On this day — 7 May
256 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 7 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer John Theodore Berryman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Myles Joseph Delahunty
- Corporal Leonard Frank Hayes
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Howdle
- Flying Officer David James Theodore Lusk
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney William Mills
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Gordon Settle
- Flying Officer Stuart Percival Woollatt
1941
- Squadron Leader Robert Bramston Barker
- Flying Officer Alan Howard Brewin
- Sergeant Jack Lionel Claxton
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Atkin Cottam
- Lieutenant Dimmock
- Sergeant Joseph Leslie Elwell
- Lieutenant Pieter De J. Fritz
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Bernard Fuller
- Sergeant Frederick Stephen Gildea
- Flight Sergeant William James Griffiths
- Sergeant Harold Kenneth Hall
- Sergeant John Hall
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Hepple
- Sergeant John Sterling Hesk
- Flying Officer Alastair David Seacome Hicks
- Flying Officer Hugh Harold Hirst
- Pilot Officer Denis William Hockney
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Roy Holmes
- Sergeant Samuel Leon Geoffrey Hughes
- Sergeant Vernon Hughes
- Sergeant Henry Horace Jennings
- Pilot Officer Hugh William Edward Lane
- Sergeant Ronald Charles Livings
- Flight Sergeant John Murdo McLeod Macdonald
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest William Mace
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Clive Matthews
- Flying Officer Robert Haldane McDonald
- Sergeant Norman Henry Meanwell
- Sergeant Alexander Coutts Mee
- Sergeant David Leo Nola
- Pilot Officer Clifford Frederick Page
- Flight Sergeant William Peebles
- Flight Sergeant John Richards
- Sergeant Douglas William Robinson
- Flying Officer Geoffrey David Robinson
- Sergeant Walter Russell
- Sergeant Browne Ryall
- Sergeant Cyril Valentine Robert Scott
- Corporal George Edmund Skinner
- Leading Aircraftman John Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Leslie Stevens
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Robert Stevenson
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Cecil Thomas
- Corporal Arthur Theophilus Thompson
- Sergeant George William Whitehead
- Sergeant Sydney Ralph Willis
- Sergeant Henry Ernest Wilson
1942
- Sergeant Wilfred Bertie Adams
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth John Arnott
- Sergeant John Percy William Bandy
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Robert Banvill
- Flight Sergeant Harry Willan Batty
- Pilot Officer Frank Alan Bolton
- Leading Aircraftman Erwin Bruce Brown
- Pilot Officer George Henry Anthony Butler
- Sergeant Victor George Carter
- Sergeant Joseph Milton Lorraine Charbonneau
- Flight Sergeant Henry Graham Ronaldson Corser
- Sergeant Jack Ronald Coulter
- Sergeant Lewis Wethey Cowell
- Sergeant Christopher Norman Dixon
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Dorman
- Sergeant John Alexander George Firth
- Sergeant Leslie Frank Fisher
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Andrew Fogg
- Flight Sergeant Donald Frederick Glinz
- Sergeant Arthur Herbert Greenfield
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Bertie Hathaway
- Squadron Leader Godfrey Ellard Hemsworth
- Sergeant Valentine Stewart Henderson
- Sergeant John Norman Hindle
- Sergeant Norman Henry Hood
- Flight Sergeant William Ross Howard
- Leading Aircraftman Felix Charles James
- Sergeant James Alexander Johnson
- Flying Officer William Joseph Kennedy
- Sergeant Frederick Riddell Levay
- Sergeant Hugh Maxwell Marillier
- Corporal Colin Marsden
- Flying Officer Leopold Guy McClintock
- Leading Aircraftman Oswald Hendrie McDonald
- Flight Sergeant George Lawson Macintosh Mesheau
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Winton Middlemass
- Sergeant Reginald Henry Murphy
- Pilot Officer Peter James Arnold Huke Palin
- Sergeant Harold Ernest Perry
- Sergeant Alan Rushton
- Flight Sergeant John Murray Sadler
- Sergeant John Robert Shearer
- Sergeant Joseph Thomas Stanworth
- Leading Aircraftman Laurence Stern
- Lieutenant Sutton
- Flight Lieutenant John Arthur Sword
- Sergeant Robert Hetherington Walker
- Flying Officer Francis Howard (frank) Williams
- Flight Sergeant Harry Robinson Williams
- Sergeant Vodra Terrell Wolfe
- Sergeant Jerome Gordon Wood
1943
- Sergeant Derrick William Edward Batch
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Jack Beresford
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Henry Boucher
- Sergeant Leslie Thomas Brett
- Sergeant Rowland Brickles
- Sergeant Richard Gordon Bridge
- Squadron Leader William Walter Cave
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Galt Chisholm
- Sergeant John Courtney Comyn
- Flying Officer Hubert Vincent Coulter
- Flight Sergeant Alan Darby
- Sergeant Donald Arthur Emery
- Sergeant Ernest Fenwick
- Sergeant Leslie Allan Fisher
- Flying Officer Patrick Ralph Galbraith
- Warrant Officer Class II George Raymond Grant
- Corporal Matthew Grundy
- Flying Officer Duncan Richard Hicks
- Flight Sergeant John Richard Hill
- Sergeant Ernest William James Horton
- Sergeant John Reginald Hough
- Sergeant Walter Gilbey Hutchinson
- Warrant Officer Vivian Lugton Jackman
- Sergeant Peter Francis Jackson
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Hector Sylva Joannette
- Warrant Officer Class II James Hendry Johnston
- Flying Officer Leslie Warwick Jones
- Flying Officer Norman Harry Keel
- Sergeant Henry Johnson Kelly
- Warrant Officer Class I Ira Irvin Kliman
- Sergeant Ralph Basil Knight
- Flight Sergeant Ian William Mackenzie
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Madin
- Sergeant William Mapley
- Sergeant Stanley Mordaunt Marfleet
- Sergeant William Mason
- Flight Sergeant Allan Roderick McFarlane
- Warrant Officer Hugh McKinnon
- Pilot Officer Michael James Meatyard
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Leone Mount
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Allan Newton
- Sergeant Ronald Arthur Page
- Flight Sergeant Peter George Polkinghorne
- Sergeant George Poppleston
- Sergeant George William Quayle
- Flight Sergeant Edward Quinn
- Sergeant John Murray Randall
- Warrant Officer William John Ripp
- Pilot Officer Neil Farquhar Robertson
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Henry Rushworth
- Sergeant Bernard Sainthouse
- Sergeant Clifford Vivian Scadden
- Sergeant Francis Henry Scanlan
- Sergeant Basil Sherry
- Warrant Officer Class II Everett Charles Smith
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Mason Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Louis Soper
- Sergeant Ronald Edwin Stephens
- Pilot Officer Henry James Summers
- Sergeant George Tsitselis
- Flying Officer Archibald Clark Warnock
- Flying Officer James Ronald Worswick
1944
- Sergeant Robert Edwin Addis
- Flight Sergeant William Albert Baker
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Edward Banks
- Flight Sergeant Alec Beanlands
- Warrant Officer Arthur Henry Biltoft
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Blacklock
- Pilot Officer Robert Dean Borrowes
- Flying Officer Stanley Broadbent
- Lieutenant Brooksbank
- Sergeant James Wilson Carter
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Dixie Churchill
- Warrant Officer Stanley Clarke
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Clements
- Flying Officer Justin Gerard Clermont
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Bolam Clewes
- Flight Lieutenant William James Corbett
- Sergeant Leonard William Cox
- Flying Officer Frederick John Dell
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph Ronald Dimbleby
- Sergeant Corbett Norman George Drew
- Flying Officer John Douglas Foster
- Flight Sergeant Charles Victor Fox
- Lieutenant Friedland
- Leading Aircraftman John Albert Gilchrist
- Lieutenant Guest
- Pilot Officer Warren Douglass Hall
- Warrant Officer James Vivian Hamilton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert John Hannigan
- Flying Officer Alfred Hinscliffe
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Leslie Hogg
- Flight Lieutenant William George Hole
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Alfred Horwood
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Reginald Jackson
- Flying Officer John Owen Klippel
- Flight Sergeant Henry Sydney Langley
- Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
- Flight Sergeant Edward Frank Maidment
- Flying Officer Claude Cyril McCormack
- Flying Officer David Alastair McKellar
- Leading Aircraftman Robert McKelvie
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth McKenzie
- Sergeant Stephan McLenaghan
- Flight Sergeant John Wilbert McLeod
- Flight Lieutenant William Robert Bruce McMurray
- Sergeant Thomas Elliott McVittie
- Flight Lieutenant John Maxfield Mitchell
- Warrant Officer William Arthur Molyneux
- Warrant Officer Class I Ralph Joseph Montgomery
- Flying Officer William Henry Pedlar
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel Frederick Perry
- Flying Officer Wilbert Andrew Porterfield
- Pilot Officer Bourneuf Freeman Pothier
- Squadron Leader William John Powell
- Flight Sergeant Cecil George Rhodes
- Warrant Officer Rice
- Flight Sergeant Walter William Rice
- Flight Sergeant Raymond George Sauerwald
- Sergeant Robert Peter Scott
- Flight Lieutenant James Maxwell Shearer
- Pilot Officer Nigel Sinclair-hill
- Flying Officer Arthur Trevor Smith
- Flying Officer James Smith
- Pilot Officer Gordon Douglas Spearman
- Pilot Officer James Duffield Spencer
- Pilot Officer Robert Leslie Squires
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Ernest Symonds
- Sergeant Harold John Tucker
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Wentworth Vaughan
- Sergeant George Samuel Vaughan
- Flight Sergeant James Robert Velzian
- Sergeant Clifford Walker
- Flying Officer Earle Freeman Warren
- Lieutenant Wells
- Sergeant Edward Thomas West
- Flight Lieutenant George Henry Wood
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Woodhouse
- Warrant Officer Allan Lyal French Wright
1945
- Flight Lieutenant Sydney Walter Brown
- Squadron Leader Walter Henry Corbet
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Frank Burdwood Davies
- Pilot Officer John Michael Daniel Pigott
- Leading Aircraftman Keith Alfred Schaedel
- Air Mechanic Seith
- Air Mechanic Torrington
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Stanley Turner