On this day — 23 December
169 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 23 December during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Sergeant Nigel Clifford Ashley
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Musgrave Potter Bickford
- Sergeant John Adrian Carroll
- Sergeant John William Chamberlain
- Sergeant Alfred Robert Clarke
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Arthur Fordham
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Edward Goulding
- Sergeant Alistair Gowing-scopes
- Pilot Officer David Reginald Ferrers Haviland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Bradbury Hill
- Sergeant Leonard Edward Holland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Howarth
- Sergeant Irwin Geoffrey Johnson
- Sergeant William Llewellyn Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Edward Madden
- Pilot Officer Arthur Frederick Pennymore
- Sergeant Errol James Peters
- Sergeant Ronald Mackintosh Rodgers
- Sergeant James Rowlands
- Sergeant Herbert Edward Saxby
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Maurice Allen Scott
- Sergeant Benjamin Quinney Sheppard
- Sergeant Stronach Vivian Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Neville Tait
- Sergeant Keith Leonard Watson
- Sergeant George Watt
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Harold Andrews
- Flying Officer James Howard Baker
- Sergeant Ian Robert Beldam
- Flight Sergeant Loch Lomond Bentley
- Corporal Thomas Roose Buxton
- Pilot Officer Sidney Crump
- Leading Aircraftman Michael Daly
- Pilot Officer Anthony George William Debonnaire
- Sergeant Peter Benjamin Dive
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Stewart Fender
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Finnie
- Leading Aircraftman Denis Percival Froud
- Pilot Officer Ian Curtis Grant
- Flight Sergeant James Soutar Gray
- Sergeant Arthur Seymour Greaves
- Warrant Officer Alfred John Gulliver
- Flight Sergeant Harold Hamer
- Flying Officer Vladimir Victor Havlicek
- Pilot Officer Henry David Christopher Henderson
- Pilot Officer Reginald John Hopkins
- Sergeant Graham Humphreys Hunt
- Second Lieutenant Jefferies
- Corporal Frederick Lloyd Jones
- Flight Sergeant George Edwin Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Oliver Henry Jones
- Sergeant Howard Gordon Kelly
- Aircraftman 1st Class William James King
- Sergeant Douglas Mason Kingston
- Sergeant Frank Lambert
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Rees Lewis
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Reginald Lintott
- Pilot Officer Reginald George Littlewood
- Sergeant Stanley Lockett
- Lieutenant Lotz
- Flight Lieutenant Leo Malcolm Magurk
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Maxwell
- Flight Sergeant Henry Beynon Metcalfe
- Pupil Pilot Franz Meth
- Flying Officer Bernard Ernest Lynch Odhams
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Ivor Peach
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert John Philips
- Corporal William Owen Louis Powell
- Sergeant William Dennis Reason
- Air Sergeant Reed
- Sergeant Arnold John Reid
- Air Sergeant Roodt
- Sergeant Albert Cyril Thompson
- Sergeant Leonard Henry Tickner
- Flight Sergeant Peter Charles Wells
- Squadron Leader Reginald George Williams
- Flight Sergeant Leslie John Woolley
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Desmond Berndt
- Flight Lieutenant Gillian Lorne Campbell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jack Frederick Damant
- Sergeant Alan Roland Newnham Davis
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Ernest Downing
- Flight Lieutenant James Lloyd Ellam
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Lucien Gaucher
- Sergeant Ronald Thomas Hand
- Sergeant Cyril Clifford Hayes
- Leading Aircraftman Terence John Hempenstall
- Sergeant William Desmond Patrick Hindle
- Warrant Officer Charles Anthony Howard
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Bell Hunter
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Herbert Mallett
- Squadron Leader Henry Harold Brownlow Mould
- Sergeant Robert Baxter Neilson
- Flying Officer Gervase Francis Benton Newport Tinley
- Sergeant Brenard Stearman Nixon
- Sergeant Randal George Pearson
- Sergeant Ben Michael Pick
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Vaughan Salmon
- Warrant Officer Mervyn Campbell Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Henry Tandy
- Flight Sergeant Henry Charles Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Eric Frank Willson
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Harold Wood
- Flying Officer Charles Walter Woodward
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Robert Bilbow
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Frederick Billenness
- Flying Officer William Bradley
- Leading Aircraftman Harold John Brailsford
- Pilot Officer Albert Edward Chance
- Sergeant Constantin Robert Choma
- Pilot Officer Percy Sidney Coble
- Flying Officer Edward Peter Ivan Fallowes
- Warrant Officer Ramo Digamber Garware
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrence Frederick Gough
- Sergeant Charles Griggs
- Flight Sergeant Glyn Hankins
- Sergeant Henry Wilbert Humphrey Hare
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Alfred Hebblewhite
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Higgs
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Holland
- Flight Sergeant Merlin Lindsay John
- Flight Sergeant Frank Johnson
- Flying Officer John McNabb Kendall
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Lipshitz
- Flight Sergeant Hamilton Maurice Lynes
- Flying Officer Roderick Mackay
- Sergeant Arthur Charles Reece Miles
- Sergeant Frederick William Mittonette
- Flying Officer Alexander Gray Orr
- Flight Sergeant William Allen Pavey
- Sergeant Joseph Quinn
- Flying Officer Donald Eugene Raymond
- Flying Officer Cyril Thompson Reid
- Flight Sergeant Percy W J. Starck
- Flight Sergeant Robert Thomas James Welch
1944
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Harry Austin
- Flight Sergeant Norman Collis Boyd
- Pilot Officer Frederick William Campbell
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Charles Carpenter
- Squadron Leader Albert Leslie Carter
- Flying Officer Alexander Anthony Christie
- Pilot Officer Richard Joseph Clarke
- Pilot Officer Thomas Eugene Craddock
- Pilot Officer Donald Russell Currie
- Corporal Robert Edward Dutton
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Gordon Elvin
- Flight Lieutenant William Sargent Fuller
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert William Gibson
- Pilot Officer James McGee
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Leslie Merrett
- Pilot Officer Robert Keith Norsworthy
- Sergeant Ronald Jack Palmer
- Flight Lieutenant Arndt Walther Reif
- Flying Officer George Raymond Spencer
- Pilot Officer Peter Uzelman
- Corporal Keith Wakefield
- Flying Officer Thomas Leslie Walmsley
- Pilot Officer Joseph William Webb
1945
- Flight Lieutenant David Reid Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Deere
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Daniel Hill
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Martin Kelly
- Corporal George Martial Lester
- Wing Commander Byron Frederick Norman Rawson
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Welsh