On this day — 15 January
216 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 15 January during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Leading Aircraftman David Richard Axler
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Henry Casely
- Sergeant Robert James Couser
- Sergeant David Stewart Craik
- Sergeant Robert Fortune Jamieson Duncan
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Hallett Fairweather
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Rowland Fishwick
- Pilot Officer Melville Percy Griffiths
- Pilot Officer Jindrich Leskauer
- Flying Officer Phillip Frederick Maclaren
- Pilot Officer William Edgar Peers
- Sergeant Howard Piper Shipley
- Sergeant Alfred Thomas Smith
- Sergeant Thomas Wareing
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Wood-sims
1942
- Sergeant Basil Andrew Adams
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Henry Anthony
- Sergeant Geoffrey Bedford
- Sergeant Ronald Frederick Bishop
- Sergeant James Calvert Bradley
- Pilot Officer Vincent Leslie Brice
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Clarence Camp
- Sergeant Reginald Cooke
- Sergeant Thomas Cowan
- Sergeant John Samuel Dainton
- Squadron Leader Thomas Henry Davies
- Sergeant Charles Dunn
- Sergeant Donald Hewett Faith
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Frank Ferris
- Pilot Officer Edward William Maitland Garstin
- Sergeant Charles Kenneth German
- Flight Sergeant Edward Everett Hale
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry Hambly
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert Peter Mallon Hardesty
- Flying Officer Richard Harding-browne
- Pilot Officer Albert Andrew William Harris
- Flying Officer Russell Glentworth Hender
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Thomas Hoare
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Thomas Hoare
- Corporal Henry Wilmot Hornby
- Sergeant Thomas Walter Irving
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Bertram Lamble
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Carl Lester
- Pilot Officer Royal George Lindsay
- Leading Aircraftman John Henry Marks
- Flight Sergeant Donald Joseph Maskill
- Pilot Officer Michael John Mortimer
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Ogilvie
- Sergeant John Benjamin Oliver
- Sergeant Stanley Arthur Orford
- Sergeant George James Peck
- Sergeant Eric John Richards
- Flight Sergeant Donald Savage
- Pilot Officer William George Scarlett
- Sergeant Robert Miller Shaw
- Sergeant Reginald Philip Henry Sperring
- Sergeant Arthur Stockdale
- Sergeant Walter George Tate
- Sergeant Ambrose Bowen Thomas
- Sergeant George Cherry Townsend
- Flight Sergeant Eric Twelves
- Pilot Officer Michael Von Dadelszen
- Sergeant Reginald James White
- Leading Aircraftman Brian Charles James Wilcox
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Julian Ainslie Williams
- Pilot Officer Ronald Norman Wycherley
1943
- Sergeant Harold Frederick Aked
- Sergeant Stewart McKenzie Anderson
- Sergeant Stephen Sellars Angus
- Sergeant William Badger
- Sergeant Willis Eric Barr
- Flight Sergeant Josef Blaha
- Pilot Officer James Clinton Boodrie
- Sergeant Michael John Boyle
- Sergeant George William Brothwell
- Sergeant Sidney Samuel Bushell
- Sergeant Stuart Francis Cameron
- Squadron Leader Paul Winstanley Manners Carlyon
- Sergeant Lawrence Carr
- Pilot Officer Edgar Richard Charlesworth
- Sergeant Stanley Cookson
- Flying Officer Patrick Gerard Daly
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Harvey Diamond Day
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Joseph Alexander Duplin
- Pilot Officer Alfred Raymond Eckton
- Sergeant Newell Ellis
- Pilot Officer William Kennedy Ferguson
- Flight Sergeant James Joseph Finn
- Sergeant John Patrick Foster
- Flying Officer Andrew Macfarlane Harrison Gain
- Flying Officer George Daniel Garrod
- Pilot Officer Ronald Gray
- Sergeant Albert Stanley Grove
- Sergeant Richard John Haag
- Sergeant John Hallsworth
- Flight Sergeant William Higgins
- Flight Sergeant Edward Douglas Hillen
- Sergeant James Hunter
- Sergeant Ronald Ernest Keene
- Sergeant Ernest Alexander Kelly
- Sergeant John Laurence Kemp
- Flying Officer Bedrich Kratkoruky
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Charles Lawrence
- Aircraftman 1st Class Israel (ivan) Lieberman
- Sergeant Sidney Llewellyn
- Air Mechanic Mackenzie
- Sergeant Leslie Percy Manning
- Flight Sergeant Hedley Geoffrey Martins
- Leading Aircraftman Clark Scott McLellan
- Leading Aircraftman William Joseph Mordue
- Sergeant Henry Duncan Munro
- Sergeant Donald Cecil Nelson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Clifford Ronald Newson
- Flying Officer Robert Henry Lyness Oakes
- Flying Officer David Keith O'Donnell
- Sergeant Walter Henry Pates
- Pilot Officer John Nelson Peck
- Flying Officer Frederick James Pile
- Pilot Officer Peter Francis Pinder
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Price
- Sergeant Charles Edgar Clarke Ransom
- Pilot Officer Harry Sanford Readhead
- Flying Officer James Norman Roberts
- Sergeant Jack Henry Robson
- Pilot Officer William Wallace Roy
- Flying Officer Bryan Samuel
- Sergeant Andrew Noel Sinclair
- Sergeant John Frederick Stanger
- Flying Officer Bruce Robbie Stephens
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Walker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Arthur Waskett
- Squadron Leader Mark Arthur Lotherington Williams
- Flight Sergeant William Wilson
- Sergeant Graham Henry Wunsch
1944
- Second Lieutenant Barkley
- Sergeant Arthur Bell
- Leading Aircraftman Robert John Bennetts
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Arthur Courtenay Burnett
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Frank Coombs
- Lieutenant Frans De Kock
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Robert France Dwyer
- Flight Lieutenant Derek Edwin Fuge
- Lieutenant Henry A. (jackie) Gibson
- Flying Officer Herman Patrick Hoppe
- Lieutenant James Mackintosh
- Lieutenant Donovan Marillier
- Lieutenant McKie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Murray
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard Joseph Napierala
- Sergeant George Edmund Powell
- Warrant Officer Class I Edward George Lewis Roberson
- Lieutenant Roos
- Flying Officer Kenneth Maxwell Shepley
- Sergeant John Joseph Smith
- Corporal Robert Hugh Spite
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Stanley
- Leading Aircraftman James Offley Town
- Sergeant George Upfold
- Lieutenant Venter
- Pilot Officer Norman Edward West
- Sergeant Cyril Frederick Wheatstone
1945
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Wilfred Albrecht
- Pilot Officer Robert Joseph Ashley
- Flight Sergeant George Francis Ayre
- Flying Officer Lloyd Joseph Berry
- Flying Officer Donald Connop
- Flying Officer George Richard Robert Henry Craib
- Flight Sergeant Denham
- Lieutenant Farquhar
- Flying Officer Cecil Gurevitch
- Flying Officer Vernon Harvey Halstead
- Flight Lieutenant Bruce Stafford Hay
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Walter Heitmann
- Captain G. Macg. Henderson
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Randall French Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Lugg
- Sergeant Angus John Macdonell
- Pilot Officer Charles Beverly Macdonell
- Flying Officer Malcolm Alexander Macleod
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Bernard Macneil
- Corporal Richard Matthews
- Flight Sergeant John Seddon McArthur
- Flying Officer James Alexander McCrea
- Flying Officer Duncan Pearson McGregor
- Pilot Officer Alexander Grant McKay
- Lieutenant Meaker
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman
- Lieutenant Moir
- Flying Officer Frank William Mooney
- Flying Officer John Perenara Morgan
- Flight Sergeant Ian James Munro
- Flying Officer Thomas Robertson Murray
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Charles Orpen
- Flying Officer Greville Randell
- Warrant Officer Class II Orville Jack Rau
- Sergeant Albert Russel Robson
- Pilot Officer Harold Marland Rumball
- Sergeant Joseph Aloysius Savy
- Flying Officer Albert Norman Saward
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Ernest Smith
- Flying Officer George Douglas Spencer
- Sergeant Leonard Charles Stavenow
- Flight Lieutenant George Osborne Tedford
- Flight Sergeant Allen Benjamin Thomas
- Flying Officer Ivan Lindsay Vinall Thompson
- Pilot Officer Charles Sinclair Thomson
- Flying Officer Norman Roger Vatne
- Pilot Officer Andrew Morrison Orr Walker