On this day — 27 December
184 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 27 December during the Second World War.
1939
- Sergeant William Anderson
- Pilot Officer James Bennion Beer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Finnigan
- Sergeant Victor Harvey
- Leading Aircraftman Jasen Job
- Pilot Officer Keith Laxton
- Leading Aircraftman Truscott Victor Lewis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Thomas Lowey
- Pilot Officer Angus Joseph Macdonald
- Aircraftman 1st Class Martin
- Sergeant Leonard James Sabin
1940
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Swinburne Audsley
- Sergeant William Edward Callaghan
- Sergeant Lawrence Edward Crawshaw
- Sergeant Robert James Farthing
- Squadron Leader Dennis Victor Wilfred Francis
- Sergeant Cecil John Hann
- Leading Aircraftman John Gerard Hoffen
- Corporal Alfred Charles Jessett
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Albert Kennedy
- Flight Lieutenant Ivor Henry Meggitt
- Sergeant Douglas Ogston
- Flying Officer Edward Pennington
- Sergeant Alfred Kortright Perkins
- Sergeant Jack Lawrence Rees
- Sergeant Clifford Charles Ivor Roberts
- Sergeant David George Shepherd
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Walter Stevens
- Wing Commander Arthur Wellington Sweeney
- Sergeant Noel Edgar Thomson
- Sergeant John Windsor Unett
- Sergeant John McEwan Wright
1941
- Sergeant Ian Allan
- Sergeant James Deane Anderson
- Sergeant Thomas Eric Anstey
- Pilot Officer Ronald Arthur Baseby
- Sergeant Derek Bell
- Sergeant James Logan Bell
- Leading Aircraftman Terence Ivan Bessey
- Sergeant William Alan Blackburn
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Trevor Blewett
- Sergeant Eric Sydney Briggs
- Sergeant Leonard Reginald Brockett
- Pilot Officer John Norman Chisholm
- Sergeant Philip George Clark
- Sergeant Norman Coatesworth
- Sergeant Kenneth Aubrey Davis
- Pilot Officer Robert Charles Davis
- Pilot Officer James Edward Manners Dixon
- Sergeant David Smith Edmond
- Sergeant Eric Fieldsend
- Flight Sergeant Robert Wilson Fisher
- Sergeant William Frederick George Fletcher
- Flight Sergeant Frederick James Goat
- Sergeant Stanley David Gummery
- Pilot Officer Donald Addie Halsall
- Pilot Officer Henry Gordon Harris
- Pilot Officer Charles Acton Chaplin Havelock
- Sergeant Ronald Charles Hawkes
- Sergeant Eric Frank Elkanah Hodges
- Pilot Officer William Halstead Hughes
- Pilot Officer Melville John Hyland Hunt
- Pilot Officer David Montgomery Jenkinson
- Sergeant Reginald Alfred Johnson
- Sergeant Stanley Johnson
- Warrant Officer Class II William Jowett
- Sergeant Norman Kaby
- Sergeant John Edward Kitley
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Fairer Leman
- Warrant Officer Class II John Joseph Lynch
- Pilot Officer John Bruce Macleod
- Pilot Officer Roderick James McLachlan
- Pilot Officer Matthew Murphy
- Sergeant Clifford Frederick Myhill
- Flight Sergeant Donald Eric Ozment
- Sergeant Ronald Victor Pardy
- Pilot Officer Gerald Kurt Kenneth Keston Pelmore
- Sergeant Charles Benjamin Pierce
- Sergeant Owen Ernest Rance
- Sergeant Leonard Frank Redfern
- Sergeant Raymond Irwin Rhodes
- Sergeant Denis Herbert Roberts
- Flying Officer John Worrall Roche
- Flying Officer Ronald Cave Scarlett
- Sergeant Randal Archibald Scott
- Pilot Officer Anthony David Scott-martin
- Flight Lieutenant Errol William Seymour-hosley
- Sergeant Alexander Valentine William Sherwin
- Sergeant Ronald Shuttleworth
- Sergeant Frederick Henry Silk
- Sergeant Kenneth Ernest Stewart
- Sergeant Samuel George Thompson
- Sergeant Alfred Walker
- Sergeant John James Burchall Ward
- Pilot Officer Robert Watson
- Sergeant John Drax Williams
- Sergeant Peter Cedric Williams
- Sergeant James Williamson
1942
- Sergeant Frank Edgar Brewer
- Sergeant Edward Brown
- Sergeant Frederick William Caine
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Cowley
- Sergeant Thomas Devine
- Sergeant Harold William Dunn
- Sergeant Edward Victor Evans
- Leading Aircraftman William Lawrence Fay
- Flight Sergeant Jack Dunning Fitch
- Leading Aircraftman Beaumont Ray Gooding
- Sergeant John Stewart Greaves
- Sergeant John Joseph Griffin
- Sergeant Thomas Holliday
- Sergeant Jack Douglas Horseman
- Flying Officer Mervyn William Cecil Johns
- Sergeant William Edward Jones
- Flight Sergeant Robert Caldwell Little
- Sergeant John Frederick Lomax
- Flight Sergeant William Raymond Maccosham
- Pilot Officer Thomas Marshall
- Sergeant Fletcher McKendrick
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Alfred James Mills
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth George Moorhouse
- Flying Officer Allan Spencer Newey
- Pilot Officer John Frederic Nixon
- Sergeant Fred Peace
- Flying Officer Cyril Lloyd Winston Popplestone
- Pupil Pilot Posthumus
- Sergeant Wilfred John Pye
- Sergeant Keith Ross
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Bruce Russell
- Sergeant Kenneth Ewen Smith
- Sergeant Ronald Thomas Southcott
- Flight Sergeant Henry Raynor Stephens
- Flight Sergeant Roy Christian Thiele
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Raymond Tunney
- Sergeant Donald Lawson Tyler
- Flight Lieutenant Desmond Victor Varian
- Sergeant Edgar Walker
- Sergeant John Webber
- Corporal Webster
- Flight Sergeant Wilbur James Wilson
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Phillip Baldwin
- Flying Officer Denis Vernon Foss Bennett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Arthur George Box
- Flying Officer Stanley Franklin Cleworth
- Leading Aircraftman William Victor Collins
- Warrant Officer Victor Clement Cordery
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Cyril Dalton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Frederick Davies
- Sergeant Joseph Walter Diwell
- Flying Officer Arthur James Easey
- Flight Lieutenant John Robert Edgar
- Aircraftman 1st Class Donald Hugh Grant
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Hardacre
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Arthur Davis Hole
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Gordon Penrose Knight
- Flight Sergeant Owen Ernest Dudley Louden
- Flight Lieutenant William Wallace Maxfield
- Flying Officer Benjamin St. Clair Hugh Moodie
- Flying Officer Arthur O'Bree
- Flying Officer James Edward Pegg
- Sergeant Albert Henry Steel
- Flight Sergeant William James Turnbull
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Edgar Woolf
1944
- Corporal Robert William Brown
- Lieutenant Anthony Ewart Collett
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Walter Coombridge
- Flying Officer Bevan Mason Hall
- Flying Officer Kenneth John McDonald
- Flying Officer Haddon Shaw Miles
- Corporal George Samuel Millard
- Flying Officer Allan Gordon Munro
- Sergeant Alan Stuart Paterson
- Warrant Officer Thomas William Sanders
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Howard Stevenson
- Flying Officer Alan Richard Hammond Stone
- Flying Officer John Ashurst Ward
- Flying Officer Alfred Ashton Young
1945
- Leading Aircraftman William Gibbs
- Sergeant Francis Edward McCready
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Francis McHale