On this day — 4 May
479 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 4 May during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Gordon Owen Arscott
- Sergeant George Harrison Barford
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter William Froom
- Aircraftman 1st Class Angus Hepburn
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leonard Roy Lock
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Douglas Moses
1941
- Sergeant Eric Barratt
- Sergeant Douglas George Campbell
- Leading Aircraftman Colin Glynn Eustace Crouch
- Flying Officer John Anthony Edwards
- Sergeant William George Elliott
- Pilot Officer William Alexander Munro Halley
- Flying Officer Alistair James Heathfield
- Pilot Officer Bernard Peter Klee
- Sergeant George William Knight
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Ladle
- Sergeant Hubert William Lee
- Sergeant John Alfred Mochan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Phillips
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Hewitson Reynolds
- Sergeant Edward Salmons
- Pilot Officer Charles Nairn Small
- Flying Officer David Smith
- Pilot Officer Malcolm Schofield Smith
- Sergeant Robert James Strickland
- Sergeant Roderick Barker Taylor
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Walker Townend
- Sergeant William Edward Van Klaveren
- Sergeant Anthony Andre Wood
1942
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Walter Barnes
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Bond
- Pilot Officer Robert Vincent Brossmer
- Pilot Officer Richard Arthur Bryden
- Flying Officer Albert George Frederick Cheesewright
- Flight Sergeant Denis Frederic Clifford
- Pilot Officer Gerald Ware Copeland
- Sergeant James Daley
- Sergeant Thomas Percy Willoughby Davies
- Major Johan Louis Venter De Wet
- Sergeant Dennis Waterman Drew
- Second Lieutenant Jacobus Stephanus Du Toit
- Sergeant Gilbert Murray Edwards
- Sergeant Walter Alfred Freeman
- Pilot Officer Ralph William Freiberg
- Sergeant Allan Barnes Goff
- Sergeant James Frank Gooder
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Gordon
- Pilot Officer Alfred William Hedge
- Sergeant John Hewitson
- Sergeant Frederick Roberts Hipwell
- Pilot Officer Douglas Hudson
- Sergeant Bernard Bernstein Jackson
- Sergeant Arthur William Jones
- Flight Sergeant John Bernard Jones
- Pilot Officer Ronald Jones
- Pilot Officer John Robert Kennedy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Knight
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Ambrose Langley
- Sergeant John Archibald Lloyd
- Pilot Officer Walter McIntosh Macfarlane
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Douglas Macphie
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Carter Macqueen
- Sergeant James Mann
- Flight Lieutenant Duncan Harold McArthur
- Sergeant Arthur William Newhouse
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Marcus Nichols
- Air Sergeant Wallace William Oliver
- Sergeant Hugh Ellis Owens
- Pilot Officer Anthony Pensa
- Pilot Officer Ivan Roy James Perkins
- Corporal Ronald Peters
- Second Lieutenant Hope Pienaar
- Second Lieutenant Johannes Hendrik Pienaar
- Sergeant Dennis Albert Poland
- Sergeant Cyril Pottas
- Sergeant Robert Arthur French Raymond
- Second Lieutenant Francis John Reed
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Mark Rimmer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Christopher Richardson Robinson
- Sergeant Dennis Edward Round
- Warrant Officer David Malyon Russell
- Air Sergeant Sidney Egbert Shipman
- Sergeant Samuel Edward Smith
- Air Mechanic Rudolph Johannes Swanepoel
- Pilot Officer Victor Emmanuel Tucker
- Air Mechanic Charles Frederick Van Breda
- Air Sergeant Andres Pieter Vos
- Pilot Officer Thomas Menzies Welch
- Second Lieutenant Louis Theodorus Wessels
- Pilot Officer John Joseph Westwood
- Sergeant Charles Austin Whittle
- Flight Sergeant Peter Reginald Wright
- Pilot Officer Robert Elmer Douglas Wright
1943
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Francis Amies
- Sergeant Charles Robert Sayre Blenkhorn
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles George Bourne
- Warrant Officer Class I Victor Leslie Boyd
- Sergeant Ronald Boydell
- Sergeant Denis Norman Brown
- Sergeant Herbert George Brown
- Flying Officer Leo Gabriel Carter
- Sergeant Nathan Cohen
- Corporal Herbert Lister Cunliffe
- Sergeant Richard Percy Dormer
- Warrant Officer Class II Orville Pierce Downey
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Drew
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Finnbar Eastlake
- Pilot Officer Thomas Edward Emberson
- Lieutenant Ford
- Sergeant William Norman Forth
- Flight Sergeant James William Freeman
- Sergeant Dennis Wilsmore Hagan
- Sergeant Peter Frederick Hanberger
- Flight Sergeant George Allan Hinshelwood
- Sergeant Kenneth Hodgson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril John Invine
- Flying Officer Kirke William Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Aloysius William Klauer
- Flying Officer William Crichton Lambie
- Sergeant Brian Legg
- Sergeant Alan Charles Leppard
- Lieutenant Lovat
- Sergeant Charles Lowis
- Flight Sergeant James Morton Mathie-morton
- Flying Officer Charles Miller McClure
- Sergeant Thomas John McMahon
- Sergeant Peter McNulty
- Warrant Officer John Stanley Measor
- Sergeant Percy Edward Mellish
- Sergeant Victor Charles George Moody
- Sergeant Frank Moore
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Benjamin Morefield
- Sergeant Herbert Gladstone Mugridge
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Patrick Naughton
- Flying Officer Victor Stephenson Neill
- Sergeant Ellis Hamilton Park
- Flying Officer James William Reynolds
- Sergeant Frank Norman Robinson
- Sergeant George Albert Rodway
- Sergeant George Rutherford
- Sergeant Herbert Ward Sawkings
- Warrant Officer Class II Leo Shear
- Flight Sergeant Harry Frederic Swan
- Flight Lieutenant Wilbur Lewis Turner
1944
- Warrant Officer Henry James Addison
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Wilson Ainsworth
- Sergeant Richard Walter Andrews
- Sergeant Kenneth Applegarth
- Flying Officer Theodore Edward Archard
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Arnold
- Flying Officer Walter Gerard Asbell
- Pilot Officer Cyril Atkinson
- Flight Sergeant Eric Bailey
- Sergeant James Bailey
- Pilot Officer Francis William Baker
- Flying Officer George Baker
- Flight Sergeant George Charles Barber
- Sergeant Raymond Barker
- Pilot Officer Percy James William Barkway
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Ronald Barr
- Flight Sergeant Stanley James Barr
- Lieutenant Barter
- Pilot Officer Norman George Baskerville
- Flying Officer Hugh William Vaughan Bearne
- Flying Officer George David Beatty
- Pilot Officer Gordon William Beer
- Pilot Officer Cyril Bell
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Joseph Bell
- Flight Sergeant John Bengston
- Sergeant John Berry
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Castell Bertelsen
- Sergeant Sydney Bird
- Sergeant Norman Reginald Bishop
- Sergeant David Bisset
- Sergeant Harry Penrice Black
- Flying Officer George Alexander Blair
- Flying Officer Eric George Blake
- Sergeant Jack Arthur William Bodsworth
- Sergeant Clifford John Boreham
- Sergeant Eric Edward Borton
- Sergeant Arthur James Bowles
- Warrant Officer Ronald Howard Boyd
- Sergeant James Leslie Bradburn
- Sergeant Henry George Brady
- Flying Officer Ian Mackenzie Bremner
- Sergeant Arthur George Brooks
- Sergeant Charles Thomas Brown
- Flight Sergeant Fred Burgess
- Sergeant John Raymond Burgess
- Pilot Officer Michael Adrian Burnaby
- Sergeant Albert William Burton
- Sergeant Frederick William Burton
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Ernest Carlton
- Pilot Officer Stanley Carlyle
- Pilot Officer John Denis Carter
- Sergeant George Francis Casey
- Sergeant Joseph Chandler
- Flying Officer Sidney John Chaplin
- Sergeant Eric Howard Charlton
- Sergeant Arthur Clarence
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Clarke
- Sergeant Robert John (bob) Clayton
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Roy Clayton
- Warrant Officer Douglas Eston Close
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Albert Clyne
- Sergeant John Thomas Cockburn
- Sergeant Dennis John Coldicott
- Sergeant Joseph Thomas Cook
- Flight Sergeant George Adrian Coon
- Sergeant George Alfred Coote
- Sergeant Edward Cyril Cottrell
- Sergeant Robert John Crawford
- Sergeant David Harry Cro
- Warrant Officer Claude William Croft
- Sergeant Ronald Derek Crook
- Sergeant Howard Measor Crooks
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Jack Cross
- Sergeant Raymond Ernest Dance
- Sergeant Robert Matthew Dand
- Flying Officer Eric John Dane
- Sergeant James McDonell Davies
- Pilot Officer Colin Dickson
- Sergeant William Dennis Dixon
- Pilot Officer Thomas John Drew
- Sergeant Cyril George Dudley
- Sergeant Michael Hugh Duffy
- Flying Officer Anthony Duncan-smith
- Flight Sergeant James Charles Earl
- Flying Officer Arthur Herbert Eastment
- Flight Sergeant William Ralph Elgar
- Sergeant Ronald Ellis
- Flying Officer Ross Orval Ellsmere
- Sergeant Gerald Ellwood
- Pilot Officer Colin Elton
- Sergeant Benjamin Escritt
- Flight Sergeant George William Evans
- Sergeant John Thomas Fenton
- Pilot Officer John Hugh Ferguson
- Pilot Officer Norman James Fisher
- Flight Sergeant Walter Alec Clarence Footman
- Flight Sergeant Hilton Hardcastle Forden
- Pilot Officer David Carruthers Fraser
- Flight Sergeant Herbert James George Fry
- Sergeant Peter Denis Fry
- Flying Officer Graham Fryer
- Flight Sergeant Oscar Skelton Furniss
- Sergeant Kenneth Garner
- Flight Sergeant Robert Stanley Garrod
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Samuel Gay
- Sergeant George Edward Gilpin
- Flight Sergeant Fred Glover
- Sergeant Robert Frederick Godfrey
- Pilot Officer John Joseph Gorman
- Sergeant Robert Johnstone Gracey
- Sergeant Cecil George Graham
- Sergeant Robert Alfred Green
- Warrant Officer George Kenneth Gritty
- Flight Sergeant Michael John Hackett
- Sergeant Dennis Allen Hadden
- Flying Officer Robert Edward Haddock
- Pilot Officer Albert Handley
- Pilot Officer Ronald Stanley Hanson
- Flight Sergeant Ronald James Harman
- Flight Sergeant William Alfred Harris
- Sergeant William Mawrey Harvey
- Sergeant Noel Hatton
- Sergeant Thomas Stanley Hayhurst
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Healy
- Pilot Officer Stanley Hewitt
- Sergeant Patrick Higgins
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Henry Hobbs
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Herbert Hobson
- Sergeant Alfred Arthur Henry Hodson
- Sergeant Russell Eugene Hogan
- Flight Sergeant George Hogg
- Pilot Officer John Edgar Holden
- Sergeant Joseph Horace Holloway
- Flight Sergeant Frank Norman Holmes
- Sergeant John William Hooper
- Pilot Officer Mervyn Hopkins
- Sergeant Eric Houlden
- Flight Sergeant Ernest George Housden
- Sergeant Fred Carson Hoxford
- Flight Sergeant Laurie Frederick Hughes
- Flight Lieutenant William Edgar Hull
- Flight Sergeant Eric Stanley Hutchinson
- Flying Officer James Frank Ineson
- Flight Sergeant James Roy Ingham
- Pilot Officer David Stuart Jackson
- Flying Officer Percy Thomas Jeffery
- Pilot Officer John George Johnson
- Sergeant Leslie Johnson
- Sergeant Michael Arthur Johnson
- Pilot Officer Peter Lister Johnson
- Sergeant Richard Anthony Johnson
- Flying Officer David Gwynfor Jones
- Sergeant Howard Cullimore Jones
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Jones
- Sergeant Frederick Henry Joy
- Flight Lieutenant John Alexander Keard
- Sergeant Joseph Patrick Kenny
- Flight Sergeant Nigel Arthur Lacey-johnson
- Flight Lieutenant William Blyth Laidlaw
- Pilot Officer Peter John Orville Lapointe
- Flying Officer Kenneth Thomas Larman
- Pilot Officer John Martin Burns Liebscher
- Warrant Officer Leslie Harry Lissette
- Pilot Officer Norman David Livingstone Lloyd
- Sergeant Geoffrey Long
- Sergeant Reginald George Lovegrove
- Sergeant John Hillhouse Macdougall
- Pilot Officer Ross Edward Macfarlane
- Pilot Officer Hugh Fraser Mackenzie
- Sergeant Jack Harrison Maltby
- Sergeant Ronald Mansbridge
- Sergeant James Arthur Augustus Mansfield
- Pilot Officer Leonard Charles Margetts
- Flying Officer David Charles Martin
- Sergeant Raymond Henri Martin
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Bernard Martin
- Group Captain Bernard Nelson Matson
- Sergeant William Cochrane Maxwell
- Sergeant Arthur Arnold McCallum
- Sergeant Jeremiah McCool
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Clayton McDonald
- Pilot Officer Neil McArthur McGaw
- Flying Officer John Alexander McIntyre
- Warrant Officer Donald Hubert McNaught
- Flying Officer Leslie Frank Medway
- Flying Officer David Merry
- Flight Sergeant Edward Arthur Metcalfe
- Pilot Officer Ernest Wilberforce Michie
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Brice Milton
- Flying Officer Frederick Arthur Mitchell
- Leading Aircraftman John Mitchell
- Pilot Officer Otto Molzan
- Pilot Officer Richard John Joseph Monaghan
- Pilot Officer Arthur Bryson Moore
- Sergeant James Ernest Moore
- Sergeant James Francis Moran
- Flight Sergeant James Kenneth Morey
- Flying Officer Daniel Moriarty
- Flying Officer Kenneth William Angus Muir
- Pilot Officer William Mornington Edmund Myers
- Sergeant Francis Findley Naismith
- Sergeant Arthur Naylor
- Flying Officer Albert John Newton
- Pilot Officer Allan William Nolan
- Sergeant Howard James Norman
- Sergeant George Henry Norton
- Sergeant James Oldfield
- Pilot Officer Charles James Erskine O'Neill
- Sergeant George Edward O'Neill
- Flying Officer James Henry Ormrod
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Anthony Oswald
- Sergeant Thomas Oulton
- Sergeant Kenneth William Owen
- Pilot Officer Anthony Peter Pappajohn
- Flight Sergeant Neal Earl Parker
- Flying Officer William Earnest Parsons
- Warrant Officer Sydney William Payne
- Flying Officer William Dempsay Peacock
- Flight Sergeant Henry Mitchell Peckett
- Pilot Officer Cyril James Benjamin Phillips
- Sergeant Henry Pickford
- Flying Officer Sydney Larner Porter
- Sergeant Allan George Pulfer
- Sergeant James William Ranger
- Sergeant Jack Raymond Rankin
- Sergeant John James Read
- Sergeant Kenneth Norman Read
- Flight Sergeant Norman Parry Reilly
- Flying Officer Terence Desmond Reilly
- Warrant Officer Class II John Albert Reynolds
- Sergeant Herbert George Ridd
- Pilot Officer Horace Albert Riddle
- Sergeant Arthur John Ridgway
- Flying Officer James Leigh Ritchie
- Flight Sergeant John Neil Robertson
- Sergeant Stanley John Rodway
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Walter Rogers
- Flying Officer William John Hopkins Rogers
- Sergeant Victor Ronald Roper
- Flight Sergeant Eric Rosenfield
- Pilot Officer Sydney Lawrence Rowe
- Sergeant Reginald George Samuel Russell
- Sergeant Ronald Russell
- Sergeant Stanley Roland Russell
- Sergeant Jack Henry Sallis
- Warrant Officer Glenwood Allan Schwerdfeger
- Flying Officer Rendal Anthony Fenwick Scrivener
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Searle
- Pilot Officer Dudley Thomas Serviss
- Flying Officer Arthur Melvin Shannon
- Sergeant John William Shaw
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Clifford Shenton
- Pilot Officer John Edward Shepherd
- Pilot Officer Charles David Angelo Short
- Pilot Officer Harold Edwin Simmons
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Christopher Simpkins
- Sergeant Alexander Paton Simpson
- Sergeant Horace Skellorn
- Sergeant Edward Kenneth Slattery
- Pilot Officer Joseph William Smart
- Warrant Officer John Coates Smith
- Flying Officer Norman Alfred Smith
- Sergeant Robert Alexander Sneddon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Speight
- Flying Officer Ronald Victor Spencer
- Flight Sergeant John Robinson Spowart
- Sergeant Philip Arthur Staniland
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Frederick Stannett
- Pilot Officer Cyril Edward Stephensen
- Warrant Officer Clement Robert Stevenson
- Flight Sergeant John Edwin Steward
- Leading Aircraftman Paul Stichman
- Pilot Officer William Stobbart
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Andrew Stone
- Sergeant Harold John Street
- Flight Sergeant Ian Forbes Stuart
- Flying Officer Leslie Sumner
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Claude Sutton
- Sergeant James Arthur Ivan Sutton
- Squadron Leader Harold (jock) Swanston
- Sergeant Terence William Sykes
- Sergeant Reginald John Tailby
- Pilot Officer Willis Henry Thompson
- Sergeant Albert Royden Tranter
- Sergeant John George Turnbull
- Sergeant Lionel Robert Vale
- Pilot Officer Douglas Arnold Wadsworth
- Sergeant John Waites
- Flight Sergeant William Robertson Walker
- Sergeant Frank George Walter
- Pilot Officer Charles Richard Ernest Walton
- Flight Sergeant John Bernard Ward
- Flying Officer Raymond John Ward
- Pilot Officer George Robert Warnock
- Sergeant Henry Robert Warren
- Sergeant Kenneth Robert James Warren
- Pilot Officer Richard Herbert Watts
- Flying Officer Glen Mason Weaver
- Sergeant Philip Joseph Weaver
- Sergeant Reginald Webster
- Pilot Officer Ronald Duncan Weller
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Joy Welsh
- Pilot Officer Roy Whalley
- Sergeant Mark Thomas Wheeler
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Lawrence Whitaker
- Flight Sergeant James Walker White
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Charles White
- Sergeant Cyril Whitelock
- Flying Officer William Henry Widger
- Sergeant Sidney Charles Wilkins
- Sergeant James Wilkinson
- Pilot Officer Sidney Hulbert Willes
- Flying Officer Henry Edward Williams
- Sergeant John Albert Williams
- Sergeant Robert Arthur Wilson
- Flying Officer Ronald Douglas Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Wilson
- Pilot Officer Thomas Sudworth Winstanley
- Sergeant John Gregory Woods
- Flight Sergeant Brian Thomas Wootton-woolley
1945
- Corporal Samuel Stanley Barnes
- Lieutenant Bekker
- Leading Aircraftman John Robert Cooil
- Flying Officer Arthur Samuel Cullen
- Warrant Officer Leslie Hugh Hamersley
- Captain Dennis Harding
- Leading Aircraftman William Joseph Jenkins
- Warrant Officer Francis James Egan Maughan
- Pilot Officer Basil Matthew Natta
- Flying Officer Keith Scholfield
- Warrant Officer Class I Smit
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Charles Smith
- Warrant Officer Class I Thirion
- Lieutenant Van Rooyen
- Flight Sergeant Frank William Walker