On this day — 28 January
265 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 28 January during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Beiser
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert John Ernest Burns
- Sergeant Douglas Hunter Cameron
- Flight Sergeant George Clubb
- Sergeant Basil Roper Cooke
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick William Herriott
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Claude Frank Holmes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Hedley Lees
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Abraham Leopold Levy-haarscher
- Sergeant Arthur Harry May
- Flying Officer John Forrest Morton Millar
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Gordon Mitchell
- Pilot Officer John Ignatius Newman
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Bell Pearson
- Sergeant Roy Charles Pedley
- Leading Aircraftman George Freeman Pratt
- Squadron Leader James Manning Rainbow
- Sergeant Thomas Reay
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Reynolds
- Pilot Officer Bailey Middlebrook Sawyer
- Flying Officer Henry Theodore Skillman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur George Spittle
- Sergeant Harold Stevens
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Richard Tysoe
- Sergeant Wilfred Warren
1942
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur George Amer
- Sergeant John Richard Anyan
- Sergeant Bruce Astley
- Sergeant Frederick William Baker
- Warrant Officer George Edward Albert Baxter
- Pilot Officer Edward Miles Beaumont
- Sergeant Robert William Antony Biddlecombe
- Sergeant Kenneth Maurice Bird
- Flight Sergeant Albutt Brittain
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Reid Campbell
- Sergeant George Norman Church
- Sergeant Denis Curnick
- Sergeant Alfred James Dickerson
- Sergeant Arthur Samuel Ditch
- Sergeant Ronald Welburn Dobson
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Doman
- Sergeant Stanley Albert Dungey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Ellis
- Flight Sergeant David Gold
- Sergeant Sidney George Harding
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Francis Hastings
- Sergeant Duncan Edward Hodgkinson
- Sergeant Christopher John Irwin
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Alfred Jacobson
- Flight Sergeant Emrys Evan Jones
- Sergeant Peter Gray Milton
- Pilot Officer Melville Arthur Chaloner Olive
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Granton Patrick
- Sergeant Thomas Archie Peters
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John George Raper
- Sergeant Clive William Pryer Rice
- Sergeant George Marsh Robinson
- Pilot Officer Robert Vincent Selfe
- Sergeant Francis William Smith
- Sergeant Edward John Snelling
- Flight Sergeant Francis Alexander Tait
- Sergeant Frank Godfrey Truscott
- Sergeant Reginald Howard Vearncombe
- Pilot Officer George Hamilton Webster
- Pilot Officer Dennis Owens Weeks
- Sergeant John Westly Westwood
- Sergeant Alan Neal Williams
- Sergeant Robert McKay Young
1943
- Flight Sergeant Robert Elford Allin
- Flight Sergeant John Ruskin Askew
- Flying Officer Frank Astles
- Sergeant Richard Badcock
- Sergeant Edward Stanley Bala
- Pilot Officer Roland Roy Barnes
- Sergeant Cecil Francis Beechey
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Henri Alphonse Beliveau
- Sergeant William Alan Bennett
- Pilot Officer John Dudley Birch
- Flight Sergeant Jack Sinclair Boyer
- Sergeant Alfred Henry Bransby
- Sergeant George Ambrose Brind
- Pilot Officer Gilbert Frederick Brown
- Pilot Officer Peter Denzil O'Donoghue Carey
- Sergeant John Collingridge
- Sergeant Ralph Hilton Credland
- Sergeant Richard Edward Drago
- Sergeant Frank James Emberson
- Sergeant Douglas Joseph Farrell
- Sergeant Raymond Fox
- Sergeant James Arthur (jim) Garland
- Sergeant James Gilmour
- Flying Officer Allan Hogg
- Sergeant Keith Wheatcroft Holmes
- Squadron Leader Douglas Wallace Stanton Ireland
- Corporal George Rupert Anzac Kanake
- Flight Lieutenant Bruce Keith Lindsay
- Flight Lieutenant John Herbert Long
- Aircraftman 1st Class Roderick Andrew Macdonald
- Sergeant Malcolm McMillan
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Brian Mortimer-rose
- Sergeant Gordon Cornelius Nielsen
- Leading Aircraftman Wilfrid Richard Noel
- Flight Lieutenant Gerald James O'Hanley
- Leading Aircraftman John Buckley Patrick
- Sergeant Leslie James Reid
- Sergeant Robert Charles Rosam
- Corporal Leonard George Routley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Hubert Shotter
- Flying Officer William Field Crichton Snow
- Sergeant John Dennis Stone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Walker
- Sergeant Utrick Watson Wallace
- Flight Sergeant John William Warner
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick White
- Pilot Officer John Michael Whitehead
1944
- Sergeant Cyril Arthur Acombe-hill
- Warrant Officer Class I Anderson
- Corporal John William Armfield
- Sergeant Cyril Atherton
- Sergeant William Beach
- Flying Officer George Edward Beswick
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jack Boag
- Sergeant Frederick William Booth
- Flying Officer James Robert Booth
- Sergeant Terence Bowden
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Alexander Byron Brown
- Flying Officer Robert Oswald Brown
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Thomas Bussey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Geoffrey Leighton Buttery
- Warrant Officer Albert Henry Haydon Carter
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Cartwright
- Flight Sergeant John Melburne Cassady
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Alfred Clarke
- Pilot Officer Charles Clifton
- Air Sergeant Jacob Peter Coetsee
- Flying Officer Roy James Cook
- Sergeant Douglas James Coombe
- Pilot Officer Ray Edgerton Countess
- Sergeant Stephen Joseph Degnan
- Pilot Officer William Ronald Dishman
- Flying Officer James Harper Dodge
- Sergeant Francis Herbert Doncaster
- Lieutenant Earl
- Flight Sergeant William Gordon Filer
- Flying Officer Michael David Leslie Graham
- Sergeant George Edward Greenwood
- Warrant Officer Class I Hare
- Sergeant Thomas Harris
- Warrant Officer Class I John Travers Hill
- Sergeant Ronald Charles James Iles
- Flying Officer Robert Henry Irvine
- Sergeant Andrew Johnston
- Flight Sergeant Wilfrid Anthony Jukes
- Sergeant Arnold Thomas Keel
- Flight Sergeant Lionel Beaumont Knight
- Pilot Officer Michael Kwas
- Pilot Officer Victor Mitchell Lawson
- Pilot Officer William Arthur Lynch
- Pilot Officer John Angus Maclean
- Sergeant James McDermand
- Flying Officer Gordon Ian Henry McPherson
- Sergeant Joseph James Melling
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur James Miles
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Montgomery Miller
- Sergeant Donald Minor
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Charles Norman Morris
- Sergeant Percy Neil
- Sergeant Walter Newman
- Pilot Officer Cecil O'Brien
- Sergeant William Houston Pollock Omnet
- Pilot Officer Thomas Edward Ord
- Sergeant Allan George Palmer
- Corporal Ronald Parry
- Warrant Officer Class II Leo Harkness Patterson
- Flight Sergeant Robin Gordon Philipps
- Flying Officer Henry Brian Despard Pringle
- Sergeant Edward Gerald Quigley
- Sergeant Derrick Percy Rance
- Sergeant George William Rawlings
- Sergeant Arthur Philip Readdy
- Flying Officer Edward Arthur Rose
- Flight Sergeant Reginald James Rouse
- Sergeant Leslie Gordon Rush
- Sergeant Anthony Rutherford-browne
- Flight Lieutenant William Wallace Ryder
- Lieutenant Schonken
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Sealy
- Flight Sergeant William John Simpson
- Pilot Officer Douglas Scott Sinclair
- Flying Officer Leslie John Slatter
- Flying Officer Kjartan Ari Solmundsson
- Sergeant William Speakman
- Flying Officer Richard Edward Stacey
- Sergeant Leonard Stone
- Flying Officer Gerald Henry Sudds
- Sergeant Charles Herbert Thomas
- Warrant Officer Donald Ashley Thompson
- Pilot Officer Thomas Allan Thomson
- Flight Sergeant Ross Lindsay Timlin
- Flying Officer Thomas William Townley
- Flight Sergeant Brian Stanley Tugwell
- Sergeant Dennis William Albert Udall
- Flying Officer Baron Egbert Joost Van Nagell
- Flight Sergeant Albert James Wallis
- Sergeant Ronald Frederick I'Anson Watson
- Pilot Officer Claude Weaver
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Allen Whitehead
- Flight Sergeant Warwick Victor Wilkes
- Flight Sergeant Norman Yates
1945
- Wing Commander Nigel William Barker
- Sergeant Reginald Thomas Barter
- Flying Officer Alfred Vincent Eric Bate
- Lieutenant Edward Baxter
- Flying Officer Peter Norham Birt
- Flying Officer John Wilfred Blades
- Sergeant Edward Max Bowman
- Warrant Officer Marshall Vivian Muir Bowness
- Pilot Officer Joseph Henry Brown
- Flight Sergeant John Hunter Carter
- Pilot Officer Russell Edmund Chatfield
- Flying Officer Colin Laidler Chisholm
- Pilot Officer Harold Luther Clark
- Flying Officer Franklin Howard Cummer
- Flying Officer Allan Dalglish
- Pilot Officer Gordon James Doyle
- Flying Officer Allan Llewellyn Evans
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Filipchuk
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Hugh Fisher
- Flying Officer Wallace Fleming
- Flight Sergeant Keith Innes Gove
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Neil Hay
- Flying Officer Neville Alexander Heffernan
- Flying Officer Philip Hyde
- Pilot Officer Fernand Leo Jolicoeur
- Squadron Leader Harry Leslie Kay
- Warrant Officer Raymond John Keyes
- Flying Officer Paul Laney
- Warrant Officer Raymond William Gibson Leslie
- Flying Officer Gerald Joseph Liney
- Sergeant Allan Stanley Roy Martin
- Pilot Officer Robert James Nicolls
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Glen O'Hara
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Pratt
- Sergeant Raymond Copley Preston
- Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
- Flight Lieutenant Jack McPherson Richardson
- Flight Sergeant John William Ross
- Pilot Officer Sidney Gordon Rundle
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Robert Savage
- Flight Lieutenant James Anthony Seage
- Pilot Officer Gerald Albert Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Gilbert James Smith
- Flying Officer Maurice Frederick Stevens
- Sergeant John Knox Thomson
- Flying Officer Walter Brian Turner
- Sergeant Robert Leslie Warne
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Watts
- Flying Officer Wilfred Llewellyn Whitby
- Warrant Officer Hector Reginald Wickham
- Wing Commander Edwin Mountford Williams
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Gordon Wilson