On this day — 30 April
168 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 30 April during the Second World War.
1940
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Abbott
- Sergeant Reginald Henry John Battrick
- Sergeant Frank James Robert Beavis
- Pilot Officer Gordon Herbert Bennett
- Leading Aircraftman William Edward Brewster
- Sergeant Walter Richard Coveney
- Sergeant Walter Eddleston
- Leading Aircraftman John Ellwood
- Flying Officer Gerald Victor Gordon
- Pilot Officer Talbot Kerr
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Rosemond
- Pilot Officer Frederick Maurice Norman Searle
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Aubrey Seymour
1941
- Sergeant Norman Oliver Bennett
- Flying Officer Alexander Campbell Black
- Warrant Officer Arnold Bruines
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Edward Butler
- Sergeant Charles John Clarke
- Sergeant Michael Henry Haggard Davigdor
- Sergeant Maurice Stafford Dewing
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Beirne Douglas
- Sergeant Eric John Easton
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Guy Evans
- Sergeant Thomas Alan Forster
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Joseph Glover
- Flying Officer Charles Fabian Greenhill
- Flying Officer Leonard Archibald Haines
- Sergeant Frank Hewitson
- Pilot Officer Richard Charles Holman
- Flying Officer Frank Holmes
- Sergeant Stanley John Holt
- Sergeant Claude Samuel Hunt
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Ingram
- Sergeant Williams Phillips James
- Squadron Leader Arnold Sherwood Lee
- Sergeant Thomas Leonard Lever
- Squadron Leader Hugh John Norman Lindsaye
- Pilot Officer George Stanley Milligan
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Morrison
- Sergeant Harry Nathan
- Pilot Officer Harold Frank Perrott
- Sergeant Ernest Alfred Pilfold
- Flight Sergeant Graham Poock
- Corporal Thomas Frederick George Press
- Pilot Officer John Frederick Raw
- Flight Sergeant Edward Charles Reed
- Sergeant William Herbert Roland Smale
- Flying Officer Douglas James Spence
- Sergeant Eric Charles Stevens
- Sergeant Albert Ernest Stone
- Sergeant Richard Raymond Thomas
- Flight Lieutenant John Victor Tree
- Wing Commander Archibald Graham Weir
1942
- Flight Sergeant William Dracas Ashley
- Pilot Officer Ernest John Beasley
- Flight Sergeant Horace Kempton Bedwell
- Sergeant Eric Boaler
- Sergeant Dallas Boyce
- Sergeant Gordon Wesley Burkholder
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Frederick Chadwick
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Clayton
- Sergeant Edmund Cullinane
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Robert Davis
- Squadron Leader Kenneth Wykeham Edwards
- Corporal Samuel Ellison
- Pupil Pilot Enright
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond John Figgins
- Sergeant Douglas Ronald Freear
- Flight Sergeant Harold Theakston Gibbs
- Flight Lieutenant Richard William Gilbert Holdsworth
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stephen George Kirkham
- Leading Aircraftman Herman Carl George Kleinau
- Sergeant Arthur Horace Lee
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
- Leading Aircraftman James Lewis
- Flight Lieutenant Archibald Duncan Livingstone
- Sergeant Alfred Longhurst
- Corporal Henry Francis McGuire
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Wallace McKay
- Flight Sergeant Donald Heric Patenall
- Pilot Officer Iain Ramsay
- Sergeant Harry Malcolm Robertson
- Sergeant Cornelius Gerard Roughan
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Charles Rumsby
- Sergeant John Edwin Travers Saunders
- Leading Aircraftman Lucas Scholl-engberts
- Sergeant Cecil John Scott
- Leading Aircraftman Lloyd George Simmons
- Flight Sergeant James Bennett Smith
- Sergeant Robert Davidson Smith
- Lieutenant Colin Charles Peter Steyn
- Flight Sergeant Alan James Stripp
- Sergeant Herbert Reginald Frank Wakeford
- Sergeant George Henry Whitman
- Sergeant David Alexander Williams
- Flight Lieutenant Francis William Wilton
1943
- Pilot Officer James Dobie Aitchison
- Flight Sergeant Robert Douglas Armour
- Flight Sergeant Peter William Alexander Armstrong
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon John Banks
- Sergeant Richard William James Bickell
- Sergeant George Alexander Duncan Cameron
- Sergeant Maurice Thomas Dilworth
- Air Mechanic Arthur Dowie
- Sergeant David Vincent Edye
- Corporal Melville Francis Fortune
- Lieutenant Futter
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Gumley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Fred Hughes
- Flying Officer John Anthony Hughes-rees
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Jack Jarvis
- Flight Sergeant Robert Patrick Lansdale
- Sergeant John Campbell Leckie
- Pilot Officer Hamilton Lewis Maddison
- Flight Sergeant James Laurence McDonald
- Sergeant George Thomas Powell
- Sergeant Keith Alexander Price
- Pilot Officer Leslie William Sanders
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Daine Smith
- Sergeant John Steel
- Sergeant Eric Sunderland
- Flying Officer Dewi Hirwen Thomas
- Pilot Officer Maurice Lucien Van Neste
- Flight Lieutenant Leigh Grant Vial
- Sergeant Kenneth Worsley
1944
- Flying Officer Richard Bailes
- Flying Officer Rex Edward Beach
- Sergeant Frederick Boardman
- Sergeant Donald Maurice Challis
- Flying Officer Oliver Lovatt Harrington
- Flight Lieutenant Wilbert Arley Healey
- Leading Aircraftman Laurence Alfred Higgins
- Sergeant Harold Gordon Hill
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas James Hogan
- Sergeant Tom Atwell Hutchison
- Flying Officer Brian Jagger
- Sergeant Joseph Jones
- Corporal Gilbert Peter Kemp
- Flight Lieutenant John Albert Kirby
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur John Lane
- Pilot Officer Ernest Charles Laurie
- Warrant Officer Class II Herbert David Mallory
- Leading Aircraftman George William Martin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald McCulloch
- Leading Aircraftman John Murphy
- Warrant Officer Bernard Michael Pritchard
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Edward Savill
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Joseph Scanlan
- Flying Officer Didier John Maurice Scuvie
- Leading Aircraftman Emile Wilfred Webb
1945
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Berryman
- Flight Lieutenant William Gavin Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Davies
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Ernest Fontaine
- Sergeant James Frederick Heimsath
- Leading Aircraftman William Herbert Henshaw
- Sergeant John Henry Kay
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Daniel Lawley
- Flying Officer William McCabe
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Howarth Redman
- Flying Officer Brian Charles Robinson
- Flight Lieutenant Owen Patrick Fewster Taylor
- Flight Sergeant John Lester Tweedy
- Corporal John Cowan Warrender
- Flight Sergeant Edward James Wright