On this day — 2 June
251 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 2 June during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Frank Eric Byerley
- Pilot Officer Cyril Collings
- Flight Sergeant Maurice William Hayman
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Arthur Douglas Hobson
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence John Hunt
- Sergeant Ronald Thomas Kidman
- Corporal Roy Clark Lawson
- Leading Aircraftman Archie Lockwood
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Bisset Macarthur
- Leading Aircraftman Archibald Hector Nicoll
- Pilot Officer Basil Simpson
- Flying Officer George Herbert Stephens
- Pilot Officer James Walter Bryan Stevenson
- Pilot Officer James Leon Wilkie
1941
- Sergeant Cyril Clifford Gordon Ashcroft
- Sergeant Alec Ball
- Flight Sergeant Ivor Kenneth Jack Bidgood
- Sergeant Frank Boroski
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald Charles Burbidge
- Leading Aircraftman Glyndwr Burwood
- Sergeant Alexander Robert Cameron
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Frank Chandler
- Flight Sergeant John Teasdale Craig
- Sergeant Eric Eugene Croker
- Sergeant Terence Alfred Dunwoody
- Flight Sergeant Ivor Thomas Charles Edwards
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest James Griffiths
- Corporal Eric John Macdonald
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Alan Mead
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Ronald Melling
- Sergeant Frederick William O'Brien
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Payton
- Air Mechanic Stefanus Pelser
- Sergeant William Frank Richards
- Sergeant Leonard Arthur Slade
- Sergeant Norman Macdonald Walker
1942
- Air Mechanic R R S. (billie) Ainslie
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Bruce Albright
- Sergeant Alastair Macdonald Anderson
- Sergeant Ronald Albert Archer
- Sergeant Clifford Baines
- Pilot Officer Alfred George Bake
- Pilot Officer Ross Lloyd Baltzer
- Flight Sergeant Dudley Raymond Beinke
- Pilot Officer Kelvin Cholwill Billing
- Pilot Officer Francis John Blackwood
- Sergeant Wilfred Brookes
- Sergeant John Downie Brown
- Sergeant Rex Theodore Burt
- Pilot Officer Frank Rumsey Busby
- Pilot Officer Donald George Campbell
- Pilot Officer Thomas Maughan Carter
- Sergeant Ernest Chadwick
- Flight Sergeant John Stanley Clapham
- Pilot Officer Henry Garfield Clothier
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Herbert Coone
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Leith Cox
- Sergeant Stanley Cox
- Sergeant Thomas Cudworth
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Vivian Darling
- Flight Sergeant Harold Lewis Davies
- Flight Sergeant Richard Ironmonger Derry
- Sergeant Joseph Dick Dodsworth
- Sergeant William John Edgeley
- Sergeant Kenneth Edmonds
- Sergeant Bruce Henry Edye
- Flight Sergeant Peter Fini Pentland Enna
- Flight Lieutenant William John Ewart
- Sergeant Gordon Richard Fennell
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Marcel Wencelas Fortin
- Sergeant Leonard Arthur Fussey
- Flying Officer John Raymond Francis Ganderton
- Sergeant Roy Buglar Ganderton
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Henry Hobson Garratt
- Sergeant James Gordon Bertie Garson
- Pilot Officer George Gascoyne
- Flying Officer Frederick Arthur George Wilmott Gerty
- Pilot Officer Robert Lester Gill
- Sergeant James Adam Glynn
- Sergeant John Leslie Goddard
- Sergeant Edmund Browne Goodwin
- Sergeant William Sill Gradwell
- Sergeant Dreacus Callum Grieve
- Sergeant Evzen Halamasek
- Sergeant William Anderson Hall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Harrison
- Sergeant Robert Isaac Hart
- Sergeant Thomas Ernest Hodgson
- Sergeant Geoffrey Horner
- Pilot Officer Ronald George Inglis
- Sergeant Samuel Lindsay Inglis
- Sergeant William Edward James
- Sergeant Leonard Johnson
- Flying Officer David Dudley Plaister Joyce
- Sergeant Lance Radford Kealley
- Sergeant Thomas James Kehoe
- Flight Sergeant Tom Lumley Kennedy
- Pilot Officer William Joseph Keough
- Sergeant Kenneth Norman Killby
- Sergeant William James Laker
- Sergeant William Lewis Lambert
- Sergeant Ronald Larter
- Pilot Officer John Stephen Lawson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ivor John Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Bernard L'Hirondelle
- Pilot Officer John Osmond Little
- Pilot Officer James Allan Logan
- Sergeant Joseph Edward Richard Lyons
- Sergeant Alfred Marland
- Flying Officer William James Mawdesley
- Leading Aircraftman Freddy Mayfield
- Pilot Officer Donald Patrick McDonald
- Flight Sergeant James Edward McDonald
- Sergeant Ronald McGlen
- Sergeant Ronald Muirhead McIntosh
- Sergeant Orville Wilbert McKenzie
- Flying Officer Anthony Francis McManemy
- Sergeant Alan George Julian McMechan
- Sergeant Henry Meakin
- Flight Sergeant Wilbert James Merrithew
- Sergeant George John Arscott Miles
- Pilot Officer Reginald Alfred Minchin
- Sergeant Albert Ovide Mireau
- Sergeant John Leonard Mitchell
- Flight Lieutenant Patrick Denis Moriarty
- Flight Sergeant Terence Albert George Morris
- Pilot Officer Gerald Weyman Murray
- Sergeant Edmund George Newell
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Lloyd Joseph Norrie
- Flying Officer Charles O'Brien
- Sergeant John Dennis O'Sullivan
- Flying Officer Cranmer Kenneth Parkes
- Flight Sergeant Leslie James Partridge
- Sergeant Ernest Albert Patey
- Sergeant Edward William Perry
- Sergeant Patrick David Powell
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Railton
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Grant Redman
- Pilot Officer Victor John Reed
- Sergeant George Thomson Reid
- Pilot Officer William Mortimer Richards
- Pilot Officer Ronald James Robinson
- Warrant Officer George Robson
- Sergeant Stanley Jack Ross-hoff
- Pilot Officer Rowland Richard Henry Rowe
- Sergeant Cedric Reginald Rowlinson
- Pilot Officer Cyril Ian Andrew Sandland
- Flight Sergeant Frank John Barnes Scrimes
- Pilot Officer Reginald Scriven
- Sergeant Guy Maurice Selwyn
- Pilot Officer William Clifford Shackleton
- Sergeant James Simpson
- Sergeant Thomas Sleeman
- Sergeant Austin Smith
- Sergeant Ernest George Smith
- Sergeant Leonard Frederick Smith
- Pilot Officer James Frederick Stanley
- Sergeant William Thomas Stanley
- Sergeant Ernest Victor Stephens
- Sergeant James Strang
- Flight Sergeant David Robert Stuart
- Sergeant James Barcroft Teesdale-smith
- Flight Sergeant John Albert Thompson
- Sergeant John Robert Thompson
- Sergeant William Thompson
- Sergeant John Titterington
- Flying Officer Gordon Leslie Tofield
- Squadron Leader Dennis Brendon Geoffrey Tomlinson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Frederick Trimmer
- Sergeant James Luther Turnbull
- Flight Sergeant Keith Barkley Utman
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Bertram Vincent
- Pilot Officer Samuel Partington Walsh
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Lincoln Watkins
- Sergeant Alexander Allan Weir
- Sergeant Donald Edwin West
- Sergeant Thomas Ronald Augustus West
- Sergeant John Whitfield
- Sergeant Frank William Moles Wilson
- Flight Sergeant Frederick John Ernest Womar
- Pilot Officer John Allan Worswick
- Pilot Officer Frank George Zavakos
1943
- Flying Officer Ernest Edward Adlard
- Flying Officer Edward Bradley Blackburn
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel Carson
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Joseph Clarke
- Sergeant John Raymond Joseph Clarke
- Flying Officer Robert William Clarke
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur William Clear
- Sergeant George Robert Dawson
- Sergeant George Edward Ekins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Hubert Element
- Flight Sergeant Edward Harvey Emery
- Pilot Officer Joseph Fallon
- Sergeant Dennis Edwin Faulkner
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Reginald Fry
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Albert Gaudet
- Flight Sergeant Harris Gordon Hagen
- Leading Aircraftman Lloyd Edwin Harmon
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Hawes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Charles Holyday
- Flight Sergeant John Alexander Shillinglaw Hulme
- Corporal Bernard Alfred Jenkyn
- Flight Sergeant Donald Herbert Kelly
- Pilot Officer Ronald Charles Lowther
- Sergeant Lawrence Macdonald
- Sergeant Donald Alfred Marriott
- Corporal James Arthur McMahon
- Pilot Officer Edward Charles Ernest Miles
- Sergeant Eric Morgan
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Lindsay Morrison
- Flying Officer Thomas Melville Pethick
- Sergeant Richard Stanley (ted) Phillips
- Sergeant Gordon Francis Prichard
- Warrant Officer Vincent Peter Ratcliffe
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Frederick Rollisson
- Corporal Richard Kenneth Walter Rosenberg
- Flying Officer Allen Theodore Lewis Rossignol
- Lieutenant Louis Isak Van Der Vyver
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald George Walker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cecil Victor Ward
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Edward Williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class Isaac Thomas Williamson
1944
- Sergeant Gordon Leonard Barnard
- Flying Officer Thomas Hartley Dibb
- Corporal Hugh Cecil Drummond
- Pilot Officer John Charles Fardon
- Sergeant Marchal Foston
- Pilot Officer Douglas Anthony Hayman
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Maxwell Clive Hill
- Flight Lieutenant John Hodgson
- Pilot Officer Dwain Earl Lybbert
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Hugh Murray
- Squadron Leader John Niblett
- Sergeant Dennis Arthur Page
- Pilot Officer Harry Martyn Radcliffe
- Sergeant Ronald Earl Schott
- Leading Aircraftman Henderin Jacobus Van Vliet
- Pilot Officer Aubrey Roy Whitmore
1945
- Sergeant Maurice Arthur William Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Donald John Fuller
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Charles Neal
- Acting Corporal Charles Earl Pelkey
- Warrant Officer Garnet Pratt
- Flying Officer George Alexander Stewart
- Flight Lieutenant Ian Paris Walker