On this day — 5 April
238 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Leading Aircraftman Elvie Beynon
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Boyd
- Sergeant Robert George Bruce
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Oscar Dickson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Frederick Foster
- Flying Officer Dermot Evelyn Gould
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ivor Daniel Jones
- Corporal William Herbert Radcliffe Kneale
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Maxmillium Raibl
1941
- Pilot Officer Roland Boag Aitken
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Clifford Andrews
- Sergeant George Percy Fitzgerald Bryant
- Squadron Leader Duncan Campbell
- Sergeant Howard Winfield Chase
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Cheesman
- Corporal Arnold Percy Davis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Doran
- Wing Commander Geoffrey Farnhill
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Norman Hawksley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Charles (ted) Hickford
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Elliott Mays Hodge
- Pilot Officer Jack Holt
- Pilot Officer Hugh Murtagh Macrossan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Martlew
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David McClements
- Corporal James McKie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Morgan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Pitt
- Flying Officer Thomas James Pritchard
- Flight Sergeant William Arthur Wiggin
- Sergeant Frederick Richard Worthington
1942
- Flying Officer Arthur William Abbott
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Arthur Allen
- Pilot Officer Douglas Macgillvary Brown
- Sergeant Allan John Browne
- Flying Officer Garth Elliot Caswell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Lawton Cunningham
- Sergeant Alexander Thomas Edward Daniells
- Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Douglas Dean
- Sergeant William Cecil Friscourt Dodd
- Flying Officer John Ward Evatt
- Flying Officer Donald Geffene
- Flight Lieutenant James Ramsay Graham
- Sergeant John Douglas Hawkins
- Flight Sergeant Harley Joseph Helbock
- Sergeant Basil Jeffery
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Frederic Paul Henry La Freniere
- Flight Lieutenant Harold David Tamsett Leach
- Sergeant Douglas Lees
- Leading Aircraftman Idris Lewis
- Flight Lieutenant James Lockhart
- Flying Officer Gordon Douglas Macpherson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Jennens Malone
- Flight Lieutenant Aubrey McFadden
- Pilot Officer Hugh Percival McKee
- Flight Sergeant Leo George Murphy
- Flying Officer Robert Nason Neill
- Warrant Officer Louis Anthony Ovens
- Pilot Officer Edmund Patrick Smith
- Sergeant Raymond Norman Ray Thain
- Sergeant Kenneth Leftwich Thomas
- Pilot Officer Edward Maurice Thomas Tremlett
- Leading Aircraftman John Turnbull
- Sergeant William Sleigh Wadsworth
- Sergeant Robert Douglas Walker
1943
- Warrant Officer David Thomas Andrew
- Sergeant Eric James Andrew
- Flying Officer Edward Francis Appleton
- Flight Sergeant Charles Norman Beaton
- Pilot Officer Norman Bertram
- Sergeant Harold Edwin Blundell
- Warrant Officer John Benjamin Burrows
- Flying Officer David Chalmers
- Corporal Stephen Massingberd Coward
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Calder Cuthbertson
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Damms
- Flight Lieutenant John Baillie Darroch
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Coke Du Bose
- Sergeant Albert Rowland Evans
- Flight Lieutenant William Joseph Dudley Fleming
- Flight Sergeant William Joseph Foley
- Warrant Officer Class II Daniel Arthur Forestell
- Pilot Officer George Atkinson Foster
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Hudson France
- Flying Officer Kennedy Emslie Fraser
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Fernleigh Garbutt
- Sergeant George Charles Garner
- Squadron Leader Edward Gerard Gilmore
- Flying Officer Lloyd George Girty
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Goldney
- Lieutenant Leycester Louis Goldsworthy
- Sergeant Alan Haddow
- Pilot Officer Maxwell Palmer Hall
- Sergeant George Raymond Harbottle
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kevin Patrick Hayden
- Sergeant Kenneth William Haynes
- Pilot Officer William Daylor Heslip
- Flight Sergeant John Stuart Hetherington
- Flight Sergeant Ronald James Hill
- Flying Officer Stuart Melbourne Hobson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jack Holdham
- Flying Officer Howard Clinton Irwin
- Sergeant Herbert Llewelyn Jones
- Corporal William Hughes Jones
- Warrant Officer Class II William Francis Jordan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Joyce
- Flying Officer Donald Lloyd Kennedy
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Stanley Laidlaw
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Herbert May
- Pilot Officer Melvyn Alexander McDonald
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Baird McKennie
- Sergeant Robert Clifton Milliken
- Sergeant Ernest Albert Norman
- Flight Sergeant Potter George Oyler
- Flying Officer Donald Louis Pavey
- Sergeant Leonard George Perkins
- Sergeant Kenneth Ether Price
- Pilot Officer Ronald Edward Raven
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Willard Rosevear
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Dennis Ryan
- Sergeant Harry Bertram John Sargent
- Flying Officer Myer Savage
- Sergeant William Ernest Scanlon
- Pilot Officer Norman Sherriff
- Flight Sergeant James William Taylor Mason Smith
- Sergeant Benjamin Ernest Spicer
- Flying Officer Louis Andrew Sproule
- Leading Aircraftman John Joseph Wightman Steele
- Sergeant Bernard Walter Stimson
- Flight Sergeant James Alexander Campbell Taylor
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Wilfred Telfer
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Thiel
- Flight Lieutenant Robert George Tighe
- Flying Officer William Henry Tutt
- Squadron Leader Stanley Norman Tuttell Wallage
- Flying Officer Keith Minshull Walley
- Flight Sergeant John Harvey Courtney Walsh
- Pilot Officer Edmond Patrick Osbourne Watson
- Flying Officer Alvan Rodney Wecker
- Pilot Officer Faber Ernest Frederick Weldon
- Sergeant George Bryanton Weller
- Pilot Officer Henry Wheen
- Warrant Officer Thomas Joseph Wixted
- Sergeant Alan Richard Wood
- Sergeant Eric Sharpe Wood
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Beresford Wright
- Flying Officer Ralph James Wright
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Kenneth (ken) Wright
1944
- Flight Sergeant William Jeremiah Allen
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Preston Aspin
- Flying Officer Frank Barlow
- Flying Officer Norman David Brown
- Sergeant Joseph Ronald Dowling
- Leading Aircraftman Nyal Larue Earl
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Alfred Everett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Foxe
- Sergeant John Archibald Freeman
- Sergeant Brian Hayes-jones
- Flight Sergeant Norman Horace Hewett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Husband
- Flight Sergeant Eric Jones
- Flying Officer Edward Stratton Lindsell
- Pilot Officer Donald McTeer
- Flying Officer Peter Edward Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Colin James Mowat
- Flight Sergeant Norman Horace Osborne
- Flying Officer Robert Jackson Owen
- Flight Lieutenant John Patrickson
- Sergeant Cyril James Thomas Reeves
- Flying Officer Lynden John Ambrose Regan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie Eric Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Gullery Turner
- Sergeant Ernest Victor Waller
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Edwin Whiting
- Flight Sergeant Louis Ernest Willis
1945
- Pilot Officer Curwood Neville Armstrong
- Pilot Officer Edward Thomas Ashdown
- Flight Sergeant Ronald James McClean Bell
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Stuart Bennett
- Flying Officer Arthur Samuel Blake
- Pilot Officer Brian William Brown
- Flight Sergeant Robert Henry Bruce
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Eric Bull
- Warrant Officer Ernest John Castor
- Corporal Ivor Chapple
- Flight Sergeant James William Churms
- Warrant Officer Alfred Bruce Clarke
- Pilot Officer Edward Kenneth Coyne
- Pilot Officer Gordon Douglas Dickie
- Flight Sergeant John Neal Donald
- Flying Officer Harold Thomas Evans
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Evans
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Wesley Faulks
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Frederick Ford
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Francis Galbraith
- Pilot Officer James Edward Grayson
- Flight Lieutenant Ralph Callister Halkyard
- Flying Officer Geoffrey William Hassell
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Lionel Hayes
- Flight Sergeant Charles John Hodge
- Flying Officer Lincoln Hole
- Pilot Officer Charles Keith Howes
- Flight Sergeant John Childe Hughes
- Flying Officer Wesley McDonald Hunt
- Corporal Henry Thomas Albert Jefferson
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Alexander Jeffrey
- Flying Officer Donald Hugh Johnson
- Flight Lieutenant John Ballantyne Kennedy
- Flight Sergeant John Joseph Kervin
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Bentley Kilsby
- Air Mechanic Carl Kleynhans
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Kroeker
- Flying Officer Edward James Loonam
- Flight Sergeant Charles Campbell Macdonald
- Flying Officer Newton Macdonald
- Sergeant Richard Llewellyn McCaskill
- Flying Officer Ewing Francis Willys Mitchell
- Flight Lieutenant Clarence Edward Modeland
- Flight Lieutenant Keith Anthony Vaughton Moore
- Flight Sergeant Stanley David Pearce
- Flying Officer Harold William Reid
- Pilot Officer Stewart James Olson Robinson
- Flying Officer Joseph Rochford
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Hemphill Rutter
- Flying Officer William Semeniuk
- Flying Officer Matthew Frederick Easton Sergeant
- Flight Sergeant Evan Frederick Shannon
- Flight Lieutenant William Dalton Smith
- Pilot Officer Norman William Neville Tanner
- Pilot Officer Stuart McLean Thomson
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas William Trewin
- Flying Officer Vivian Lawrence Vallentine
- Flying Officer Joseph William Watson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald York
1946
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Cole
- Flight Sergeant John Stanley Edwards
- Flying Officer Leroy Meredith McCormack