On this day — 6 January
318 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 6 January during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer Humphrey Brisbane Maunsell Pearson
- Sergeant Follett Mattinson Pennell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Herbert Rook
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Christie Widmer
- Sergeant Arthur Wills
1941
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Chamberlain
- Sergeant William Edward Clegg
- Pilot Officer William Thomas Darler
- Flying Officer Luke Sylvestre (duke) Delaney
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Joseph Gray
- Sergeant William Henry Green
- Sergeant Gordon James Lewis
- Sergeant William Douglas Lintott
- Flying Officer Michael Desmond Macbrien
- Sergeant Thomas Alexander McCord
- Sergeant Edward John Pink
- Sergeant Vynor Pollard
- Pilot Officer Gordon Ernest Price
- Sergeant James Douglas Ross
- Sergeant Cyril Alexander Small
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Statham
- Sergeant William Burton Cecil Winning
- Flying Officer Frank Burnet Wright
1942
- Sergeant George Thomas Atkins
- Leading Aircraftman George Henry Bailey
- Pilot Officer Thomas Herbert Bigmore
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Keith Macdonald Brown
- Sergeant Anthony John Browne
- Flight Sergeant Harry Douglas Bryant
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Gibson Buchanan
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Edward Bushell
- Sergeant Reginald Alfred Butcher
- Pilot Officer David Norris Carmichael
- Pilot Officer John Graham Castling
- Sergeant Gerald Geoffrey Cornes
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Frederick James Crowhurst
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alan Denton
- Sergeant Raymond Bertram Hamilton Driver
- Sergeant Eric Ewings
- Sergeant Cecil Spencer George
- Sergeant Cyril Wright Green
- Sergeant Eric Hill
- Sergeant Alexander Hollingworth
- Aircraftman 1st Class Forrest Joseph Humphrey
- Pilot Officer John George Irvine
- Corporal Sidney Arthur Johnson
- Flying Officer Edward John Norman Macdonald
- Sergeant Albert David Matthews
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Menzies
- Sergeant Charles William Mills
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Thomas Miniken
- Sergeant Victor Haig Mountstephens
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Roy Richardson
- Sergeant Lawrence Joseph Roe
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Kenneth Ross
- Flying Officer Stanley Eric Ross
- Sergeant Robert Louis Nathaniel Simmons
- Pilot Officer Peter Collin Voller
- Sergeant Eric Alastair Voy
- Flight Sergeant Maynard Miller Waite
- Sergeant Geoffrey Llewellyn West
- Sergeant Jack Wild
- Sergeant John Philpin Williams
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Derry Wiltshire
- Sergeant Herbert Wolstenholme
- Flight Sergeant Wilbert George Yorke
- Sergeant Joseph Walter Young
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Edmund George Ernest Allen
- Leading Aircraftman George Alfred Frederick Barden
- Pilot Officer Edgar Alan Beckwith
- Flight Sergeant Arthur James Bedale
- Warrant Officer Class II Claude Cecil Blamey
- Sergeant Norman Robert Heron Campbell
- Flying Officer Frank Herbert Carr
- Pilot Officer John Caskie
- Flying Officer Victor Farley Curtis
- Sergeant Colin Lewis Davies
- Flying Officer John Arthur Norman Dawkins
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Douglas Dudley
- Leading Aircraftman William Vincent Edmondson
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Edward Evans
- Flying Officer Tom Franks
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Neil Goalby
- Flying Officer Henry Jack Godfrey
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Benjamin Grigor
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Melvin Hancock
- Pilot Officer Charles Reginald Hiles
- Aircraftman 1st Class Terrence Howe
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Johnson
- Leading Aircraftman Lester Charles Jones
- Sergeant John Joseph Kellett
- Flying Officer Thomas Lonsdale
- Flight Sergeant Christopher Mather
- Warrant Officer Samuel James McCammon
- Warrant Officer Class I Laurence Munro McLean
- Squadron Leader Hugh De Montmorency Middleton
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Marshall Miller
- Squadron Leader Allen Beveridge Mitchell
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Morris
- Corporal Kenneth Elgin Nicholson
- Sergeant Geoffrey Aloysius O'Keefe
- Flying Officer Ivan Sidney Henry Palmer
- Sergeant Geoffrey Allen Payton
- Flight Sergeant Robert Prentice
- Sergeant James Joseph Redmond
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Shulman
- Sergeant William Graham Simpkins
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Berton Steelman
- Squadron Leader Ivan Cornwallis Strutt
- Flight Sergeant Henry Everett Walker
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Watts
- Flying Officer Ronald Victor Weston
- Flying Officer Ralph Norman Roy Wherrett
- Sergeant Richard Stanley Williams
- Leading Aircraftman James Hutton Wright
- Flight Sergeant Isador Nicholas Yudell
1944
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Acton
- Flight Sergeant James Francis Andrew
- Flying Officer Jack Anstee
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Reginald George Appleby
- Squadron Leader Henry Ronald Bailey
- Sergeant Arthur Stanley Baker
- Sergeant Kenneth Charles Bartlett
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Fisher Barton
- Corporal Laurence Frederick Bateman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Aubrey Beckford
- Sergeant Thomas Bell
- Flying Officer Robert Ernest Berkley
- Flying Officer William Howard Bowen
- Sergeant George Lester Brehaut
- Sergeant David Abel Briggs
- Flight Sergeant Clifford George Bromham
- Squadron Leader Ralph Brown
- Sergeant Sidney Burnell
- Sergeant Kenneth Alfred John Campbell
- Sergeant Reginald William Carpenter
- Flight Sergeant Harold Cherns
- Flying Officer Alexander William Cherrie
- Pilot Officer Frederick Erick Chidlow
- Pilot Officer Royston James Child
- Flying Officer Jack Alexander Cleary
- Sergeant John Leslie Colbourne
- Flight Sergeant Ivan Coles
- Pilot Officer Frank Andrew Connolly
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Taylor Coutts
- Pilot Officer William John Craddock
- Flying Officer Douglas Raymond Cullen
- Pilot Officer Lloyd George Dalgleish
- Flight Sergeant Roger Henry Jules Daoust
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Nigel Bishop Davies
- Sergeant Arthur Sydney Davis
- Flight Sergeant Errington George McEvoy Davis
- Flying Officer Alfred George Day
- Sergeant Edgar Alfred Dickhart
- Sergeant Nelson Alexander Dixon
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Alfred Reid Douglas
- Flight Lieutenant Arnold William Dowsett
- Flying Officer Joseph Henry Duncan
- Warrant Officer Class II Harry Norman Dunnett
- Flying Officer John Arthur Dutton
- Flight Lieutenant George Henry Ebert
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Eckersley
- Sergeant Robert William John Evans
- Sergeant Robert Fabian
- Flying Officer Francis Felix Fahey
- Flight Lieutenant James Thomas Edward Farmer
- Sergeant Colin William Farrant
- Sergeant Robert Ferguson
- Pilot Officer George Frederick William Few
- Warrant Officer David Boyd Finlay
- Flying Officer Victor Samuel Flack
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Ernest Foote
- Flight Sergeant Ronald John Norman Ford
- Sergeant Willoughby Fox
- Flight Sergeant Jack Freedman
- Pilot Officer Jack Garrett
- Pilot Officer Joseph Jean Robert Theobald Godin
- Sergeant Harry Gordon
- Pilot Officer John Alastair Gordon
- Sergeant Leonard Gorman
- Sergeant Bernard Owen Greenhill
- Sergeant John Alfred Hare
- Sergeant John Harris
- Flying Officer Arthur Hazell
- Flying Officer Robert Howard Head
- Warrant Officer Class I Donald Luther Heard
- Flying Officer Harold Frederick Heninger
- Pilot Officer John Romer Henningham
- Pilot Officer Mark Hewitt
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Charles Hicks
- Flying Officer Peter Noel Hodgson
- Sergeant William Dennis Holliday
- Pilot Officer William Howitt
- Wing Commander Ashley Duke Jackson
- Warrant Officer Class II Leonard Maccallum Jackson
- Flight Sergeant Donald Seymour James
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Arthur Jeffries
- Sergeant Raymond William Jeffs
- Leading Aircraftman Wallace Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Eric Albert Joyce
- Pilot Officer Frank Wolfgang Kaufmann
- Flight Sergeant Robert Henry Keating
- Warrant Officer Class I Oliver Ambrose Keddy
- Sergeant James Edward Kennison
- Flight Sergeant Peter Graham Lamont Kerr
- Warrant Officer Class I Frederick Albert Larsen
- Wing Commander Charles Cuthbertson Learmonth
- Sergeant Dyson Leatherbarrow
- Corporal Reginald John Leavy
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Frederick Ledger
- Corporal Alexander Bonaparte Le Mescam
- Warrant Officer Ernest Roy Lumsdaine
- Flying Officer Robert George Macleod
- Sergeant Alfred George Matthes
- Sergeant Albert Stanley Matthews
- Pilot Officer Brian Alphonsus McConnell
- Sergeant John Donald McDermid
- Warrant Officer John McGinlay
- Flight Sergeant Donald Charles Jack McLean
- Sergeant Aubrey Harris Miller
- Flying Officer Gordon Gwynne Moore
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Morton
- Flight Sergeant John Kenneth Morton
- Flying Officer Kenneth Robert Munro
- Flight Sergeant Harold Sidney Murton
- Pilot Officer Albert John Naisbit
- Sergeant James William Neeve
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Clifford Nicholls
- Pilot Officer Ernest Charles Nixon
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Fisher Pilmer
- Squadron Leader Anthony James Pinhorn
- Flying Officer Kenneth Peter Rand
- Flight Sergeant Ivor Charles Redfearn
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Spencer Reid
- Flying Officer Colin Irwin Reynolds
- Sergeant Donald Bramma Rhodes
- Flying Officer Francis Dennis Roberts
- Sergeant John Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Donald Robertson
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Leo Robinson
- Flight Lieutenant Angus Walter Ruffhead
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Royce Russell
- Flight Sergeant Fred Thomas Murray Sidebotham
- Flight Sergeant Alfred John Simmons
- Pilot Officer Donald Horace Skipp
- Flight Lieutenant Edwin Donald Smith
- Flying Officer Anthony Frederick Stanislaus
- Warrant Officer Ronald Norman Stares
- Flight Sergeant Mark Stuart
- Sergeant Peter Frederick James Sykes
- Leading Aircraftman John Bernard Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Jack Thomas Toplis
- Leading Aircraftman Paul Aime Trudel
- Sergeant Maurice Turner
- Flying Officer Morris George Turner
- Flight Sergeant Arthur George Twitchett
- Flight Sergeant Henry Morton Vellenoweth
- Sergeant William Joseph Walsh
- Sergeant George Lawrence Waters
- Sergeant Alan Watson
- Sergeant Edwin Ernest Watson
- Flight Lieutenant William Henry Lewis Sidney Way
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Edward Wesson
- Sergeant Ronald Cecil Whale
- Flight Sergeant Charles John Geoffrey Wilce
- Flying Officer Kenneth Hubert Dearden Wilde
- Flight Sergeant Harold John Wilkinson
- Sergeant William Marshall Wilson
- Sergeant Frederick John Wright
- Sergeant Kenneth Allan Wright
- Flight Sergeant John Francis Yabsley
1945
- Flight Lieutenant Bernard Mortimer Adilman
- Flying Officer Richard Bruce Anderson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Frederick Bartholomew
- Flying Officer Leonard Ralph Belcher
- Warrant Officer William Francis Boughey
- Flying Officer Harry Patrick Breier
- Pilot Officer Norman Arthur Butler
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter Hixon Cain
- Warrant Officer Cecil Gordon Dear
- Flying Officer James Richard Donald
- Flying Officer Stewart Wallace Elgie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cecil Maurice Field
- Flying Officer Eoin Samuel Francis
- Flying Officer William Gerald Gillissie
- Flying Officer Barclay Christopher McGuire Harrington
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Barry Campbell Hay
- Flying Officer Harry Charles Irvine
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Kerry James
- Flight Lieutenant John Julius Krefter
- Pilot Officer Joseph Yves Jean Claude Lamarre
- Wing Commander Norman Richard Lecher
- Pilot Officer Francis Charles Matthews
- Sergeant Lewis Edgar Mawson
- Flying Officer Thomas McQuitty
- Pilot Officer Charles Donald Mison
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Gilbert Morgan
- Sergeant Rex Gower Mossman
- Flying Officer Kenneth Roy Nerney
- Flying Officer Frederick John Nickerson
- Flying Officer Miguel Louis Perez
- Flight Lieutenant George Robert Pool
- Flying Officer Leslie Glyn Roberts
- Flying Officer Arthur Wiebert Staves
- Flight Lieutenant Allan Bennetto Stead
- Flying Officer Maurice Strosberg
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Cecil Tate
- Flying Officer Beverley John Wentworth Thomson
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Laird Thomson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edwin Athol Walker
- Leading Aircraftman Norbert Walsh
- Flight Lieutenant John Burton Wright
- Flight Lieutenant Ivan Thomas Yanovich
1946
- Leading Aircraftman Marston Winthorpe Crouch
- Squadron Leader Douglas Mackenzie Davidson
- Air Corporal Neilson