On this day — 7 January
179 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 7 January during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Francis Frederick Bousfield
- Sergeant Frank Foster Hallam
- Pilot Officer Alan Harry Maguire
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Wilfred Smith
- Leading Aircraftman William Taylor
1941
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Maurice Andrews
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Nichols Dawson
- Sergeant Charles Matthew Deyes
- Corporal John Millar Dibble
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Raymond Stuart Earl Dority
- Sergeant Edward James Dunton
- Sergeant William George Evans
- Sergeant Roderick Maclean Galbraith
- Flight Lieutenant George Reginald Neil Hay Jan
- Sergeant William Henry Harper Johnson
- Sergeant Norman Walter Mawby
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Middlebrook
- Sergeant Charles Ernest Richardson
- Sergeant Thomas Parkin Robson
- Sergeant Phillip Rutherford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Norman Spriggs
- Captain Charles Herbert Wardrop
- Sergeant Peter Frederick Wilcock
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Williamson
1942
- Pilot Officer William Anderton
- Aircraftman 1st Class St. Clair Roderick James Andrews
- Sergeant Sydney Robert Baker
- Leading Aircraftman George Bamford
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Barlass
- Flying Officer Albert Edward James Bourner
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Duncan Campbell
- Pilot Officer Harry Edgar Charles Elliott
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Fullbrook
- Leading Aircraftman William Edward Goodwin
- Sergeant Myles David Gould
- Sergeant Alan John Griffiths
- Flight Lieutenant Merlin Thomas Harries
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Kenneth Hawkins
- Leading Aircraftman Dorrien Clifford Henley
- Sergeant Robert Hillman
- Lieutenant Holliday
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Robert Horn
- Pilot Officer Douglas Chisholm Hunter
- Sergeant Leslie Jennings
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Jose
- Sergeant Robert Bird Kinnell
- Lieutenant Loffhagen
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Ernest Maltby
- Colonel Marais
- Pilot Officer Walter Bartholomew McManus
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth William Palmer
- Sergeant Derek Howard Phillips
- Sergeant Arthur Thompson Rene Renshaw
- Sergeant Rufus Rust
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jeremiah Aloysius Ryan
- Sergeant Douglas Charles Scurrey
- Sergeant Harry Wallace Tindley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert George Townrow
- Sergeant Thomas Hobbs Trinder
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Howden Vickers
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Watson
- Sergeant Reginald Norman Whatley
- Pilot Officer Jan Zerovnicky
1943
- Sergeant David Taylor Adams
- Sergeant John Burniston Arnett
- Flight Sergeant William Morris Arnold
- Sergeant Raymond Frank Bannister
- Flying Officer Sidney Owen Bonus
- Flying Officer Philip Duncan Corlett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Callander Coupland
- Sergeant Charles William Darwin
- Pilot Officer William Bruce Dimelow
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Flood
- Sergeant Frank Edward Guy
- Leading Aircraftman Eldred Charles Hart
- Pilot Officer Donald Leslie Hudson
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin Bernard Jones
- Lieutenant Lahner
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Leder
- Pilot Officer John Thomas Mangan
- Warrant Officer Class II Raymond Marsden
- Leading Aircraftman David Alexander McAuley
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Mayes McCreadie
- Flying Officer Malcolm Arthur McRae
- Sergeant Findlay London Mills
- Pilot Officer Edward George Russell Morley
- Flying Officer Martin Stanley Morris
- Flight Sergeant Reginald William Paradise
- Sergeant Reginald Charles Payne
- Pilot Officer Woodrow John Perry
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Edward Priest
- Pilot Officer Lowell Ernest Reeve
- Sergeant Colin George Saunders
- Sergeant James David Sclater
- Squadron Leader Norville Everett Small
- Warrant Officer John Trevor Soundy
- Leading Aircraftman William Robert Bryans Stoddart
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Frederick Taylor
- Flying Officer Aubrey Maxwell Tingle
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney William Tye
- Sergeant William James Thomas Watson
- Sergeant Harold Ernest White
- Sergeant Newton George Wilson
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril George Work
1944
- Warrant Officer Stanley John Biggs
- Air Mechanic Henry Boyce
- Flying Officer John Aloysius Cannon
- Flight Lieutenant John Frederick Cobbett
- Leading Aircraftman Henry John Pomeroy Colley
- Flight Lieutenant John Malcolm Crabb
- Flight Sergeant William Cross
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hubert James Dean
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Alexander Dinnage
- Flying Officer Ernest Berjeu Fooks
- Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Forsyth
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Edward Gibson
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Frank Jolly
- Flight Sergeant Robert Dickson Kelly
- Flying Officer Walter Dinnathorne Langworthy
- Flight Lieutenant George Laurence
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Morris
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Charles Norton
- Flight Sergeant George Thomas Ormandy
- Flight Lieutenant William Alexander De Burgh Perceval
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney Herbert Rance
- Warrant Officer Terence Riordan
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Ossian Slassor
- Corporal George Annison Smith
- Pilot Officer Leonard Augustus Taylor
- Sergeant Thomas William Waters
- Sergeant William Harold Welch
- Corporal Keith Whenan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Charles Woolner
- Leading Aircraftman John Frederick Owen Yateman
1945
- Warrant Officer Sidney Edward Abrams
- Flying Officer James Allan
- Pilot Officer Frank William Bradley
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Harold Brown
- Pilot Officer William Edward Burcher
- Flight Sergeant Donald Fletcher Campbell
- Pilot Officer Albert Spencer Blair Campton
- Flying Officer Charles John Clarke
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Mayo Clarke
- Flying Officer Norman Kenneth Dunlop
- Sergeant David Fell
- Flying Officer Colin Kelvin Flockhart
- Pilot Officer Lucien Andrew Joseph Gauthier
- Flight Sergeant Meyer Greenstein
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Kenneth Hendy
- Corporal John Vernon Holdsworth
- Flying Officer Desmond Charles Holland
- Warrant Officer Millard Henderson Horne
- Pilot Officer Harold Joseph Hutcheson
- Flying Officer Ralph James Lougheed
- Flight Lieutenant Harvey Samuel Luck
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Gordon Marshall Mannell
- Flying Officer William John McArthur
- Flight Sergeant Donald Joseph McAulay
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Glenn McClelland
- Pilot Officer Harold Edward Miell
- Warrant Officer Frederick Charles Miller
- Flying Officer Thomas Henry Perley-martin
- Flight Sergeant Robert Andrew Quinn
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Watson Ritchie
- Pilot Officer Mervin Walter Rohrlach
- Flying Officer Edward Lewis Saslove
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Saunders
- Pilot Officer Norman Lester William Scott
- Flight Sergeant Eric Alfred Smith
- Flying Officer Robert Marshall Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Garwood Sparling
- Flying Officer Lawrence William Splatt
- Corporal Norman Taylor
- Pilot Officer Daniel Veri
- Flying Officer Robert Percy Woolfield