On this day — 4 April
297 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 4 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Arthur George Robert Allan
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Christopher Beech
- Pilot Officer John Patrick Dalton
- Second Lieutenant John Donaldson
- Pilot Officer John Denton Hargreaves
- Sergeant Ronald Hawes
- Flying Officer Jack Patrick Majendie Hewett
- Flying Officer Herome Alexander Innes
- Leading Aircraftman Richard William Edward Jordan
- Sergeant John Adrian Lewis
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Robert Martin
- Sergeant Robert Melville Nelson
- Flying Officer John Douglas Victor Porter
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph Ramsay Smith
- Cadet Edward Andrew Walsh
1941
- Flight Sergeant George Allanson
- Pilot Officer Stewart Sidney Barnett
- Sergeant Denis Beaman
- Pilot Officer Walter Brown
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Moir Bussy
- Sergeant Cecil Calvert
- Sergeant Humphrey Yule Chard
- Sergeant Harold Joseph Dowling
- Sergeant Leslie Ralph Eden
- Pilot Officer Leslie Richard Evans
- Sergeant Daniel Gilfillan Farmer
- Sergeant Albert Victor Message Farns
- Aircraftman 1st Class Dennis Fear
- Sergeant William Watson Fox
- Sergeant William Francis Ernest Gault
- Sergeant Norman Augustus Geer
- Flight Sergeant Christopher Howard Green
- Squadron Leader Charles Desmond Hackett
- Flight Lieutenant James Harrington
- Sergeant Aubrey Bernard Allan Henderson
- Sergeant Edward J. Holman
- Sergeant Eric Keetley
- Sergeant Thomas Halford Knighton
- Flying Officer John Mansel-lewis
- Sergeant Alan Mitchel Murray
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Frank Colman Pledger
- Wing Commander Patrick Julyan Polglase
- Sergeant John Kirkwood Purdon
- Corporal William Barry Ramsay
- Sergeant Willlam George Rawkins
- Pilot Officer John James Robinson
- Corporal James Rowan
- Sergeant John Stephen Christopher Sherman
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Elmhurst Hawker Smith
- Sergeant Constantinos Marios Thompson
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Perronet Campbell Thompson
- Leading Aircraftman David Millis Wesley
- Flying Officer Dennis Conon Williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Raymond Williams
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Frederick John Willis
1942
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William George Allan
- Leading Aircraftman Jan Bambusek
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Braun
- Sergeant Arthur Bolwell Burgess
- Pilot Officer Richard Edward Bush
- Pilot Officer Edward Fred Chandler
- Sergeant Vernon Gregory Hanrahan Copas
- Pilot Officer James Aitken Crosbie
- Sergeant Ian Nicholson Davidson
- Sergeant George Arthur Edmonds
- Air Sergeant Engelbrecht
- Flight Lieutenant William Hugh Fetherston
- Sergeant Peter Alton Foster
- Pilot Officer Thomas Tristram Fox
- Sergeant Richard Gordon Giddings
- Sergeant John Henzell
- Sergeant Gordon Jackson
- Pilot Officer Reginald Langley
- Pilot Officer John Dunbar Mair
- Leading Aircraftman James Walter Masters
- Squadron Leader John (jack) McCormack
- Sergeant William John Parsons
- Sergeant George Edward Peart
- Air Mechanic John Phillips
- Sergeant Henry Frederick Pocock
- Sergeant John Charles Robertson
- Sergeant Cyril John Root
- Sergeant Noel Wilson Sowter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Storer
- Flight Sergeant David Standing Thomas
- Sergeant Frederick Ernest Sydney Warren
- Flight Sergeant Tom Watson
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Webster
1943
- Flight Sergeant Sidney George Adams
- Sergeant Harold Alford
- Sergeant Frederick Hugh Austin
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Bacon
- Sergeant Albert Ronald Baker
- Sergeant Christopher Francis (doogie) Ball
- Sergeant Robert Walton Barker
- Flight Sergeant John Alexander Peach Bartlett
- Squadron Leader Anthony Richard Henry Barton
- Warrant Officer Class II Walter Stanley Beatty
- Sergeant Reginald Percival Bilham
- Corporal William Alfred Birch
- Pilot Officer Charles Noola Black
- Corporal Edward John Botfield
- Sergeant Frank Geoffrey Bower
- Sergeant John Broderick
- Flying Officer John Burgess
- Sergeant Kenneth Reginald Burton
- Pilot Officer Roy Winfield Cairns
- Flight Sergeant Albert John Carpenter
- Sergeant George Henry Joseph Cash
- Flight Sergeant George John Cassidy
- Pilot Officer Herbert George Chuck
- Sergeant John Arnold Clough
- Warrant Officer Class II Eric Walter Cole
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Colledge
- Warrant Officer William Wallace Collens
- Flight Sergeant Robert Frederick Cooksey
- Flying Officer George Raynor Dale
- Sergeant Alan Fleming Davidson
- Pilot Officer Cecil Harold Davies
- Sergeant Leo Joseph Deschamps
- Sergeant Robert Osbourne Mitchell Dunlop
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Arnold Emery
- Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Gray Ensor
- Sergeant William Fleming
- Sergeant James Fox
- Sergeant Ivor Francis
- Pilot Officer Eric Vernon Frankland
- Sergeant John Robert Franks
- Flying Officer Charles John Freshney
- Flight Sergeant Dudley Francis Fulford
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Hodgson Perry Gamble
- Sergeant David Matthew Garrett
- Flying Officer Karl Girrbach
- Warrant Officer Ronald Gooding
- Sergeant Albert John Gordon
- Sergeant Jack Green
- Squadron Leader The Hon. Brian Grimston
- Sergeant Philip Jack William Grimwood
- Flight Sergeant Peter James Groom
- Sergeant William Cyril Haldeman
- Sergeant Charles Stanley Rutter Hamilton
- Sergeant Gordon Hardy
- Sergeant Albert James Hawkins
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Haythorn
- Flight Sergeant Kevin Robert Hazelwood
- Sergeant Charles Joseph Beaconsfield Hele
- Flight Sergeant William Law Henderson
- Flight Sergeant Gerard Francis Hogan
- Flight Sergeant Jack Arthur Holderness
- Sergeant Frank Anderson Wallace Hood
- Squadron Leader Leslie William Ivey
- Pilot Officer David Colin Tansley Jagger
- Warrant Officer Class II Donald Leslie Jarrett
- Sergeant John Keedwell
- Sergeant Edward George King
- Sergeant Frank Henry Knight
- Flight Sergeant William Percival Lanigan
- Pilot Officer John Gordon Lee
- Flying Officer Harold Brook Levinson
- Sergeant Harry Lloyd
- Sergeant Reginald Victor Loose
- Flight Sergeant Alan Lowe
- Flight Sergeant Albert Leonard Lush
- Sergeant Neil Macleod
- Flight Sergeant William Malcolm Maisenbacher
- Flying Officer Alfred Beazley Marsh
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Septimus McColl
- Sergeant Gerald Edwin McDonald
- Sergeant Edward McGloin
- Flight Sergeant Edward Thomas McHugh
- Sergeant John James Merritt
- Sergeant Jack Miles
- Flying Officer Kay Moore
- Air Mechanic Mostert
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Grant Nicoll
- Sergeant William Edwin Norman
- Flight Sergeant Stafford Thomas O'Connor
- Flying Officer Denis Patrick O'Regan
- Sergeant Herbert John Oxley
- Sergeant James Palmer
- Sergeant Harry Michael Parsons
- Sergeant Charles Edward Pheloung
- Warrant Officer Class II Cephas Joseph Phelps
- Pilot Officer Albert Leonard Stanley Portch
- Sergeant Harold Precious
- Warrant Officer Walter Boscawen Ranclaud
- Flying Officer Edmund Rothell Ray
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard William Read
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Rixon
- Flying Officer Bruce Kinley Rust
- Flying Officer Andrew Greville Seymour
- Sergeant Maurice Shibko
- Pilot Officer George Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Phillip Richard Smith
- Warrant Officer Graham Campbell Stafford
- Flight Sergeant Robert Steedman
- Sergeant James Hill Strathearn
- Sergeant Alan James Symonds
- Sergeant Kenneth William Taylor
- Sergeant Maurice Edward Taylor
- Warrant Officer Lancelot Cyril Telford
- Sergeant James Kevin Barry Veal
- Pilot Officer Stewart James Volante
- Leading Aircraftman Keith Theodore Lydon Wade
- Flying Officer John Allistair Wann
- Sergeant Ronald Leslie Ward
- Sergeant Kenneth Andrew Way
- Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
- Sergeant Peter Adolphus White
- Flight Sergeant John Andrew Williamson
- Sergeant Ronald George Woodfield
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Miles Woodward
- Sergeant Thomas John Woodward
- Sergeant William Woosnam
- Flight Sergeant Ross Nicholas George Zimbulis
1944
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin Frank Bennett
- Flying Officer Kenneth Norman Bradford
- Leading Aircraftman David Alfred Broomhead
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Ellis Brown
- Sergeant Sidney Chappell
- Sergeant Sidney Claypole
- Flying Officer Stanley William Cross
- Sergeant James Harold Dacre
- Lieutenant Charles Davie
- Flying Officer Harry Galloway Dean
- Flying Officer Robert Wilfred Densham
- Aircraftman 1st Class Samuel Vincent Dougan
- Sergeant Dennis Aubrey Essex
- Sergeant Frank Gaffney
- Flight Sergeant John Thomas Geoghegan
- Sergeant Arthur Griffith
- Flying Officer Frank Lockyer Grimwood
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Hamer
- Corporal John Hanson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edwin Howarth
- Sergeant Alfred William Hurr
- Lieutenant Janson
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Keeble
- Flight Sergeant Robert Kelly
- Flight Sergeant Victor Sutton Lacey
- Warrant Officer John Hugh Lees
- Sergeant Shayrene Meera
- Sergeant William Melrose
- Flying Officer John David Murray
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Naylor
- Leading Aircraftman George Robert Pacey
- Corporal Joseph Marcel-antonio Parenteau
- Flight Sergeant Kenrick Payne
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril John Rose
- Sergeant Robert Edward James Sisley
- Flying Officer Felix Aloysius Sullivan
- Flying Officer John Robert Teece
- Flying Officer William Leopold Towers
- Flight Sergeant John Thomas Wilkinson
- Flight Sergeant Raymond George Williams
1945
- Lieutenant Alexander
- Flight Lieutenant Colin Bently Arbon
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Raymond Bacon
- Flying Officer James Arthur Gordon Beck
- Warrant Officer John William Bessant
- Air Sergeant Blatherwick
- Lieutenant Blatt
- Lieutenant Carter
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Edward Cawthorne
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Edwin Cox
- Second Lieutenant Dalton
- Flight Sergeant Robert Dickie
- Warrant Officer Andrew Stanley Dickson
- Flying Officer Arthur Benjamin Fischer
- Air Mechanic Fortmann
- Lieutenant Kieser
- Warrant Officer Class II Irvine James Kinney
- Pilot Officer William James Kinsella
- Pilot Officer Eric Laurence Luxton
- Flight Lieutenant Earl James McAlpine
- Leading Aircraftman James Louis McConnell
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Patrick McGee
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Fairwether McGowan
- Pilot Officer Bruce Maxwell Edward McLeod
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Lorenzo Francois Ouellet
- Flying Officer Martin Henry Pattison
- Air Mechanic Pattle
- Warrant Officer Thomas Reid
- Warrant Officer Gordon Reginald Saville
- Sergeant Ernest Sheavills
- Leading Aircraftman William Herbert Smith
- Warrant Officer Class II Stephens
- Air Corporal Uys
- Captain Dirk Cornelius Uys
- Warrant Officer Class II Volsteedt
- Flight Sergeant Benjamin Curtis Winser
- Flying Officer Ralph Leonard Wood
- Lieutenant Wright
1946
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Edmund Johns
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Kerr Sherry
- Sergeant Hyman Woolf