On this day — 21 January
464 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 21 January during the Second World War.
1941
- Sergeant Charles Herbert Bartram
- Flying Officer Frank Reidhaar Bullot
- Sergeant David Hugh Clayson
- Leading Aircraftman Angus Victor Macleod Gilmour
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest Stanley Hodgkinson
- Leading Aircraftman Rodney Albert Llewellyn
- Leading Aircraftman William Frederick Reader
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Walter Scott
- Leading Aircraftman Guy Wilfred Suisted
- Pilot Officer Alec George Wainwright
1942
- Pilot Officer George Henry Armstrong
- Corporal Herbert Leslie Baldwin
- Sergeant Joseph Birkett
- Pupil Pilot Bower
- Sergeant Robert Brown
- Sergeant Peter Bernard Chapple
- Pilot Officer Harold William Clarke
- Sergeant James Joseph Clarke
- Leading Aircraftman Leo Thomas Clarke
- Sergeant Francis Coakley
- Sergeant Douglas Charles Coote
- Leading Aircraftman James Leslie Cox
- Leading Aircraftman John Edward Bruce Craigie
- Sergeant George Thomas Darville
- Sergeant Aubrey Wilfred Deere
- Flying Officer Reginald Clive Derrick
- Cadet Ronald Amyas Dixon
- Leading Aircraftman Allan Downes
- Sergeant Francis Ernest Dunn
- Sergeant Elden Eves
- Sergeant Reginald Grenville Eves
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Thomas Frisby
- Sergeant Wilfred Giles
- Air Sergeant William Godderidge
- Leading Aircraftman George Irvine Hanson
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Leslie Hart
- Sergeant Royal George Heron
- Warrant Officer James Hopewell
- Sergeant Ian Macpherson Ince
- Sergeant James Johnstone
- Flying Officer Gordon Wilson Keig
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Hartley Rudolph Kenny
- Sergeant Cenek Kral
- Sergeant Peter Dania Lowe
- Sergeant William Ernest Mabbett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James McDonald
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Hugh McKenzie
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Drohen Meadow
- Leading Aircraftman James Baker Monfries
- Warrant Officer Charles Henry Moore
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Laurence Murphy
- Sergeant Ladislav Nemecek
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Heather Nettleton
- Flying Officer Edwin Roy Parke
- Corporal John Perrett
- Sergeant Sydney Albert Peters
- Flight Sergeant Miroslav Plecity
- Sergeant Donald Arthur Richards
- Pilot Officer William Edward Ries
- Sergeant Thomas Idwal Roberts
- Pilot Officer Harry Kelso Robertson
- Flight Lieutenant Sidney Cecil Romer
- Sergeant Stanislav Rous
- Flying Officer Thomas Nicoll Rowe
- Leading Aircraftman Kingsley Holman Sampson
- Pilot Officer Bernard Sides
- Warrant Officer Jack Lawrenson Simm
- Flight Lieutenant Zdenek Skorepa
- Air Corporal Arthur Julius Smith
- Flying Officer James Ernest Field Stanfield
- Sergeant Geoffrey Gordon Taylor
- Sergeant Evan Hamilton Thompson
- Air Corporal Thomson
- Sergeant William Thomas Tromans
- Flight Sergeant John Turnbull
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Trevor Villers
- Sergeant Norman Viner
- Warrant Officer Karel Weiss
- Sergeant Frank Anthony Westkelsey
- Sergeant Wilkinson
- Sergeant Samuel Williams
- Sergeant Walter Chantler Williams
- Corporal Jack Raymond Wyche
- Sergeant Maurice York
1943
- Sergeant George Henry Anderson
- Flying Officer Arthur Redvers Atkins
- Warrant Officer William Evan Atkins
- Sergeant Donald Leslie Baker
- Sergeant Alan Frederick Bates
- Pilot Officer Herbert Eldon Beale
- Sergeant Norman Reginald Bennett
- Sergeant William Houston Bower
- Flight Sergeant Frank Lawrence Boyd
- Pilot Officer Eric Bradley
- Sergeant Stanley Charles Brewer
- Sergeant John Henry Brown
- Flight Lieutenant Bruce Lyndon Buls
- Pilot Officer Edgar Heaton Burgess
- Sergeant Allan Campbell
- Flying Officer Brian Withers Carmichael
- Sergeant John Carr
- Leading Aircraftman Heinz Max Casparius
- Sergeant Ernest John Chapman
- Lieutenant Edward Malherbe Cilliers
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth George Curtis
- Sergeant John Charles Dangerfield
- Flight Sergeant Raymond De Champfleur Darken
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Albert De'ath
- Flying Officer Hal Ian Comer Dent
- Flight Sergeant Duncan
- Flying Officer Patrick Michael Dunne
- Sergeant Clifford Alexander Dunphy
- Flight Sergeant James Sydney Durward
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Elliott
- Sergeant Graham Malcolm Ellwood
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander Edward Elrick
- Leading Aircraftman William Entwistle
- Sergeant Percy Evans
- Sergeant Michael Paul Fahey
- Flight Sergeant Owen Stewart Filmer
- Wing Commander Arthur William Magee Finny
- Sergeant William Robert Fisher
- Sergeant Leslie Wallace Fletcher
- Sergeant Francis Alexander Kevin Gallagher
- Flight Sergeant Steve John Gergley
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Gilbert
- Sergeant John William Joseph Gill
- Flying Officer Terence Harry Gordon-glassford
- Leading Aircraftman George Phillip Grierson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Edward Haley
- Flight Sergeant Noel Henry Raybould Hart
- Pilot Officer George Edward Harvey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Patrick Joseph Henegan
- Pilot Officer Cyril Heywood
- Flight Sergeant John Stewart Hill
- Warrant Officer Class II Charles William Hollingshead
- Sergeant John Thompson Howe
- Aircraftman 1st Class Keith Fredric Hughes
- Flying Officer Douglas Hunter
- Flying Officer John Saynor Hustler
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Thomas Jones
- Sergeant Joseph Reginald John Kau
- Flying Officer Ewald George Kendel
- Sergeant Douglas Paterson Kerr
- Flying Officer Kenneth Stanton Kibble
- Flight Sergeant Edward Vivian Laing
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Sydney John Linter
- Flight Lieutenant Torkel Torkelsson Lundberg
- Warrant Officer Class II John Alexander McMillan
- Sergeant Ronald McNeil
- Flying Officer Jack Henry Moore
- Flying Officer Leslie Alfred Frederick Newman
- Sergeant Alvin Gustaf Olsen
- Flying Officer Henry Lawrence Osborne
- Leading Aircraftman George Henry Pallen
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Hope Paynter
- Sergeant Sidney Edward Perry
- Sergeant Norman Ridley
- Sergeant John Michael David Ryan
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Maversley Scratchley
- Sergeant Matthew Irons Sharpley
- Sergeant Ronald Alfred Singleton
- Sergeant Gordon Joseph Smale
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Roger Lawrence Sterrett
- Sergeant Alexander Robert Sutton
- Sergeant Robert Richard Falkiner Swords
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Edgar Taaffe
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Bates Taylor
- Sergeant Ronald Taylor
- Corporal Reginald William Tebbutt
- Warrant Officer Class II Norman Roy Thompson
- Sergeant Roy Ambrose Stuart Tucker
- Leading Aircraftman James George Walter
- Lieutenant Walthers
- Flight Sergeant Keith Robert Webber
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Hanson Welsh
- Flight Sergeant George Hugh Whyte
- Flight Sergeant Douglas George Williams
- Sergeant Anthony Marshall Willis
- Flying Officer Ivan Reginald Willis
- Sergeant Peter Thomas Windsor Wiltshire
- Sergeant Victor Jack Wood
1944
- Sergeant Leslie Francis Abel
- Flight Sergeant James McGinn Aitken
- Squadron Leader Arthur Marsden Lewis Alderton
- Pilot Officer Robert Norman Allan
- Sergeant Leo Ashton
- Sergeant William Goodson Atkins
- Sergeant Victor George Baker
- Flying Officer Peter Richard Bales
- Sergeant John Douglas Barker
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Barnes
- Flight Sergeant John Percival Bartington
- Sergeant Kenneth William John Baxter
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Leroy Baxter
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Stanley Bergin
- Sergeant Thomas George Berry
- Sergeant Henry William Birchley
- Sergeant Edgar George Bird
- Flight Sergeant Jack Frederick Blair
- Sergeant Allan Blanksby
- Sergeant Harry William Bloomfield
- Sergeant John Boland
- Sergeant Ronald Arthur Blake Boydon
- Flight Sergeant Henry Boyes
- Flying Officer Leslie Francis Brewer
- Flight Sergeant Eric William Brookes
- Flight Sergeant Robert Brotherton
- Sergeant Frederick Buchan
- Sergeant Eddie Frederick Bush
- Sergeant Kenneth Butler
- Pilot Officer Robert John Butler
- Pilot Officer Donald Canning
- Sergeant Colin Campbell Cassy
- Flight Sergeant William Robert Chadwick
- Sergeant Raymond Charlton
- Pilot Officer James Barry Chess
- Sergeant James Sydney Child
- Sergeant Philip Peter Clarkin
- Flying Officer James Thomas Clinkskill
- Flight Sergeant Eric Clark Clunas
- Sergeant Ronald Codling
- Pilot Officer John George Coflin
- Flight Sergeant Charles Cook
- Pilot Officer Norman Earl Cook
- Sergeant Alfred Frank Cooper
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Henry Cooper
- Pilot Officer Joseph Jean Maurice Marcel Couture
- Flying Officer William Arthur Cozens
- Sergeant Kenneth Solman Crisfield
- Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Wood Crossley
- Pilot Officer Gordon Currie
- Sergeant James Currie
- Sergeant Griffith John Davies
- Sergeant Idris Davies
- Sergeant Arthur John Deans
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Popham Deshon
- Sergeant Edward James Devine
- Sergeant John Henry Di Pinto
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Robinson Dixon
- Pilot Officer Michael Gerald Edmund Donoghue
- Pilot Officer William John Douglas
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Dudley
- Flight Sergeant William Alexander Dunbar
- Sergeant Thomas Wilkie Durie
- Sergeant Ronald Herbert Easton
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd George Edmonds
- Sergeant Robert William Edwards
- Sergeant Albert Edward Elliott
- Pilot Officer Harold Thomas Ellis
- Pilot Officer Robert Thomas Harold Ellis
- Sergeant Kenneth Emeny
- Squadron Leader Clifford John Farmery
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Ebrick Findlay
- Flight Sergeant Eric Firth
- Flying Officer Alfred Fletcher
- Flying Officer Keith Alan Murray Foottit
- Sergeant Rudolph Angel Antonio Forte
- Sergeant Kenneth Foyle
- Sergeant James Sidney Fraser
- Warrant Officer Class II Leonard Norman Fresque
- Sergeant John Galloway
- Sergeant Leslie Theodore Gardiner
- Flying Officer Peter James Garlette
- Sergeant David James Gillam
- Sergeant Clive Gilroy
- Flying Officer Charles Horace Glossop
- Pilot Officer William Albert Glover
- Sergeant Wilfred Good
- Group Captain Jack Goodhart
- Flight Sergeant Alistair Chisholm Goodwin
- Sergeant William John Gowdy
- Pilot Officer Herbert Gracey
- Sergeant Benjamin Alexander Blackie Graham
- Sergeant Albert Edward Grant
- Sergeant George Ernest Grigg
- Sergeant John Denis Groves
- Pilot Officer William Henry Frederick George Hagon
- Flight Sergeant Allen James Hannah
- Sergeant Henry Selwyn Harrison
- Sergeant Ronald Arthur Hart
- Pilot Officer Michael Francis Headly
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur George Hermitage
- Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Hicks
- Flight Sergeant Eric Hie
- Sergeant Joseph Hill
- Sergeant Francis Hilton
- Pilot Officer Leslie Hocking
- Flight Sergeant Richard Frank Bernard Holborow
- Sergeant Herbert Peter Hopkins
- Sergeant Leslie Horrocks
- Flying Officer Harold Hoyle
- Flying Officer David Renwick Hunter
- Sergeant William James Huntley
- Flying Officer Wallace Kenneth Hutton
- Sergeant Geoffrey Ibbotson
- Flight Sergeant William Russell Jager
- Squadron Leader John Johnstone Jagger
- Flight Sergeant William Douglas James
- Flight Lieutenant Alfred Gisli Jira
- Flying Officer William Smith Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Charles John Jones
- Flight Sergeant Howard Dennis Jones
- Sergeant Sydney James Louis Jones
- Flying Officer Dennis Harold Kent
- Pilot Officer Richard Alexander Kerr
- Sergeant Thomas King
- Sergeant William Kingham
- Flight Sergeant James Kydd
- Sergeant Thomas Robson Lee
- Flying Officer Lawrence Firge Legace
- Flight Sergeant Claude Charles Liersch
- Flying Officer James Alexander Linde
- Sergeant Robert Douglas Livingstone
- Warrant Officer Class II Benjamin Jack Lobb
- Flying Officer John Lockhart
- Pilot Officer William James Louth
- Sergeant Edward Sidney Lowe
- Sergeant Donald G. J. Lucas
- Sergeant Phillip Lynch
- Flight Sergeant Aubrey Kenneth Lawson Lyon
- Pilot Officer Alasdair Leslie Mackenzie
- Flying Officer John Burke Mahoney
- Sergeant Dennis Leslie Mansfield
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Marlow
- Flight Sergeant Peter Andrew Marsh
- Flight Sergeant Francis Martin
- Sergeant Tom Martin
- Sergeant Edward William Harold McCaffrey
- Sergeant William Arthur McCauley
- Sergeant James McCurry
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Allan McDonald
- Sergeant John McGowan
- Sergeant Anthony William McGrath
- Sergeant Charles James McLaughlin
- Warrant Officer Class II John Pickles Shaw McLeod
- Flying Officer Robert John McMehen
- Sergeant Peter McQueeney
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Donovan Meigh
- Sergeant Anthony Mickus
- Sergeant James Thomas Arthur Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Douglas Moncrieff
- Flying Officer Harry Donald Geoffrey Morris
- Warrant Officer Class II William Penri Morris
- Sergeant Bruce Ralph Morrison
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Chapman Munro
- Sergeant Thomas Dudley Murton
- Flying Officer Orvin Kenneth Nelson
- Flying Officer Frank William Newson
- Sergeant George Charles Ogilvie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Henry Orrell
- Flying Officer Denis Alan Page
- Flying Officer Arthur Brian Parr
- Warrant Officer Class II William Alfred Parsley
- Flight Sergeant Henry Alfred Paul
- Sergeant Jack Hastings Paul
- Warrant Officer George K. Peasgood
- Flight Sergeant William Percival
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Perrett
- Flying Officer Keith Jobson Perrett
- Flight Lieutenant William Jack Pershke
- Flight Sergeant William Alexander Peterson
- Flight Sergeant Victor Wilfred Piedot
- Sergeant Charles Alan Pinder
- Sergeant Donald Ernest Pinkard
- Sergeant Edward James Pitman
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Henry Frederick Pitt
- Sergeant Cyril Arthur Ponder
- Sergeant Arthur Charles Pope
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Alexander Porteous
- Flight Lieutenant Llewellyn Evan Price
- Sergeant Berle Clinton Prill
- Sergeant Norman Pyke
- Pilot Officer Charles Rankin
- Flight Sergeant Nelson John Rapere
- Pilot Officer Jack Montague Read
- Flight Sergeant Charles William Reed
- Flying Officer Gilmour Murray Reid
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Renton
- Sergeant Robert Richards
- Flight Sergeant Sidney John Richards
- Sergeant Arthur Melvyn Roberts
- Flight Lieutenant Frank James Roberts
- Flight Lieutenant Ian James Robertson
- Second Lieutenant Ruddle
- Flying Officer Byron Allen Russell
- Sergeant Peter Frederick Searle
- Sergeant Frederick John Seeley
- Flying Officer Robert Walter Sharp
- Sergeant Joseph William (joey) Shelton
- Sergeant Robert Shields
- Flying Officer William Russell Sloan
- Sergeant Cyril Edward Smith
- Sergeant John Stuart Smith
- Sergeant Norman Smith
- Sergeant Thomas Christopher Soloman
- Flying Officer Lloyd George Speyer
- Sergeant William Herbert Spibey
- Flying Officer Courtney Leroy Spooner
- Sergeant Thomas Geoffrey Stammers
- Sergeant Ross Harvey Stanley
- Sergeant John Reginald Starr
- Flight Sergeant Ian Brownlie Stavert
- Warrant Officer Class I Sydney Gordon Stephenson
- Sergeant Reginald Ralph Stevens
- Warrant Officer Fred Stokes
- Sergeant Andrew Bernard Summers
- Flight Lieutenant Victor Henry Surplice
- Sergeant Samuel Jackson Swain
- Sergeant Reginald Symcox
- Sergeant Norman Taylor
- Pilot Officer Edward George Thomas
- Pilot Officer Robert Sidney Thompson
- Sergeant Arthur Alec Timson
- Sergeant Charles Reginald Tingle
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon William Chester Toal
- Warrant Officer William Benedict Tobin
- Flying Officer Charles Travers
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Ralph Trout
- Flying Officer James Alexander Welsh Turnbull
- Sergeant Bertie Frederick Turner
- Pupil Pilot Johannes Van Vuuren
- Sergeant William Geoffrey Alexander Venables
- Flight Sergeant Garth Walker
- Flying Officer Ronald Edward Walker
- Warrant Officer Class II Roy Harold Walton
- Sergeant Leonard George William Watts
- Sergeant Weatherill
- Sergeant Edwin Weatherley
- Sergeant John Charles Webber
- Sergeant Reginald Sydney Western
- Warrant Officer Burney Edgar Richard Whitehouse
- Sergeant William Ernest Whitfield
- Sergeant Wallace Frank Alan Whittock
- Sergeant Harold William Williams
- Flight Sergeant Albert Williston
- Sergeant Wilson
- Sergeant James Archibald Wilson
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Carl Wilson
- Flying Officer Ronald John Wilson
- Warrant Officer Walter William Wise
- Flight Sergeant George Young
1945
- Warrant Officer Anton David Anderson
- Pilot Officer Charles Douglas Beck
- Pilot Officer Noel Thalman Biccard
- Lieutenant Lenard Walter Douglass
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Colin Geeves
- Leading Aircraftman Harley McColl Grove
- Flight Sergeant Norman Walter Huggins
- Flight Sergeant James Vincent Jenkins
- Flying Officer Percy Harold Kearse
- Lieutenant Alan Leonard Spafford
- Squadron Leader Ronald Henry Stringer
- Second Lieutenant Susskind
- Corporal James Anderson Tait
- Flight Sergeant Leslie John Tame
- Leading Aircraftman Ian Robert Vidler
- Flying Officer Ralph Taverham Ware
- Flying Officer Colin Leonard Woolford