On this day — 1 January
152 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 1 January during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Robert James Bailey
- Flight Lieutenant Trevor Hermon Clarke
- Flying Officer Christopher Douglas Curtis
- Sergeant Thomas Owen Dennis
- Pilot Officer Eric Arthur Charles Hill
- Leading Aircraftman Christopher Forge Hudson
- Pilot Officer Horace Miers Macgregor
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert McQuade
- Sergeant Robert James Peacock
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Mitchell Rowson
1941
- Pilot Officer John Buttemer Allen
- Pilot Officer William Albert Bates
- Pilot Officer Cardale Frederick Alexander Capon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Walter Cole
- Sergeant John Llewellyn Curry
- Pilot Officer John Hogg Erskine
- Flying Officer Henry Edward Middleton Featherstone
- Sergeant William Edward Fennell
- Corporal George Fisk
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Charles George Gilder
- Leading Aircraftman John Herbert Jones
- Flying Officer Dennis Maurice Gerald Kiralfy
- Sergeant William Charles Langdon
- Pilot Officer Roy McKenzie Mansell
- Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Meller
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Alexander Meridew
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Plowright
1942
- Pilot Officer Robert Kelvin Allen
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Ashcroft
- Flight Lieutenant Maurice Leslie Perry Bartlett
- Flight Sergeant John Walker Coutts Bowie
- Sergeant Ronald Graham White Carter
- Pilot Officer Eric Crompton
- Sergeant John Anthony Goodhand Farmar
- Flying Officer Aubrey John Walter Froggatt
- Flying Officer Geoffrey William Haigh
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Frederick Harpin
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Douglas Lancaster
- Sergeant Walter John Lay
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Neville Marsh
- Flying Officer Frank Martin
- Flight Sergeant William Watson Martin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Uriah Pennell
- Sergeant John Duncan Mackay Prentice
- Sergeant Kenneth William Reilly
- Flying Officer John Turnbull
- Air Mechanic Sven Walter Andines Wendes
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney White
- Sergeant Hiram Wolf
- Flight Sergeant Robert Cyril Wood
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Arthur Young
1943
- Lieutenant Baines
- Corporal John Barnard
- Corporal Sydney Arthur Bolton
- Pilot Officer Bruce Oswald Bown
- Flight Sergeant Donald Charles Brooks
- Pilot Officer William Burt
- Sergeant Vernon Frederick Butcher
- Sergeant Staffa Kinloch Campbell
- Flying Officer Lawrence Samuel Clayton
- Leading Aircraftman John Connor
- Leading Aircraftman John Francis Croft
- Sergeant Augustus George Daniels
- Sergeant William Henry Darge
- Warrant Officer Class II Michael James Dean
- Pupil Pilot Pieter G.s. Du Preez
- Leading Aircraftman Leo Laurence Forsman
- Flight Sergeant Albert Richard Francis Fortt
- Sergeant James Murray Gilmour
- Flying Officer Allan Henry Haley
- Flying Officer Walter Vernon Hall
- Pilot Officer Arthur Hampshire
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Alfred Arthur Hardy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Allen Frear Harrison
- Sergeant George Hewitt
- Flying Officer Richard Herbert Holcombe
- Sergeant Edwin Omer Knight
- Flying Officer William Sydney Large
- Warrant Officer Class I Arthur William Francis Lawrence
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Louis Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey David Loftus
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Lonsdale
- Pilot Officer Maurice Pierre Massey
- Flying Officer Russell William Meaton
- Sergeant Ernest Attwood James Nicholass
- Squadron Leader Guy Sidney John Pratt
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Leslie Purkiss
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Joseph Robson
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Savidge
- Sergeant George David Singleton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Speak
- Corporal Michael Swift
- Pilot Officer William Basil Cheale Thompson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Spence Walker
- Flight Sergeant Leslie John Webber
- Sergeant Robert Gerald Wheeler
- Leading Aircraftman James Wilson
- Sergeant Ronald Wilson
- Corporal Stanley Thomas Woods
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Frederick Wyatt
1944
- Flying Officer Archibald Neville Book
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Douglas
- Air Mechanic Izak G J. Du Plessis
- Flying Officer Donald Glyndwr Greville
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Hartley
- Leading Aircraftman William Gordon Jones
- Leading Aircraftman James Francis Kelly
- Leading Aircraftman Robert McFarlane
- Sergeant Donald Stuart Robertson
- Sergeant William Garnet Russell
- Sergeant Edward Scott
- Corporal William George Victor Simpson
- Sergeant Kenneth Eastwood Walmsley
- Wing Commander John Scott Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Alfred Woodbridge
- Leading Aircraftman James Walter Woods
- Flight Sergeant Leslie George Younge-hart
1945
- Pilot Officer Richard Justin Aitchison
- Flying Officer Samuel Angelini
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Bazley
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Ross Bell
- Pilot Officer Irvine Clifford Bradley
- Flying Officer Donald Andrew Brigden
- Squadron Leader John Osmond Gilbert Cann
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Clements
- Pilot Officer Edgar Harvey Cooper
- Pilot Officer William Ralph Dauphin
- Flight Lieutenant James Basil Doak
- Flight Lieutenant George Ashmore Leeton Evatt
- Flight Lieutenant Patrick James Garland
- Sergeant John Raymond Gosney
- Corporal David Clifford Gregory
- Flying Officer Robert Garfield Grivell
- Flight Lieutenant David William Armstrong Harling
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Oliver Harrison
- Flying Officer Ross Whaley Keller
- Pilot Officer Gordon David Long
- Pilot Officer Earl Donald Mathison
- Pilot Officer John William McLeod
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Charles Medforth
- Flying Officer Clifford Sinclair Newton
- Wing Commander Raymond John Newton
- Flying Officer Henry Ross
- Warrant Officer Class I Gordon Lorne Rowe
- Pilot Officer Joseph Darcy Keith Sterling
- Pilot Officer Robert Slade Stevens
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Cecil Lovat White
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Leonard Benedict Williams
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Wilson