On this day — 1 April
175 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 1 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Flying Officer Glyn Harries
- Sergeant Herbert Henry Kelleway
- Pilot Officer Roderick Campbell Mathieson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry Eric Pugh
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward John Robinson
- Sergeant John Grant Stewart
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry John Taylor
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Lionel Wolverson
1941
- Pilot Officer Peter Hardey Blake
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Blake
- Corporal George John Bleasdale
- Flight Lieutenant Donovan Gerhard Boehm
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Trevor John Bryant
- Sergeant Percival Ernest Butler
- Sergeant Victor Delancey Calvert
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Henry Challen
- Flight Lieutenant David Alexander Cummings Crooks
- Sergeant William Curry
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Phillips Dale
- Sergeant Denis Gordon Fawcett
- Flying Officer Maxwell Stewart Ferguson
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Maurice Campbell Hipkin
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Jackson
- Flight Sergeant Robert George Lester Lambourne
- Sergeant Kenneth George Lee
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Wilfred Leonard
- Lieutenant Jack Marais
- Leading Aircraftman William Hugh Patrick Morey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Francis Penlington
- Sergeant Jack Riley
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Smith
- Sergeant Fred Hugh Sykes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Allan Thompson
- Sergeant John William Turner
1942
- Sergeant William Philip Ashun
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Donald Baker
- Wing Commander Samuel McCaughey Boal
- Pilot Officer John Leslie Bradbury
- Sergeant Melvyn Hamilton Brandon
- Sergeant John Chivers
- Sergeant Harry Clarke
- Sergeant John Stanley Clarke
- Flight Sergeant Walter George Cunningham
- Corporal Ronald Cameron David
- Flight Sergeant Spencer Sidney Dawes
- Air Mechanic Duvenhage
- Sergeant George Henry Elliott
- Pilot Officer John Homfray Ellis
- Leading Aircraftman Michael Dennie Ellis
- Flight Sergeant Edward Hamilton Erby
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Glew
- Sergeant George Horton
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Francis Hoskin
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Howard
- Flight Sergeant Martin Charles Howe
- Flight Sergeant Moheddeen Abdul Ghias Howsan
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Leonard Kirk
- Sergeant George Yorke Larmour
- Sergeant Charles Lewis Lewis-hall
- Pilot Officer Arthur Eric Lockwood
- Sergeant William Luney
- Pilot Officer James George Mackinnon
- Pilot Officer John Thomas Mainwaring
- Flight Sergeant Roy Whitworth Marshall
- Pilot Officer James Kerr McLean
- Sergeant Hugh Mitchell
- Sergeant James Murphy
- Pilot Officer Harry Neal
- Sergeant George Eric Newman
- Flight Sergeant Alan Daley Nightingale
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Matthew Osborne
- Flight Sergeant Edward Albert Owen
- Flight Sergeant Raoul Omer Joseph Page
- Warrant Officer Class I Walter David Page
- Sergeant Stanley Perry
- Corporal Joseph Pitt
- Sergeant Richard Arthur Platt
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Robert Povey
- Flight Sergeant Wilbert George Reid
- Sergeant Eric George Walter Shotter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Spence
- Sergeant Vincent Leslie Stephens
- Corporal Donald Parr Thwaite
- Sergeant Geoffrey Warren-wright
- Corporal Dennis Lawrence Wills
1943
- Sergeant Vivian James Ackroyd
- Sergeant Harold Granville Anderson
- Sergeant Ernest Joseph Ronald Ansell
- Flying Officer Eric Richard Victor Ashcroft
- Warrant Officer Thomas William Barker
- Flying Officer Ian Crawford Burns
- Sergeant James Edward Callaghan
- Sergeant Stewart Colclough
- Flying Officer Stanley Cornforth
- Flying Officer Morris Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Francis Dow
- Sergeant Antony Hare Fry
- Flight Sergeant William Donald George
- Sergeant Kenneth George Graham
- Sergeant Robert Holmes
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Humes
- Warrant Officer Class II William Johnstone Kinnaird
- Flying Officer Raymond Charles Macquoid
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur John Manning
- Captain Harold William Marchant
- Sergeant John Henry Norman
- Squadron Leader Charles O'Donoghue
- Flying Officer Christian Chas Andre Ortmans
- Sergeant James Richard Harold Rowe
- Flight Sergeant John Lindsay Sayer
- Sergeant Keith Edward Spedding
- Sergeant Sefton Stafford
- Pilot Officer James Tarbuck
- Sergeant William Samuel Walker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrence Watson
- Sergeant John Edwin Winn
1944
- Sergeant Robert Allott
- Flying Officer William Russell Baillie
- Sergeant Brian Atkinson Bell
- Flying Officer Harold Joseph Billington
- Flying Officer John Birkett
- Flying Officer Thomas Alexander Hamilton Black
- Flight Sergeant Peter Burchell
- Pilot Officer John Whitfield Carter
- Flight Sergeant Terence Raymond Cooke
- Sergeant Peter John Endersby
- Sergeant Cyril Farthing
- Sergeant John Grimes Hinder
- Sergeant Geoffrey Hodgson
- Flight Sergeant Donald Edward Johnston
- Sergeant Eric Macdonald Keep
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Kirby
- Sergeant Gerwyn Winton Lewis
- Flying Officer William Lewis
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Arthur Mansbridge
- Warrant Officer Henry Ernest Parsloe
- Flying Officer Vernon Clifford Pockson
- Corporal James Potts
- Sergeant Arthur Edgar Robertshaw
- Flying Officer Ronald Emerson (pat) Ross
- Sergeant David Rowcliffe
- Pilot Officer Frederick Joseph Schmidt
- Flying Officer Wayne Sheldon Shea
- Sergeant Harold William Simpson
- Sergeant Herbert Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Robert William Spencer
- Sergeant John Henry Stafford
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred William Sinclair Stickler
- Sergeant John Philip Taylor
- Sergeant Ronald Granville Thompson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie John Tilson
- Air Mechanic Turner
- Pilot Officer William Robert Wood
1945
- Pilot Officer Alfred George Brett
- Warrant Officer Donald Peter Drummond
- Lieutenant Embling
- Flying Officer John Nelson Friesen
- Pilot Officer Robert James Smith Green
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Halvor Hofto
- Leading Aircraftman Roderick M. McLeod
- Flying Officer Karl McCormick Merriam
- Flying Officer James Brian Millar
- Flight Lieutenant John Leicester Hazell Richards
- Pilot Officer Harry Ervin Rickert
- Air Corporal Patrick Sheehan
- Flying Officer Harry Norman Skelton
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Renshaw Smith
- Pilot Officer Jack Thornber Steventon
- Flying Officer Leonard Stewart Stockwell
- Pilot Officer Gordon John Storkey
- Flight Lieutenant James Thomson
- Flight Lieutenant Warwick James Turner
- Air Commodore David John Waghorn