On this day — 16 January
218 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 16 January during the Second World War.
1940
- Flight Sergeant Thomas David Dixon
- Leading Aircraftman James Turner Jackson
- Pilot Officer John Archibald Littlewood
- Leading Aircraftman John Mells
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wallace Barker
- Sergeant Bohumil Baumruk
- Pilot Officer William Lionel Beech
- Sergeant Rudolf Bolfik
- Sergeant Leonard Peter Brookman
- Pilot Officer Charles Henry Butler
- Sergeant Jack Chester
- Sergeant Albert Alan Cross
- Pilot Officer Bryan John Ralph George
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald John Hay
- Flying Officer Josef Hudec
- Sergeant Francis Hughes
- Leading Aircraftman John Hugh Lawson James
- Leading Aircraftman James Johnston
- Sergeant Arthur Edwin Jones
- Pilot Officer Jaromir Oldrich Kral
- Flying Officer Antonin Kubiznak
- Pilot Officer Reginald George Norris
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Parkinson
- Sergeant Eric Downing Polkinghorne
- Sergeant George Wade Rogers
- Sergeant John Eustace Rowlett
- Sergeant George Charles Sandland
- Sergeant Robert Meredith Setters
- Flying Officer Henry Beaucourt Skyrme
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie Edwin Thomas Smith
- Sergeant Ernest Frederick Todd
- Flying Officer Thomas Kenneth Wright
1942
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Alfred Ackred
- Sergeant John Robinson Appleby
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Binderman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter Alexander Boyce
- Sergeant Douglas Reginald Bradley
- Sergeant James Maxwell Brady
- Sergeant John Raeburn Brown
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Ernest Brown
- Sergeant Joseph Ernest Browne
- Sergeant John Stewart Brownsell
- Flight Sergeant James Arthur Bunting
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Cooley
- Pilot Officer Thomas George Cottier
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Darling
- Flight Sergeant William John Elder
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Hampton Emmett
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Frank Gibson
- Leading Aircraftman William Gerald Hall
- Leading Aircraftman John Hardyment
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney John Harris
- Leading Aircraftman Brian George Harrison
- Flight Sergeant James Hassett Hehir
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Holmes
- Sergeant Laurence Warren Hunt
- Sergeant Maurice Jones
- Corporal Eric Walter Langley
- Sergeant Arthur Lionel Lax
- Pilot Officer Clifford Herbert Lomas
- Pilot Officer John Macgillivray
- Sergeant Frederick George Maple
- Leading Aircraftman Hugh Martin
- Leading Aircraftman Robert McDonald
- Leading Aircraftman William John Morgan
- Sergeant Joseph Barnby Myers
- Squadron Leader Finan O'Driscoll
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lewis Aubrey Parkins
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Charles Powell
- Sergeant Thomas Noel Pugh
- Aircraftman 1st Class Norman William Rees
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Stanley Ridley
- Sergeant Wilfred Albert Sanger
- Sergeant Allan Frank Scott
- Sergeant Miles William Scott
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel Shalloe
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon Thomas Taylor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Derrick Burrows Timms
- Aircraftman 1st Class Clarence Trask
- Sergeant John Blackwell Turner
- Lieutenant Van Staden
- Pilot Officer Roger Bourne Wark
- Sergeant George White
- Sergeant John Wilmot
- Pilot Officer Henry Joseph Woodrow
1943
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Francis Bird
- Flight Sergeant Alvin John Broemeling
- Leading Aircraftman Claude Brook
- Leading Aircraftman Edward George Brooker
- Sergeant John Jesse Cadd
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward George Carpenter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edmond Sprainger Cubbon
- Leading Aircraftman Edward James Daniels
- Flying Officer Stewart Palmer Davis
- Sergeant Gordon Murray Duda
- Pilot Officer Roger Nicholas Franklin
- Corporal Stephen Thomas Fulbrook
- Flying Officer Ferdinand David Woodham Greatrex
- Flight Sergeant Frank Halliday
- Sergeant James Henry Hobbs
- Leading Air Mechanic Jacobs
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Markham Jenkinson
- Sergeant Cecil Norman Judd
- Air Mechanic William Lumley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ian Thompson Machum
- Pilot Officer Colin Harold Walter Mackintosh
- Flying Officer Kenneth Arthur Marriott
- Pilot Officer John Aird McPhee
- Sergeant Tom Miller
- Squadron Leader Edward Donald J. Parker
- Pilot Officer Robert Humphrey Beevor Pellew
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Gilham Peters
- Warrant Officer Class II Clifford Harold Reed
- Flying Officer Hugh Gordon Reynolds
- Sergeant Malcolm Eric Edward Robertson
- Flying Officer Thomas Durham Robertson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ralph Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Evan Vivian Stanley-jones
- Sergeant William Thompson
- Flying Officer Robert William Allan Todd
- Pilot Officer Albert Edward Usher
1944
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Paterson Adams
- Lieutenant Aitchison
- Squadron Leader Harold Allen
- Flying Officer Marcel Auguste Decloux
- Flying Officer Gilles Pieter Cornelis De Neve
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Vernon St. G. Desborough
- Flight Lieutenant Carl Bernard Dobbie
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Woodward Donkersley
- Flying Officer Thomas Edward Eardley
- Squadron Leader James Gerard Flaherty
- Flying Officer James Reginald Galbraith
- Flying Officer John Gilhespy
- Flying Officer Mervyn Durham Gillman
- Corporal Cyril Louis Harris
- Flying Officer Alton Bradley Henderson
- Corporal Frank Gordon Lillecrapp
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Henry Lumsden
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Warren Macdonnell
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Frederick Medhurst
- Flying Officer Stanley William Piner
- Squadron Leader Terence Alexander Pringle
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Henry Simpson
- Flying Officer Ernest Sowerby
- Warrant Officer John Lawrence Williams
- Second Lieutenant James Mitchell Wright
1945
- Flying Officer Jack Karl Armour
- Flying Officer Douglas James Bailey
- Flying Officer Lindon Frederick Beves Barrett
- Flying Officer William Robert Binning
- Flight Lieutenant William Fleming Borrett
- Sergeant Peter Charles Brown
- Pilot Officer Joseph Aloysius Bruggeman
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Patrick Burke
- Flight Sergeant Graeme Ernest Charles Burton
- Corporal Alan Buxton
- Flying Officer Clyde Willis Byers
- Pilot Officer Arthur Grattan Carolan
- Pilot Officer James Marshall Carter
- Flying Officer William Merton Chapman
- Warrant Officer Laurence Collins
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert King Crow
- Pilot Officer Benjamin Robert Cunliffe
- Pilot Officer John McIntosh Davidson
- Pilot Officer Ernest Leroy Davis
- Flying Officer William Lewis Dennis
- Flying Officer Norval Gregory Fadden
- Flying Officer Lawrence William Ferguson
- Flight Sergeant Michael Frank
- Sergeant Gerald Michael Friel
- Flight Lieutenant Roger Harrop Galbraith
- Pilot Officer James David Gibbons
- Pilot Officer William James Glass
- Corporal Henry Graham
- Pilot Officer Rochester Warren Lee Hart
- Pilot Officer Ronald Erwin (ronnie) Harvey
- Pilot Officer Gerald Stalker Haslam
- Pilot Officer Andre Jean Jules Hisette
- Flying Officer Robert Addison Ireland
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Cleveland Irving
- Squadron Leader Arthur Henry Jarand
- Flying Officer William Kerluk
- Flight Lieutenant Aaron Kiehlbauch
- Pilot Officer Donald Erwin Linington
- Flying Officer Quan Jil Louie
- Squadron Leader Colin James Fraser Macrae
- Flying Officer Robert Lenard Maloney
- Pilot Officer William David Martin
- Pilot Officer James Francis McCormick
- Flight Lieutenant Elvet Baxter McCutcheon
- Flying Officer Donald Gordon McKay
- Pilot Officer Malcolm Stalker McMaster
- Pilot Officer Allan Bernard Miller
- Pilot Officer Parker Reginald Mogridge
- Flying Officer Henry Eugene Novak
- Pilot Officer William John Desmond Partridge
- Flight Sergeant Norman David Pattinson
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Leslie Payne
- Pilot Officer Leo Joseph Penny
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Thomas Quigley
- Flight Sergeant Ray Calvin Roller
- Flying Officer George Guelph Shaw
- Flight Sergeant Robert Charles Shilliday
- Flying Officer John William Shirey
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Simpson
- Pilot Officer Norman Lawrence Lavek Smith
- Warrant Officer Robert Hawkins Strachan
- Pilot Officer Dougal Turner
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest William Watson
- Pupil Pilot John Weaver
- Flying Officer William Webb
- Flying Officer John Gordon Welk
- Flight Lieutenant Stuart Paul Whyte
- Pilot Officer William Thomas Wilson