On this day — 6 April
211 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 6 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman John Brayfield Ball
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Fisher Cook
- Pilot Officer Ian Stapledon
- Sergeant John Drummond Stein
- Sergeant Walter Jonathan Wetton
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Ernest Best
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Alan Stanford Blake
- Corporal Reginald Stanley Burdus
- Wing Commander Waverley Edward Cameron
- Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell
- Sergeant Robert Edward Cree
- Flight Sergeant John Alfred Faill
- Sergeant William Anthony Foster
- Flying Officer Robert Leslie Hicks
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Walter Hillman
- Sergeant Marcus Anthony Hollingshead
- Sergeant William John Howlett
- Pilot Officer Anthony Eyre Jackson
- Pilot Officer Maurice Walter Lishman
- Sergeant Sidney Manley
- Pilot Officer Arnold Walter Martin
- Pilot Officer Hargrave McCosh
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Crichton Philp Mitchell
- Sergeant William Cecil Mulliss
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ralph H. Price
- Sergeant James Philip Scott
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Spatchett
- Pilot Officer Harold Alfred Williams
1942
- Flying Officer Ludwik Karol Assman
- Leading Aircraftman James Henry Attwood
- Sergeant Zdzisław Babraj
- Sergeant Albert Edward Bloor
- Pilot Officer Paul Rigby Sinclair Brooke
- Sergeant Robert William Burdon Brown
- Pilot Officer William Finlay Budge
- Sergeant Philip John Coleman
- Sergeant Edward Frank Collins
- Sergeant Frank Arthur Dann
- Sergeant Ronald Harry Emery
- Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Fisher
- Pilot Officer James Donald Alexander Foley
- Leading Aircraftman James George Godden
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Arthur Goodall
- Sergeant Dominik Marian Grajnert
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Daniel Greenard
- Sergeant Rudolf Grimm
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy William Hailstone
- Sergeant Edwin Hainsworth
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Kenneth Hamilton
- Sergeant James Hardy
- Pilot Officer George Robert Heppell
- Sergeant Jindrich Horinek
- Sergeant Ronald Jacques
- Sergeant Alois Keda
- Sergeant Santos Herbert Kittson
- Flight Sergeant Norman Abraham Leckie
- Pilot Officer Herman Mervyn Lowry
- Sergeant Cyril Victor Maddock
- Leading Aircraftman Godfrey Mallam
- Pilot Officer Frank Massey
- Warrant Officer Class I Daniel Allister McCann
- Leading Aircraftman William McElhutton
- Flight Sergeant Allan Barnby McKeith
- Flying Officer George Eric Mitchell
- Pilot Officer James Russel Moore
- Flight Lieutenant Zygmunt Natkański
- Sergeant Arthur Naylor
- Pilot Officer Alfred Osadziński
- Sergeant Gilbert Lewis Quincey
- Wing Commander Reginald Sawrey-cookson
- Squadron Leader Benjamin Thomas Scott
- Flying Officer Ronald Seely King
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Frederic Ommanney Shelford
- Sergeant Gerald Colin Stewart Skelton
- Sergeant Harold George Stalker
- Flight Sergeant Jan Stanovsky
- Pilot Officer Jan Stefek
- Sergeant Donald Percival Stock
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Henry Tompkins
- Sergeant Rudolf Vokurka
- Sergeant James Waddell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Reginald Wakeham
- Sergeant Leon John Wilson
- Flight Sergeant William Bruce Milne Wilson
- Pilot Officer Kazimierz Ziemiański
1943
- Sergeant Albert Charles Ash
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth James Barnwell
- Leading Aircraftman Edward William Roberts Bolton
- Flight Sergeant Joseph John Britton
- Sergeant Richmond Brough
- Sergeant Vernon Clifford Burt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald William Cresswell
- Sergeant James Keith Dodds
- Sergeant James Henry Lloyd Edwards
- Flight Sergeant Noel Leslie Gordon
- Leading Aircraftman John Ross Hadley
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Hall
- Flight Sergeant John Thomas Houghton
- Pilot Officer Ralph Ernest Jeffery
- Pilot Officer James Frederick King
- Sergeant John Campbell Lawrence
- Sergeant Thomas Raymond Lawrence
- Leading Aircraftman John McLean
- Sergeant Harold Mottershead
- Sergeant Harold Widdrington O'Connor
- Pilot Officer Stockton Gowland Rawling
- Sergeant David John Rees
- Sergeant Charles Phillip Sheppard
- Sergeant Paul Stringfellow
- Sergeant Robert James Tarren
- Sergeant Basil James Thompson
- Sergeant Peter Arnaud Tinch
- Sergeant Edward George Ufton
- Sergeant Baron Etienne Jean Marie Van Zuylen Van Nyevelt
- Sergeant William Bruce Ward
- Sergeant Frederick Hensher Warren
1944
- Flying Officer James Edgar Victor Banning
- Flight Sergeant John Samuel Barker
- Flight Sergeant Jerome Gerard Belec
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Thomas Robert Bruce
- Sergeant Gerald Leonard Buist
- Pilot Officer John Joseph Burke
- Warrant Officer Peter Phillip Cowan
- Squadron Leader Rene Jean Ghislain Demoulin
- Sergeant Ernest Anthony Dempsey
- Pilot Officer Robert Downing
- Corporal Charles Fred Dugdale
- Flight Sergeant Richard Applegarth Dunn
- Flying Officer Bernard Basil Gateley
- Flight Sergeant Victor Albert Graham
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Herbert Green
- Flight Lieutenant William Jack Grisman
- Flight Lieutenant Alastair Donald Mackintosh Gunn
- Flying Officer Maxwell Henry Harwood
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Ross Henzell Hayter
- Pilot Officer James Taft Hemsworth
- Flight Sergeant Donald John Hoddinott
- Flight Sergeant Howard Ross Hughes
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Henry Hutt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Brian Ibberson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Selwyn George Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Maurice Leonard
- Sergeant Leslie Martin
- Lieutenant Clement Aldwyn Neville McGarr
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Ewan McLachlan
- Flight Lieutenant Harold John Milford
- Flight Lieutenant Bernard Christison Walder O'Fagan
- Pilot Officer John Sumner Owens
- Flying Officer Donald Frederick Parsons
- Flying Officer James Renton Maltman Rankine
- Flight Sergeant John Thornton Read
- Sergeant Henry Lawrence Regan
- Sergeant James Walton Ridley
- Flight Lieutenant Clifford Birkett Rigg
- Sergeant William Alfred Rodway
- Sergeant Thomas George Rutter
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Walter Sayce
- Warrant Officer John Raymond Senior
- Flying Officer Douglas Joseph Simon
- Leading Aircraftman John Alexander Stewart
- Sergeant Douglas Horatio Stoneham
- Flight Lieutenant Denys Oliver Street
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Sullivan
- Pilot Officer Augustine James Thurston
- Flight Sergeant Stephen William Towns
- Sergeant Frederick Joseph Unsworth
- Flight Sergeant Eric Leo Burrows Vanes
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Waddell
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Robertson Ward
- Warrant Officer William John Waycott
- Flight Lieutenant John Francis Williams
- Sergeant Henry Wilson
- Flying Officer Lionel John Wood
- Sergeant Arthur Frederick Woolley
- Flying Officer Robert William Young
1945
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Joseph Banks
- Flight Lieutenant Gareth Allan Barker
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Edward Bowen
- Flying Officer Kelvin Arthur Roy Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald John Chambers
- Flying Officer Arthur John Coe
- Warrant Officer Alan Noel John Collins
- Flight Lieutenant Lance Dixon Crowther
- Flight Sergeant Allan Davis
- Flight Sergeant Ian Faichnie
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Valentine Ford
- Flight Lieutenant Marcel Launcelot Hore
- Sergeant Arthur Edward Jones
- Flying Officer Bernard Thomas Jordan
- Flying Officer Keith Henry Kearney
- Flight Lieutenant William Laing
- Flight Lieutenant Sidney Leonard McDonald
- Squadron Leader Ian George Medwin
- Flying Officer Stanley Ernest Messum
- Warrant Officer Walter Lander Mooney
- Flying Officer Peter Albert Mouatt
- Leading Aircraftman John William Fraser Perkins
- Flight Sergeant Percy Purkiss
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Raine
- Flight Lieutenant James Alexander See
- Flight Lieutenant James Bryan Thompson
- Flight Sergeant John Stanley Thomson
- Flight Sergeant John Munro Waddell
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Kenneth Walmsley
- Flight Sergeant Keith Jowett White
- Sergeant Walter Joseph Wignall
- Flying Officer Alexander George Worley
1946
- Leading Air Mechanic Alfred Darvall
- Flight Lieutenant Maurice Frederick Fifield
- Corporal William Mirrlees