On this day — 7 December
251 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 7 December during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Sergeant William Arthur Adams
- Sergeant Arthur Charles Ashman
- Sergeant James Ernest Barber
- Squadron Leader Hugh Denis Beck
- Sergeant George Arnold Binks
- Pilot Officer George Henry Brooks
- Sergeant Francis Thomas Buckingham
- Sergeant Frank Lionel Carter
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Philip Cattell
- Sergeant Michael Peter Cazalet
- Sergeant Alan James Coad
- Sergeant Albert Edward Creswell
- Flying Officer David Allan Dadswell
- Sergeant Monty Richard Dards
- Sergeant Garton Vincent Davenport-jones
- Sergeant Malcolm Haydn Davies
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Spencer Debenham
- Flying Officer Derek John Dunn
- Sergeant Frank Eddowes
- Sergeant Thomas John George Eede
- Sergeant Jack Richard Friend
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Bert Aidan George
- Sergeant Thomas Goldie
- Sergeant Thomas Gray
- Sergeant Stuart Gordon Greeves
- Sergeant Joseph Alan Grocott
- Sergeant Thomas Hadfield
- Sergeant Norman Alfred Hallett
- Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Arthur Harris
- Sergeant William Raymond Hemsley
- Flight Lieutenant John McCulloch Middlemore Hughes
- Sergeant William Henry James
- Pilot Officer Guy Inglis Jerdein
- Sergeant Edward Cooper Lee
- Sergeant John Cunningham Macaskie
- Leading Aircraftman Donald John Patrick Macdonald
- Flying Officer Kenneth William Michie
- Corporal George Millar
- Sergeant Patrick Joseph Miller
- Sergeant John Munro
- Flying Officer Hugh Eric Mussenden
- Sergeant John James Coulsham Nanson
- Leading Aircraftman Stuart Tresilian Ogilvy
- Sergeant Robert Coates Parker
- Flying Officer Paul Bernard Pickersgill
- Sergeant William Humphrey Pontin
- Sergeant Charles Duncan Powrie
- Sergeant John William Pratt
- Flight Lieutenant Charles William Rees
- Sergeant Kenneth John Ridgewell
- Sergeant Anthony Arthur Rogers
- Sergeant Joseph Donald Shilling
- Sergeant Richard Francis Stacey
- Flight Lieutenant Desmond Geoffrey Stanley
- Pilot Officer Alfred Kenneth Steel
- Sergeant Harry Taylor
- Sergeant Horace Albert Edward Taylor
- Sergeant John Thomson
- Sergeant Phillip James White
- Sergeant Alan Asquith Wooding
- Flying Officer Michael Law Worthington
- Pilot Officer Norman Wylam-walker
- Sergeant Leslie Young
1941
- Sergeant Stanley Abram
- Pilot Officer Reginald Adcock
- Flying Officer James Eric Allen
- Sergeant Reginald Kenneth Anson
- Sergeant Edward Alexander Bailey
- Sergeant Norman William Barbeau
- Air Mechanic Sidney Eric Bartle
- Flying Officer Patrick Edwin Bedell
- Sergeant Stanley Wyard Bradshaw
- Air Sergeant Cuthbert Brand
- Flight Sergeant Edward Rosslyn Budgell
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Thomas David Burnett
- Sergeant Peter Rees Chancellor
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Henry Chapman
- Sergeant William Walter Covey
- Sergeant James Crawford
- Sergeant William Dodds
- Pilot Officer Leslie Kitchener Duncan
- Pilot Officer George Kingston Eaton
- Sergeant Peter Eaton
- Pilot Officer George Lawrence Eyles
- Pilot Officer John Sarto Gain
- Pilot Officer John Alexander Grierson
- Pilot Officer William Keith Hayne
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Bedo Hobbs
- Lieutenant William N. Hollenbach
- Sergeant James William Hubbard
- Sergeant Peter Dennis Lambert
- Flight Sergeant James Benjamin Leigh
- Sergeant Herbert John Lewis
- Sergeant Vernon Sydney Lewis
- Pilot Officer James Lynas
- Sergeant Donald Macmaster Macalpine
- Sergeant Vernon Dumaresq Bowden Martin
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Desmond Holmes McCarthy
- Flight Sergeant Henry Brodie McGarrow
- Pilot Officer John Douglas McVay
- Sergeant Edwin Stephen John Toye Medder
- Sergeant Horace Albert Metcalfe
- Pilot Officer John Ernest Moodie
- Pilot Officer Bernard Norris Murdoch
- Pilot Officer Alexander George Murray-smith
- Pilot Officer Reginald Lewis Newell
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond John Ogborn
- Sergeant George Frederick Parkes
- Flying Officer Richard Fuller Patterson
- Sergeant John Victor Randall
- Pupil Pilot William Rattray
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Strachan Reid
- Corporal James Ras Reid
- Squadron Leader John Lawrence Riley
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Ernest Salmon
- Flying Officer Eric Edgar Stewart
- Pilot Officer Frank Howie Sutton
- Flight Sergeant Edmund Baptist Thomas
- Sergeant Christopher George Tierney
- Sergeant Colin Burns Treloar
- Sergeant Raymond Turner
- Pilot Officer William Joseph Turner
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Wilfred Watson
- Warrant Officer William Edward Webb
- Sergeant Cyril Leslie Wells
- Flight Lieutenant Brian Dowley White
- Leading Aircraftman George Edward Wicks
- Second Lieutenant Willson
- Flight Sergeant John Wilson
1942
- Flying Officer Edward John Mayer Albert
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Roy Anderson
- Flying Officer Angus Douglas Bell
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Douglas Blackburn
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Armstrong Bond
- Lieutenant Brooks
- Sergeant Frederick David Buchwalter
- Sergeant George Bunnett
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Eric Butt
- Warrant Officer Class II John Cachia
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Carr
- Pilot Officer George Edward Cronk
- Pilot Officer Howard Earl Dabbs
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Patrick Davies
- Pilot Officer John Arthur Denning
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Spence Doherty
- Flight Sergeant A. McP. Donald
- Sergeant John Burleigh Elder
- Pilot Officer John Victor Ensom
- Aircraftman 1st Class Tudor Albert Evans
- Sergeant William Ronald Evans
- Flight Sergeant Stefan Franchuk
- Sergeant Robert Gill
- Flight Sergeant Gray
- Leading Aircraftman Victor William Guest
- Sergeant Daniel Geoffrey Guy
- Leading Aircraftman Bernard Hart
- Flight Sergeant William Edward Hawke
- Pilot Officer Ronald Hayes
- Sergeant Sidney Heywood
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Sidney Hirons
- Sergeant James Hughes
- Sergeant Frederick Ray Huntsinger
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald William Johnson
- Sergeant Henry Jones
- Pilot Officer Peter Frank Kingsnorth
- Flight Sergeant John Irving Kitchen
- Sergeant Ian John Land
- Leading Aircraftman John Little
- Sergeant Donald Robert Loyd
- Sergeant Abraham Marshall
- Flight Sergeant Howard Lawrence Maughan
- Sergeant Laurie Arthur McGuire
- Sergeant Leonard Percy McGuire
- Warrant Officer Class I Donald Burton McPhail
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Middleton
- Pilot Officer Keith Millgate
- Sergeant Peter Albert Morey
- Leading Aircraftman Austin Black Noble
- Sergeant Charles Ronald Pendelpho
- Sergeant John Thomas Pinkney
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Howard Rees
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Riley
- Pilot Officer John David James Rodger
- Sergeant William Frederick Douglas Rogers
- Flight Lieutenant Eldred Antony Ussher Smith
- Flight Sergeant Robert Gordon Smith
- Sergeant Leslie George Leopold Stubbs
- Flight Sergeant David Smith Urquhart
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Vipal Laluram
- Sergeant William Thomas Warren
- Corporal Roy John White
- Flight Sergeant Harvey John Wigley
- Squadron Leader Robert Sinckler Woodward
1943
- Warrant Officer James Tasman Burton
- Corporal Billy Byron
- Air Mechanic Jan Coetzee
- Warrant Officer Class II Ewen Cameron Currie
- Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Davie
- Captain Dillon
- Pilot Officer James Duncan Fairbairn
- Warrant Officer Class II Archie Earl Ferguson
- Pilot Officer Charles Kenneth Harney
- Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Bernard Willerton Hewson
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Kirk
- Leading Aircraftman William Lawrie
- Warrant Officer Class II Wilford Clay Love
- Warrant Officer Roy William Macdonald
- Leading Aircraftman Grant Carmichael Matthews
- Flight Sergeant William Keith Hamilton Paterson
- Flight Sergeant James Arthur Paul
- Flight Sergeant Jack Peasgood
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel James Percival
- Flying Officer Kenneth Frederick Perera
- Leading Aircraftman Taunton Oswald Constantine Pouyat
- Air Commodore Benjamin James Silly
- Flying Officer Roy Alexander Sinclair
- Flight Sergeant Leslie George Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alan Rothwell Spivey
- Flying Officer Gifford Eric Stansell
- Lieutenant Staples
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Verne Stephens
- Warrant Officer Class II George Michael Frederick Stockwell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie Straughan
- Flight Sergeant Ross Phillip Tumilty
- Flight Sergeant Allan Herbert Wright
1944
- Flying Officer Alan Campbell Bond
- Flying Officer Frederick Cradock Bull
- Flight Lieutenant William Edgar Cayley
- Flying Officer William Nathan Cosman
- Sergeant Stanley Esmond Cross
- Pilot Officer Lloyd Thomas Graham
- Pilot Officer Ezra Mulloy Hansen
- Flight Sergeant Richard Thurston Hawthorn
- Flight Sergeant Joslyn Lavarre Henderson
- Flying Officer Bruce Douglas Hyndman
- Flying Officer Spencer Edwin Leppert
- Flying Officer Henry Stanley Macmeikan
- Corporal Ernest Andrew Millis
- Leading Aircraftman Dudley John Morris
- Sergeant Joseph Lawrence Rheaume
- Pilot Officer Vernon Rippon Shield
- Pilot Officer George Edward Smith
- Flying Officer Gwynne Thomas
- Sergeant George Leonard Warthe
- Flying Officer Arthur Watkins
- Flying Officer Kenneth Cecil Wing
- Flying Officer Richard Rodney Young