On this day — 2 May
203 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 2 May during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Pilot Officer Frederick Lyddon Arney
- Pilot Officer John Angus Basham
- Pilot Officer Sidney Charles Braybrooks
- Flying Officer Julien Walter Lowndes Bruxner-randall
- Sergeant Murray McKenzie Burns
- Leading Aircraftman Peter James Condry
- Corporal William Cummings
- Sergeant Maurice Edward Davidson
- Pilot Officer Vernon Bramwell Dewhurst
- Sergeant Edward Egar
- Aircraftman 1st Class Victor Montague Everix
- Sergeant Douglas Grant Garn
- Pilot Officer Peter Roebuck Gillespy
- Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Goode
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Frederick Hannett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Theodore Roland Hiebert
- Sergeant James Finlay Hughes
- Sergeant Cyril Hutchinson
- Pilot Officer Peter Norrison Ingoldby
- Sergeant Robert John Keeper
- Sergeant Ronald John Leaper
- Pilot Officer Terence Cathal Boyd McManus
- Sergeant John Aristotle Nicholson
- Sergeant Raymond Ottey
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Frederick Owen
- Corporal Robert Albert Pegg
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Mitchell Philp
- Leading Aircraftman John Dennis Richards
- Leading Aircraftman George Ian Robertson
- Leading Aircraftman Royce Dawson Radcliffe Schofield
- Sergeant John Benjamin Seden
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Henry Shepherd
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Sydney Skelton
- Flight Sergeant Harold Charles Scott Thomas
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Tuffin
- Flying Officer Denis Hugh Walsh
- Pilot Officer David Roy Watts
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward John Williams
1942
- Flight Sergeant George William Boggess
- Warrant Officer Alexander Collingwood Bryce
- Sergeant Alan Martin Howard Carbery
- Sergeant Joseph Walter (johnny) Coad
- Sergeant James Francis Collins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Lawrence Henry Cook
- Sergeant George Reuben Croasdell
- Sergeant Thomas Lancey Dalton
- Sergeant Richard George Davies
- Squadron Leader Charles Raymond Gurney
- Pilot Officer James Ernest Hope
- Pilot Officer Josef Janeba
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Andrew Kay
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Campbell Macfarlane
- Sergeant Henry Maclean
- Sergeant Hugh Morrison
- Sergeant Donald Whiteside Munro
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lambert John Frederick Godwin Pearce
- Flight Lieutenant David Gordon Ross
- Corporal Cyril Edward Thomas
- Sergeant Graham Wale
- Sergeant Dennis Gordon Walker
- Sergeant Arthur Rex Whitington
- Flight Sergeant James Roslyn Young
- Flight Sergeant William Lewis Johnston Young
1943
- Sergeant Ernest Jack Beer
- Sergeant James Arthur Cheetham
- Sergeant Horace James Cox
- Leading Aircraftman Allan Victor Crouch
- Sergeant Leonard Robert Crouch
- Flying Officer Robert Geoffrey Crouch
- Sergeant William Dove
- Flying Officer Gordon Lindsay Charles Gifford
- Sergeant Thomas Nathaniel Harker
- Squadron Leader Charles James Harman
- Flying Officer John Alan Henderson
- Warrant Officer Beverley Galbraith James
- Sergeant Patrick Loftus Hunter Lawley
- Flying Officer John Clifford North Lewis
- Flying Officer Alexander Charles McNab
- Corporal Ronald Raymond Melville
- Leading Aircraftman Paul Piotrofsky
- Sergeant John Roderick Richmond
- Flying Officer Mervyn Frederick Scantlebury
- Sergeant Eric Desmond Scott
- Flight Sergeant David John Shearman
- Sergeant Waldo O. Simpson
- Sergeant Donald Ernest Watts
1944
- Sergeant Henry Thomas Alpe
- Flying Officer Maurice Reuben Joein Anderson
- Sergeant Frederick James Arbon
- Sergeant Leonard Victor Ashton
- Sergeant Harry Astrand
- Flying Officer James Alexander Bailie
- Flight Sergeant John Baker
- Sergeant Earl Freiman Baldry
- Warrant Officer Class II Murray Richard Bell
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Frederick Bickford
- Flight Sergeant Donald Lloyd Brett
- Warrant Officer Trevor Richmond Broadbent
- Flight Sergeant Alfred George Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Bryant
- Flying Officer Harold Cherberd Bryant
- Pilot Officer John Louis Edmond Chartrand
- Sergeant Ronald Claxton
- Sergeant Samuel Joseph Clayton
- Flight Sergeant John Edgar Clift
- Flight Sergeant Robert Samuel Cole
- Squadron Leader Geoffrey William Coventry
- Flying Officer John Michael Cronin
- Sergeant John Pentreath (peter) Curnow
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Julian Curtis
- Sergeant Herbert Russell Davies
- Sergeant Edward John Donnelly
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Kenneth Drake
- Flight Sergeant Norman Elcoat
- Sergeant George Algernon Elliott
- Aircraftman 1st Class Roy Elwick
- Sergeant Norman Edward Fay
- Sergeant Edgar Feather
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Joseph Forsyth
- Flight Sergeant George Robert French
- Flight Lieutenant Stephen Tebbett Geary
- Sergeant Douglas William May Giles
- Flying Officer Neville Taylor Glenn
- Sergeant John Raymond Grantham
- Flight Sergeant Bryan George Green
- Warrant Officer Raymond Frank Joseph Cyril Hall
- Sergeant Thomas John Charles Hartley
- Flight Sergeant Graham Arthur Hassett
- Flying Officer John Elie Fredrick Hawke
- Flying Officer Edward George Hawkins
- Sergeant Ronald Edward Herbert
- Flying Officer Allan Gleave Heron
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Jack Hodges
- Flight Sergeant Charles Leslie Johnson
- Sergeant John Rickerby Johnston
- Flight Lieutenant Ieuan Iorwerth Jones
- Group Captain Wilfred Alexander Jones
- Flying Officer William Llewelyn Wynn Jones
- Flying Officer Russell George Kirby
- Sergeant Douglas John Knowles
- Pilot Officer George Lassey
- Flight Sergeant John Lawton
- Flight Sergeant Mostyn Charles Escott Lewis
- Sergeant Douglas Sinclair Lindsay
- Sergeant Arthur Lister
- Sergeant Roy Edward Lodge
- Pilot Officer Michael Ferdinand Lombard
- Sergeant Thomas Kelly Douglas Lucas
- Flight Sergeant Douglas John Mackenzie
- Sergeant Stanley Frank Martin
- Warrant Officer Garnet Edward McCann
- Flying Officer John Lockwood McKinnon
- Pilot Officer John Crawford McNary
- Sergeant Nelson William Conway Miller
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Henderson Osborne
- Flight Sergeant James David Oxenburgh
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Robert Paxton
- Leading Aircraftman Morris Harry Pearson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Alexander Peevers
- Flying Officer Lloyd Arthur Perry
- Sergeant John Gilbert Pettifer
- Flying Officer William Alexander Pope
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Wheatley Priske
- Sergeant Victor John Douglas Riddel
- Flight Sergeant Henricus Christianus A. J. Roovers
- Squadron Leader Euan Wilfred Sachtler
- Flying Officer James Donald Saidler
- Flying Officer Malcolm Thomas Seabrook
- Warrant Officer Class II Douglas James Setter
- Sergeant Alfred Arthur Snook
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Spensley
- Flight Sergeant Angus Wilson Stein
- Sergeant Piers Trevor Stevens
- Flight Sergeant George James Stoddart
- Flying Officer Derek Cecil Noel Sullivan
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Edward Taylor
- Flying Officer Robert Ernest Samuel Twining
- Sergeant Gilbert Dennis Vine
- Pilot Officer George Graham Vipond
- Flying Officer John Herbert Wain
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Wallace
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Walmsley
- Leading Aircraftman Eustace Henry Watts
- Flying Officer Robert James Webster
- Flight Lieutenant Hubert John Wilkinson
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Howard Woodward
1945
- Flight Lieutenant Cecil William Anderson
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Broughton Boydell
- Leading Aircraftman George Allan Brown
- Flight Lieutenant John George Buchanan
- Flying Officer Rothney Alex Carter
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Arthur Doherty
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Francis Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Archibald McColl
- Flight Sergeant Donald Tofft Nicolson
- Wing Commander James Brindley Nicolson
- Sergeant James John Shaw
- Sergeant James Douglas Murray Spears
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Charles Turland
- Sergeant Sydney Arthur Williams