On this day — 26 January
209 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 26 January during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer William Ralph McComb
- Flying Officer The Hon. William Drogo Sturges Montagu
- Pilot Officer Graham Sinclair Taylor
1941
- Sergeant Eric Brown
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Leslie Jolly
- Pilot Officer John George Mackay
- Lieutenant Patrick John Joseph Monahan
- Pilot Officer Ifor King Parry-jones
- Sergeant John Robson
- Air Sergeant John Meading Van Huyssteen
- Flying Officer Arthur Richard Yates
1942
- Sergeant William Anderson
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Cecil Bate
- Corporal Joseph Berry
- Corporal Peter Conway Bishop
- Warrant Officer Cyril John Samuel Borras
- Sergeant Hugh Stainger Brown
- Sergeant William Edward Harold Brown
- Sergeant John Harrison Carr
- Sergeant Alfred Ronald Cheadle
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Francis Joseph Clark
- Flight Sergeant John Leslie Clark
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Condliffe
- Sergeant Alfred Charles Cornell
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Coupe
- Flight Sergeant Robert Kenneth Craig
- Flight Sergeant James Angus Dodds
- Flight Lieutenant William John Dyson
- Sergeant Joseph Alban Eckersley
- Flight Sergeant George Ewen
- Sergeant William Frederick Field
- Sergeant Andrew Martin Hearn Fleming
- Flight Sergeant James Alexander Fleming
- Flying Officer Gilbert Strachan Forbes
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Moore Foster
- Pilot Officer John George Stratford Gardiner
- Sergeant John Forster Gibson
- Sergeant Neil Stewart Gill
- Sergeant Herbert Ernest Godson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Goldsworthy
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Henry Gomm
- Aircraftman 1st Class Samuel Busby Goodwin
- Sergeant John Grant
- Flight Sergeant Henry Grey-noble
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Harvey William Grimes
- Sergeant Harvey Jennings Grut
- Flight Sergeant Owen Haggan
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Hamilton
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Vernon Harris
- Sergeant Philip Carlisle Hay
- Sergeant John Toker Clough Hazledine
- Sergeant John Hartley Henderson
- Flying Officer Philip Wynne Herbert
- Flight Sergeant Humphrey Frank Hicks
- Pilot Officer Lynn Frederick Hobbs
- Sergeant Holland
- Leading Aircraftman John Forster Hope
- Flight Sergeant George Henry Horobin
- Sergeant Gordon Stewart Howiss
- Flying Officer David Hughes
- Sergeant John Harvey Alexander Johnston
- Aircraftman 1st Class Tom Appleton Kitching
- Sergeant Arthur Reginald Read Lane
- Flight Sergeant David Bruce Smaill Lee
- Sergeant Joseph Lockhart
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Lyall
- Pilot Officer Walter Hugh Lynch
- Squadron Leader Richard Frederick Cyprian Markham
- Pilot Officer Joseph Mitchell Marok
- Sergeant Arthur Leonard Maslen
- Pilot Officer Francis Cedric Richmond Matson
- Sergeant Peter May
- Leading Aircraftman Delbert Ellsworth McCool
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick James Miley
- Sergeant Victor Frank Morris
- Flying Officer John Edwin Morrison
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Hebert Neill
- Sergeant Eric Charles Nodrum
- Pupil Pilot O'Brien
- Sergeant Edward O'Connell
- Sergeant Maurice Bert Proven
- Sergeant William Rowell
- Squadron Leader Ian Terence Byathan Rowland
- Sergeant Deryk Vaughan Saunders
- Flight Sergeant John Binning Seaton
- Flight Sergeant Christopher Gordon Sewell
- Sergeant Edmund James Joseph Silk
- Sergeant Norman Stead
- Sergeant Charles Henry Stokell
- Sergeant Thomas Steele Tanner
- Flying Officer John Henry Thrift
- Squadron Leader John Dorrell Tillott
- Pilot Officer Arthur Edwin Turner
- Sergeant Anthony Gordon Walker
- Pilot Officer William Thomas De Rouffignac Waters
- Sergeant Alfred Waterworth
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Watson
- Sergeant John Douglas White
- Pilot Officer Sydney Stanley White
- Sergeant Joseph Greenwood Wilson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Wood
- Pilot Officer John Frederick Wright
1943
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Abdul Karim Bin Youn
- Sergeant John Amos
- Flying Officer Brian Herbert Bailey
- Pilot Officer Harry Edwin Bonest
- Sergeant Ronald James Booth
- Sergeant John Robert Brierley
- Sergeant Colin Crawford Brownlee
- Leading Aircraftman John William Buckley
- Sergeant Eldon Howard Caldwell
- Flight Lieutenant John Hope Clark
- Pilot Officer Donald Shaw Cormack
- Sergeant Cadfan Edwards
- Sergeant Brian Patrick Enright
- Pilot Officer Eric John Gleeson
- Sergeant John Dunlop Goldie
- Corporal George Hancock
- Flying Officer William Henry Hoggard
- Sergeant Thomas Matthew Hunter
- Pilot Officer Stanley Joseph James
- Sergeant Peter Vivian Jerome
- Flight Sergeant Henry Bennett Langman Johns
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alun Rowlands Jones
- Flight Lieutenant John Howard Kearns
- Sergeant Gordon Thomas Lawson
- Pilot Officer Robert Portor Love
- Sergeant Harry Lowe
- Leading Aircraftman Owen Loy
- Sergeant Ashley David Lyon
- Flying Officer Dalton Ross Alexander Macdougall
- Flight Sergeant Norman Talbot Mason
- Flight Sergeant Wallace Alfred Lawrence Masterman
- Sergeant Vernon Frederick McHarg
- Sergeant Donald Maxwell Lang McKenzie
- Sergeant Godfrey Alan McKoy
- Flying Officer Kevin James Murphy
- Sergeant Leonard Charles Muston
- Sergeant Geoffrey George Ottley
- Sergeant Brace Harry Parker
- Sergeant Douglas Albert Pauling
- Flight Sergeant Bertie Clifford James Pearson
- Pilot Officer Sidney James Powell
- Sergeant Max Ernest Putnam
- Sergeant Charles Alfred Ravenette
- Sergeant John Herbert Renshaw
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Kennedy Scott
- Sergeant Arthur Ronald Peter Smith
- Sergeant James Joseph Snyder
- Sergeant Henry James Sterne
- Flying Officer Gerald Philip Stone
- Sergeant John Simpson Todd
- Sergeant Eric Hector Tucker
- Flight Sergeant George Douglas Voyzey
- Sergeant Thom As James Whalley
- Sergeant Frederick George Wilkinson
- Sergeant Henry Witte
1944
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gerald Barker
- Flight Sergeant Frank Edgar Bowering
- Sergeant Alan Dennis Brown
- Flight Sergeant William Bungay
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Arthur Carter
- Flight Sergeant Albert Russell Davis
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank George Denham
- Flying Officer John Askew Chartres Dixon
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Dunn
- Warrant Officer Class I Leif Tapio Erickson
- Flying Officer Brian Findley
- Flight Sergeant Matthew John Fletcher
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Ernest Fry
- Flight Sergeant Kevin Malcolm Ford Graham
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Isaac Green
- Flight Sergeant Robert Jeffrey Hayes
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Hetherington
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Ernest Horwell
- Sergeant Ernest Hudson
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Ingram
- Flying Officer Louis Harold Jacobs
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis William Kiff
- Sergeant John Stanley Lemon
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel Lightfoot
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Joseph Lowe
- Flying Officer Ronald Francis McKay
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney Norman Nott
- Flying Officer Patrick O'Grady
- Sergeant Edward Henry Oliver
- Sergeant Eric Pearce
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Charles Preston
- Leading Aircraftman Colin Redman
- Flight Sergeant Warwick William Rich
- Flying Officer Graeme Grieve Stobie
- Flight Sergeant Irvine Storr
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Halliday Warhurst
- Pilot Officer Norman Frederick Westhoff
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Bertrand Wheatley
- Flying Officer Alexander Harold Will
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Markwell Wood
1945
- Aircraftman 1st Class Max Corney
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Edmund Horsfall
- Warrant Officer Alfred Hundley
- Flight Sergeant Irvine Lawrence Johns
- Leading Aircraftman Lloyd Logue
- Flying Officer Henry Oscar Mason
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Sidney Parkes
- Warrant Officer Bernard James Skelly