On this day — 5 May
358 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 May during the Second World War.
1940
1941
- Pilot Officer Roy Dawson Allen
- Pilot Officer Victor Charles Arnold
- Sergeant William Kenneth Blackford
- Sergeant Richard Shuttleworth Blackwell
- Sergeant Leslie Bertram Burrows
- Flight Sergeant George Arthur Cole
- Leading Aircraftman John Roger Talbot Cox
- Sergeant Bernard Lawrence Terrance Crawforth
- Sergeant Charles Trevor Dennett
- Sergeant Norman Franklin Dixon
- Sergeant Robert Henry English
- Sergeant Derek Keith Glass
- Sergeant Leslie Harold Harrap
- Leading Aircraftman James Stanley Jones
- Group Captain Robert Jope-slade
- Squadron Leader Garth Oliver Mills
- Leading Aircraftman John Wellesley Munro
- Sergeant Harry Walter Crouch Norman-arterton
- Flying Officer John Stewart Osborne
- Sergeant Reginald James Parrott
- Flying Officer Donegan Frederick Phelan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William John Pullman
- Sergeant Cecil David Robertson
- Sergeant Douglas Rolfe
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Russell
- Pilot Officer Ralph Scott
- Pilot Officer John Bromley Sheridan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Leonard Smith
- Sergeant Albert Turner
- Sergeant Herbert Owen Turner
- Sergeant Basil Alexander Walker
- Leading Aircraftman John Neville Watson
1942
- Sergeant Philip Robert Abbas
- Flight Sergeant John Raymond St. George Arrowsmith
- Sergeant Leslie Arthur Barnfield
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Sample Bell
- Sergeant Richard Fletcher Birchnall
- Sergeant Leonard Herbert Blake
- Flight Sergeant Trevor Montague Brent
- Flight Sergeant Victor Carriline
- Sergeant Thomas William Charles
- Pilot Officer Arnold Foster Cheetham
- Sergeant Alec Henry Craven
- Flight Sergeant George Emanuel Daniels
- Flight Lieutenant Baudouin Marie Ghislain De Hemptinne
- Flight Sergeant Robert John George
- Flight Sergeant William Humphreys Gregg
- Flight Sergeant James Frederick (jim) Halward
- Sergeant Walter Gordon Harrison
- Pilot Officer Joseph Ogden Heap
- Pilot Officer Alan George Hersey
- Sergeant Stanley Harry Heslop
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Walter Heywood
- Flight Sergeant Francis Derek Jago
- Sergeant Graham Stanley James
- Sergeant Thomas Edgar Jenkin
- Flight Sergeant Stacey Douglas Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Edgar Joyce
- Sergeant William Gordon Kennerley
- Sergeant Rowland Lennock
- Sergeant Ralph Hyman Lewen
- Flight Sergeant James Andrew Long
- Sergeant Thomas Freer Macgregor-king
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Aspinall Mayer
- Sergeant George McCulloch McGavin
- Flight Sergeant George Arthur McLean
- Flying Officer Kenneth William Byron Moodie
- Sergeant Kenneth John Neil
- Sergeant Albert Mervyn Nichols
- Sergeant Herbert John Ody
- Sergeant Sidney Harold Victor Osborne
- Pilot Officer Max Martin Osten
- Pilot Officer William Osterstock
- Sergeant Karel Pavlik
- Sergeant William John Perkins
- Sergeant Frederick Bertram Pomeroy
- Sergeant Rolland Albert Joffre Ribout
- Flying Officer Norman Worsley Richardson
- Sergeant Philip Dorrien Seaborne
- Flight Sergeant James Arthur Shaw
- Sergeant Thomas Randall Sherwood
- Sergeant Basil Ernest Smith
- Sergeant Arthur Raymond Vernon
- Sergeant Edward Frederick Webb
- Sergeant Henry Marshall Webb
- Sergeant Kenneth Wheeler
- Sergeant Thomas Whyte
- Sergeant James Herbert Wilson
- Sergeant Percy Walter Wrighting
1943
- Flying Officer Norman Ainsworth
- Sergeant Richard Allison
- Sergeant Anderson
- Flight Sergeant Jack Colin Archer
- Flight Sergeant George Ernest Armstrong
- Pilot Officer Thomas Armstrong
- Sergeant John Avery
- Flight Sergeant James Banyer
- Flight Sergeant John Lawrence Barry
- Flight Lieutenant Jean Paul Barsalou
- Flight Sergeant Sidney William Bartlett
- Flying Officer John Baxter
- Sergeant Frederick Ronald Beech
- Sergeant James Arthur Beedim
- Sergeant Frederick Horace Bennetton
- Pilot Officer Robert Henry Waldron Bentley
- Sergeant Victor Edward Betterton
- Sergeant Jack Smith Birkett
- Pilot Officer Robert Orin Blackhall
- Sergeant John McLaren Boswell
- Sergeant Gordon Stanley Bowles
- Sergeant George Brick
- Sergeant Leonard Stuart Broomfield
- Flying Officer Edwin Hanlon Brown
- Sergeant Francis Henry Brown
- Sergeant Kenneth Brown
- Sergeant James Ronald Browning
- Sergeant Thomas Alexander Stuart Buchanan
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Howard Buck
- Sergeant Joseph Emil Leo Burgess
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Burns
- Sergeant Harold William Burton
- Flight Sergeant Eugene John Candish
- Flight Lieutenant Brian Anthony Casey
- Flying Officer Joseph Cherkinsky
- Sergeant James Chisnall
- Pilot Officer Harold George Raymond Chiverton
- Warrant Officer Jaroslav Chlup
- Sergeant Arthur Harold Clark
- Sergeant Frederic James Cleasby
- Flying Officer James Rayson Wallace Cleeland
- Flight Sergeant Roger Victor Clitheroe
- Pilot Officer Joseph Albert George Cobb
- Flying Officer Samuel Albert Coles
- Sergeant John Desmond Collinge
- Sergeant Reginald William Conuel
- Flying Officer Oliver Mansell Cornish
- Sergeant Thomas Cox
- Flying Officer Walter Edwin Davey
- Sergeant Anthony John Davies
- Flight Sergeant Martin David Davis
- Flying Officer Ronald Jack Davis
- Sergeant Robert Deacon
- Flight Sergeant Henry Anselm De Freitas
- Sergeant Ronald William Dupen
- Sergeant John George Stanley Dutton
- Sergeant Geoffrey Eastwood
- Sergeant John Oswald Eaves
- Squadron Leader Henry Grahame Edwards
- Sergeant Cameron William Ellard
- Flying Officer William Gerald Elliott
- Sergeant Kenneth Edward Emmons
- Sergeant Lionel Frederick Evans
- Pilot Officer Victor Douglas Farmer
- Flight Sergeant John Alexander Farrel
- Flight Sergeant Edward Henry Finch
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Henry Fish
- Sergeant Charles Harold Fisher
- Sergeant Reginald Grosvenor Fletcher
- Sergeant Percy Eric Charles Flood
- Squadron Leader John Bernard Flowerdew
- Pilot Officer Albert Reginald Fox
- Sergeant Alexander McDonald Gardiner
- Leading Aircraftman George Edward Victor Garratt
- Flying Officer Frederick William Gates
- Wing Commander James Robert Gillman
- Corporal Bernard Daniel Gough
- Sergeant Harry George Graham
- Pilot Officer Donald Edward Grant
- Flying Officer William Angus Grant
- Flight Lieutenant Edward McLeod Gray
- Sergeant Thomas Griffith
- Sergeant John Milner Hadfield
- Flight Sergeant Allan Avand Fisher Hall
- Sergeant George John Charles Hall
- Sergeant William Bernard Johnson Happold
- Sergeant William Harkness
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Derek Harrison
- Sergeant Donald Richard Higgs
- Sergeant Dennis High
- Sergeant Eric Bertram Hill
- Flight Sergeant Alan Hilton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Edward Hirst
- Sergeant Harry Shannon Hobbs
- Sergeant Thomas Holden
- Pilot Officer William Holden
- Sergeant Jack Beverley Jonathan Hook
- Sergeant Herbert Cecil Hooper
- Warrant Officer Gerald Hough
- Sergeant Fergus Hulton
- Sergeant Terence William Hunt
- Flight Sergeant Desmond Nelson Jaekel
- Sergeant Albert Maldwyn James
- Sergeant George William Challoner James
- Sergeant William Jennings
- Flight Sergeant Gudmundur Arnpor Johannesson
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Wilbert Johnson
- Sergeant Fred Johnson
- Sergeant John Kay
- Sergeant William David Keen
- Flying Officer Elmer Earl Kennedy
- Flight Sergeant Theodore Lafontaine
- Sergeant Erwin Henry Reubin Lamb
- Sergeant Francis Graham Latham
- Sergeant Charles Willis Eric Leach
- Sergeant Leonard Henry Leaney
- Pilot Officer Richard John Lee
- Sergeant John Robert Leigh
- Pilot Officer John Watt Lennox
- Flying Officer William T. Lewis
- Sergeant Norman Long
- Sergeant Ronald William Lynn
- Sergeant Anthony Jules Lawson Lyon
- Sergeant Angus Macintosh
- Flight Sergeant John Theo Macksimchuk
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Maxwell
- Flying Officer William Thomas McCormack
- Sergeant Duncan Roy McGregor
- Flight Sergeant John William McIntosh
- Sergeant George Douglas Menzies
- Flying Officer Hugh Morland Metcalfe
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Roy Edgar Metcalfe
- Pilot Officer James Herbert Millar
- Flight Sergeant Reginald James Miller
- Sergeant Bernard Moody
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Nixon Moore
- Warrant Officer Class II Alexander Frederick Morrice
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Ryder Mosey
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert Benjamin Moulton
- Warrant Officer Class II Donat Cyprien Romain Nault
- Sergeant Hector Raymond Alfred Newman
- Sergeant William Nicholson
- Sergeant Alfred Warner Oakley
- Sergeant James Joseph O'Neill
- Flying Officer Karel Papousek
- Pilot Officer Leslie Herbert Pattisson
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Alfred Payne
- Leading Aircraftman Howard Dennis Petersen
- Sergeant Arthur James Phillips
- Sergeant James Thomas Pooley
- Flight Sergeant John Prosnyck
- Sergeant Anthony Reilly
- Sergeant Norman Evan Reilly
- Flight Sergeant George William Francis Reynolds
- Flight Sergeant Desmond George Ridings
- Sergeant Douglas Harry Rock
- Sergeant Gilbert Humphreys Rogers
- Sergeant George Rose
- Sergeant Harold Rowbottom
- Sergeant Dennis William Rowley
- Flying Officer Sidney Michael Russ
- Sergeant Stanton Eric Arthur Russell
- Flight Sergeant Harold Jackson Salisbury
- Sergeant Lawrence Anthony Wykeham Sanders
- Sergeant Gordon Sandfield
- Warrant Officer Class I Frank Robert Santo
- Sergeant Peter Robinson Sharman
- Sergeant Wilfred James Shirley
- Flying Officer Philip Ritchie Smith
- Pilot Officer Daniel Spooner
- Sergeant Bernard William Squires
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Noel Stainton
- Sergeant John Benjamin Stallwood
- Flying Officer Nicholas James Stanford
- Sergeant John Staniforth
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Thomas Stanley
- Sergeant Arthur Irving Stark
- Pilot Officer James Hampton Stowell
- Sergeant Deryck Arthur Street
- Sergeant James Hornby Stretton
- Pilot Officer Albert James Sutton
- Sergeant Sandom Sweet
- Sergeant Bertie Edward Taylor
- Sergeant Hubert Stanley Taylor
- Flight Sergeant John Thomas Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Evariste Adrien Thibaudeau
- Flight Sergeant Peter Edward Tiller
- Flying Officer Thomas Cuthbert Timney
- Sergeant William James Turpin
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Peter Uditsky
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Martin Venn
- Flying Officer Harold Keith Wainer
- Sergeant George Frederick Ward
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Deaman Watson
- Sergeant Herbert Henry Way
- Pilot Officer Reginald Francis Westwood
- Flight Sergeant Richard Frederick Whitaker
- Flight Sergeant Joseph White
- Flight Sergeant William Williams
- Sergeant Neville Henry Wood
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Wright
- Corporal Oswald Allan Wright
1944
- Flying Officer Clifford Wilmore Abbott
- Flight Sergeant Michael Edwin Agar
- Warrant Officer Eric Alfred Aldred
- Flying Officer William Jack Allingham
- Sergeant Reginald Herbert Asplin
- Flying Officer Robert Avery
- Flying Officer Ian Campbell Bennington
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Blakey
- Pilot Officer Paul John Blumer
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Lewis Bond
- Flight Sergeant Adrian Leslie Bernard Carson
- Leading Aircraftman James Wyreman Charles
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Collins
- Leading Aircraftman George David Conway
- Sergeant Charles William Cooch
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Dawes
- Sergeant Robert Frederic Delgouffre
- Flight Sergeant Reginald James Eastabrook
- Lieutenant Facer
- Sergeant Henry Robert Farley
- Sergeant Frank Stanley Freeman
- Sergeant John Edward Frogley
- Flying Officer Arthur Ronald Hamlin
- Flight Sergeant Alan Richard Priscott Hawke
- Pilot Officer Albert William John Hazell
- Flight Sergeant Norman Wilson Johnstone
- Sergeant William Augustus Jones
- Flight Lieutenant Graeme Connell Keys
- Pilot Officer Ross Carrock Richard Lean
- Flying Officer Kenneth Avenell Linklater
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Garnet (doug) Matthews
- Flight Sergeant Denis John Mayhew
- Flight Sergeant John Stewart McInnes
- Flying Officer Percy Alan McLachlan
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Albert Menday
- Sergeant William Henry John Mills
- Flight Sergeant Robert Bruce Morrison
- Flying Officer Alexandre Joseph Neys
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Walter Parratt
- Flight Sergeant Albert Gustave Auguste Quenon
- Corporal Harry Randle
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Walter Reeves
- Corporal Stanley Charles Sharp
- Flying Officer Ronald John Shaw
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Charles Simmons
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Spencer
- Pilot Officer John Howard Sumner
- Flight Lieutenant Cecil Todd
- Sergeant William Horace Young
- Flying Officer Henry Osbert Zetland
1945
- Flight Sergeant Neville Tasman Browne
- Flying Officer William Ernest Clarke
- Warrant Officer Alfred Henry Gidley
- Warrant Officer James Hillman Hornbrook
- Flying Officer James Leonard Howatson
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas James Irvine
- Sergeant Ernest Howe Macdonald Johnstone
- Flight Sergeant Charles Ashton Keown
- Flying Officer Alan James McCartney
- Flight Sergeant Robert James McLean
- Warrant Officer Arthur Rex Nankivell
- Sergeant Reginald Malcolm Peterson
- Flying Officer Vincent Daniel Sweeney