On this day — 20 January
292 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 20 January during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Samuel Arthur Barrett
- Corporal James Rathbone Birch
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Eales
1941
1942
- Corporal Cecil William Arnold
- Sergeant Clive Albert Ashford
- Sergeant John Bessell-browne
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Blackman
- Sergeant Albert Edwin Blake
- Pilot Officer Paul Middleton Brewer
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Bromley
- Sergeant Peter Lewis Chapman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert George Cocklin
- Sergeant Edward Connelly
- Leading Aircraftman Ormond Frederick Ewald Crawford
- Leading Aircraftman Roger Bensley Crosskey
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Wylie Burns Cuming
- Pilot Officer Colin Hubert Curtis
- Sergeant Henry Jennings Dean
- Corporal Leslie Walter Disney
- Pilot Officer William Rupert Ellis
- Flight Sergeant John Gilbert Finn
- Sergeant Edmund John Roberts Fowler
- Sergeant William Arthur Bill Gray
- Sergeant John William Hallam
- Sergeant Alan Herbert Hancox
- Flying Officer Alexander Muir Harvey
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Murphy Hetherington
- Leading Aircraftman Edgar Hopkin
- Sergeant Kevin Henry Kelaher
- Flight Sergeant Albert Williams Kerrisk
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Bolton Kinnear
- Sergeant Richard Mannering Knapman
- Squadron Leader Leslie Ninian Landels
- Flying Officer John Cameron Lowe
- Sergeant Herbert William Mantle
- Pilot Officer Robert Henry Martin
- Pilot Officer Ian George Matheson
- Leading Aircraftman Edmund Geoffrey Mears
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Morris
- Aircraftman 1st Class Muhammad Tahir Bin Wahab
- Sergeant Allen John Nuttall
- Flight Sergeant Michael Thomas O'Brien
- Flying Officer Donald Carl Palmer
- Sergeant John Trevor Park
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Archibald Parslow
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dominic Stephen Psaila
- Pilot Officer Philip Howard Richards
- Sergeant William Rutherford
- Pilot Officer John Grant Scott
- Flight Sergeant Gwladgwyn John Sharp
- Sergeant Norman Clair Slee
- Leading Aircraftman Vincent Harold Smith
- Sergeant Arthur Sidney Spackman
- Sergeant Edward Sextus Swingler
- Sergeant Richard Walsh
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph William Ashford Wilson
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Wood
- Sergeant Stanley Ernest Woodcroft
1943
- Sergeant Gerald John Abrey
- Sergeant Howard King Adams
- Flying Officer William Boyd Anderson
- Corporal James Alexander Andrew
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Brian Thomas Ballinger
- Flying Officer Leonard William Birkinshaw
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Archibald Brand
- Warrant Officer Ronald Joseph Buckmaster
- Leading Aircraftman James Gowans Clelland
- Flying Officer Bernard Joseph Coleman
- Pilot Officer Cornelius Patrick Finbarr Cronin
- Sergeant Vivian Robin Day
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Llewellyn James Samuel Delves
- Corporal David Dewar
- Leading Aircraftman William George Dodds
- Flying Officer Frederick Douglas Drake
- Flying Officer James Bentley Ferris
- Pilot Officer William Fisher
- Flight Sergeant Lionel Kesson Guthrie
- Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Thomas Mattison
- Flight Lieutenant Omer Kenneth Middleton
- Flying Officer Edward Anthony Mould
- Sergeant Donald Lawrence Moulds
- Flying Officer Keith Walter Paul
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Walsh Pearson
- Sergeant Kenneth Plumtree
- Flying Officer George Harry Stead
- Flight Sergeant Christopher Colin Webb
- Flight Sergeant John Wellesley Wellington
1944
- Flight Sergeant Roland Arthur Adams
- Flying Officer Edward Anderson
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald John Andrews
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Alexander Arthur
- Flight Sergeant John Jeffrey Aylott
- Flying Officer Audrey Allen Ayres
- Sergeant Dennis Frederick Bache
- Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Guy Baldwin
- Flying Officer Laurence George Biddiscombe
- Sergeant Douglas Charles Bolton
- Pilot Officer Herbert Edward Borrow
- Sergeant Ronald William (ron) Branchflower
- Sergeant John Bremner
- Flying Officer Clarence Samuel Brest
- Corporal John Brown
- Warrant Officer William Donald Brown
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Bryant
- Sergeant Butler
- Flight Sergeant John Karlo Callow
- Pilot Officer Norman Edward Carter
- Pilot Officer Eric Arthur Church
- Flight Lieutenant David Arthur Claydon
- Flying Officer William Lindsay Clemo
- Sergeant Rendle George William Climo
- Flight Sergeant Arthur William Coote
- Flight Sergeant Norman Cottrell
- Squadron Leader Emerson Weldon Cowan
- Sergeant Reginald Sidney William Cowdrey
- Warrant Officer Henry Cross
- Pilot Officer Frederick Crothers
- Sergeant John Cunningham
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Osborne Curtis
- Pilot Officer Phillip Robert Arthur Dack
- Sergeant Eric William Davey
- Flying Officer William Haydn Davies
- Pilot Officer Billy Davis
- Pilot Officer Ronald Albert Deacon
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Francis Deakin
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Arthur Dobson
- Flying Officer Herbert Leslie George Dodson
- Sergeant Leslie Hubert Doe
- Warrant Officer Class II Norman Garth Dowler
- Sergeant Patrick Downes
- Sergeant Leslie Dryer
- Warrant Officer Class II Charles Gordon Dupueis
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Charles Eaton
- Sergeant David James Edwards
- Pilot Officer Raymond William Elliott
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Edmund Leonard Farmelo
- Sergeant David Joseph Ferguson
- Sergeant John McMaster Fleming
- Pilot Officer Benjamin Nelson Forster
- Sergeant Dennis Philip Fowler
- Flying Officer Eric Hamilton Francis
- Sergeant Ronald Frankish
- Sergeant Richard James Fuller
- Flight Sergeant John Herbert Gainsborough-allen
- Pilot Officer Ray Hawley Garnham
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Leach Patterson Gibson
- Flight Sergeant John Thomas Gilchrist
- Sergeant Anthony John Byron Gildare
- Flying Officer Mike Gnius
- Warrant Officer John Howard Goldsworthy
- Sergeant Wallace Albert Goodfellow
- Sergeant George Henry Francis Gover
- Flight Sergeant Harold Graham
- Sergeant James Thomas Hadland
- Sergeant John Marriott Haines
- Sergeant Reginald Hallam
- Pilot Officer Ernest Stewart Hawkes
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Hickman
- Pilot Officer Henry Bolton Hill
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Joseph Hogan
- Flying Officer Arthur David Holding
- Sergeant Kenneth Frank Hutson
- Flight Sergeant John Percival Irwin
- Pilot Officer George Corbett Ive
- Flight Sergeant Edgar Royston Jacobs
- Sergeant George Widderington James
- Pilot Officer Stanley Ernest James
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Bruce Jeffery
- Flying Officer Richard Harvey Brooke Jennings
- Pilot Officer Samuel Graham Johnson
- Pilot Officer Donald Charles Johnston
- Pilot Officer Peter Francis Kennedy
- Pilot Officer Gerald Ralph Ketcher
- Sergeant James Hersert Kidman
- Flying Officer Donald Alaric Kimpton
- Sergeant Arthur Landen
- Sergeant Noel Legg
- Sergeant Daniel Logue
- Flight Sergeant Arnold John Lynch
- Sergeant John Edward Lyons
- Pilot Officer John Campbell Macgillivray
- Flight Sergeant Ewen Dugald Macpherson
- Flight Sergeant Peter James Maher
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Bernard Malone
- Sergeant Alexander Andrew (alex) Mansfield
- Leading Aircraftman James Marshall
- Flight Sergeant Charles Mason
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Walter Mattin
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Neil McCaig
- Flight Sergeant Leonard James McCarthy
- Flying Officer Walter Roy McGregor
- Sergeant John Andrew McKenna
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Edwin Millard
- Pupil Pilot Glen Miller
- Sergeant Dennis Raymond Mills
- Flight Sergeant Jack Leonard Miriams
- Warrant Officer Class II Frank Reagh Moffat
- Sergeant John Robert Morgan
- Warrant Officer James Patrick Morrow
- Sergeant Ernest Mortimer
- Sergeant Frank Mosley
- Sergeant Fred Moss
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Charles Mould
- Sergeant Frederick Mowbray
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Leonard Nash
- Sergeant Leonard Gerard Neary
- Flight Lieutenant James Gillespie Neilson
- Flying Officer James Nelson
- Pilot Officer Robert James Orr
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Vincent O'Shaughnessy
- Flying Officer Harold Douglas Paddison
- Sergeant Alan Charles Parker
- Pilot Officer Victor Parrott
- Flight Lieutenant Sheldon William Wesley Perry
- Flight Sergeant Daniel John Phelan
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Fred Plumb
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert David Poe
- Pilot Officer Ronald Duncan Polson
- Sergeant Edward Joseph Charles Porter
- Flight Sergeant Alan James Poulton
- Sergeant James Vincent Powell
- Pilot Officer Thomas James Preece
- Sergeant Arthur Radley
- Flying Officer Jack McAllister Ramsay
- Flying Officer Glen Irvin Ransom
- Sergeant Arthur John Edward Raven
- Flying Officer Edward Albert Richardson
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Nicholas Ridley
- Warrant Officer Keith Edward Rimington
- Sergeant Leonard Hugh Robinson
- Flight Lieutenant William George Ross
- Sergeant Henry William Rudelhoff
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Rushworth
- Sergeant Frank Gordon Sanderson
- Sergeant Robert Ramsay Scotland
- Pilot Officer Colin William Owen Sears
- Flying Officer Robert Gilroy Selman
- Pilot Officer William Gibb Johnston Shields
- Sergeant Kenneth Ernest Dudley Sillatoe
- Sergeant Earl Smith
- Warrant Officer George Sole
- Flight Sergeant Harry Weston Spackman
- Pilot Officer Michael Robert Sparrow
- Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Stanbridge
- Sergeant Roy Joseph Standley
- Sergeant William John Stephen
- Flight Sergeant Baden Henry Stevens
- Sergeant James Angus Stewart
- Sergeant John Chapman Stones
- Sergeant Thomas Roby Stones
- Sergeant Strange
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Walter Sutton
- Sergeant Richard Joseph Teague
- Sergeant Frank Tempan
- Pilot Officer Robert Henderson Thompson
- Sergeant William Samuel Travers
- Sergeant Raymond Valentine Turner
- Sergeant Jack Tye
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Hoare Varney
- Sergeant Cyril Claude Vicary
- Sergeant Paul Vernon De Villiers Vickers
- Pilot Officer Robert Frederick Wade
- Pilot Officer Cyril Arthur Wakley
- Sergeant Alan Watson
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Thomas West
- Sergeant Francis Wilson
- Sergeant Leonard Ernest Charles Wise
- Sergeant Sidney Frederick Wise
- Sergeant Alfred John Wood
- Flying Officer David Thompson Wood
- Sergeant Albert William Woodcock
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Clegg Wright
1945
- Flying Officer James Davidson Allan
- Sergeant Cecil Danks
- Flying Officer Raymond Edge
- Flying Officer Alexander Garden Halliday
- Flight Sergeant Francis John Madden Ireland
- Flying Officer George Murray Maclean
- Leading Aircraftman William Thomas Francis Neville
- Pilot Officer George Adrian Noble
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Pereira
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Bruce Peterson
- Flight Lieutenant John Thomas Robert
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril George Victor Smallcombe
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Gabriel Marcel Roger Vezina
- Flight Lieutenant James Waslyk
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Charles Joseph Watt