On this day — 3 March
290 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 March during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman John Ambrose Butcher
- Pilot Officer John Nemours Carter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter William Corvan
- Pilot Officer Robert William Farrow
- Leading Aircraftman James Crawford Forster
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Victor Hanaghan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Hart
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Arno Mutton
- Pilot Officer Henry Leslie Niccolls
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Hector James Reid
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur William Bates Sanders
- Sergeant Arthur Kenneth Saxon
- Flying Officer Sydney Dennis Slocum
- Pilot Officer Alexander Stewart
- Sergeant Edward Charles Warren
1941
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Douglas Murray Bannister
- Sergeant Ronald Charles Brockway
- Sergeant Stanley Victor Bunn
- Sergeant George Liddell Elliott
- Sergeant Edward Fenwick
- Sergeant Denis Bernard Flanders
- Sergeant John Newman Gallyon
- Sergeant Harold Gordon
- Sergeant Herbert Walter Green
- Squadron Leader John Martin Griffith-jones
- Sergeant Roger Hinton
- Sergeant Jack Nicholson Holdsworth
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Horsfield
- Sergeant Herbert Frederick Jennings
- Sergeant John Stephen Legge
- Sergeant Joseph Charles Lockwood
- Sergeant Eric Ernest Craddock Phillips
- Sergeant Geoffrey Rochfort Pike
- Sergeant Thomas Randall
- Corporal Walter John Richards
- Sergeant John Glynne Stanley
- Sergeant Thomas James Thurling
- Pilot Officer William Thomas Watkins
- Sergeant Albert Walter White
- Sergeant Kenneth Wright
1942
- Sergeant Adrian Richard Algar
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur James Badham
- Leading Aircraftman John Lionel Clarke
- Second Lieutenant Andrew Craigie
- Sergeant Karel Danihelka
- Flight Sergeant Henry Ellerby
- Sergeant William Ronald Gregory
- Sergeant Vladimir Hanzl
- Sergeant Kenneth Bertram Harvey
- Sergeant Bohuslav Hradil
- Sergeant Frantisek Janca
- Sergeant Imrich Kormanovic
- Sergeant Jan Kotrch
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Tate Loton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Henry Lucas
- Sergeant William Gibbons Markland
- Leading Aircraftman Robert William Maxwell
- Sergeant Christopher McKiernan
- Leading Aircraftman John Morris
- Pilot Officer Gerald Richard Oatley
- Sergeant Adolf Podivinsky
- Flight Lieutenant Ladislav Riha
- Corporal Ronald Short
- Sergeant Dobromil Spinka
- Sergeant Pribyslav Strachon
- Sergeant Josef Svoboda
- Sergeant Alois Tolar
- Sergeant Clarence Emil Wisrodt
1943
- Sergeant Laurence Norman Abercrombie
- Flying Officer Leslie Alexander Allan
- Sergeant Ronald Sidney Allen
- Sergeant Vaughan Stacey Allen
- Sergeant Kenneth Alfred Amond
- Flight Sergeant Orison Edwin Amos
- Sergeant Arthur Frederick Ash
- Sergeant Joseph Engelbert Audy
- Sergeant Peter Frederick Bacon
- Sergeant Peter Bailey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Barer
- Sergeant James Arthur Barnard
- Flying Officer Francis Walter Bartleet
- Sergeant Arthur Lawrence Bellerby
- Flight Sergeant Walter Billington
- Flight Sergeant Colin Ray Bird
- Pilot Officer Arthur Mervyn Bridgman
- Flight Sergeant Henry Herbert Brien
- Pilot Officer Donald Wallace Bryant
- Flying Officer Arthur Norman Bulpitt
- Sergeant Alexander Rennie Burgess
- Sergeant Laurence Burnett
- Sergeant Clarence Sydney Burton
- Warrant Officer Class II William Edward Cain
- Sergeant Francis James Callaghan
- Flight Lieutenant Colin Summers Campbell
- Sergeant Thomas James Caveney
- Sergeant Robert Clark
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Lewis Arthur Cloke
- Sergeant Raymond Leonard Colverson
- Sergeant Alfred Victor Gordon Cridge
- Sergeant Bernard Herbert Cruikshank
- Sergeant Roy Victor Malcolm Davenport
- Sergeant Cyril Davies
- Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Henry Dean
- Flight Sergeant Melville George Delatorre
- Flight Sergeant William Bruce Drake
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Jean Baptist Albert Dugal
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Alexander Dutton
- Sergeant Charles Victor Ellen
- Flying Officer Kenneth Hector Ellis
- Sergeant Percy John Elton
- Sergeant Peter Evison
- Sergeant Kenneth Cedric Eyre
- Sergeant Hugh Morris Felce
- Warrant Officer Class II William Clyde Forbes
- Sergeant Edgar Claude Fulton
- Pilot Officer Joseph Victor Leo Gauthier
- Sergeant Henry Joseph Fitzgerald Gell
- Pilot Officer Jack Glassberg
- Sergeant Raymond Cyril Going
- Flying Officer William Ronald Golding
- Sergeant Ross Clive Graham
- Sergeant George Edward Green
- Sergeant Alexander Greig
- Flying Officer Michael Edward Hallam
- Flying Officer Donald Francis Ignatius Hardman
- Sergeant Sydney Edward Harmes
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Matthias Hatherall
- Flight Sergeant Ian Victor Heatley
- Sergeant Keneth Hitchen
- Sergeant Eric Holdsworth
- Sergeant Raymond Walter Ernest Holley
- Sergeant George Albert Hovell
- Pilot Officer Clifford Raymond Jackson
- Corporal Albert James James
- Sergeant Ronald Gilbert Jewell
- Flight Sergeant John Martin Claridge Johnsen
- Flying Officer Bernard Johnson
- Sergeant Kenneth Victor Jones
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Theodore Kenyon
- Flight Sergeant Donald Kerr
- Sergeant Roderick Watson Kerr
- Sergeant David Douglas Laidlaw
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Wilfred Maurice Edmond Lanctin
- Sergeant Benjamin Charles Lock
- Warrant Officer Class II David Wesley Lowther
- Sergeant William George Ludbrook
- Sergeant Percival Harold Luscombe
- Flight Sergeant Leo McClellan Lymburner
- Sergeant Denis Charles Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant Harold Stanton Macpherson
- Flight Sergeant Archibald John Marfell
- Squadron Leader Richard Sampson Orlebar Marshall
- Pilot Officer Lawrence John McDougall
- Sergeant James McGrane
- Sergeant George Howard McIlraith
- Flight Sergeant James Mead
- Pilot Officer Adolf Philip Meijer
- Sergeant Robert Harvey Millar
- Sergeant Thomas Patrick Gore Milledy
- Flight Sergeant Harold Roy Millson
- Flying Officer William Ian Moffat
- Flight Sergeant Edward Francis Murphy
- Sergeant Frederick Albert Neame
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Stanley Newman
- Sergeant Ronald Oldfield
- Leading Aircraftman John Henry Palmer
- Flight Sergeant James Parker
- Flying Officer David Hamilton Paterson
- Flight Sergeant John Alfred Paterson
- Flight Sergeant John Campbell Paton
- Sergeant Leslie Charles Pearson
- Pilot Officer Charles William Valentine Pepper
- Sergeant Douglas William Perch
- Sergeant John William Rider
- Flight Lieutenant Neville George Darrel Sanford
- Sergeant George Charles Daniel Sayer
- Pilot Officer Stanley Walker Shepherd
- Sergeant Harold Sherratt
- Sergeant Kenneth Rupert William Simmonds
- Sergeant Albert George Snow
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Devereux Spratt
- Sergeant Francis Barkhouse Stewart
- Sergeant Norman Phillip Taylor
- Sergeant John Jocelyn Thompson
- Sergeant Lewis Reginald Thompson
- Sergeant Edward Albert Thuell
- Warrant Officer Class II Russell Mark Tooze
- Sergeant Thomas Towle
- Sergeant Norman Frederick Trigg
- Flying Officer George Hugh Turner
- Flying Officer Ronald William Turner
- Sergeant John Neville Unsworth
- Warrant Officer Class II William Victor Wallace
- Sergeant Richard George Watson
- Sergeant Emrys Herbert Weaver
- Sergeant Royston Robert Isaac Webber
- Flying Officer Ralph Eric Wesley
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Arthur William Willis
- Sergeant James Albert Willis
- Sergeant John Henry Bernard Wright
1944
- Flying Officer Frederick Aiston
- Flying Officer William James Bailey
- Sergeant Richard Bell
- Sergeant Norman Philip Bond
- Flight Lieutenant James Harold Botham
- Sergeant Alan Bowker
- Flying Officer Peter Norman Brown
- Pilot Officer Robert George Calder
- Warrant Officer Class II John Caldwell Calhoun
- Warrant Officer Class II William Warren Campbell
- Sergeant Walter Percy Cullen
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Dixon
- Sergeant Arthur Draper
- Flight Sergeant Abraham Garcia
- Major John Henry Gaynor
- Sergeant Robert Charles Gibbs
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Charles Michael Green
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Gregory
- Sergeant James William Holland
- Flying Officer Thomas Reginald Holland
- Flight Sergeant Denzil Jones
- Flight Sergeant Allan Wilfred Joseph Kempnich
- Warrant Officer Walter Kenneth Kewish
- Flying Officer Henry George Lancaster
- Flight Lieutenant George Henry Lawrence
- Warrant Officer Class I Francis James Leech
- Sergeant George Godfrey Lester
- Flying Officer Arthur Lewis
- Flying Officer Robert Edward Lomax
- Flying Officer Edward Vincent Magee
- Flight Sergeant Eric Lloyd Maybee
- Leading Aircraftman Malcolm McKenzie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Olney
- Sergeant Robert Higginson Owen
- Sergeant Dennis Terrence Portch
- Flying Officer Allen Hastings Ringland
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Frank Roberts
- Flying Officer Frank Neville Scott
- Flying Officer Clifford Wilson Serpell
- Sergeant John Simms
- Pilot Officer William Ogilvie Simpson
- Flight Sergeant John Walter Sole
- Sergeant James Speight
- Warrant Officer John Edward Stapleton
- Sergeant Charles Neville Tasker
- Sergeant Thurnall
- Flight Sergeant Robert Walker Tudor
- Sergeant Arthur Norman Welch
- Sergeant Henry Whitby
- Sergeant Ronald Cuthbert Wild
- Corporal Arthur Winter
- Sergeant Robert William Cowan Yeaman
1945
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
- Flying Officer Donald Peter Bradshaw
- Flying Officer Charles Jackson Cameron
- Warrant Officer Class II John Corman
- Flying Officer John William Coyle
- Flight Sergeant Osric Brownrigg Elliott
- Flying Officer Alfred Percy Fogerty
- Corporal Derek Arthur Leslie Gibbons
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick Francis Goodger
- Flying Officer Leo Joseph Robert Gregoire
- Lieutenant Holmner
- Flight Lieutenant Francis John Howells
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Johnston
- Wing Commander Eric Le Page Langlois
- Flying Officer Frank Ernest Larkman
- Pupil Air Gunner Cornelius J. Lemmer
- Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth Lloyd Douglas McCoy
- Flight Lieutenant John Alfred Miller
- Flying Officer Evan Charles Patten
- Flight Sergeant Gorden James Phillips
- Flying Officer Alan Frank Reid
- Lieutenant Reim
- Warrant Officer Aubrey Frank Richardson-jones
- Flight Sergeant John Ernest Sabine
- Warrant Officer Class II Marvin Max Sandomirsky
- Corporal Victor Summerfield
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Swift
- Warrant Officer Colin Hill Terras
- Flying Officer Rowland Telford Ward
- Pilot Officer William Waldemar Webber
- Flight Sergeant Stuart William Wentworth
- Flight Lieutenant Edward George Wey
1946
- Corporal Leslie Walter Bishop
- Corporal Raymond John Dorn
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Knox Ray
- Flying Officer Arthur Eugene Ross