On this day — 9 April
336 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 9 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Flight Lieutenant Alfred Alexander
- Sergeant James Alan Llywelyn Barter
- Sergeant Jack Clifford Carpenter
- Sergeant George Lewis Dent
- Pilot Officer Lancelot Steele Dixon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Eveson
- Flight Lieutenant Peter William Hansford Kite
- Pilot Officer Arthur Francis Le Maistre
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred Colin Lucas
- Aircraftman 1st Class Graham Herbert Maile
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Lawrence Millar
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Armand Morrison
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas William Bailey Upham
1941
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Phillip Adams
- Pilot Officer Ian Francis Anderson
- Sergeant Joseph Anderson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George William Beckett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Thomas Bennett
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Wilfred Blake
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Irvine Douglas Bowles
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Charles William Broad
- Sergeant Gordon Wilfred Brown
- Sergeant Richard Brown
- Sergeant Robert Burton
- Sergeant John Edward Caddick
- Sergeant James Clark Cattell
- Sergeant Kenneth Welby Clifton
- Sergeant Alfred George Coster
- Flight Sergeant Philip Cramp
- Sergeant John Philip Cusworth
- Sergeant Donald Day
- Sergeant John Pyott Elsworth
- Sergeant Edward Albert James (sonny) Fabian
- Pilot Officer Thomas Fairhurst
- Pilot Officer John Norman Fisher
- Flight Lieutenant Michael Hilton Franklin
- Pilot Officer Claude Galliard Gibson
- Warrant Officer Robert Gowland
- Pilot Officer John Alastair Graham
- Sergeant Charles William Hall
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Sidney Hemley
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Arthur John Ernest Roy Hill
- Sergeant Cornelius Matthew Flinders Hitchcock
- Sergeant John Barker Churchill Jago
- Sergeant Frank Maitland Jarrett
- Sergeant Edgar Stewart Jones
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Charles Jupp
- Sergeant Alexander John McHardy
- Sergeant Joseph Lewis McNamara
- Sergeant Peter Eric Montague Mertens
- Sergeant Henry Louis Moody
- Sergeant William Robert Moore
- Sergeant William Newell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Michael John O'Donovan
- Sergeant William Edward Osterfield
- Sergeant Cyril Bruce Parris
- Pilot Officer John Alfred Parry
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Hilary Borlase Pearce
- Flight Lieutenant Victor Fernley Baker Pike
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Leslie Price
- Pilot Officer Richard Cardew Rendle
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Joseph Reynolds
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Thomas Robinson
- Sergeant Albert William Rose
- Pilot Officer John Hampton Rowden
- Sergeant Douglas Cyril Rowland
- Sergeant Thomas Robert Savin
- Sergeant Joseph Edward Sellors
- Pilot Officer George Guy Sharp
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Shaw
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred George Slade
- Sergeant Frank Charles Sloane
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Percy Carver Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Heath Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Lionel Mountjoy Squire
- Pilot Officer Walter Patrick Strickland
- Sergeant Clifford Sumner
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lindo James Thomson
- Sergeant Leslie Roland Truman
- Sergeant Wilbur Lloyd Waldron
- Sergeant Henry Hilton Walker
- Sergeant Howard Vivian Wansbrough
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Ernest Webb
- Sergeant Robert Kendrick West
- Sergeant Alan James Whitby
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Woolgar
1942
- Captain Charles Henry Adcock
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Eric Arnold
- Squadron Leader Kenneth Ault
- Leading Aircraftman Otto Bay
- Sergeant Harry James Beck
- Sergeant James Charles Alfred Bell
- Sergeant Patrick Bourke
- Flying Officer Roderick Kenneth Bourne
- Leading Aircraftman Selwyn Fitzgerald Bradley
- Sergeant Eric Clement Bratt
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Shuttleworth Burgan
- Sergeant James William Cornthwaite
- Flying Officer Harold Leslie Croydon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Isaac Davies
- Sergeant Douglas Delbert Dean
- Flying Officer Alexander Watt Donald
- Sergeant George Keith Eckersley
- Flying Officer David Hugh Evans
- Flight Sergeant George Charles Fisk
- Flight Sergeant Charles Dewitt Gellatly
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Asbridge Gibson
- Sergeant Maxwell Clifford Gray
- Flying Officer Arthur Malcolm Gregg
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Charles Gurney
- Sergeant Keith Lockhart Hardy
- Flying Officer Robert Gibson Hervey
- Sergeant John Kenneth Hooper
- Sergeant Derek Laxton Housley
- Pilot Officer Ernest Richard Howard
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Douglas Hutchinson
- Flight Sergeant Jack Jackson
- Pilot Officer Richard Mowbray Jenkins
- Sergeant Dewi Edmund Jones
- Lieutenant Frederick George Knight
- Sergeant Hugh Alexander Maclennan
- Sergeant Lindsay Edward McAuley
- Flight Lieutenant Christopher Joseph Seymour Metford
- Pilot Officer Jack Heathcote Morphett
- Sergeant John Denzil Marcus Moxham
- Flight Sergeant Frederick John Gordon Nell
- Warrant Officer Alfred Morgan Parker
- Sergeant William Ernest Pearce
- Warrant Officer Walter Charles Pitman
- Pilot Officer Paul Michael Rudgard
- Sergeant James Sherriffs Salmond
- Flight Sergeant Albert Henry Salter
- Flight Sergeant John Wright Sanderson
- Leading Aircraftman George Leslie Simpson
- Sergeant Roy Staley
- Warrant Officer Noel Lindsay Stevenson
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Alfred Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Rae Thomas
- Sergeant Archibald Richard Travers
- Sergeant John Wilfred Walton
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Dennis Whiles
- Sergeant Reginald Stanley Williams
- Sergeant John Henry Wisher
- Corporal Harold Wright
1943
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Allsopp
- Flight Sergeant John Appleton
- Sergeant John Douglas Armstrong
- Squadron Leader Jack Henry Bachmann
- Flying Officer Henry Douglas Baker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Bale
- Flight Lieutenant Julien William Noel Balley
- Flight Sergeant Michael John Bennett
- Sergeant Ronald Douglas Benning
- Sergeant Roy Bishop
- Sergeant George Blakeley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Victor Arthur Blows
- Sergeant Gerald Mortimer Boardman
- Flying Officer Alan Brierley
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph James Brownlie
- Sergeant Robert Lloyd Burchell
- Flying Officer William Christiansen
- Sergeant James Cooney
- Sergeant Sidney Cordery
- Sergeant Alan Maxwell Coulthard
- Sergeant Tom Crossland
- Sergeant Stanley Arthur Curtis
- Sergeant Ronald Eric Arthur Dampier
- Pilot Officer Guy Maurice Marie Legarrigue De Meillac
- Sergeant Stanley Dixon
- Flight Sergeant Walter Alexander Dixon
- Flight Sergeant John Henry Dodgshun
- Flight Sergeant Wallace John Douglas
- Sergeant Frank Dunkin
- Sergeant Ronald Farnsworth
- Sergeant George Fenton
- Flight Sergeant James Lowrie Forrest
- Flight Sergeant George Claremont Gale
- Pilot Officer Benny Baldwin Goodman
- Sergeant D'Arcy Gould
- Sergeant Kenneth Lewis Gover
- Sergeant James William Green
- Flight Sergeant Peter Alexander Greene
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Grundy
- Sergeant Robert Sydney Hamilton-fox
- Flying Officer John Edward Hardy
- Sergeant Wilfred Gerald Harvey
- Warrant Officer Class II Harold Arthur Healey
- Sergeant Ronald Walter Hedicker
- Sergeant Leslie James Hemus
- Sergeant John Hence
- Flying Officer Eric Hesketh
- Sergeant Mark Hoofe
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Henry Howard
- Sergeant Thomas Hughes
- Pilot Officer John Lawrence Irvine
- Flying Officer Alan Hamilton Jackson
- Pilot Officer Reginald Renouf Johnston
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Jones
- Flight Sergeant Cornelius William Kleynhans
- Flying Officer Selwyn Latta
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Wentworth Lean
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Rupert Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William George Limbrick
- Sergeant Frederick Long
- Pilot Officer Donald Ian Macdonald
- Sergeant David Henry Mactier
- Sergeant John McAllister
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Basil McDonald
- Leading Aircraftman James McIntyre
- Flying Officer Donald James McKay
- Sergeant Thomas Smith McStay
- Sergeant Allan Keith Meadows
- Warrant Officer Class II Bertram Augustus Moffatt
- Flying Officer Douglas Henry Wain Morgan
- Sergeant William Myerscough
- Sergeant Leslie John Nash
- Pilot Officer Michel Paul Benoit Louis Neve De Mevergnies
- Sergeant James Vivian Kenealy Nicoll
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Obrart
- Sergeant William David George O'Brien
- Flight Sergeant Richard Frank Oliver
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Hector Paquin
- Flying Officer Arthur Frederick Paramore
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Harold James Payne
- Warrant Officer Class I John Swinbank Phelps
- Sergeant Kenneth Albert Pinchin
- Sergeant Francis Henry Reddicliffe
- Flight Sergeant John Richmond Riley
- Flying Officer Norman James Ritchie
- Sergeant Theo Gilson Ross
- Flying Officer John Hamilton Salt
- Sergeant Louis Frederick Samson
- Sergeant Peter William Bouquet Sanderson
- Flying Officer Gordon Wellsley Schafer
- Sergeant John William Scudder
- Flying Officer Leo Norman Selthun
- Sergeant George Arthur Sherwood
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Woodyear Smith
- Sergeant Francis Andrew Smith
- Sergeant Geoffrey Harcourt Smith
- Sergeant John Walter Smith
- Pilot Officer William Smith
- Warrant Officer John David Steele
- Flying Officer Leonard James Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Phillip Gordon Stuart
- Sergeant Lawrence James Tate
- Flying Officer Gordon Griffith Thomas
- Sergeant George William Tompkins
- Pilot Officer Leslie Robert Townsend
- Squadron Leader Hugh Drummond Venables
- Flying Officer Sydney Herbert Walpole
- Warrant Officer John Arthur Ernest Walsh
- Sergeant Vivian Walters
- Pilot Officer Alvin Bernard Waton
- Flying Officer Lionel Cottrell Wheeker
- Flying Officer Denis Walton Wheeler
- Sergeant Denis Edward Whitaker
- Sergeant William Leslie Whitehouse
- Sergeant Norman Harry Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert John Wilson
- Sergeant Ralph Wilson
- Sergeant Ronald Douglas Wood
- Sergeant James William Robert Henry Woodley
- Sergeant Jack Herbert Worthington
- Warrant Officer Class II Walter Ladislo Yaholnitsky
1944
- Flight Sergeant Richard Benner Bamford
- Sergeant Sidney Basil Barber
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Nelson Carr
- Sergeant Joseph Arthur Chambers
- Corporal George Thomas Coombes
- Corporal John Henry Cronk
- Sergeant John Lowes Crouch
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Millar Cummings
- Flight Sergeant William Noel Hartley
- Flight Lieutenant Carl Delbert Theodore Holmberg
- Sergeant Alfred Donald Hooker
- Leading Aircraftman James Walter Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Bernard Killner
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie George Loft
- Flying Officer Peter Dennis Mackie
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Mansfield
- Flying Officer Eric McFarland
- Pilot Officer William Douglas McKenzie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Muir
- Sergeant John Septimus Pyne
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Rodrigues
- Corporal Roland Cadwell Shepherd
- Flight Sergeant Bryon John Joseph Simpson
- Sergeant Douglas Allan Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Barnsley Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Leonard Thomas
- Flight Sergeant Walter David Weekes
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Gregory Westcott
- Corporal Herbert Charles Wilson
1945
- Flying Officer Thomas Henry Baulderstone
- Flying Officer Vincent Gerald Berriman
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Ellis Bowman
- Flight Sergeant William John Brooker
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Stuart Burnett
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Eric Burton
- Flying Officer John Charles Cunningham
- Flight Sergeant Harold Crawford Daer
- Pilot Officer Alfred John Damm
- Lieutenant Dekema
- Pilot Officer Robert Allison Duncan
- Flying Officer Kenneth Valentine Dunning
- Flying Officer William Forrester
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Anthony Franklin
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas William Fry
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Paulton Greenfield
- Flying Officer Joseph Hall
- Pilot Officer George Alan Halliday
- Flight Sergeant James William Hill
- Flight Sergeant Fredrick James Howlett
- Flying Officer Arne Paul Jensen
- Flight Sergeant Michael Jerome
- Flight Sergeant John Robert King
- Flying Officer John Alexander Macfarlane
- Sergeant George Alexander Maclennan
- Flying Officer Robert Martin
- Corporal William Myles Colbert McCormick
- Flying Officer Murray Roy McKay
- Sergeant Arthur Pugh Moreton
- Sergeant William Philipson
- Flight Sergeant James Maurice Pougnet
- Flying Officer Colin Robert Moore Richardson
- Flight Lieutenant Ivan Winston Smith
- Sergeant John Ross Switzer
- Flying Officer Arthur McLellan Taylor
- Pilot Officer James Dickson Walker
- Flying Officer Dugald John Watson
1946
- Warrant Officer Samuel George Dyer
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Mackinder
- Flight Lieutenant Philip William Matthews
- Leading Aircraftman George Alfred Smith