On this day — 6 December
258 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 6 December during the Second World War.
1939
- Leading Aircraftman John Charles Bagley
- Corporal Harold John Cockayne
- Pilot Officer John Henry Grimes
- Sergeant Victor Donald Macmillan
- Cadet Ralph Vardon Norbury
- Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Phillips Skinner
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Whitehead
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Wilson
1940
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert James Amber
- Sergeant Arthur Francis Bean
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Sydney Best
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Chivers
- Sergeant Albert Cartwright Johnston
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Frederick Knapton
- Sergeant Dennis Kennedy Leaver
- Sergeant Harry Scotney Parrott
- Pilot Officer Stanley Robert Edward Weatherley
1941
- Sergeant Lewis James Abbott
- Flight Sergeant Toussaint Joseph Arsenault
- Sergeant Allan Edward Bailey
- Sergeant Robert Barr
- Sergeant Ronald Maclean Cann
- Corporal George Bletcher Eastland
- Pilot Officer Alfred Mandale Fisher
- Flying Officer Douglas Hickling Ivens
- Sergeant Frederick George Jones
- Sergeant Victor Horace Langrish
- Sergeant Sam Lee
- Leading Aircraftman John Edgar Mayo
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Allen Edwin New
- Sergeant John Edmund Olive
- Sergeant William Henry Poole
- Pilot Officer Anthony Richard Porter
- Pilot Officer Arthur John Pyle
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Henry Ryalls
- Pilot Officer Eric Lionel Victor Stanley
- Flight Sergeant Matthew Thompson
- Pilot Officer Charles Herman Woodworth
- Flying Officer Alexander Roman Zatonski
1942
- Flying Officer Jack Sydney Abel
- Sergeant Leonard Charles Andrews
- Sergeant David Wann Archibald
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Arnott
- Sergeant Lysle Ralph Arps
- Sergeant Alexander Charles Ashton
- Sergeant Ronald Arthur Barnes
- Sergeant Bernard Charles Beard
- Pilot Officer John William Beck
- Pilot Officer Roland Leslie Boyes
- Sergeant Ernest Albert Brookes
- Sergeant Stanley Brownhill
- Pilot Officer Ronald George Stanley Burrows
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Arthur Butcher
- Sergeant Ernest Campbell
- Flight Sergeant John Gordon Clements
- Flying Officer Nathan Cohen
- Sergeant Wilford John Collins
- Sergeant Malcolm Charles Colwill
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Cooney
- Flying Officer Douglas Arthur Crowther
- Sergeant Arthur John Dabbs
- Flying Officer Gordon Harry Dean
- Flying Officer Maxwell Wintringham Dixon
- Sergeant Andrew Graham Dunn
- Wing Commander Peter Hiley Dutton
- Pilot Officer Arthur Pearson Dyke
- Sergeant Frederick John Eden
- Sergeant Reginald Edward Edgson
- Pilot Officer Melville Kerson Eldrid
- Sergeant Guy Alfred Evans
- Sergeant Jack Eric Fazel
- Pilot Officer James Lester Fletcher
- Sergeant Cyril William Furlong
- Sergeant Fred Gavins
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Francis Gould
- Sergeant Peter Anthony James Grant
- Flight Sergeant John Llewellyn Greening
- Sergeant Walter Percy Gregory
- Flying Officer Robert Joseph Gunn
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Joseph Haire
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Henry Hale
- Flight Lieutenant John Chevalier Hardman
- Sergeant David Harold Harries
- Flight Sergeant Beverly Morton Harvey
- Sergeant Mervyn Lionel Vivian Hass
- Sergeant Richard Edwards Hayman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Henry
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Heppenstall
- Flying Officer William Charles Hillier
- Flight Sergeant Richard Collinson Hovers
- Sergeant Sidney James Isaac
- Sergeant Lawrence Ernest Walter Jackson
- Flight Sergeant William Jackson
- Sergeant John Walter Cameron Kidd
- Flight Sergeant Francis Edward (ted) King
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie King
- Sergeant Roy Charles Lamerton
- Sergeant David Charles Langford
- Flying Officer Harry William Larkins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Henry Launder
- Sergeant George William Lewis
- Sergeant James Roy Longstaff
- Flight Sergeant Ronald James Lusher
- Sergeant Joseph Butler Alexander Macpherson
- Flight Lieutenant James George Annesley Maguire
- Warrant Officer Basil Marrows
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Marsh
- Flight Lieutenant Wallace Martin
- Sergeant Cecil Albert Maw
- Flight Lieutenant Robert William McCarthy
- Flight Sergeant John McCartney
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Ian McChesney
- Flight Lieutenant Athol Charles McKinnon
- Sergeant Norman Kenneth Millard
- Sergeant Arthur Thomas Milton
- Flying Officer Maurice Gordon Moor
- Sergeant Philip Percy Mortimore
- Sergeant Philip Henry Moulton
- Sergeant Eric Charles Mowforth
- Sergeant John Hornby Murray
- Flying Officer Eric George Nichols
- Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady
- Flight Lieutenant John Harold Tearl Palmer
- Flying Officer Thomas Lawrence Parker
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Gordon Paterson
- Flying Officer Norman James Alexander Paton
- Flying Officer Raleigh John Brandon Peacocke
- Flying Officer Herbert Frederick Perrot
- Sergeant Farquharson Proctor
- Flight Sergeant James Douglas Rae
- Flying Officer Derrick Redvers Redbourn
- Warrant Officer Alan Johnstone Reid
- Sergeant Charles Riches
- Sergeant Thomas Montague Richings
- Sergeant David Martin Sannholm
- Wing Commander Francis Cecil Seavill
- Sergeant Cecil Robert Frank Shackell
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Henry Shepherd
- Sergeant Douglas Percy Charles Simmons
- Sergeant John William Simmons
- Sergeant Alan Frank Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Samuel Smith
- Pilot Officer Ian Phillipson Spence
- Flight Sergeant William John Alton Spriggs
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Frank Stammers
- Sergeant Patrick James Stokes
- Sergeant Bernard Hadyn Thomas
- Pilot Officer Graeme Hamilton Thomson
- Flight Sergeant William Charles Turner
- Sergeant Edmund Fitzwalter Turton
- Pilot Officer Sidney Alfred Venneear
- Sergeant Edward John Florida Vick
- Sergeant Peter Thurston Wallis
- Flight Sergeant Henry John Roderick Walsh
- Flight Sergeant John Whelan
- Flight Sergeant David Garth (bud) Williams
- Sergeant Enoch Lewis Williams
- Flying Officer John Derrick Willson
- Flight Sergeant Alan John Wilson
- Warrant Officer Class I Harold Eric Wilson
- Flying Officer Joseph Alan William Withers
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Everard Newlyn Wright
1943
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Lewis Barnett
- Flight Sergeant Alwyn Walter Beves Barrett
- Flight Sergeant Stanley George Berry
- Sergeant John Henry Colley
- Sergeant James Bracewell Croft
- Pilot Officer Robert Donnisthorpe Darling
- Lieutenant Gerard William Du Pre
- Warrant Officer Class II George Finlayson
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Rothwell Finney
- Pilot Officer William Frederick Forster
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Arthur Fretwell
- Flying Officer Kenneth Albert Gerdes
- Leading Aircraftman Keith Braybrook Henry
- Flight Sergeant Owen Ernest Currell Hoffmann
- Corporal Terence Joseph Hutchinson
- Leading Aircraftman Keith Jenkinson
- Corporal Alfred Jordan
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Kellett
- Warrant Officer Albert Colwyne Kidson
- Flight Sergeant Godfrey Henry Kloske
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Kenneth McMillan
- Flying Officer Richard Mercer
- Flight Sergeant John Nisbet Redfern
- Flying Officer Eric Anthony Richardson
- Sergeant Tom Ellis Robinson
- Flying Officer Frederick Dash Thomas
- Flying Officer Ronald Gilbert Thomas
- Sergeant Reginald James Veitch
- Sergeant John Taylor Walkinshaw
- Flying Officer James Wyllie
1944
- Flight Sergeant Colwyn Parker Angus
- Pilot Officer Robert Kenneth Armstrong
- Pilot Officer Orval George Backes
- Flying Officer Jack Douglas Baird
- Pilot Officer Cecil Henry Baldwin
- Lieutenant Begg
- Pilot Officer Jabez Kevin Bendall
- Flight Sergeant Frank Alexander Black
- Air Mechanic Christoffel J. Botha
- Sergeant Laurence Ernest Brown
- Warrant Officer Class I James George William Chalmers
- Flying Officer Gordon Roy Cheesman
- Flying Officer Kenneth Cregeen Christian
- Pilot Officer Edwin Spencer Charles Clark
- Sergeant Thomas Wesley Cook
- Pilot Officer James Coulter Copeland
- Pilot Officer Gerald Philip Coughlin
- Sergeant Alexander James Crammond
- Pilot Officer Joseph M. De Macedo
- Squadron Leader Bernard Owen Egan-wyer
- Flying Officer Ralph Leslie Elliott
- Pilot Officer Ronald Edward Robert Fountain
- Lieutenant Hall
- Lieutenant Thomas Frederick Hart
- Flying Officer Bryan John Henderson
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Charles Derek Hines
- Flying Officer Harry William Johnson
- Captain Henry Elgon Kensington-edwardes
- Pilot Officer John Lightfoot Keown
- Flying Officer Theodore Kowalchuk
- Pilot Officer David Henry Lavalley
- Pilot Officer John Robert Lee
- Captain Lombard
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander Roy Macpherson
- Pilot Officer Douglas Lloyd Marcellus
- Warrant Officer Class I Hugh Joseph McArthur
- Flying Officer David Louis Caskey McCullough
- Sergeant George McLeod
- Sergeant George Nixon
- Pilot Officer Stephen Lawrence Norejko
- Flight Sergeant Brian John O'Donnell
- Flight Sergeant George Glenn Olsen
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
- Flying Officer James Millar Prentice
- Pilot Officer Victor Eugene Prouse
- Flight Sergeant Donald Alan Reid
- Flying Officer Harold Charles Beresford Reynolds
- Sergeant John Scott
- Sergeant Don Palmer Scratch
- Flying Officer Norman Frank Smith
- Flying Officer George Herbert Speirs
- Flight Sergeant Norman Robert Stanton
- Flying Officer Frederick Stratford
- Pilot Officer Roy Emmit Vandette
- Sergeant Albert Volny
- Flying Officer Kenneth Donald Wallingford
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Stanford White
- Warrant Officer John Paterson White
- Flying Officer Thomas Abercromby Wilson
- Sergeant Albert Wotton