On this day — 4 January
176 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 4 January during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Roy Graham Anthony Barritt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Thomas Merrifield
- Sergeant Thomas Watkins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred Andrew Wilson
- Corporal Ronald Wilson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfred Wright
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Ronald Brant
- Squadron Leader Cyril Henry Arthur Colman
- Flying Officer John Peter Archibald Davidson
- Pilot Officer Philip Evelyn Gibbs
- Flight Sergeant Walter Alfred Hazelden
- Sergeant Joseph Charles Hulbert
- Corporal Norman Hyde
- Sergeant John Maitland Keddie
- Sergeant John Desmond Lamb Kelly
- Leading Aircraftman John Erik Dalrymple Marriner
- Sergeant Hilbert George William Martin
- Sergeant Charles Grindlay Sinclair
- Pilot Officer Arthur Lloyd Bernard Smith
- Sergeant Charles Thomas Swaffield
- Pilot Officer Richard William Trehern
- Sergeant Henry Stoward Wall
- Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Worthington
- Sergeant Anthony Denis Wright
1942
- Pilot Officer Allenby Leslie Baker
- Flight Sergeant Donald Wood Beirnes
- Sergeant Paul Chaning-pearce
- Sergeant Martin John Comer
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Erval Eric Cormier
- Sergeant Geoffrey Brian Cowen
- Sergeant Albert Thomas Crocker
- Leading Aircraftman Morris Edington
- Leading Aircraftman Abraham Elton Evans
- Sergeant Albert Lewis Guy
- Flying Officer Colin Wilfred Head
- Warrant Officer Douglas Vivian Hewlett
- Sergeant William Frederick Horsham
- Sergeant Trevor Hartley Jones
- Sergeant Reuben Matthew Mander
- Flying Officer Ralph Ervin McLeod
- Sergeant William Thomas McMillan
- Flight Sergeant William Carlisle McNally
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Edmond Gilles Nadon
- Sergeant Joseph Yves Julien Nadon
- Leading Aircraftman John James Queenen
- Sergeant Vernon Elmer Reynolds
- Sergeant John James Henry Robbins
- Pilot Officer Frederick James William Saunders
- Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Scott
- Sergeant John Cecil Shaw
1943
- Second Lieutenant Elwyn Anders
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Blyth
- Flight Sergeant Hiram George Brooks
- Squadron Leader Richard George Chester
- Squadron Leader Hugh Wynston Cleland
- Sergeant Arthur James Cook
- Flying Officer Graham Grant Cowlin
- Sergeant Edward Michael Croft
- Flight Sergeant James Seatter Dickson
- Flight Sergeant Eric John Benjamin Fletcher
- Corporal Donald Macarthur Fraser
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Peace Gray
- Sergeant Kennington John Hythe Harris
- Pilot Officer William Alfred Hawkins
- Corporal Francis Quinlan Heslop
- Leading Aircraftman Albert John William Hurdle
- Flight Sergeant Francis Ebsworth Hutchinson
- Sergeant Irvine Jackson
- Flying Officer Eric Ralph Dalton James
- Sergeant Roland Frederick Lea
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Thomas Lonsdale
- Sergeant John Drummond May
- Air Vice Marshal Wilfred Ashton McClaughry
- Sergeant Joseph Miles
- Flight Sergeant Gillmar Innis Morrison
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Jellicoe Mountford
- Wing Commander Gerard Basil Nicholas
- Sergeant Robert Frederick Norwood
- Flight Sergeant Francis Edwin John Orchard
- Sergeant William Perkins
- Second Lieutenant Duncan Randell
- Flight Lieutenant James Ronald Ritchie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Ross
- Sergeant Leo Francis Ryan
- Flight Sergeant George Roland Troutbeck
- Sergeant Jack Hill Watson
- Sergeant Douglas John Wearne
- Aircraftman 1st Class William White
- Corporal Everard Greenhalgh Whiteside
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Palmer Wilkins
1944
- Aircraftman 1st Class Armour
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Baird
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Logan Bartley
- Sergeant Nigel Ivor Bates
- Flight Sergeant Henry William Arthur Blackwood
- Sergeant Robert Edward Blair
- Sergeant James Joseph Body
- Corporal James Brown
- Flying Officer William Freeman Campbell
- Sergeant Ernest Clayton
- Flight Sergeant Walter Downes Cock
- Sergeant Desmond Arthur Cooper
- Aircraftman 1st Class Geoffrey Cornish
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Lawson Coulter
- Flying Officer Georges Joseph Chislain Daix
- Flight Sergeant Carol James Daley
- Squadron Leader William Douglas Bow Symington Davie
- Sergeant Leonard Dowse
- Flight Sergeant Claude Gordon Christopher Fletcher
- Pilot Officer Andrew Henry Fotheringham
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Joseph Hermolle
- Corporal Albert Edward Hewitt
- Sergeant Leslie Donald Higgins
- Sergeant John Henry Jaeger
- Flight Sergeant Harold Lewis James
- Warrant Officer Class II Worthy James Kilpatrick
- Warrant Officer Class I Clarence Floyd Larson
- Second Lieutenant Lewis
- Flying Officer James George Macleod
- Sergeant Leonard Douglas May
- Flight Sergeant Harry Thomas McDonald
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Israel Nathan (nat) Mercer
- Flight Sergeant Jack O'Callaghan
- Warrant Officer Class I Denton G. Osler
- Flying Officer John Frederick Parker
- Warrant Officer Thomas Keith Paul
- Sergeant Victor Edmond Payne
- Sergeant Joseph Frederick Phillips
- Sergeant Willie (bill) Pinder
- Warrant Officer Class I Reid
- Flying Officer Leslie Edward Richards
- Sergeant James Richardson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Herbert Rogers
- Sergeant Peter Rogerson
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Gordon Ross
- Flight Sergeant William Percival Rumsey
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Norman Sayce
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles Seagrave
- Sergeant Arthur John Stratton
- Sergeant Donald Francis Thomas
- Sergeant Thomas Robertson Thompson
- Flight Sergeant William Colin Thompson
- Flying Officer Frederick Harry Tiplady
- Flight Sergeant Cecil George Walford
- Flight Sergeant Henry Leonard Walker
- Flight Sergeant Gordon George Wilde
- Pilot Officer Harry Richard Willis
- Warrant Officer Class I Wolmarans
- Sergeant Robert Henry Wright
1945
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Gordon Bolger
- Corporal James Carson Broadbent
- Flight Sergeant John Edward Dansey
- Flying Officer Ulva Neil Dudley
- Flight Sergeant Francis Charles Haglund
- Flying Officer Bruce Allan Hogg
- Warrant Officer James Stevenson Hogg
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Egbert Hooper
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert John Linford
- Warrant Officer George Robert Colquhourn Lowe
- Warrant Officer Andrew Wallace Lyon
- Flight Sergeant Donald Wilfred McLennan
- Flight Sergeant Michael Reece
- Lieutenant Roelofse
- Flying Officer Bertram Shylega
- Flying Officer Gordon Murray Walker
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Victor Walsh
- Flight Sergeant Matthew Henry Walton
- Lieutenant Whitehorn
- Sergeant Crafton Dudley Wong
- Flight Sergeant Roderick Alan Young
1946
- Warrant Officer Clifford Sydney Brain
- Warrant Officer Charles Henry Bull
- Flying Officer Edward Martin
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Sevicke-jones