On this day — 31 January
232 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 31 January during the Second World War.
1940
- Corporal Frank Chilton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Critchley
- Corporal Ernest Albert Ferris
- Flight Lieutenant Claude Henry Leggott
- Pilot Officer David Giles Davies Maynard
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Raymond Wollatt Shrimpton
- Sergeant Derek Paul Watson-parker
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis William Whittaker
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Arthur Williams
1941
- Flying Officer Basil Le Gay Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Edward Lowe
- Leading Aircraftman Allan Henry McIver
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank William John Myles
- Aircraftman 1st Class Norman Styne
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Topping
- Pilot Officer Godfrey Edward Turner
- Flying Officer James Frederick Unsworth
1942
- Pilot Officer Denys Lowe Atkinson
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Arthur Bacon
- Sergeant Arthur Raymond Batley
- Sergeant William Black
- Sergeant John Ralph Vigurs Bones
- Pilot Officer Douglas McIntosh Burgess
- Squadron Leader Thomas Noel Challoner Burrough
- Flying Officer Alan Gladstone Burt
- Sergeant Leonard William Dann
- Sergeant Thomas Alfred Evans
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Grierson
- Sergeant William Thomas Holmes
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert Thomas How
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Walter Jaggard
- Sergeant Ronald Sidney Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Kerr
- Sergeant George James Linegar
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sydney James Lloyd
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hayes William Morgan
- Warrant Officer Arthur Norman Mowlam
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Charles Shaw Page
- Pilot Officer Hubert Jack Parker
- Flying Officer John Robert Bruno Parsons
- Flight Sergeant Edmund Ronald Penhale
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Veith Smith
- Sergeant Clarence James Stringer
- Flight Sergeant Harry Edward Turner
1943
- Sergeant McKeen Allan
- Flight Lieutenant Harold William Aves
- Sergeant John Leslie Emery Barden
- Sergeant Peter William Barrett
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Lee Baugh
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Robert Bawden
- Sergeant John Henry Beasley
- Warrant Officer Class II Frank James Belanger
- Sergeant Colin Bruce Berger
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Louis Paul Boutin
- Sergeant James Arthur Gerald Browne
- Sergeant Walter Henry Brunning
- Sergeant Arthur William Butcher
- Flying Officer Hugh John Munro Campbell
- Warrant Officer Class II Ralph Patrick Campbell
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Jean Jacques Fernand Casaubon
- Sergeant Joseph Clark
- Pilot Officer John Clifford Alfred Clarke
- Flight Sergeant Elliot Livesey Cole
- Sergeant Willie Cotton
- Sergeant Donald Coy
- Sergeant Percival James Davey
- Flying Officer Albert Edgar David
- Sergeant Wilfred Eric Debeurier
- Sergeant George Francis Done
- Sergeant John Douglas
- Sergeant John Francis Eden
- Corporal Ralph Elgey
- Sergeant Edwin Fowell
- Flying Officer Christopher James John Gill
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Oswell Goff
- Flying Officer Norman Gorick
- Flight Sergeant Llewellyn Grey
- Sergeant Eric John Guth
- Aircraftman 1st Class William McKenzie Hamilton
- Sergeant Edward Highfield
- Sergeant Alfred Walter Hover
- Sergeant Graham James Hunt
- Flying Officer Leslie Hubert Hunt
- Warrant Officer Gordon James Hutchinson
- Sergeant John Charles Jacques
- Sergeant Howard Edward Johnson
- Sergeant Henry Summers Jones
- Sergeant James Langrell
- Sergeant Victor Loar
- Squadron Leader Donald George Long
- Sergeant Norman Marshall
- Sergeant George Edward Marwick
- Sergeant Stanley Frederick McLean
- Pilot Officer William Weston Milsom
- Sergeant Eric Louis Bowen Moore
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Alfred Morgan
- Flight Sergeant William Mossop
- Flying Officer Ronald Albert Moyle
- Sergeant John Murtagh
- Sergeant Walter George Murton
- Warrant Officer Class II Frank Goheen Nelson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ng Hong Seah
- Flight Sergeant John Orson Nicholls
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Menzies Page
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Ross Phelps
- Sergeant Frederick Stanley Tristram Pittard
- Sergeant Geoffrey Frederick Priest
- Flight Lieutenant John Archibald Rae
- Flying Officer Frederick Charles Reed
- Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Mac Reynolds
- Flying Officer Frank Ridley
- Corporal Richard (rec) Roberts
- Flying Officer Edward William George Rosam
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Edwin Samuels
- Group Captain Frederick George Sherriff
- Sergeant John Clayton Smithson
- Sergeant Frank Spurr
- Pilot Officer Sidney John Stenning
- Sergeant Reginald (reg) Stone
- Sergeant Bryan Milton Swallow
- Lieutenant John E. Symes
- Flight Sergeant Jack Findlay Thomas
- Sergeant Phillip John Cecil Thomas
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Victor Tomlinson
- Sergeant Stuart Urquhart Trowbridge
- Sergeant William John Veysey
- Sergeant Samuel David Wall
- Corporal Edmund Wilson Wheeler
- Sergeant Allan Arthur Frederick Williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Gladstone Williamson
- Pilot Officer David Leslie Thompson Wilson
- Flying Officer George Wood
- Sergeant William Charles Wood
1944
- Sergeant William Andrew Melrose Anderson
- Sergeant Roy Henry Appleton
- Warrant Officer Richard Geoffrey Arding
- Flight Lieutenant Howard Charles Sheffield Armstrong
- Sergeant Donald Apsey Backhouse
- Flight Sergeant Harold James Boal
- Sergeant George Victor Bourne
- Sergeant Felix Byrne
- Sergeant Jack Marshall Cantor
- Sergeant Leslie Clifton
- Sergeant Frederick Tom Copp
- Sergeant Alexander Keith Cowie
- Flying Officer John Frederick Cusworth
- Flight Sergeant Berte Dempsey
- Flying Officer Charles James Down
- Sergeant Ronald Edward Duke
- Flight Sergeant Robert Kerr Yule Fairbairn
- Pilot Officer Thomas William Aubrey Farrer
- Flying Officer David Finlay
- Sergeant Richard Charles Humphrey Fisher
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Kirwan Fitzgerald
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert McKenzie Fleming
- Flying Officer Richard Norman Foster
- Flight Lieutenant Maurice Leonard Gillingham
- Sergeant Henry Edward Gleed
- Warrant Officer Leonard William Gooding
- Pilot Officer James Craig Graham
- Flight Sergeant Frederick George Green
- Flying Officer Douglas Stewart Haddon
- Flying Officer Darrell Anthony Lewis Hall
- Pilot Officer Allan Robert Hart
- Sergeant Douglas Frederick Hicks
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred George Higgins
- Sergeant Peter Horsfield
- Flying Officer Derek Roland Inskip
- Flying Officer Godefrey Hendrik Jackson
- Sergeant George Mathias Jones
- Flying Officer Marshall Levi Jones
- Sergeant William Joseph Jones
- Warrant Officer Class I William George King
- Flying Officer William Joseph King
- Flying Officer Jeffery Cayley Laidlaw
- Flying Officer Cyril Lloyd
- Sergeant Leslie Walter Low
- Sergeant Donald John Maclennan
- Sergeant George Martin
- Corporal Henry Ashworth Maxwell
- Sergeant John McKenzie
- Warrant Officer James Bernard McKnight
- Pilot Officer Donald George McLeod
- Sergeant Albert Lorne Mullen
- Flight Sergeant Andrew John Neeson
- Sergeant Harold Nelson
- Flight Sergeant Charles Arthur Shears Noad
- Corporal Edmond O'Shaughnessy
- Flight Sergeant John Ernest Parsons
- Sergeant Philip Pearl
- Sergeant James Sydney Pomeroy
- Sergeant Arthur Bernard Porter
- Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Price
- Warrant Officer John Pritchard
- Sergeant Sydney George Pryke
- Sergeant Robert Henry Rahn
- Flight Sergeant Leighton Dawkin Richards
- Warrant Officer Class II Lewis Riggs
- Sergeant Andrew Harkes Robertson
- Pilot Officer John Ruddell
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Settle
- Second Lieutenant Stanton
- Flight Sergeant Donald Keith Stephenson
- Flight Sergeant William Arthur Sudholz
- Flying Officer Alan John Robson Thompson
- Flying Officer Harry George Trueman
- Sergeant George Turner
- Flying Officer Maurice Vincent Wareing
- Flying Officer Herbert Webb
- Sergeant Samuel Joseph Weir
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Noel Whitnall
- Flying Officer Edward Linus Wilhelm
- Sergeant Ian Leslie Wilkinson
- Flying Officer John Wilkinson
- Warrant Officer Gordon Ivan Williams
- Flight Sergeant Keith Stanley Wilson
1945
- Lieutenant Walter Mayne Allison
- Lieutenant Johan Heinrich Buxmann
- Flying Officer William Morrison Howard
- Flight Sergeant George Dalton O'Connor
- Flying Officer Walter Slater
- Flying Officer Donald Angus Spice
- Pilot Officer Robert Neill Tucker
- Flying Officer Francis John White
- Warrant Officer Arthur Roland Williams
- Sergeant Edward Arthur Wilson
1946
- Corporal Clarence Leslie Bishop
- Leading Aircraftman Elgar Wallace Mullinger
- Leading Aircraftman Noel Seddon O'Keefe
- Flight Sergeant Eric Samuel Willis