On this day — 28 December
216 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 28 December during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Flight Lieutenant Mark Rodney Baillon
- Sergeant Edward Hulme Battle
- Sergeant William Robert Noel Beavers
- Sergeant William Chambers
- Sergeant Arthur Kenneth Dacre
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest Arthur Davies
- Sergeant William Moss Eaton
- Pilot Officer Derrick John Fielder
- Pilot Officer James Henry Gow
- Sergeant Marchant Hemingway
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Stanley Hill
- Sergeant Albert William Hodgson
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Gordon Howse
- Sergeant James Douglas Hunt
- Sergeant John Francis Huxtable
- Sergeant Edward Bertram Douglas Jenkins
- Pilot Officer David Cooper Leary
- Sergeant John Leon Maguire
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Owen Murphy
- Flight Lieutenant Louis John Rooney
- Pilot Officer Leslie Mark Sharp
- Sergeant Charles Edward Richard Sidebotham
- Sergeant George Gray Smith
- Flight Lieutenant James Douglas Steuart-richardson
- Flying Officer John Rowley Miller Stewart
- Sergeant Thomas Desmond Vernon
- Sergeant Kenneth William Vaughan Vowles
- Sergeant Henry Bernard Whalen
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Young
1941
- Sergeant Robert Frederick Aldous
- Sergeant Richard Wyke Allsop
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Charles Atkinson
- Sergeant Gerald Ian Dacres Backhouse
- Sergeant Frederick Cyril Baker
- Sergeant Leslie Barker
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Raymond Frederick Bourgeau
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Vincent Burbidge
- Flight Sergeant Orval Henry Burchell
- Sergeant Kenneth Raymond Chambion Carter
- Air Mechanic Gustav Carel Celliers
- Sergeant William Rowland Cheesman
- Sergeant Alfred Collier
- Sergeant Maxwell Joseph Cronin
- Flight Sergeant George Harold Desmond Dawson
- Flight Sergeant Jack Cecil Donkin
- Sergeant Joseph Hermile Durning
- Sergeant John Edward Frith
- Sergeant Charles Edward Gilmour
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Arthur Glover
- Sergeant Donald Kenneth Gordon
- Sergeant George Russell Stewart Gordon
- Sergeant Henry John Groom
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Edwin Hill
- Sergeant Peter Frederick Isaac
- Pilot Officer Philip Hastings Isted
- Sergeant Ronald James
- Sergeant Willis Langhorne
- Sergeant Robert Gillespie Luke
- Flying Officer Josef Mohr
- Sergeant Harry Pashley
- Flight Sergeant John Russell Petts
- Sergeant Herbert Andrew Pickering
- Sergeant Walter James Poulton
- Sergeant Ronald Albert Priestley
- Warrant Officer Thomas Purdy
- Sergeant Harold Puusepp
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Rayner
- Sergeant Frank Gordon Warwick Roberts
- Sergeant Edward Robinson
- Sergeant Thomas Samuel Sadler
- Sergeant Robert Sangster
- Sergeant Edward George Sawdy
- Sergeant George Gordon Sinclair
- Sergeant Rudolf Skalicky
- Sergeant John Frederick Skingsley
- Sergeant Ernest Alfred Spicer
- Leading Aircraftman Alec Henry Sutton
- Flight Sergeant Desmond William Thane
- Pilot Officer Edmund Hugh Craft Theobald
- Sergeant Josef Tomanek
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jesse Cyril Trafford
- Corporal William Harry Wallett
- Sergeant Archibald Campbell Watt
- Sergeant Edward Boyce Whitaker
- Sergeant Douglas Theodore Williams
- Sergeant Edwin John Williams
- Sergeant James Edward Wilson
- Sergeant Henry William Wisdom
- Sergeant Jack William Woodall
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Gilbert Bayley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Ernest George Beaumont
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Granville Broadhurst
- Flying Officer John Gordon Byrne
- Sergeant Frank Charlton
- Sergeant Andrew Michael Coakey
- Sergeant John Luther Cornell
- Sergeant Randall Tyrone Cottrell
- Sergeant Donald Arthur Gladstone Dennis
- Pilot Officer Edwin Charles Doward
- Sergeant Leslie George Firmage
- Sergeant Humphrey Rex Forster
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Horatio Gledhill
- Flying Officer George Edward Glenwright
- Flying Officer Edwin Roy Gray
- Sergeant John Henry
- Corporal Frank Hepworth
- Flying Officer Robert Herries
- Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Jeffries
- Sergeant Arthur Valentine Marshall
- Flight Sergeant Jack Thompson McDonald
- Flight Sergeant William McMillan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Horace John Mendy
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Hamilton Nicholson
- Leading Aircraftman Andrew Saunders
- Sergeant David Horne Scott
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis John Smith
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Neville Stansbury
- Corporal Francis Henry Stribley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Kenneth Tams
- Pilot Officer William Henry Tape
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Aubrey George Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Eric Claude Turner
- Sergeant Nathaniel Van Gelder
- Sergeant George Henry Walsh
- Sergeant Andrew Macgregor Wyllie
1943
- Flight Lieutenant William Cosmo Allan
- Flying Officer Philip Dawkins Bailey
- Pilot Officer Robert Arnold Billings
- Pilot Officer Harold William Boyd
- Sergeant William Mortimer Bridge
- Sergeant Henry Edmund Bryce-jeffery
- Pilot Officer Edmund Joseph Conway
- Flight Sergeant Gaston Louis Marie Ghislain Dancot
- Sergeant Allan Walter Davey
- Flying Officer Duncan Williams Davidson
- Sergeant Kenneth Dunkerley
- Flight Sergeant Denis Walter Earney
- Pilot Officer John Russell Faulkner
- Flight Sergeant James Fox
- Sergeant Harold Francis
- Flight Lieutenant James Philip Franklin
- Flying Officer Richard Wallace Gilkey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Walter Golding
- Flying Officer William Charles Henderson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Christopher James Charles Hill
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Francis John Houghton
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Charles Jackson
- Matroos 1st Klasse Adam Jansen
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Patrick Kelly
- Flying Officer Clifford Kenneth Lewis
- Sergeant Clive Henry Lord
- Sergeant Albert Ronald Mainerd
- Sergeant Jack Stannas Manfield
- Flight Lieutenant John Joseph Marcus
- Flight Sergeant John Reid McMillan
- Flying Officer Aylwin Gilbert Metcalf
- Leading Aircraftman Donald John Murn
- Sergeant John Patrick O'Donnell
- Sergeant Alexander Paterson
- Corporal Stanley David Lewis Peterson
- Flying Officer George Ernest Pleasance
- Sergeant Walter Herbert Rogers
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Ernest Russell
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Mason Salisbury
- Flight Lieutenant John Francis Scholes
- Pilot Officer David Ernest Simms
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Walter Skipper
- Sergeant Robert Summers
- Flight Sergeant John Edwin Thomas
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Andrew Thomson
- Sergeant Kenneth James Tilbury
- Flying Officer Reginald Seymour Toone
- Warrant Officer Class I Charles Zotique Toupin
- Flight Sergeant Alan Brian Tuttle
- Pilot Officer Alfred Smith Twomey
- Flight Lieutenant William Robert Wells
- Flying Officer Frank Woodmansey
1944
- Sergeant Joseph Atkinson
- Pilot Officer Charles Raymond Bradley
- Flying Officer Chester Merrill Buell
- Flying Officer Lloyd John Gordon Catheralle
- Pilot Officer Bernard Victor Cobbett
- Pilot Officer Vincent Harold Coyne
- Flying Officer Joseph Patrick Leonard Cullen
- Flying Officer Arthur Allen Dixon
- Flying Officer Bertram Ernest Drewery
- Flying Officer Robert Allan Ebber
- Lieutenant Michael Flynn
- Warrant Officer Robert James Frizzell
- Flight Sergeant James Raymond Giblin
- Flying Officer Sydney Dalton Hewson
- Flying Officer Frederick Winston How
- Pilot Officer Cecil David Benjamin Hubley
- Warrant Officer David Wise Jones
- Flight Sergeant Karl Emerson Kelly
- Flying Officer Albert Thomas Le Blanc
- Warrant Officer Neil Evan McLeod Macdonald
- Pilot Officer John Alfred Stuart Macgregor
- Flying Officer Keith Oscar McDivitt
- Pilot Officer Adam Raeburn McDonald
- Pilot Officer James Bruce McGregor
- Flying Officer John Henry McNamara
- Flying Officer Russell Karl Nickle
- Flying Officer Ernest William Page
- Flight Lieutenant William Kelvin Parke
- Flying Officer Norman Ray Springstein
- Pilot Officer Cecil Ralph Tait
- Pilot Officer Gordon Warren
- Flying Officer John Woods
1945
- Corporal William Boyle Cowan
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Gardner
- Flight Lieutenant Samuel Meek McCracken