On this day — 2 March
272 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 2 March during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Robert Shirra Spratt Black
- Warrant Officer Douglas Cameron Dow
- Flying Officer Leo Reginald Field
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Laurence Bruce Hughson
- Flying Officer Allan Law
- Flying Officer Laurence Horace Leader
- Pilot Officer John Stewart Mitchell
- Sergeant James Chalmers Murdoch
- Flight Lieutenant Reuben Michael Noblston
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Harry Prior
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Edgeley Smith
- Sergeant James Fyfe Wales
- Sergeant Maurice Wiffen
1941
- Sergeant Douglas Corbett Beddow
- Sergeant Charles Henry Bell
- Sergeant George Henry Carter
- Sergeant Richard William Tudor Clarke
- Sergeant Alfred Coates
- Sergeant Kenneth John Cooper
- Sergeant Kingsley Gerard Cooper
- Sergeant Eugene Patrick Corrigan
- Sergeant Thomas Samuel Courtman
- Sergeant Alfred Douglas Cox
- Sergeant Andrew Blair Ferguson
- Pilot Officer Alan Addison Florigny
- Squadron Leader Clive Eugene Erwin Florigny
- Sergeant Maurice Gough
- Sergeant George Hall
- Sergeant Edward Sinclair Cameron Halsall
- Sergeant Frank Douglas Healing
- Sergeant Douglas Alfred Thomas Heslop
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Edgar Hicks
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Derek Raymond Hilton
- Sergeant Alfred Charles Hoare
- Sergeant John Nevil Huddlestone
- Sergeant Eric Hughes
- Sergeant Reginald Vere Huston
- Leading Aircraftman Chesley Albert Kelloway
- Flying Officer Hugh Gavin Lydford Lawson
- Sergeant Henry George Loates
- Sergeant Roderick Mackinnon
- Sergeant Norman Roy Mansell
- Sergeant Ernest Frederick Matthews
- Aircraftman 1st Class Samuel O'Donnell McKell
- Sergeant James Noel Murray
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest Henry Nason
- Sergeant James William Quincey
- Sergeant Leonard Thomas Richards
- Sergeant Eric Routledge
- Sergeant Ronald Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Alan Reginald Sumpton
- Sergeant Percy Thomas
- Flying Officer John Joseph Walsh
- Sergeant Allen Warcup
- Sergeant Alfred Ernest Waters
- Sergeant Henry Windle
- Sergeant Philip Henry Woodbridge
- Sergeant Charles John Woods
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Robert William Aisbitt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Stephen Allen
- Flying Officer Donald Hunter Bain
- Leading Aircraftman George Edward Boorman
- Sergeant Winston Trevor Jones
- Sergeant Keith John Collinge Lauder
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Peacock
- Pupil Pilot Raw
- Leading Aircraftman George Robson
- Sergeant Douglas Robert Rutherford
- Flight Sergeant Donald Klein Swain
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas James Thom
- Leading Aircraftman Josiah William Wills
1943
- Sergeant Andrew Syme Adger
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Edmund Almond
- Sergeant George William Armer
- Pilot Officer Herbert Whitaker Astin
- Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Bartholomew
- Sergeant Arthur Battram
- Sergeant Charles Edward Bellamy
- Flight Sergeant James William Billing
- Flying Officer George Alexander Bisset
- Flying Officer Norman Scott Black
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Henry Blackmore
- Sergeant William Donald Bowen
- Sergeant Patrick (pat) Brook
- Sergeant Abraham Lawson Brown
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ferdinand Ernest Brown
- Sergeant Richard Brown
- Lieutenant John Cameron
- Sergeant Donald Burton Care
- Pilot Officer Harry Mathew Champion
- Sergeant Arthur David Cherkinsky
- Warrant Officer Class II Arnold Wallace Cochrane
- Pilot Officer Ellis Arthur Gilbert Cochrane
- Sergeant Donald George John Coombes
- Sergeant Donald Albert Crofts
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Edward George Daborn
- Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Henry Evans
- Sergeant Leslie Farmer
- Squadron Leader John Lawrence Fletcher
- Leading Aircraftman Brian Henry Flynn
- Sergeant Percy John Folker
- Sergeant Bernard Frank Forman
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred George Francis
- Sergeant Harry McAulay Frew
- Sergeant Phillip William Garnham
- Pilot Officer Leslie Hoyle Geach
- Sergeant Edward James Gray
- Flying Officer John Fergus Greenan
- Sergeant Leslie Harold Gregson
- Warrant Officer Class II Ivor Charles Grice
- Sergeant Herbert John Gruntman
- Sergeant Robert Kirby Hall
- Flying Officer Frank Bryce Hawkins
- Warrant Officer Class II James Herbert Higgins
- Sergeant Laurence John Holleron
- Sergeant Leslie Albert Horne
- Flight Sergeant Harold Stanley Howland
- Sergeant John Hughes
- Sergeant Stanley Gordon Hunt
- Sergeant Albert Leslie Hyrons
- Sergeant Andrew Innes
- Sergeant Ralph Isaacs
- Leading Aircraftman Aneurin Jones
- Sergeant Leonard Arthur Ketley
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Denis Kierse
- Sergeant James Gordon Lamb
- Sergeant Clifford Howard Lewis
- Sergeant John Little
- Sergeant John Little
- Sergeant Frederick Macdonald
- Sergeant John Burns Mallett
- Sergeant William Alfred Martin
- Flight Lieutenant Horace Arthur Matthews
- Sergeant Kenneth Edwin William Matthews
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Roy McCormick
- Warrant Officer Class II Harry Kenneth McCreery
- Flying Officer Harry Lewis Meller
- Sergeant Frank Cyril Edward Miller
- Leading Aircraftman Noel William Mitchell
- Leading Aircraftman James Bernard Mole
- Pilot Officer Harold Barbour Moore
- Flying Officer Alfred Gifford Moss
- Sergeant George Arthur Moss
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Warren Music
- Sergeant Philip Kenyon Norcross
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Nunn
- Sergeant Bernard James O'Donnell
- Corporal William Reginald Pales
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth George Peters
- Sergeant William Henry (harry) Pritchard
- Flight Lieutenant Rowland Edward Richman
- Sergeant Harold William Ricketts
- Sergeant Ronald Harold Percival Roberts
- Warrant Officer Class I James Joseph Rooney
- Sergeant Corri William Rusling
- Sergeant Jack Ryder
- Sergeant Roy Desmond Saywell
- Sergeant William Oliver Shelley
- Sergeant Edward Stephen Smithson
- Pilot Officer Grenville Gordon Stanley
- Sergeant Robert Emmerson Stockburn
- Aircraftman 1st Class Timothy Anthony Victor Hugh Sutherland-clift
- Sergeant David Thomas
- Sergeant William Eric Toft
- Sergeant Louis Arthur Trinder
- Sergeant Herbert Henry Turkentine
- Sergeant Ronald Unwin
- Flying Officer Cyril Stanley Wallace
- Sergeant John Walter Webster
- Sergeant Roy Charles Morgan Webster
- Flight Sergeant Ross Weiss
- Captain George A. Welsh
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Wheatley
- Sergeant Rupert Sutton Whitcombe
- Sergeant Ronald Edward John White
- Flying Officer Angus Gerald Williams
- Sergeant Kenneth Eric Winsor
- Sergeant Robert Wrightson
1944
- Flight Sergeant James Victor Avery
- Flight Sergeant Robert Minton Baker
- Sergeant Donald Edward Barton
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Barnard Basford
- Pilot Officer Joseph Herve Theodore R. Bertrand
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Eric Bignall
- Flying Officer William Egbert Trevor Bladen
- Pilot Officer Elbert Cyril Bousquet
- Flying Officer Walter Dawson Carl Boyd
- Sergeant Patrick Brosnan
- Sergeant James McLeod Campbell
- Corporal Jack Manning Carter
- Second Lieutenant Cockburn
- Sergeant Charles Edward Cote
- Flying Officer Alexander Crozier
- Flight Sergeant Hiram Tom Davies
- Sergeant James Ernest Dix
- Sergeant Albert Drake
- Flying Officer Dennis Draper
- Sergeant Cornelius Desmond Driscoll
- Flying Officer Athelstan George Cornish Easson
- Sergeant Albert Fenwick
- Flying Officer Francis George Gains
- Flight Sergeant William Roland Goodwin
- Flight Sergeant Phillip George Gotto
- Pilot Officer Joseph Jacques Laurier Goudreau
- Pilot Officer Percy Wilfred Green
- Sergeant George Dalgetty Greenhill
- Pilot Officer Douglas Noel Hay
- Flight Lieutenant Terence William Richard Healy
- Sergeant William James Hill
- Sergeant Frederick George James
- Flying Officer Rayner Francis Jowett
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Rhoades Kelley
- Sergeant Ernest Kenyon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Kerr
- Flying Officer William Leopold Carver Kirkpatrick
- Captain William John Alexander Mackay
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Matthews
- Warrant Officer Class II McCrindle
- Leading Aircraftman Robin Coates Miller
- Warrant Officer Geoffrey Clifford Palmer
- Sergeant Bernard Hugh Pattenden
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Pearson
- Flight Sergeant Donald Walker Petitt
- Flying Officer Peter John Piggin
- Flight Sergeant John Harold Pownall
- Sergeant Henry Gordon Reason
- Sergeant Norman William Reeve
- Lieutenant Richards
- Flight Sergeant John Gordon Russell
- Leading Aircraftman John Frederick Sefton
- Pilot Officer Roland Joseph Trudel
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Cyril George Wadlow
- Flying Officer Eugene Haydn Weber
- Sergeant Peter Sigston White
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth George Wilson
1945
- Air Sergeant Austin
- Warrant Officer Class II Harland Trevor Benn
- Pilot Officer Ernest Bertin Boyce
- Flying Officer Clair Patrick Boyle
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Thomas Brown
- Flight Sergeant Rodney Austin Carson
- Flight Sergeant Graham Richard Conley
- Flying Officer Thomas Neville Downes
- Flight Sergeant Robert James Eaton
- Warrant Officer Class II Faull
- Flight Sergeant Walter William Foy
- Flight Sergeant John Michael Gerrard
- Flight Sergeant Albert William Conrad Gledhill
- Warrant Officer Henry Vincent Gordon
- Pilot Officer Frederick Gwilym Grey
- Sergeant Victor Allen Haglund
- Flight Lieutenant Jeffrey Howard Holmes
- Lieutenant Philip Anthony Klapper
- Flight Lieutenant Edward McMaster Lawson
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard George Morris
- Flying Officer Lawrie Edmund Murray
- Flying Officer Benjamin Francis O'Neill
- Pilot Officer James Gordon Paxton
- Flight Sergeant George Worland Rankin
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Frederick Reeves
- Flight Lieutenant Clarence Lyell Shaver
- Lieutenant Steele
- Pilot Officer John Street
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Andrew Thomson
- Flying Officer Frank Edwin Watkin
- Warrant Officer Class II Wicht
- Flying Officer Harold Harry Wolfson