On this day — 3 April
275 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 April during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Wing Commander Derek Addenbrooke
- Sergeant George Benjamin Holt Birdsell
- Sergeant Eric Edwin Blomeley
- Sergeant William Norman Brindley
- Sergeant Peter Ian Burrows
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Duncan Cedric Cameron
- Aircraftman 1st Class Horace Alexander Clark
- Pilot Officer William Johnston Fenton
- Sergeant William Edgar Godfrey
- Flight Sergeant Alan Leigh Kennedy
- Sergeant Kenneth George William Kyle
- Sergeant Harold Ian Maxwell
- Sergeant Hugh Raymond Perry
- Flight Sergeant David Francis Roberts
- Sergeant Jack Scott
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Norman Tamblyn
- Corporal Victor Albert Tompkins
- Sergeant Phillip Charles Livesey Wicks
1942
- Pilot Officer John Fraser Anderson
- Lieutenant Bartels
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Bunting
- Corporal Francis Albert Harry Cliffe
- Flight Sergeant Hector Thomas Moore Cooper
- Sergeant John Harley Dixon
- Flight Sergeant Richard St. Julien Gregory
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Edwin Howell
- Flight Sergeant Mervyn Anthony Jones
- Leading Aircraftman John Kyle
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Lawrence
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Jack Love
- Pilot Officer Baron Rene Henri Theophile Lunden
- Pilot Officer Richard Warwick Martin Moon
- Pilot Officer Norman Ernest Myring
- Corporal Harold Leonard Bruce Nieman
- Pilot Officer Jack Edward Piggott
- Leading Aircraftman John Henry Rylatt
- Sergeant Walter Anthony Skinner
- Flight Sergeant Harry Ernest Demmar Tilby
- Leading Aircraftman Russell Edwin Underwood
- Sergeant Claude William Valder
- Pilot Officer Samuell Fisk Whedon
1943
- Flight Sergeant Beverley William Agar
- Sergeant Eric William Aldridge
- Corporal John Alexander
- Flying Officer Charles Robert Cecil Austin Allberry
- Flight Sergeant David Archibald
- Sergeant James Carleton Aston
- Sergeant Leonard Edward Ayres
- Sergeant Robinson Bee
- Sergeant Cedric Leslie Billington
- Sergeant William Billington
- Flying Officer Gregory James Black
- Warrant Officer Frederick Henry Blake
- Flying Officer Peter Delamere Boyd
- Sergeant Gilbert Davies Boyer
- Sergeant John Viner Branscombe
- Sergeant Dennis Brennen
- Sergeant Kenneth Oliver Brice
- Flight Sergeant Franklyn Roy Burke
- Squadron Leader Malcolm Carrol Burns
- Sergeant Aaron Burson
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Anderson Byass
- Pilot Officer Cyril Desmond Calvert
- Sergeant Wallace Carter
- Warrant Officer Class II Maurice Gordon Church
- Sergeant William Arthur Clark
- Warrant Officer Clarence Malcolm McGregor Coghill
- Flight Lieutenant John Denis Cole
- Sergeant Eric William Cook
- Sergeant Ronald Gill Cooper
- Sergeant Stanley Edward Crooks
- Flying Officer John Campbell Davis
- Pilot Officer Clifford George Dawson
- Sergeant Edward Trevor Dawson
- Flight Sergeant Alan Arthur Dean
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Joseph Didsbury
- Flying Officer Percy William Digby
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles William Draycott
- Flying Officer Thomas Dring
- Sergeant Philip Henry Eldridge
- Sergeant Gerwyn Howell Evans
- Flight Sergeant Roy Reginald Feeley
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Fieldhouse
- Pilot Officer Grant Alexander Fletcher
- Squadron Leader Frank Thompson Flower
- Flying Officer Thomas Noble Forster
- Sergeant Ronald Douglas Francis
- Sergeant Louis Thomas Fulcher
- Sergeant George Edward Gadd
- Pilot Officer Daniel Ernest George
- Sergeant George Robert Gilbert
- Sergeant Ronald Gowing
- Pilot Officer David Neil Allen Griffin
- Sergeant Robert Kerr Guy
- Sergeant Frank Joseph Hackett
- Warrant Officer Joseph Walter Halikowski
- Flight Lieutenant George Patrick Hall
- Sergeant Serbert Norman Hall
- Sergeant Walter Harvey
- Sergeant John Hatton
- Sergeant William David Hawkins
- Sergeant Ronald Heslop
- Flying Officer John Steele Higgins
- Sergeant Roger Leslie Hodgson
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Bernard Hope
- Sergeant Roy Cyril Horton
- Sergeant Arnold Howarth
- Sergeant John Kershaw Howarth
- Squadron Leader Geoffrey William Jones Jarrett
- Flying Officer Ronald Norton Johnson
- Sergeant William Johnson
- Sergeant Robert James Johnstone
- Sergeant Goronwy Wyn Jones
- Sergeant John Ceredig Jones
- Sergeant Kelvin Jones
- Pilot Officer Leslie Richard Jope
- Flight Sergeant James Spy Keay
- Sergeant Reginald John Kernick
- Sergeant John Birkett Langley
- Flying Officer Gordon Williams Lawry
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Linton
- Sergeant Idrys Wyn Lloyd Llewellyn
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Luscombe
- Flight Lieutenant Floyd Edward Luxford
- Pilot Officer Hamish Turner Macdonald
- Warrant Officer Class II William James Mackay
- Pilot Officer George Mackay
- Flight Sergeant Austin Gabriel Maguire
- Pilot Officer John Drysdale Mair
- Warrant Officer Class II William James McAlpine
- Warrant Officer Class II Leo Neil McArthur
- Flying Officer John Dugald McBride
- Sergeant John McCormick
- Sergeant Douglas McEwen
- Flying Officer Thomas McLoughlin
- Sergeant Howard McQueen
- Leading Aircraftman John McWaters
- Flight Sergeant John Edward Melville
- Sergeant Gilbert Robert Minns
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Montgomery
- Sergeant John William Moon
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Parmenter Moule
- Warrant Officer James Murray
- Pilot Officer Edwin Robert Myles
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Hone Nichols
- Flying Officer Harold North
- Sergeant Raymond O'Brien
- Squadron Leader Arthur Mitchell Paape
- Flying Officer Alan Cairns Palmer
- Sergeant Alfred Michael Parker
- Flying Officer John Parsons
- Flying Officer William Oliver Peacock
- Corporal William Frederick Pearce
- Sergeant Ronald George Pegg
- Sergeant William Charles Pitt
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Radbourne
- Sergeant David Ballantyne Ralston
- Sergeant Herbert Arthur Ramsey
- Sergeant Laurence Henry Ransome
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Ratcliffe
- Sergeant John Rawcliffe
- Pilot Officer Earle Redman
- Pilot Officer George Riach
- Flight Sergeant John Richards
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Herbert Ottewill Richardson
- Sergeant William George Richardson
- Pilot Officer John Horace Ridd
- Sergeant Thomas John Ridd
- Sergeant Albert Ernest Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Donald Lawrence Robertson
- Sergeant Derrick Joseph Rishworth Robinson
- Pilot Officer William Albert Robinson
- Corporal William Rodgers
- Flying Officer Harold Melville Rogers
- Flight Sergeant Frank William Thomas Routledge
- Sergeant Ronald Sidney Sabell
- Sergeant Raymond Charles Saunders
- Flight Sergeant John Douglas Scott
- Flying Officer Lancelot Rodney Cayley Shadwell
- Flight Sergeant Eric L'Estrange Lightfoot Shandley
- Sergeant Brian Gilbert Sherman
- Flying Officer Joseph William Simpson
- Pilot Officer Ebenezer Alfred Sirett
- Sergeant Cecil Mark Skelton
- Flying Officer Eric Harcourt Smith
- Flying Officer Frederick Albert Southon
- Pilot Officer Ronald Claude Stemp
- Flying Officer John Maxwell Stewart
- Sergeant Jack Stock
- Sergeant Leonard Stockbridge
- Pilot Officer William Hallewell Swire
- Flying Officer John Alexander Grant Thomson
- Sergeant Norman Ray Thurecht
- Sergeant Leonard Ralph Tomlinson
- Sergeant Russell Seymour Trigwell
- Sergeant Thomas Victor Trollope
- Sergeant Gerard Stanley Walters
- Sergeant Albert Ward
- Sergeant Bertram James Warr
- Sergeant Walter Watts
- Sergeant Robert Charles Henry Webb
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Webb
- Warrant Officer Class II Rodney Webber
- Flight Sergeant John William Whipple
- Warrant Officer Class II John Day White
- Sergeant David Reginald Williams
- Sergeant Ernest Williams
- Sergeant Frederick George Williams
1944
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon Somerville Adams
- Pilot Officer Russell Lindsay Black
- Pilot Officer Colin Desmond Brockhurst
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Tom Edward Bullock
- Pilot Officer James Oliver Christie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Henry Davies
- Sergeant Sidney George Fielder
- Flight Sergeant Robert Gordon Frew
- Leading Aircraftman John Carey Gardner
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Phillip James Gearing
- Pilot Officer Harold John Gillies
- Sergeant Louis Eugene Hermelin
- Flight Lieutenant William Edward Hughes
- Flying Officer Keith Grant Learn
- Flying Officer Julian Vincent Macdonald
- Corporal Alfred Eugene Marshall
- Flying Officer William Arthur Charles Morris
- Sergeant Donald Arthur Parke
- Flying Officer William Edward Peet
- Flight Sergeant George Gordon Pemberton
- Pilot Officer Richard James Philpot
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Jacques Armand Roy
1945
- Sergeant Lloyd Sinclair Bentley
- Leading Aircraftman John Campbell
- Pilot Officer Elden Fleetwood Carlisle
- Flight Sergeant Lester Cockerham
- Flight Sergeant John Leo Cooke
- Flying Officer Leslie Keith Driver
- Flight Lieutenant Everett Embert Ettinger
- Flying Officer Alexander Donald Fraser
- Sergeant Philip Roy Clifford (phil) Freeman
- Warrant Officer Walter Thomas Dominic Furlong
- Leading Aircraftman John Bertram Glover
- Flying Officer Richard Henry Golding
- Warrant Officer Class II William Leonard Greer
- Sergeant William McRedie Hannah
- Corporal Harold Harrison
- Flying Officer John William Hart
- Lieutenant Frederick Lawrence Higgins
- Warrant Officer Alfred William Howe
- Sergeant William Hunter
- Flight Lieutenant William Calder Jackson
- Pilot Officer Edward Walter Liebeck
- Flight Lieutenant John Anthony Lukey
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Gordon Macneil
- Flying Officer Leslie Charles Martin
- Pilot Officer Thomas Albert McBeath
- Flight Sergeant John Robert McConnell
- Pilot Officer James McIlrath
- Warrant Officer Class II Edward John O'Rourke
- Lieutenant William Broughton Penn
- Corporal Douglas George Redman
- Sergeant Gerrard Riley
- Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth Lorne Roth
- Pilot Officer Thomas Delmer Scott
- Flying Officer Oscar George Solmundson
- Pilot Officer Keith Tate
- Corporal Sydney John Thompson
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander George Thomson
- Sergeant Colin Walker
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Williams