On this day — 31 December
157 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 31 December during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Pupil Pilot Alcock
- Squadron Leader Robert Carleton Beaman
- Sergeant Sidney Lewis Bennett
- Sergeant John Edward Brown
- Sergeant Gordon Downs Bushell
- Sergeant Jack Coates
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Robert Davies
- Sergeant James Docherty
- Sergeant John Stanley Fensome
- Sergeant Leslie Ronald France
- Pupil Pilot Keeley
- Sergeant Maurice Alexander William Lee
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George McMillan
- Sergeant Henry Robson
- Sergeant Donald Arthur Stockton
- Sergeant Douglas Trigwell
- Sergeant William Henry Tunstall
- Sergeant Bernard Clare Webber
- Sergeant Leslie Alfred Young
1941
- Flight Sergeant Charles Withers McLeod Burns
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Keith Claris
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Coles
- Sergeant Jeffrey Cox
- Sergeant Matthew William Coxon
- Leading Aircraftman James Duff Hewett
- Leading Aircraftman Charles William Hildreth
- Leading Aircraftman Graham John King
- Leading Aircraftman James Charles Lambert
- Leading Aircraftman William John McNicol
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Hedley Nicholson
- Pilot Officer William Harrington Davy Stewart
- Aircraftman 1st Class Clifford Wright
1942
- Warrant Officer Class II Bernard Higson Barber
- Sergeant John Bell
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Robert Brettle
- Flying Officer Harry Brooks
- Sergeant Kenneth Alfred Brooks
- Corporal Wilfred Brown
- Warrant Officer Cyril Mac Browning
- Flying Officer Lloyd George Burke
- Sergeant Francis William Calladine
- Sergeant Andrew Campbell
- Sergeant Raymond Clyde Charlton
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas William Clancy
- Pilot Officer Dennis Frederick Stephen Clark
- Pilot Officer Robert Cowin
- Corporal Alexander Coyles
- Sergeant Daniel Crossthwaite
- Sergeant David Weiss Davis
- Pilot Officer Michael Tom Dickinson
- Sergeant Richard Frank Evans
- Pilot Officer John Alfred Foulkes
- Pilot Officer Peter Francis Franklin
- Warrant Officer Class I Henry Hare
- Warrant Officer Basil Eldon Hargrove
- Warrant Officer Denis Lascelles Iremonger
- Pilot Officer Leonard Thomas Jackson
- Flying Officer Philip Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick John Lee
- Flight Sergeant William Edward Littlejohn
- Flight Lieutenant James McMillan
- Flying Officer William Bertram Mosley
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Brian Ordish
- Sergeant Alfred Ronald Paling
- Sergeant William Spenseley Peacock
- Flying Officer James Kenneth Alexander Pickering
- Leading Air Mechanic Piggott
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Alan Preston
- Sergeant Thomas Josiah Pritchard
- Flight Sergeant Spencer Quentin Schrump
- Sergeant John Richard Simpson
- Flight Sergeant David Smith
- Sergeant James Crawford Stirrat
- Flight Lieutenant Vernon Elton Sutherland
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Chadwick Taylor
- Sergeant Roy Meldrum Taylor
- Sergeant Malcolm James Francis Teasdale
- Sergeant Robert Veitch
- Sergeant James Warrender
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Orville Edward Wenau
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Edward Wood
- Sergeant Edwin Harold Wright
1943
- Flying Officer Michael Waller Adamson
- Flying Officer Cyril Rowland Amos
- Flying Officer John Penrose Angold
- Warrant Officer Albert Edward Barlow
- Sergeant Thomas Briggs
- Captain Buch
- Aircraftman 1st Class Adam Gray Campbell
- Sergeant Joseph Edmond Romeo Cote
- Flying Officer Ernest Byron Edgett
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Finch
- Sergeant Trevor James Freeman
- Flying Officer Dennis Jack Grestock
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Cyrus Hall
- Sergeant George Heseltine
- Flying Officer Donald James Houston
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Wilburt Huhtala
- Flying Officer Kenneth Johnson
- Pilot Officer Murray Marks
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Henry Martin
- Flying Officer Hugh Edmonds Massey
- Flying Officer Maung Hla Yi
- Leading Aircraftman Terence McCann
- Flight Sergeant William James Pearson
- Sergeant Donald Harry Pinney
- Warrant Officer Vaclav Prerost
- Flight Lieutenant Hubert Stuart Ray
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Milton Scanlon
- Leading Aircraftman William David Shaw
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Robert Staley
- Flying Officer Victor Tanner
- Leading Aircraftman George West
- Flight Lieutenant Llewellyn Wettenhall
- Flying Officer William Robert Widdess
1944
- Flying Officer Donald Howard Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Fred Bennett
- Flying Officer Michael Bernyk
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Gordon Campbell
- Flight Lieutenant George Michael Carmichael
- Flight Sergeant Terence Anthony Casey
- Flight Lieutenant George Neville Chandler
- Flying Officer George Allen Comer
- Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Crease
- Flight Sergeant John Cletus Daze
- Flying Officer Gordon William Duggan
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Nevill Earle
- Flight Lieutenant John Antony Coulson Fowler
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Stewart Hanson
- Flight Sergeant Keith Dickson Howden
- Flight Sergeant Charles Kingsley Johns
- Flying Officer Robert Henry Jones
- Flying Officer Robert Harold Kench
- Pilot Officer Bennett Graham Kinsman
- Flying Officer Thomas William Leahy
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Bruce McCallum
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond McGregor
- Warrant Officer Ronald Gregor McGregor
- Flight Lieutenant James Norman McLeod
- Flying Officer David Moore
- Flying Officer Douglas Richard Kyrke Nussey
- Flight Sergeant John Mervin Penonzek
- Flying Officer William Henry Pogson
- Flying Officer Sven Robert Polgreen
- Flying Officer John Leonard Rackham
- Flight Lieutenant James Anthony Sherry
- Flight Sergeant John Leslie Stagg
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Young
1945
- Squadron Leader Cecil Frederick Giles
- Lieutenant Jackson
- Lieutenant Kidney
- Sergeant Douglas Clingan Miller
- Corporal Charles Ronald Perkins