On this day — 24 December
292 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 24 December during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Pilot Officer Michael Frederick Collier Buckbarrow
- Pilot Officer Leslie Gilbert Burton
- Flying Officer John Warren Hamill
- Flying Officer Clifford Spencer Hinitt
- Leading Aircraftman Derek John Ling
- Sergeant Frank Neville Meddings
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Parkinson Milner
- Lieutenant John Douglas Niblock-stuart
- Flying Officer Robert Aitken Robertson
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Henry Stubbington
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Wray Tennant
1941
- Sergeant Vernon Charles Akes
- Sergeant Kenneth George (ken) Boulton
- Sergeant Eric Ritchie Bowman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Broom
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Archie Dennis Callaghan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Henry Calnon
- Sergeant Richard Beauchamp Cameron
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sydney Carr
- Air Sergeant Clark
- Sergeant Reginald John Clark
- Pilot Officer William Ronald Constable
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Corlett
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Bruce Cowell
- Sergeant Edwin Crossley
- Corporal Peter Cunningham
- Squadron Leader Cecil Rhys Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Henry George Deery
- Flight Sergeant Francis Richard Emery
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Carveath Gadd
- Sergeant Arthur George Gooch
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Stanley Hailes
- Leading Aircraftman Kevin Leo Henry
- Sergeant Kenneth Thomas Hewson
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Herbert Higgleton
- Sergeant Tom Ford Houldsworth
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Levett
- Sergeant Henry Gordon Luke
- Aircraftman 1st Class Vincent James Mulligan
- Sergeant Arthur Edward Samuel Murray
- Pilot Officer Isaac Paul
- Flight Lieutenant Dick Middleton Poynter
- Flight Lieutenant Ayscough Arnold Radclyffe
- Sergeant Jack Roberts
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Roberts
- Pilot Officer Henry Barrymore Rowland
- Sergeant Gerald Harry Savoy
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Albert Shearer
- Sergeant Brian Patrick Slattery
- Sergeant Charles John Stuart
- Pilot Officer Bruce Leonard Sturday
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Frederick Watson
- Sergeant Edward Cameron Welsh
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Daniel Randall (jr) Young
1942
- Sergeant Joseph Frederick Bootle
- Sergeant Ronald Arthur Brant
- Flying Officer Ralph David Charters
- Sergeant Keith Gilbert Chote
- Sergeant Reginald Mervin Clark
- Sergeant Francis Gordon Dolphin
- Corporal David Drysdale
- Corporal Daniel James Stewart Duff
- Sergeant John McArthur Dunbar
- Leading Aircraftman David James Hinsley
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Kirk
- Sergeant Edgar Charles Kostromin
- Corporal Frederick Leckenby
- Leading Aircraftman Montague Maurice Marks
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles William Maxwell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald William McNaughton
- Leading Aircraftman Sterling Thomas Monroe
- Sergeant Arthur Bernard Putnam Rumsey
- Sergeant Wilton McBride Sage
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Daniel Sawyer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Charles Albert Sinden
- Corporal John Francis Slater
- Air Sergeant Verdun Smith
- Squadron Leader Vernon William Lamond Stanion
- Flying Officer Gordon Pirie Thomson
- Sergeant Alfred Harold Wallace
- Leading Aircraftman Daniel Walley
- Leading Aircraftman William James Watters
- Sergeant Reginald Stuart West
- Leading Aircraftman Graeme Marwick Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Horace George Williams
1943
- Sergeant John McLean Adamson
- Flight Sergeant John Carman Atherton
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Henry Badkin
- Sergeant Harry Barber
- Flight Sergeant Roger William Basey
- Flying Officer Kenneth William Baxter
- Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Howe Bear
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Albert Beech
- Sergeant Eric Birchall
- Pilot Officer Edward John Blackley
- Flight Sergeant Robert Meredith Bond
- Sergeant Leslie Frederick Bostock
- Sergeant Harry Bowles
- Flying Officer Frederick Clifford Boyce
- Sergeant John Walker Brewster
- Flight Sergeant Robert Wishart Brown
- Sergeant Vincent De Paul Brown
- Air Mechanic William Browne
- Flight Lieutenant Alister Whyte Buchanan
- Sergeant Cornelius Burgess
- Sergeant Arnold Bradley Burke
- Sergeant Daniel Campbell
- Sergeant William Harry Carter
- Flight Sergeant William Anthony Casey
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Henry Chambers
- Flight Sergeant Richard Kenneth Chapman
- Leading Aircraftman Aubrey Bute Charters
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Francis Clark
- Sergeant Gordon William Claydon
- Flying Officer Francis Martin Connolly
- Sergeant Antony Paul Coombe
- Sergeant Kenneth Thomas Cooper
- Flight Sergeant William Richard Cooper
- Sergeant Robert Anthony Covic
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth George Cox
- Squadron Leader Christopher Norman Birch Crisp
- Flight Sergeant Robert Norman Victor Daniel
- Flying Officer Montague Eric Dark
- Sergeant David Gwyn Davies
- Sergeant David Oswald Davies
- Sergeant John Ronald Davison
- Pilot Officer Donald Campbell Dripps
- Leading Aircraftman Francis James Dwyer
- Flight Sergeant Desmond Edwards
- Sergeant Anthony Edward Eley
- Corporal Dennis Bernard Farley
- Sergeant Denis Alexander John Fisher
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Henry Ewen Fitzearle
- Sergeant Albert Ronald Fleming
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Harold Foxley
- Flying Officer Philip Heslop Froment
- Flying Officer Kenneth James Forrester Funnell
- Flying Officer Robert Strachan Gall
- Sergeant Peter Edwin Gander
- Sergeant Montague Ewart Giles
- Sergeant Raymond Gillies
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Robert Ralph Glover
- Flight Sergeant George Wallace Gordon
- Sergeant John Phillip Gray
- Warrant Officer William Edward Greenwood
- Flight Sergeant George William Guest
- Flying Officer Bernard Gunnill
- Sergeant Roy Ladbrooke Hands
- Flight Sergeant Harry Hanson
- Flight Sergeant William Hardaker
- Flight Sergeant Charles Ronald Harrison
- Sergeant Reginald Jack Heal
- Pilot Officer Arthur William Heap
- Flying Officer Derrick Wilson Herbert
- Flight Lieutenant Clyde Douglas Hill
- Air Mechanic John Hill
- Sergeant John Hill
- Flying Officer Robert John Hodges
- Pilot Officer Arthur Holmes
- Sergeant Arthur Edward Hooper
- Flying Officer Clifford Hughes
- Flying Officer Richard Lloyd Hughes
- Sergeant Sidney Walter Irons
- Flight Sergeant Derek Bellingham Jameson
- Sergeant Harold Johnson
- Flight Sergeant James Rundle Jones
- Sergeant Joseph Anthony Jordan
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick John Kelly
- Flying Officer Henry Burton Kershaw
- Sergeant Charles Henry Kewley
- Pilot Officer Thomas Henry Knight
- Sergeant Alan Robert Laurence
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Reginald Evariste Legere
- Sergeant Eric John Lock
- Flying Officer Allan Gordon Macdonald
- Sergeant Frederick John Manley
- Flying Officer Bertie James Marks
- Flight Sergeant Murray Gordon Marshall
- Sergeant John McConnell
- Sergeant Daniel McCreadie
- Leading Aircraftman Hugh McLelland
- Pilot Officer Micheal McMahon
- Sergeant Charles Milburn
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Mison
- Sergeant Hubert Stanley Mitchell
- Squadron Leader William Storey Moore
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Henry Morgan
- Warrant Officer John Brown Mullin
- Sergeant Rodney Roy Mutton
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Edward Naylor
- Flight Sergeant Per Arne Theodore Nelson
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Newton
- Sergeant Thomas Leslie North
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Charles Orme
- Sergeant Philip Rex Pae
- Flying Officer Denis Bernard Page
- Sergeant Ralph Parkinson
- Sergeant James Eric Frederick Paton
- Pilot Officer Kenneth David Pearce
- Sergeant George Edwin Phillips
- Sergeant Walter Phillips
- Pilot Officer David Leslie Pirie
- Sergeant David John Poole
- Sergeant Jack Rawson
- Sergeant Thomas Emrys Rees
- Flying Officer John Henry Richards
- Sergeant Francis Edgar Arthur Rivett
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander Robertson
- Sergeant John Russell
- Flight Sergeant Leo Michael Ryan
- Sergeant James Clark Scott
- Sergeant Bernard Shaw
- Sergeant Walter Thomas Sibley
- Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Bryant Smith
- Sergeant Robert Smith
- Flight Sergeant Robert Arnold Southward
- Sergeant John Southwell
- Flying Officer Roy Roberts Stain
- Flying Officer John Edgar Stewart
- Sergeant Robert Blyth Stocks
- Sergeant Frank Arthur Sugden
- Air Mechanic Nicholaas Swart
- Sergeant Douglas James Symonds
- Sergeant Robert Walter Theobald
- Sergeant Tom Thompson
- Leading Aircraftman John Dinsdale Thornton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Augustus Tobutt
- Sergeant Frederick James Tunnicliff
- Sergeant George Bertie Tutt
- Warrant Officer Class II Elmer Lawrance Tycoles
- Sergeant Donald William Walker
- Flying Officer Norman John Warfield
- Pilot Officer Ernest Weiland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Harold White
- Sergeant William Edmund Whitmarsh
- Sergeant Stanley William Whitney
- Pilot Officer Kenneth George Whitting
- Sergeant James Alec Wilde
- Sergeant George Ernest Wilks
- Sergeant Hubert Frederick John Woods
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Southey Worsp
- Sergeant Leonard Frederick Wright
- Sergeant Albert Reginald Charles Yeatman
1944
- Pilot Officer William Bruce Allan
- Flying Officer Joseph Ronald Beasley
- Pilot Officer Roy Frederick Breen
- Flying Officer Grant Wallace Browne
- Flight Sergeant William John Byrne
- Flying Officer Duncan Herbert Cumming
- Sergeant Manley Morton Cummins
- Pilot Officer Gerald Roch D'Amour
- Flight Sergeant Graham Fowler Day
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Keith Deed
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Dickie
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Clifford Doherty
- Warrant Officer Ronald Arthur Dowe
- Flying Officer William Thomas Dunkeld
- Sergeant John Watson Fraser
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Louis Friker
- Flying Officer Raymond Wallace Hale
- Flying Officer Charles Frederick Joseph Harwood
- Warrant Officer John Wallace Mills Herbert
- Flying Officer David Garfield Kellar
- Warrant Officer Class II Metro Alex Krewenchuk
- Corporal Conrad Larsen
- Flying Officer Ian Allison Markwell
- Sergeant Sydney Marshall
- Flying Officer Donald Ian McDonald
- Pilot Officer Alexander Donald Morrison
- Flight Sergeant Desmond Michael Leonid O'Halloran
- Flying Officer William Paterson
- Pilot Officer Donald Richard Patterson
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Nelson Perdue
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Freeland Sage
- Flying Officer Michael Carleton Skarratt
- Flight Sergeant Benjamin Hartley Smith
- Flight Sergeant Russell Ian Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Ian Morrison Thorburn
- Pilot Officer Donald Clifford Tonkin
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard Arthur Unwin
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Warnforth Walker
- Sergeant Donald Craik Walker
- Flying Officer John Michael Ward
- Flying Officer Dean Jerome Washburn
- Flight Lieutenant Noel Patrick Whaley
- Flight Sergeant William Albert Wright