On this day — 3 January
316 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 January during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Sergeant Thomas Fraser Behan
- Sergeant Colin Blackshaw
- Flying Officer Desmond Christian Frederick Coutts
- Flying Officer Peter James Bingham Griffiths
- Sergeant James Kennedy
- Flight Sergeant David William Mathews
- Sergeant Kenneth Harold Smith
- Sergeant Norman Stephenson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gilbert Francis Synnuck
- Sergeant Arthur Charles Tadhunter
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Edward Wilcock
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Charles John Althans
- Flying Officer Stanley Walter Andersen
- Flight Sergeant George Milburn Bigglestone
- Flying Officer Alec Macnaughton Christie
- Flight Sergeant John William Colpitts
- Sergeant Bernard Bradley Connell
- Sergeant Albert John Copping
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Walter Cradduck
- Flying Officer Alexander James Fraser
- Flight Sergeant Baxter Froude
- Sergeant Albert Harry Gardner
- Corporal John Granard
- Leading Aircraftman Charles William Hall
- Pilot Officer Robert Petrie Hay
- Sergeant Norman Arthur Hill
- Pilot Officer Donald Arthur Howard
- Second Lieutenant James Sterling Iddeson
- Flight Sergeant Roy Frank Richard James
- Sergeant Hubert Kilwa Jones
- Sergeant Wilfred Jowett
- Flying Officer Melville John Kingshott
- Pilot Officer James Garfield Lomax
- Pilot Officer Charles Ludwig
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ian Alexander Macdonald
- Sergeant John Harold Marshall
- Sergeant Robert Macauley Masson
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth McKenzie
- Sergeant Hilbert Alexander McLennan
- Sergeant Rodger Bede Murphy
- Sergeant William Gordon Pengelly
- Pilot Officer Anthony Nelson Prior
- Sergeant Aubrey Harold Shattock
- Sergeant Philip Neville Shaw
- Sergeant Arthur Ronald William Smith
- Sergeant Joseph Ross Stansfield
- Pilot Officer Raymond Bowen Thomas
- Leading Aircraftman John Robert Tomlison
- Sergeant Harold Robert Stuart Treacy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred John Belford Turner
- Corporal Edgar Burnell Verney
- Leading Aircraftman Claude Watts
- Pilot Officer John Lennox Siesel Willox
1943
- Sergeant Douglas Bell
- Flying Officer Kenneth Jack Bennett
- Pilot Officer Raymond Harry Bird
- Flight Lieutenant Harper Mervyn Bongard
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Seaman Cameron
- Sergeant Richard Clark
- Sergeant James Daniel Cooper
- Sergeant John Davidson
- Sergeant John Davis
- Flight Sergeant Robert Lloyd Dickie
- Corporal William Cecil Doan
- Sergeant Kenneth John Fielding
- Flying Officer James Ernest Foley-brickley
- Sergeant Ronald Clifford Gait
- Sergeant Richard Benson Govett
- Pilot Officer Leslie George Gunning
- Flying Officer John Hopeshaw Haigh
- Sergeant Albert Douglas Hammond
- Sergeant Walter John Harris
- Flying Officer Wightman Miles Harris
- Warrant Officer Class I Daniel James Hartney
- Sergeant John Charles William Hook
- Sergeant Stanley Hunt
- Sergeant George John Inglis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Charles Keat
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert James Kee
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Jack Lammerse
- Sergeant Ivan Wildman Lineker
- Sergeant Alexander Little
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Herbert Scott Lonsdale
- Air Sergeant Mackenzie
- Pilot Officer William Osborne Maclean
- Pilot Officer Richard Patrick Mason
- Warrant Officer William McKee
- Flying Officer Francis McNally
- Flight Sergeant Edward Arthur Meadwell
- Sergeant William Henry Moger
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Richmond Moore
- Sergeant James Ivor Morris
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Morrow
- Flying Officer Thomas Harold O'Neil
- Flying Officer Kenneth Raymond James Pennington
- Sergeant David Philp
- Sergeant Kenneth Henry Pugh
- Flight Sergeant Dudley Thomas Ray
- Sergeant Albert Thomas Riley
- Sergeant John Rose
- Flight Lieutenant James Sibley Simons
- Sergeant Arthur Smith
- Sergeant Herbert Smith
- Flying Officer Kenneth Read Smith
- Sergeant Arthur Douglas Smitherman
- Squadron Leader Brian Eustace Smith-rewse
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Ryland Sones
- Flying Officer Harold John Robert Tickle
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Tippen
- Flying Officer Alexander Ernest Tyler
- Flight Sergeant James Bernard Walenn
- Warrant Officer Class II George Ernest Walker
- Sergeant Tom Whitelock
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Paterson Wilcock
- Sergeant Donald Herbert Woods
1944
- Sergeant Charles Ablett
- Warrant Officer Class I Leslie James Adair
- Flying Officer Ian Godfrey Allan
- Flying Officer Frederick Charles Allcroft
- Flight Lieutenant John Allardyce Allen
- Flight Sergeant Peter Allwell
- Flight Sergeant Jack Anderson
- Sergeant Kenneth Aspinall
- Flight Sergeant John Stanley Baldwin
- Sergeant Alex William Charles Ball
- Sergeant Joseph Banks
- Flight Sergeant Alan Douglas Barnes
- Warrant Officer Class I Roger John Barrett
- Sergeant John William Bateman
- Flying Officer Albert Bramwell Bearcroft
- Sergeant Gerald Alfred Beckett
- Sergeant Alistair Walker Bell
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Charles Bertram
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Frank Betteridge
- Sergeant James Birtwhistle
- Flying Officer Donald Clifford Bissell
- Sergeant William John Blakely
- Flying Officer Alec William Blakeman
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Charles Blockey
- Pilot Officer James Borland
- Sergeant Ninian Bowman
- Sergeant Charles Derek Brown
- Sergeant Daniel Burden
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Frederick Burtenshaw
- Flying Officer Charles Gordon Cairns
- Sergeant Philip Otley Camm
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Castle
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Sidney James Chapman
- Sergeant Kenneth William Cheshire
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Frederick Chester
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Desmond Clarke
- Sergeant John Arthur Cobbett
- Flying Officer Wilfred Glen Cockwill
- Sergeant Abraham Cohen
- Sergeant Norman Henry Colebatch
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Joseph Collens
- Sergeant William Roy Collier
- Sergeant Henry Conrad
- Flight Lieutenant Roger Cook
- Sergeant Joseph Cooksey
- Sergeant Albert Edward Cowell
- Flight Lieutenant John Kevin Cox
- Flying Officer Kenneth Crawford
- Sergeant Ronald Gordon Creber
- Flight Sergeant Donald Cromar
- Pilot Officer John Donald Range Cromarty
- Sergeant Charles Gordon Crosby
- Pilot Officer William Currie
- Sergeant Douglas Demas Russell Dallaway
- Flight Sergeant John Johnson Davenport
- Sergeant Derek Arthur Dixon
- Flying Officer Hedley Forbes Doull
- Sergeant John McIntyre Dunlop
- Sergeant Irenee Adelard Joseph Dupuis
- Flying Officer William Horace Dyke
- Flying Officer Donald James Elliott
- Leading Aircraftman Walter John Elliott
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Ellwood
- Pilot Officer George Ely
- Warrant Officer Ernest Stanley Ivor Evans
- Flight Sergeant George Rhys Evans
- Flying Officer Peter Herbert Ewing
- Sergeant William Henry Fairfield
- Pilot Officer Ronald Harry Filbey
- Sergeant Geoffrey Firth
- Flying Officer John Watson Gage
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Gillinder
- Sergeant Clement Ralph Greenwell
- Pilot Officer Charles Anthony Griffiths
- Sergeant Glyn Griffiths
- Sergeant Arthur John Hackett
- Sergeant Harold Frederick Hales
- Sergeant John Hamilton
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Hare
- Sergeant Kenneth Horridge Harper
- Flying Officer George Richard Harris
- Flight Sergeant Wintfred Patten Harrison
- Lieutenant Hartley
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Hardie Hayward
- Sergeant Gordon Edward Heasman
- Flying Officer John Anthony Foch Heffernan
- Flight Sergeant Colin Hemingway
- Pilot Officer Gerald William Henderson
- Sergeant Gordon Hewett Hendry
- Flight Sergeant Donald Ernest Hilker
- Sergeant Ronald Victor Hillman
- Pilot Officer John Thomas Hitchen
- Sergeant Joseph Gerald Holden
- Flight Sergeant George Bentley Hollings
- Flight Sergeant Ronald William Homewood
- Sergeant Eryl Rowlands Hughes
- Sergeant Kenneth Hunt
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Hunter
- Flying Officer William Herkis Jessiman
- Sergeant Harry Arthur Joint
- Flight Sergeant Cynwyd John Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert James Jones
- Sergeant George Jowett
- Flying Officer Leslie Charles Keeling
- Sergeant Colin Rupert King
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Norman Lapthorne
- Sergeant Alfred Jack Larby
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Lansdale Lazenby
- Sergeant Samuel Lewis
- Sergeant Louis Jack Loewenson
- Flight Sergeant Francis Noel Looney
- Flying Officer William Charles John Lord
- Pilot Officer Keith Mitchell Macdonald
- Sergeant Duncan Benjamin Grant Mackenzie
- Flying Officer Henry Hector Mackenzie
- Sergeant Henry Martin
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander Neill McGlashan
- Flying Officer Joseph Earl McGrath
- Pilot Officer Denis Charles James McKendry
- Sergeant Edward Colhoun McLaughlin
- Flight Sergeant Neville Francis Miles
- Sergeant Raymond Miller
- Sergeant Vincent Hatton Minns
- Sergeant Charles Thomas Richard Morris
- Sergeant Hubert James Mouland
- Flight Sergeant Jesse Presley Robert Mount
- Flight Lieutenant Lindsay Will Munro
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Edward Terence Murdoch
- Sergeant Peter Murray
- Flying Officer George Franklyn Nixon
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Harold Nolan
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Offer
- Flying Officer James McVie Ogilvie
- Sergeant Edward Ashley Oldham
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth John O'Sullivan
- Flying Officer George Stapleford Palin
- Flight Lieutenant Cecil John Edward Palmer
- Sergeant Cyril George Payne
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Maclaren Pearson
- Sergeant Anthony Stopher Pilbeam
- Sergeant Peter Ernest Pout
- Sergeant Derek Francis Prusher
- Pilot Officer Vincent Robert Purmal
- Flight Lieutenant James Clarence Ralph
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Walter Rayner
- Warrant Officer Arthur William Robinson
- Warrant Officer Class II John Ernest Scott
- Sergeant John Simpson Scott
- Flying Officer David Allan Shewan
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Cyril George Snelling
- Sergeant Donald Henry Stephens
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Stevenson
- Flying Officer Ernest Blair Stiles
- Flying Officer Ronald Stobo
- Sergeant James Stock
- Sergeant Richard Edward Leonard Stoneman
- Sergeant Edward John Sutton
- Pilot Officer Peter Louis Symonds
- Pilot Officer Francis Robert Symons
- Flight Sergeant John Alfred Thomas
- Flight Sergeant William Donald Toohey
- Warrant Officer Edgar Thomas Townsend
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Traynor
- Flying Officer George Arthur Tull
- Flying Officer Charles Douglas Wall
- Sergeant Alan Abraham Waller
- Pilot Officer Raymond Philip Watts
- Pilot Officer Jack Weatherill
- Pilot Officer Ronald James Wheway
- Pilot Officer Walter Thomas Whitmore
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Thomas Wilmshurst
- Leading Aircraftman George Thomas Wood
- Flight Sergeant John Beresford Wood
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Keith Woods
- Sergeant Frederick Edwin Woolven
- Flying Officer George Thomas Young
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Andrew Armond Zegers
1945
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Flemming Abercrombie
- Flying Officer Walter Vernon Wilfred Allamby
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Milne Brodie
- Pilot Officer Veral Clarence Bullock
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Denison Cox
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey James Dunbar
- Flight Sergeant Richard Emonson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest John Benjamin Finn
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Hugh Harris
- Warrant Officer Class I Harold Oliver Irvine
- Flying Officer James Parsloe Jenkins
- Warrant Officer John Sawers McQueen
- Sergeant Walter Parker
- Flying Officer Paul Gotthelf Pfeiffer
- Flying Officer Francis Gerald Physick
- Flying Officer James Murray Potts
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Ivan Pritchard
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Earl Riggs
- Major Frank Amm Robertson
- Pilot Officer William Leigh Washbrook
- Flight Sergeant Cleveland Charles Watson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Edward Harold Wright