On this day — 3 May
172 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer John Leslie Gilbert Butterworth
- Pilot Officer Reginald John Carter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry William Dilgert
- Sergeant Leslie Evans
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Kirby Lambert
- Sergeant John Miller Longley
- Sergeant Maurice George Arthur Pearce
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Polglase
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Pope
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Townend
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Christopher Arthur Wadman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Arthur Wood
1941
- Sergeant Cecil James Bowles
- Pilot Officer Charles Desmond Brown
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Frederick Butcher
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Carlin
- Sergeant John Francis Chell
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Alfred Cruickshank
- Leading Aircraftman William Cumming
- Sergeant Clarence Hubert Deane
- Pilot Officer Cecil Harry Farvis
- Sergeant Ronald Sebastian Havery
- Sergeant Samuel Arthur Hives
- Pilot Officer John Ernest Philip Jeff
- Sergeant John McIntyre
- Sergeant Arthur John Morgan
- Flying Officer John Mutch
- Flying Officer William Panton
- Sergeant Peter Garratt Rose
- Sergeant George William Smith
- Sergeant Donald Allen Benjamin Statton
- Sergeant George Derryck Watkinson
- Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Wilson
1942
- Flight Lieutenant Horace William Biggs
- Aircraftman 1st Class Fred Clayton
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Alfred Deverson
- Flight Sergeant George Emerson Fallis
- Pilot Officer Frederick Arvon Gamble
- Leading Aircraftman James Herbert Hales
- Leading Aircraftman William Joseph Harper
- Flying Officer Edwin Charles Long (peter) Hebblethwaite
- Sergeant Robert Edward Lowman
- Air Corporal Kenneth C. Macaulay
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Macleod
- Sergeant Frederick Ross Mills
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Paterson
- Sergeant Eric Charles Smith
- Squadron Leader Albert John Drake Snow
- Pilot Officer Richard Henry Thomas
- Pilot Officer James Watson
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry White
- Pilot Officer Harold Herbert Whitfield
- Corporal Stanley Charles Wickins
- Sergeant John Begby Williams
- Sergeant Robert Earl Williams
1943
- Sergeant John Edward Addison
- Pilot Officer Thomas James Baynton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Bentley
- Flying Officer Richard Kendrick Betchley
- Wing Commander Howard Peter Blatchford
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Edward Brough
- Sergeant John James Brown
- Flight Sergeant Richard Butler
- Sergeant William Arthur Cadel
- Sergeant Alfred George Shelton Corps
- Flying Officer Stanley Coshall
- Pilot Officer Andrew Edward Coutts
- Flight Sergeant Peter Howard Rowe Davies
- Sergeant Albert Edward Downs
- Sergeant Walter Raymond East
- Flight Lieutenant Dudley Tabor Everett
- Flying Officer John Henry Benjamin Eyles
- Flying Officer Herbert Horatio Gauntlett
- Sergeant Hugh Gibson
- Flight Sergeant William Desmond Laurence Goodfellow
- Sergeant William Greenhorn
- Sergeant Wyndham Greenwood
- Sergeant Leonard Leslie Grist
- Sergeant Maurice Harker
- Flight Sergeant Frank Sleigh Harrop
- Flying Officer Owens McAlister Howden
- Corporal Gordon Victor Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert Wallace Kavanagh
- Warrant Officer Karel Korber
- Flight Sergeant Harry Charles Lamacraft
- Sergeant Frederick James Lauder
- Sergeant Harold Leather
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Henry Litchfield
- Sergeant James William Lowe
- Flight Sergeant James Cunningham Lynass
- Flying Officer Stuart McGowan
- Warrant Officer Thomas John Moss
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Mackenzie Munro
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Thomas Outen
- Sergeant Norman Frederick Owen
- Sergeant Leslie Frederick Parratt
- Flying Officer Stanley Bailey Peryman
- Sergeant Norman Albert Price
- Flying Officer Leonard Edmund Richbell
- Sergeant Douglas Cory Robinson
- Sergeant Derek Lawson Rowland
- Sergeant Joseph Salad
- Sergeant James William Scott
- Sergeant Cyril Richard Smith
- Sergeant Richard Duckworth Smith
- Sergeant George Henry Southam
- Sergeant George Henry Sparkes
- Sergeant Harry James Spiers
- Sergeant Alan Stevens
- Leading Aircraftman John Stott
- Flying Officer George Nevil Sutton
- Flight Sergeant Basil Stanley Symes
- Sergeant George Thomas Tattam
- Flying Officer Roy Dudley Clifton Thomas
- Flying Officer Ernest Garfield Thornber
- Warrant Officer Class II Harry Wallace Toombs
- Sergeant George Walter Trenery
- Sergeant Jack Allen Ventham
- Sergeant Timothy William Warner
- Flying Officer Edward Trevor Williams
1944
- Pilot Officer Alexander Stewart Aird
- Flying Officer Thomas Guy Atkinson
- Flying Officer Harold Weston Batt
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Newell Clark
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Lewis Cochshott
- Flying Officer John Desmond Cox
- Aircraftman 1st Class Colin Walton Davies
- Sergeant Kenneth Reginald Dye
- Flight Sergeant Richard Gordon Elliot
- Sergeant James Ellis
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Reginald Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Frederick Everett
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur James Grain
- Warrant Officer Roy Geoffrey Holt
- Flying Officer Edward Crowther Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Meurig Jones
- Lieutenant Leisegang
- Flight Lieutenant Aleksandor Markovic
- Pilot Officer James McTaggart
- Leading Aircraftman William Myers
- Sergeant Alexander William Howard Norris
- Flying Officer Melvin Robert Oliver
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Jack Simmons
- Sergeant John Stanley
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Middlemas Storie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Albert Tansley
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Charles Edward Tovey
- Lieutenant Michael Grant White
- Warrant Officer Leslie Ernest Williams
- Air Mechanic Thomas W. H. Zwiegelaar
1945
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Charles Akers
- Leading Aircraftman Edsel Edward Amlin
- Leading Aircraftman Timpron Martin Kenneth Berry
- Flying Officer George Franklin Burden
- Flying Officer Aubrey John Clarke
- Pilot Officer Philip Maurice Gunn
- Flight Sergeant Jack Wallace Lawson
- Pilot Officer Thomas Kevin Francis Xavier Leavey
- Leading Aircraftman Finlay Macintosh
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Malcolm McClarty
- Sergeant William James McInroy
- Sergeant James Edward Aloysious Mugan
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Mathew Pieri
- Air Mechanic Thomas Pinion
- Pilot Officer Robert Nisbet Pittendrigh
- Flying Officer Harry Kenneth Lillington Rice
- Pilot Officer Colin Allan Walton
- Flight Sergeant Frank D. Wesley