On this day — 7 April
238 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 7 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry George Ablett
- Leading Aircraftman Daniel Armstrong
- Sergeant John Royal Branton
- Pilot Officer Keith Brooke-taylor
- Pilot Officer Julian Paul Chester-master
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Kenyon Davies
- Flying Officer Patrick Arthur Ludlow Farrell
- Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford
- Sergeant William Livingstone Macdonald
- Sergeant Andrew McNicol
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Andrew Dowie Menzies
- Sergeant Robert John Moore
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Moss
- Sergeant Michael Francis Murphy
- Sergeant William Frederick Nicol
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Charles Peel
- Sergeant Leslie Alfred Raper
- Pilot Officer Wilfred Roberts
- Aircraftman 1st Class Denis William Sharpe
- Sergeant Kenneth Primrose Vickery
- Pilot Officer David Herbert Wardlaw
- Pilot Officer Estelles Arthur Wickenkamp
- Corporal Clifford Edgar Wilburn
1941
- Sergeant Keith Ruthven Allen
- Flying Officer Francis Nairn Baird
- Sergeant Harold Lagor Beach
- Sergeant Robert Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Howard Blake
- Pilot Officer Leslie Allan Broad
- Sergeant Henry Thomas William Chipp
- Pilot Officer John Arthur George Cornelius-wheeler
- Sergeant Robert Whyman Fairlamb
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Thomas Gibbs
- Sergeant John Michael Harris
- Lieutenant James
- Sergeant Oldrich Kestler
- Pilot Officer Gilbert Theodore Kimberley
- Sergeant Peter Meredith Kinsey
- Sergeant Ernest William Laban
- Sergeant Josef Martinec
- Sergeant Robert Cameron McCracken
- Sergeant Gordon Andrew McKenzie
- Flying Officer Kenneth Milton Millist
- Pilot Officer Edward Lyman Elliot Nicholson
- Sergeant Vernice John Parker
- Pilot Officer Anthony Frank Phillips
- Pilot Officer Eric Robert Pierce
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Pryer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Riley
- Pilot Officer Herbert Anthony Leicester Stone
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Henry Storry
- Corporal Murdock Taylor
- Air Sergeant Wallace
- Sergeant Walter Alexander Watts
- Sergeant Herbert Llewellyn Williams
- Pilot Officer Richard Edward Ney Elias Wynn
1942
- Sergeant John Hannaford Alexander
- Flight Lieutenant John Carlyon Anstie
- Pilot Officer Frederick Herbert Ashton Ashford
- Corporal George Ledingham Barclay
- Sergeant Ronald Bennet Blatchley
- Leading Aircraftman Milton Desmond Boland
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Watson Bradford
- Flight Sergeant Augustus Ludwig Brandt
- Sergeant Lloyd Nelson Brown
- Leading Aircraftman John Patrick Carmody
- Leading Aircraftman Williams Charles Chambers
- Flight Sergeant Francis Weeks Cooper
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Davis
- Flight Sergeant Victor Reginald Dufton
- Sergeant Robert Eric Fraser
- Sergeant Colin Gammie
- Sergeant Arthur Thomas Goodall Gibson
- Lieutenant Noel Lorraine Alexander Gird
- Flight Sergeant Reginald William Golder
- Corporal James Richard Gowen
- Warrant Officer John James Griffin
- Sergeant Myrddin Griffiths
- Warrant Officer Class I Thomas William Hare
- Sergeant Clement Alfred Victor Hartley
- Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth John Drew Hawkins
- Sergeant Francis Geoefrey Huntley
- Sergeant Donavan Peter George Kent
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert McDonald Kyle
- Sergeant David Maxwell Laing
- Leading Aircraftman John Andrew Lawn
- Sergeant Kenneth Leyshon
- Sergeant Lloyd John Holmes Lincoln
- Sergeant John Vincent Magrane
- Sergeant James Alexander Mant
- Flight Sergeant George Henry Mays
- Leading Aircraftman Archibald Murray McClymont
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Robert Hudson McFarlane
- Sergeant Kenneth William McIlrath
- Corporal Harold Stuart McKinnon
- Sergeant James McLean
- Air Sergeant Bernard Sarsfield McLoughlin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edwin John Mitchell
- Flying Officer Leslie Vyvyan Newall
- Sergeant Robert Eastwood Newton
- Flight Sergeant Eric William Noble
- Sergeant Edward Richard Cyril Oakley
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Alexander Oppy
- Sergeant Neville James Patton
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Galbraith Paxton
- Sergeant Gordon Christopher Pearson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Anthony Quinn
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Alfred Richens
- Lieutenant Kenneth Riddoch
- Flying Officer Trevor Emlyn Roberts
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Arthur John Shotbolt
- Flying Officer Hubert Kenneth Smith
- Sergeant George Stephenson
- Sergeant John Livingston Stuart
- Sergeant Kenneth Taylor
- Sergeant Lawrence Ernest Taylor
- Sergeant Robert Thompson-horan
- Warrant Officer Class I Charles Henry Tourville
- Sergeant George Henry Walker
- Sergeant Stanley Walker
- Sergeant Donald Parker Walmsley
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Wincott
1943
- Flight Sergeant Floyd Roger Willis Anderson
- Sergeant Roy Archibald Atterton
- Flight Sergeant John Albert Beach
- Flight Lieutenant Nigel Stuart Hally Brown
- Sergeant John William Burrows
- Sergeant Norman Kenneth Carew
- Corporal Norman Douglas Carlton
- Sergeant Ivan Caulton
- Flying Officer Alfred Howard Mayhew Clark
- Sergeant Ronald Cedric Cormacey
- Sergeant Anthony Dearmer
- Leading Aircraftman Francis William Dummigan
- Flying Officer Richard Jack Dunford
- Flying Officer John Harvey Edwards
- Sergeant William Forrester
- Sergeant Archibald Don Gordon
- Flight Sergeant Thomas James Gwynn
- Flight Sergeant Eric Victor Hastings
- Sergeant Edwin Havron
- Sergeant Donald Hutt
- Sergeant Arthur England Ingram
- Flying Officer Abe Ittkin
- Warrant Officer Leslie David Jones
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Jones
- Sergeant Arthur Kenyon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Arthur Kilminster
- Flight Sergeant Eric Edward Lancaster
- Sergeant Ronald Lankester
- Sergeant Arthur Leslie Larner
- Flying Officer Peter Heatley Laycock
- Pilot Officer James Frederick Leleu
- Sergeant Malcolm Harold Victor Lewis
- Warrant Officer Phillip Henry Martin
- Sergeant Alan James McCoy
- Sergeant John Duncan Miller
- Air Mechanic Frederick Mitchley
- Sergeant Eric Desmond Murphy
- Sergeant Ronald John O'Brien
- Sergeant Alfred Henry Page
- Flight Sergeant Stephen Frederick Pannell
- Sergeant Thomas Pennock
- Flight Sergeant Neil Edgar Powell
- Leading Aircraftman Michael Joseph Quinn
- Sergeant Leslie Harold Redford
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Guy Rich
- Flight Sergeant Frank Duncan Roberts
- Sergeant Alan Rodgers
- Flying Officer James Crighton Stevenson
- Flight Lieutenant William Maxwell Struthers
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Victor Stuart
- Pilot Officer William George Sweney
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Tassell
- Sergeant Edward George Asquith Taylor
- Sergeant Gordon Boyd Walker
- Sergeant Lionel Robert Wallace
- Flying Officer John Charles William Walter
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Ernest Wardill
- Sergeant Robert Edward Bushell Warren
- Sergeant Henry Wells
- Flying Officer John Barry Welton
- Sergeant Frank Worrall
1944
- Flight Sergeant David Francis Barnard
- Flight Sergeant Richard Charles James Berry
- Flight Sergeant Andrew David Brand
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Thomas Brown
- Flying Officer John Buckley
- Flight Sergeant Tom Houghton Caldecutt
- Flight Lieutenant Michael Bruce Henry Challis
- Air Mechanic Chapman
- Air Mechanic Clarke
- Flight Sergeant William Edward Cocks
- Flight Sergeant Albert William James Colwell
- Second Lieutenant Charles Henry Arthur Constantin
- Corporal Kenneth Edward Cook
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Charles Coveney
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Cowley
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Alfred Edward Draycott
- Flying Officer Arthur Jack Gapper
- Sergeant Russell James Gluyas
- Air Mechanic Grant
- Air Mechanic Hamman
- Flight Sergeant David Norman Howarth
- Flying Officer Andrew Mackenzie Howden
- Leading Aircraftman David Walter Jones
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Kelley
- Flying Officer Donald Earle Craig Lawrence
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Willis (peter) Leefe
- Flight Sergeant Basil Oliver Lowe
- Air Mechanic Marrs
- Sergeant Harold McIlwraith
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Beverley Murphy
- Squadron Leader Michael Negus
- Air Mechanic Frederick Thomas Penfold
- Pilot Officer James Percival Plastow
- Flight Sergeant Alfred George Riches
- Air Mechanic George Lawrence Dickenson Rogers
- Flying Officer Douglas Saunders
- Sergeant Norman Smith
- Flying Officer Frederick Stevens
- Lieutenant Sutton
- Sergeant George Tribe
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Reginald Turner
- Air Mechanic Pieter Johannes Daniel Van Der Westhuizen
- Flying Officer John Francis Veitch
- Sergeant Albert Richard Wopshott
1945
- Warrant Officer Keith Walter Ainsworth
- Flight Lieutenant Alex Allan Buck
- Flying Officer Peter Douglas Bushell
- Flight Lieutenant Francis John Butcher
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Hardy Byerley
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Archibald Meiklejohn
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Alphonse Maurice Rondeau
- Warrant Officer John Garnet Shearer