On this day — 5 January
189 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 January during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Sergeant Reginald Albert Bridgart
- Leading Aircraftman Gilbert Howard Davies
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Desmond Gold
- Pilot Officer Philip Howard Leckrone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jindrich Liebold
1942
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Robert Blackshaw
- Sergeant Maurice Bryan
- Sergeant William Chalmers
- Air Sergeant Wilfred Hugh Comyns
- Pilot Officer Norman Clifford Davies
- Squadron Leader William H. E. Drury
- Sergeant Paul Lister Elliott
- Sergeant James David Garrow
- Flight Sergeant John Burton Gayfer
- Sergeant Stanley Hugo James
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Whitehill Kelly
- Sergeant Joseph Bernard Rene Lalonde
- Flight Sergeant Osborne Bayfield Le Furgey
- Flight Sergeant James Frederick Lewthwaite
- Sergeant Philip Frederick Lill
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Thomas Lloyd
- Sergeant Chester Thomas Martin
- Flying Officer Henry Oswald Nicholl
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Russell Parker
- Sergeant William Rogers Pick
- Sergeant William Alan Robertson
- Pilot Officer Ronald Spencer Shield
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred Alick Vaughan
- Leading Aircraftman Robin Harry Williams
- Flight Sergeant Peter Wityck
1943
- Squadron Leader Donald Edward William Adamson
- Flight Sergeant Roy William Almond
- Leading Aircraftman William Charles John Bacon
- Warrant Officer Francis Reginald Barlow
- Sergeant Ronald Hamilton Bell
- Flight Sergeant Paul Cleveland Bernstein
- Pilot Officer Ralph Isaac Bernstein
- Flying Officer John Duncan Brodie
- Sergeant John Lawrence Charlton
- Sergeant John William Cockbain Clark
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Clarke
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William George Claxson
- Corporal Charles Costello
- Second Lieutenant Ernest Cowlin
- Sergeant Leslie Davies
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Frederick Dillon
- Sergeant Edward John Dollard
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Dyason
- Flying Officer Ivor Scarlett Campbell Galbraith
- Flight Sergeant Denis Lyddon Harris
- Lieutenant Ernest L. J. Hazeldine
- Sergeant William Stanley Hogg
- Corporal Leonard Jenkins
- Sergeant Eric Harold Johnson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Patrick Kavanagh
- Sergeant Alexander Russell King
- Sergeant Derek Sundish Lyford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Ernest Mouncher
- Flight Sergeant Frank Henry Perry
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Perry
- Warrant Officer John Ross Phillipson
- Corporal Ernest Frederick Redman
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence William Richardson
- Sergeant George Frederick Roberts
- Pilot Officer William Singer
- Corporal William Charles Knapp Street
- Sergeant Robert Griffiths Alan Styles
- Sergeant Walter Sutherland
- Sergeant William Frederick Thompson
- Pilot Officer Edward Henry Towner
- Pilot Officer Lex Arthur Tramson
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Simm Urwin
- Flight Sergeant Brian James Ward
- Pilot Officer Leslie James Waterhouse
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Douglas Weatherbee
- Corporal Peter Wilson
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Miller Wodehouse
1944
- Sergeant Edward Stanley Barlow
- Sergeant David Mason Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Charles Thomas Cole
- Corporal Roy Stuart Crate
- Sergeant James Davidson
- Sergeant Thomas William Ewen
- Leading Aircraftman Norman William Fisher
- Sergeant Jonathan Gardner
- Sergeant Gilbert Cameron Gibson
- Sergeant Kenneth Hartley Greenwood
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Lionel Joseph
- Flying Officer James Joseph King
- Sergeant Joseph Albert Yvon Lamontagne
- Leading Aircraftman John Lewis
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Douglas Hughes Moore
- Warrant Officer Class II Hugh Patrick Morrison
- Flying Officer Kenneth Gilbert Mullett
- Sergeant Charles Ernest Norris
- Flying Officer Selwyn Guy Phillips
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Albert Prince
- Flying Officer Michael Francis Relihan
- Flying Officer Derek Anthony Roper
- Pilot Officer Thomas Willoughby Sadleir
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Leopold Schoenthaler
- Flying Officer George Albert William Shank
- Sergeant James Harold Taggart
- Flight Sergeant Julian Peter Worthington
- Sergeant William Charles Wrightson
1945
- Flying Officer John Charles Adams
- Flight Sergeant Keith Stanley Franz Allen
- Flight Sergeant Richard James Andrews
- Pilot Officer Clifford Norman Aune
- Pilot Officer William Bainbridge
- Flying Officer Lawrence John Benville
- Sergeant Edward Archibald Bishop
- Lieutenant Boughey
- Flight Lieutenant Lorne William Brand
- Sergeant Harold Bryan Spencer Brenchley
- Pilot Officer Francis Norman Brown
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Arthur Brown
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Browne
- Corporal Bruce Allan Brownjohn
- Flight Sergeant Walter Matthew Burton
- Flight Sergeant Leonard William Cann
- Flying Officer Clyde Allen Cassidy
- Pilot Officer James Thomas Clarke
- Squadron Leader Basil Glynn Crew
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Henry Curtis
- Pilot Officer Hugh Ashley Dunphy
- Flight Lieutenant William Robert Elcoate
- Flying Officer Edward Earl Fernandez
- Flight Sergeant Charles Leslie Fincham
- Flying Officer Louis Thomas Friedrich
- Pilot Officer Thomas Alfred Gabriel
- Flying Officer Thomas Clinton Gamey
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Stinson Glassco
- Flying Officer Dean Gray
- Pilot Officer George Hay
- Captain Ronald W. Frederick Heiden
- Flying Officer Gilbert Ian Hodgson
- Warrant Officer Bryce Desmond Jenkins
- Flying Officer Connaught Kelway
- Flying Officer Francis Henry Ross Kemp
- Flying Officer Frank Taylor Leithead
- Flight Sergeant Charles Richard Mangnall
- Pilot Officer John Curwood McFee
- Flying Officer George Gordon McGolrick
- Pilot Officer Colin Harvey McInnes
- Flying Officer John Clair McLeod
- Flying Officer Murray Allison Mills
- Flying Officer Jack Milne
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell William Milne
- Flight Sergeant Robert Guthrie Moore
- Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Aubrey Moore
- Flight Sergeant Colin John Nolan
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Henry Peill
- Sergeant Douglas Howard Pemble
- Pilot Officer Jean Adolphe Fernand Piche
- Flight Sergeant Russell Bruce Pontifex
- Flying Officer Vernon Douglas Powell
- Flight Sergeant John Francis Prince
- Pilot Officer William Keeran Quill
- Flying Officer Arthur Joseph Reeder
- Flying Officer Edward Rhind
- Pilot Officer James Armitage Rinder
- Flying Officer Bruce Thomas Roberts
- Flying Officer Lou Robillard
- Flight Sergeant George Ifould Rugless
- Flight Lieutenant James Ernest Sales
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Irvine Savage
- Flying Officer Joseph Lionel Misael Raymond Savard
- Flight Lieutenant Andrew Frank Scheelar
- Flying Officer Andrew Hawkins Scott
- Pilot Officer Bernard Gerard Simonin
- Warrant Officer William Alfred Simpson
- Pilot Officer Elwood Leroy Stevens
- Warrant Officer Leslie James Symonds
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Alan Taylor
- Pilot Officer Jacques Joseph Maxine Tremblay
- Pilot Officer Julien Francis Valery
- Pilot Officer John Wilton Vandenbergh
- Flight Sergeant Percy William Keith Walter
- Flight Sergeant Charles Frederick Walters
- Pilot Officer Jack Murray Clyde Wilson
- Flying Officer Lionel Adolphus Wilson
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Wyatt-smith