincent O'Brien Swanson
- Sergeant Martin Godwin Yonge
1942
- Sergeant George Alfred Benson
- Sergeant Robert Noel Braithwaite
- Sergeant William Kenneth Charlton
- Flying Officer Eric Frank Chatterton
- Pilot Officer Harold David Christian
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Edmond Cloutier
- Sergeant Joseph Davison
- Sergeant David Dorn
- Flight Sergeant Joseph George Dukick
- Sergeant Robert Egerton
- Flight Sergeant Donald Leif Erickson
- Sergeant John Feord
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas James Fletcher
- Sergeant Albert Cecil Foxley
- Sergeant George Gardner
- Flying Officer Ronald Leake Grayson
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Henderson
- Flying Officer George Hockings
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Lorne Hogben
- Flying Officer Dennis Walter Hogg
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Albert Hoskins
- Sergeant Eric Charles King
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Frederick Merrison
- Flight Lieutenant Herbert Elgin Mitchell
- Sergeant John Dennis Osborne
- Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Cecil Owen
- Flying Officer Thomas Owen-jones
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon David Paterson
- Sergeant John Patterson
- Sergeant William Precey
- Sergeant William Herbert Rabbish
- Sergeant Charles Gordon Randolph
- Flying Officer George Leslie Sellars
- Flying Officer Robinson Stables
- Pilot Officer James Gillham Trebell
- Pilot Officer Eric Gordon Wagstaff
- Sergeant Dennis Stanley Waltho
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Derek Norman West
- Sergeant Harold Peter Wishart
1943
- Second Lieutenant Arthur Nairne Blake
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gerald Matthew Bowen
- Flight Sergeant Donald John Morgan Brown
- Flying Officer Nigel Harold Cain
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Keith Falls Carter
- Warrant Officer George Younnie Cockburn
- Flying Officer William Bruce Conn
- Second Lieutenant John Tutkey Corlyon
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Clifton Courtney
- Sergeant Charles Fairweather Craig
- Flying Officer John Grant Dasent
- Flying Officer Hibbert Douglas Frye
- Flying Officer Ian George Gillespie
- Flying Officer James Edgar Glendinning
- Sergeant Thomas Gibson Higgins
- Flying Officer Jack Stanbury King
- Pilot Officer John Charles McLean
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Weir Morton
- Flight Lieutenant Roy Munro
- Sergeant George Clark O'Neill
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Parsons
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Norman Petersen
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Reynolds
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Ernest Ryall
- Warrant Officer Thomas Wilton Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Hindley Stout
- Sergeant William Swire
- Corporal Harold Cyril Wilkes
- Pilot Officer Arthur Jack Willcox
1944
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Leslie Barcroft
- Pilot Officer Frederick Oliver Booth
- Flying Officer Vernon John Bouchard
- Flight Sergeant George James Cheyne
- Flight Sergeant Norman Harold Davis
- Flying Officer Harry Denis Davy
- Captain Roy Noel Day
- Pilot Officer James Frederick Devitt
- Flying Officer William Reginald Fair
- Flying Officer Ronald Frederick Feilberg
- Flying Officer Clement Joseph Greenwood
- Flying Officer Roger Hubert Halsted
- Flying Officer Allan Watson Heughan
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Edric James Miller
- Flight Sergeant John Renton Power
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Barney Rynski
- Flying Officer Henry Lewis Shepherd
- Flying Officer Joseph Tite
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Cavanagh Tothill
- Flying Officer Edward Arthur Underwood
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Desmond Michael Wasley
- Flight Lieutenant Stamford Seaton Williams