On this day — 2 April
211 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 2 April during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Pilot Officer Michael Featherstone Briggs
- Pilot Officer Robert Condie
- Pilot Officer Alan Arthur Ford
- Sergeant William Clifford Haynes
- Sergeant Harry Jagger
- Flight Sergeant William Reginald Bell Johnston
- Sergeant Albert Lee
- Sergeant James White McIntosh
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Edward Murphy
- Pilot Officer Vernon Wellington Raymond
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alan William Irison Sparrow
- Pilot Officer John Lawrence Tait
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John George Veitch
- Aircraftman 1st Class George William Winthrop
1942
- Sergeant Edward Thomas Albrighton
- Pilot Officer Joseph Harold Andrews Baker
- Sergeant Albert Henry Dickebusch Barton
- Pilot Officer Thomas Best
- Sergeant Gerard Vincent Brennan
- Sergeant Sydney Burtwell
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Allen Bussell
- Sergeant George Cant
- Sergeant George William Carter
- Sergeant Harold Cartwright
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Cassam
- Sergeant Harry Chilvers
- Sergeant Raymond James Coates
- Flying Officer Peter Kempthorne Crowther
- Sergeant Henry Eric Cruze
- Sergeant Claude Francis Curtis
- Sergeant Clarence William Edward Davey
- Sergeant John Osborn Davies
- Sergeant Eric Dixon
- Sergeant Henry Downs
- Sergeant John Clifford Dunn
- Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Charles Dyer
- Sergeant Irvine Leonard Eagleton
- Sergeant Ralph Theodore Edwards
- Sergeant George Eltringham
- Sergeant Anthony Alexander Ferguson
- Pilot Officer John Philip Noonan Findley
- Flight Sergeant Tom Flanagan
- Flight Sergeant William Mann Fraser
- Sergeant Dennis Owen George
- Pilot Officer George Constantine Giras
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Grant Giroux
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Albert Graham
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Green
- Sergeant Stirling Lindfield Green
- Flight Sergeant Donald Albert Stanley Hamilton
- Squadron Leader Guy De Laval Harvie
- Pilot Officer Ronald William Stanley Hayes
- Sergeant David Henderson
- Pilot Officer James McKenzie Henderson
- Flight Sergeant Norman George Hickey
- Sergeant William Edward Huggett
- Sergeant Edward Hunter
- Sergeant George William Jackson
- Flying Officer David Hamilton Jeffery
- Flying Officer Norman John Jones
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Jones
- Flying Officer John Francis Kelham
- Pilot Officer Robert Leroy Keniston
- Sergeant Ralph Kitney
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Eric Knobloch
- Sergeant Alan Frederick Logan
- Flight Sergeant Harvey William Lundy
- Pilot Officer John Edward Maloney
- Sergeant Ronald Marshall
- Leading Aircraftman Vyron Matuschka
- Pilot Officer Winston Francis McCarthy
- Flying Officer Patrick Howard McCawe
- Corporal Arthur McGunnigle
- Sergeant Francis Henry Miller
- Sergeant Alexander Scott Moggach
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Donald Moodie
- Pilot Officer Alec Stephen Morley
- Sergeant Walter Ronald Mullett
- Flight Sergeant John Nash
- Sergeant Berry Arthur Neill
- Flight Sergeant John Oliver Hugh Nevill
- Pilot Officer Nigel Bracken Hirst Newton
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Edrich Nunn
- Sergeant Michael O'Brien
- Flight Sergeant David Alfred Thomas Owen
- Leading Aircraftman Archibald Palamountain
- Sergeant John Southey Palmer
- Sergeant William John Paterson
- Flying Officer Ralph Hubert Powell
- Sergeant Norman Ramsbottom
- Sergeant Basil Lyne Randall
- Sergeant Arthur Edwin Rees
- Sergeant Albert George Richards
- Sergeant Ioan Henri Roberts
- Sergeant Robert Cecil Roberts
- Flight Sergeant George Murray Robertson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Roper
- Sergeant Horace Edward Rowley
- Pupil Pilot Ronald Sayer
- Sergeant John Kay Sharp
- Sergeant Bernard Shepherd
- Sergeant Ernest Keith Stevens
- Warrant Officer James William Duley Sykes
- Sergeant Wilfred Thorpe
- Sergeant Kenneth Horace Tibbatts
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Henry Tozer
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Anthony John Trevillian
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Robert Vint
- Sergeant John Saunders Weaver
- Group Captain Eric Bingham Webb
- Flight Sergeant William Robert West
- Sergeant Vernon Philip Walrond Wheaton
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Vincent Williams
- Sergeant Peter Wood
- Sergeant Calder Fenton Woodburn
- Flying Officer Harry Neville Young
1943
- Sergeant Arthur Eddie Bagley
- Sergeant William Geoffrey Barnes
- Sergeant Sidney Brenner
- Sergeant Peter Leslie Carey
- Sergeant Michael Joseph Cassidy
- Flight Sergeant Philip Clegg
- Flying Officer John Allen Cox
- Flight Sergeant Calvin Warren Dahl
- Flight Sergeant Mervyn Louis Eastgate
- Pilot Officer Allan Francis Hakala
- Flight Sergeant Roy Victor Harris
- Sergeant Henry Walter Holden
- Flying Officer Edward Rowan Knyvet Humphries
- Flight Sergeant John Alexander Richard Hunt
- Sergeant Henry Philip Hunter
- Sergeant John Kendrick
- Sergeant Roland William Lea
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Austen Lewis
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Henry Lockley
- Pilot Officer James Gilbert Lyon
- Wing Commander Donald James Macpherson
- Pilot Officer Derrick Gordon Masters
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Benjamin Mellor
- Pilot Officer Merrik Oliver Lenox Naper
- Sergeant James Robert Nesbit
- Pilot Officer Rupert Clark O'Gara
- Pilot Officer Robert Leslie Pickup
- Sergeant John Donald Radcliffe
- Sergeant Allan Launcelot Robinson
- Flying Officer William Francis Christopher Rushton
- Sergeant Harry Leonard Shead
- Corporal Ronald (ron) Smith
- Flying Officer James Reginald Stace
- Sergeant Charles Henry Coombe Stapleton
- Pilot Officer Stanley Robert Streeter
- Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Tester
- Flight Lieutenant Ian White
- Sergeant James Wildridge
- Sergeant Arthur Woodhouse
- Sergeant Ernest Frederick Woodruff
- Squadron Leader Charles Leon Wright
1944
- Flying Officer Robert John Browning
- Flying Officer Norman Carrel Cathcart
- Flight Lieutenant Bennett Winthrop Clarke
- Flying Officer Stewart Alexander Coffin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Coulson
- Corporal Stuart Harold Paul Forth
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Edward Ernest Francis
- Flying Officer Gordon Thomas Gaunt
- Warrant Officer Andrew Hamilton
- Air Corporal Hawkins
- Flying Officer Ian McLane Horton
- Flying Officer Harold Edward Jarvis
- Flight Sergeant James Ellis Jones
- Flight Sergeant Charles Clement Keegan
- Corporal Elmer Ivan Lavergne
- Sergeant Donald Macgillivray
- Squadron Leader Archibald Victor Maslen
- Flying Officer Hugh Charles McFadden
- Warrant Officer Jack Moss Oliver
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Palframan
- Flight Sergeant Piers Oscar George Raston
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Alaric Roland Renaud
- Pilot Officer Ian Robertson
- Flying Officer John Donald Shanahan
- Pilot Officer Frederick Shand
- Pilot Officer Alistair Campbell Stewart
- Warrant Officer Bernard George Stokes
- Flight Sergeant Stanley William Wait
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Weedon
- Sergeant William James Weston
1945
- Flying Officer Neville Carroll
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Ernest Crisp
- Pilot Officer Norman McLean Dempster
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Harris Fielding
- Flying Officer Robert John Fletcher
- Flight Lieutenant Cedric Alfred Venner Horne
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Thorpe Hughes
- Corporal John Mortimer Kemmler
- Flight Sergeant Robert Lambert
- Flying Officer Ward Joseph Liston
- Flying Officer Graham Vass Manger
- Flying Officer Ernest Richard Negus
- Flight Lieutenant George Laurie Park
- Lieutenant Ernest Willy Rosenstein
- Corporal Benjamin Thomas
- Lieutenant Emile Johann Van Heerden
- Warrant Officer Class II James Francis Walterhouse
- Flying Officer Reginald Gordon Watts