On this day — 5 March
294 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 March during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Air Vice Marshal Charles Dempster Breese
- Aircraftman 1st Class Sydney Therald Chandler
- Pilot Officer Basil Aubrey Ronald Deall
- Pilot Officer Thomas Fairgrieve Dorward
- Sergeant Patrick George Durham
- Flight Lieutenant John Wingfield Fordham
- Corporal John Gannon
- Pilot Officer David Hugh Gittins
- Sergeant Samuel Hamer
- Sergeant Sydney Leonard James Knight
- Pilot Officer Raymond Edwin Owen
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Nicholas Selley
- Sergeant William Ferguson Shaw
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred John Smitheringale
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Stewart
- Flying Officer John Austin Strong
1942
- Flying Officer Rupert Tom Guy Arthur
- Sergeant Harold Banks
- Flying Officer James Edwin Warwick Bott
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Pender Chambers
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfred Arthur Day
- Flight Lieutenant Peter John Fisher
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley William Freer
- Sergeant Kenneth Noel Hebditch
- Corporal Fred Hughes
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Stanley Phillip Kenny
- Pilot Officer Marcus William Terence Kidson
- Flying Officer Roger Maggs
- Sergeant James Quar McPherson
- Sergeant Thomas George Middlebrook
- Sergeant David Matthew Sinclair Murray
- Pilot Officer John McKechnie Paulsen
- Sergeant Thomas Frederick Pickering
- Flight Sergeant Robert Cranstoun Vaughan Rogers
- Sergeant Norman Jack Rolfe
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Salmon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Rene Joseph Auguste Gerard St. Hilaire
- Sergeant Kenneth Martin Tuck
1943
- Sergeant Denis William Alexander
- Sergeant Eric Brandreth Alsop
- Flight Sergeant Alphe Baptiste Amirault
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Geoffrey Mayou Argile
- Flight Sergeant Charles Carr Atkin
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Russell Avey
- Sergeant Ronald Dennis Baker
- Sergeant Harry William Baldock
- Flight Lieutenant Peter John Christopher Bateman-champain
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Maxwell Bell
- Flying Officer Donald Edward Bennett
- Flight Sergeant Keith Charles Birdsey
- Sergeant David Black
- Sergeant John Hannah Black
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Edward Blackwell
- Sergeant James Edward Bonson
- Flying Officer Stanley Sherwen Brand
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lawrie Mayman Burford
- Sergeant John Thomas Charlton
- Sergeant Walter Henry Clark
- Lieutenant Marvyn Cotterell
- Flight Sergeant James Robert Couper
- Pilot Officer James Boyd Courtney
- Flight Lieutenant John Christopher Cox
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald George Culver
- Sergeant Grey Doyle Cumberbatch
- Flight Sergeant William John Ross Davies
- Sergeant Fred Herbert Delemare
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Charles Edward Dellar
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Herbert Dempsey
- Sergeant Arthur Desmond Dinnis
- Pilot Officer Raymond Charles Dolan
- Sergeant Lloyd Sydney Dyer
- Flying Officer Hugh Terence Etienne
- Sergeant Hayden Fell
- Sergeant Donald Coulthard Fisher
- Flying Officer William Alexander Fowlie
- Sergeant John Matthew Freshwater
- Sergeant Roy Oswald Fulton
- Sergeant Geoffrey John Gates
- Sergeant Thomas Francis John Glover
- Sergeant Stanley Nelson Goddard
- Sergeant Joseph William Gould
- Pilot Officer Robert Graham
- Leading Aircraftman William Howard Granger
- Sergeant Benjamin Thomas Hallett
- Pilot Officer Frederick William Hart
- Sergeant Donald Heap
- Flight Sergeant Keith Ronald Heming
- Sergeant Eric John Henry
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Evelyn Hill
- Wing Commander Stanley Gordon Hookway
- Flight Sergeant Jack Hoyland
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Gilbert Hudson
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Hunt
- Sergeant William Thomas Hurl
- Sergeant William Johnson
- Air Mechanic John Jones
- Sergeant Peter Roy Kimber
- Flight Sergeant Rene Rodger Landry
- Flight Sergeant Harry Taylor Anderson Lawson
- Sergeant Leonard Arthur Leadbitter
- Pilot Officer William George Lee
- Sergeant Jack Linacre
- Sergeant Kenneth Hughes Long
- Flying Officer Edmund Luff
- Flying Officer James Kenneth Macdonald
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Frederick Mawby
- Flying Officer Bernard Lawrence McMahon
- Leading Aircraftman James McNaught
- Sergeant David Henry Melville
- Pilot Officer Douglas Michael Mitchell
- Sergeant Angus McKay Mollison
- Sergeant Reginald Vincent Newton Moss
- Sergeant Brendan Francis Mullett
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Leonard Nutter
- Flight Sergeant Justin Vincent O'Loughlin
- Sergeant John Lewis Organ
- Leading Aircraftman Horace Raymond John Partoon
- Pilot Officer Henry Albert Partridge
- Flight Sergeant Norman Fraser Paterson
- Flight Lieutenant William James Picken
- Sergeant Robert Pilson
- Sergeant Graham James Powell
- Pilot Officer George Arthur Ratcliffe
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles McKay Reid
- Sergeant John Robinson
- Sergeant Charles John Herbert Smith
- Sergeant Alan Havelock Spence
- Flying Officer Leonard William Sprackling
- Sergeant William Taylor
- Sergeant Harry Terry
- Pilot Officer John Rawson Thompson
- Pilot Officer Cyril Randolph Trask
- Sergeant William Hedley Trotter
- Flying Officer Ronald Douglas Turk
- Sergeant James Turner
- Sergeant William Edwin Waddington
- Flight Sergeant George Walen
- Sergeant Harold Vivian Whiteside
- Sergeant Edward Charles Bert Williams
- Flight Sergeant Robert Earl Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Rhys Williams
- Sergeant James Ferguson Lindsay Wilson
- Sergeant Anthony Witton
- Sergeant Ernest Albert Wright
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Campbell Yielder
1944
- Flight Sergeant Oscar George Ackerman
- Sergeant James William Roy Arnold
- Pilot Officer Philip Asseff
- Sergeant Cyril Beech
- Sergeant John Bull
- Flying Officer Richard Brian Charles
- Sergeant Raymond Charles Cox
- Flight Lieutenant Cecil Brian Powell Davies
- Sergeant Douglas Graham Davies
- Flying Officer Bernard Denness
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Michael Devitt
- Corporal Bernard Leo Duggan
- Flying Officer Frederick William Spencer Easton
- Leading Aircraftman Albert William Edmonds
- Pilot Officer Elwyn Hinton Edwards
- Flight Sergeant Evan John Evans
- Corporal John Fenwick
- Flight Lieutenant Cyril Vincent French
- Flight Sergeant James Sharpe Hamersley
- Flying Officer Timothy Felix Hayes
- Flying Officer Hugh William Henderson
- Flying Officer Owen Davy Hill
- Sergeant Peter Howarth
- Pilot Officer Arthur Stanley Jones
- Flight Sergeant Peter Henry Kilsby
- Flight Sergeant Donald Clarence Kirkwood
- Sergeant Ernest Hubert Kraehe
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Arnold Samuel Lasser
- Sergeant Walter John Mabey
- Flight Sergeant Walter Haxton Mann
- Pilot Officer Ronald Henry Mason
- Flight Sergeant Robert James Ian Melville
- Sergeant Walter Howard Muddell
- Flight Sergeant Henry Laurence Murphy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Michael Nagle
- Pilot Officer Donald Keith Nelson
- Flying Officer Frank Ronald Pocknee
- Flying Officer Alexander Peter Potts
- Sergeant Charles Frank Prentice
- Sergeant Noel Victor Prior
- Flight Sergeant James Jarman Richards
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dermot William Roe
- Warrant Officer Leonard Roper
- Flying Officer Kenneth Guy Devlin Shipway-fowler
- Pilot Officer Robert William Theobald
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Ronald Thomas
- Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle
- Sergeant Ernest Vamplough
- Sergeant Joseph Warren
- Squadron Leader Raymond Johnson Watson
- Flight Sergeant Colin Esbert Wein
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Leonard Wiblin
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Morley Woods
- Sergeant Fred Woolley
1945
- Pilot Officer Mark Sylvester Harold Anderson
- Pilot Officer John Melford Atchison
- Flying Officer John Leslie Atkinson
- Flight Lieutenant Donald James Bassett
- Pilot Officer Ralph Oscar Battler
- Flying Officer Ivan Sydney Baudinette
- Flying Officer Herbert John Beaton
- Pilot Officer Joseph Emile Roland Beaudry
- Pilot Officer Richard Alan Biggerstaff
- Flight Lieutenant Lindsay Stuart Black
- Flying Officer Wilbert Alexander Brydon
- Flying Officer Thomas Marnoch Campbell
- Flying Officer Alfred Valentine Cash
- Flying Officer Ronald Edward Oscar Charron
- Flying Officer Earl William Clark
- Pilot Officer Maxwell Warren Coones
- Pilot Officer Henri Jean Maurice Joseph D'Avril
- Flying Officer William Sowden De Garis
- Flying Officer Jean Jacques Adrien Leonidas Desbiens
- Flight Lieutenant Ivor Emerson
- Pilot Officer Jerome Aquinius Epoch
- Flying Officer Gordon Wynne Exel
- Flying Officer Henry Johns Feldhans
- Flying Officer Robert Edward Fennell
- Warrant Officer Berrol Samuel Frieze
- Pilot Officer William Gaba
- Squadron Leader Eric Thomas Garrett
- Flying Officer Robert Samuel Goddard
- Flying Officer Michael Francis Griffin
- Pilot Officer Roald Benjamin Gunderson
- Pilot Officer Hinrik Guttormson
- Sergeant Lionel Leslie Hall
- Flying Officer Paul John Hall
- Leading Aircraftman Edward John Harland
- Pilot Officer Howard Roger Harris
- Flying Officer Donald George Hudspeth
- Flying Officer Alick Matheson Hutchison
- Pilot Officer John William Hyde
- Flying Officer Emmet Solomon Kaechele
- Pilot Officer Joseph John Michael Kastner
- Flight Lieutenant John Gillespie Kirkpatrick
- Pilot Officer John Alexander Henry Larson
- Pilot Officer John Blair Linstead
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Edmund London
- Flying Officer Arthur Robert Lowe
- Sergeant James Laurids Lynch
- Pilot Officer Colin Bruce Macdonald
- Pilot Officer John Neil Macdougall
- Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Hamilton Murray Maclean
- Pilot Officer Benedict Joseph McCarthy
- Pilot Officer Harold Dick McLeod
- Warrant Officer John Joseph McNally
- Pilot Officer William Gordon Miller
- Pilot Officer Albert Emile Minguet
- Leading Aircraftman John Dudley Moore
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Ernest Victor Morgan
- Flying Officer Frank Macgregor Myers
- Flight Lieutenant John William Newell
- Flying Officer William Hugh Oakes
- Flight Sergeant Allan Olsen
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Orange
- Flying Officer Kenneth George Parker
- Flying Officer William Norman Roy Pearce
- Pilot Officer Joseph Louis Gaston Pelletier
- Sergeant William Gordon Ratcliffe
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Henry Ray
- Flying Officer Stanley Arthur Reid
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Alexander Ross
- Pilot Officer Joseph Donat Fernand Eugene Roy
- Warrant Officer Cyril James Rudge
- Flying Officer Francis Edward Seaby
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Louis Paul Seguin
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bertram Simons
- Flight Sergeant John Hedley Skinner
- Flying Officer Robert George Smith
- Pilot Officer Roald Frederick Sollie
- Flying Officer Roy Edward Stillinger
- Flying Officer Gordon Thomson
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Alvin Thurlow
- Warrant Officer Class I Alan Frederick Turner
- Pilot Officer Raymond Hilton Turner
- Flying Officer Johannes Vlug
- Flying Officer Humphrey Stanley Watts
- Pilot Officer William Albert Way
- Flying Officer Howard McElroy Weaver
- Flying Officer Wilfred Earl Weber
- Warrant Officer Lindsay Wilkie Webster
- Warrant Officer Frederick Whitfield
- Flight Lieutenant Bernard Mathew Williams
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Wilson
- Warrant Officer Albert Ernest Wood