On this day — 3 June
262 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 June during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Mervyn Alec Ap Rhys Pryce
- Pilot Officer Ian Douglas Hawken
- Sergeant George Howard Hudson
- Sergeant Denis Leonard Leonard
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Vincent Meredith
- Sergeant Edward Melville Mould
- Flying Officer Edward Trevor Williams
1941
- Sergeant Denis George Ambrose
- Sergeant James Gerard Armstrong
- Sergeant Edric Arthur Bernel Beadman
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Judson Bell
- Sergeant Raymond William Body
- Pilot Officer Peter Robert Duncan Brown
- Sergeant Leonard Joseph Reynold Chabot
- Sergeant George Thomas Cheetham
- Sergeant Donald Grant Clark
- Sergeant Ernest Clarke
- Sergeant James Hyndman Cooper
- Corporal Douglas Earl Craig
- Sergeant Peter William Crump
- Pilot Officer Sir Christopher Albert De Bathe
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon Allen Dilworth
- Flight Sergeant John Todd Donnelly
- Sergeant Leonard David Dougherty
- Pilot Officer George Elmer Douglas
- Sergeant Kenneth Percival Tom Fletcher
- Captain Gowan Arbuthnot Giles
- Second Lieutenant George Leslie Wade Gill
- Flying Officer Ivan Lloyd George Gillis
- Pilot Officer Arthur Thomas Edward Greenway
- Sergeant Edward John Hall
- Pilot Officer David Edward Somerville Hawkins
- Sergeant Allan Fenwick Hicks
- Sergeant Jack Hine
- Pilot Officer Phillip Booth Hodgson
- Sergeant Howgate Ian Holroyd
- Sergeant Thomas Eric Hyde
- Sergeant John Frederick Vincent Karlenzig
- Pilot Officer Thomas Donald Kerr
- Sergeant Philip Arthur Layen Lowe
- Flight Sergeant Maurice McWilliam
- Flying Officer John Mitchell
- Pilot Officer Frederick James Parker
- Wing Commander Neville Ernest Wetherell Pepper
- Flying Officer Arthur Harold Charles Adams Rawson
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Dickson Sargent
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred James Sharp
- Flight Sergeant Peter Bernard Eric Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Gerald Barclay Snow
- Lieutenant Robert Henry Talbot
- Leading Aircraftman Wilfred Tansley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Floyd Joseph Tibbett
- Sergeant John Grant Turnbull
- Lieutenant Albertus Stephanus Venter
- Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
- Flight Sergeant Aidan Noel Wynne
1942
- Sergeant Finlay Emmerson Anderson
- Flight Sergeant Harold Clifford Andrews
- Flight Sergeant Albert Winston Armstrong
- Sergeant Richard Armstrong
- Sergeant Stanley Arnett
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Francis Beaumont
- Squadron Leader David John Bell
- Sergeant Oliver Percy Beswick
- Flight Sergeant Reginald John Biglands
- Leading Aircraftman George Victor Blake
- Sergeant David Boddy
- Flight Sergeant Fred Booth
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Rowell Brodie
- Sergeant Basil Sydney Brown
- Leading Aircraftman William Stanley Butler
- Sergeant Frederick Reginald Cassidy
- Pilot Officer Ralph Edward Clark
- Leading Aircraftman Timothy Francis (tim) Cobb
- Warrant Officer Andrew Jack Cowlrick
- Sergeant Frederick Gordon Crighton
- Sergeant William Longster Crowther
- Flight Sergeant Vincent Patrick Cummock
- Sergeant Reginald Cecil Cushway
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Frederick Dell
- Flight Sergeant Harold Edgar Dimmock
- Flying Officer Peter Leslie Edwards
- Flight Sergeant George Cornwall English
- Sergeant David Emlyn Evans
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney James Fairclough
- Sergeant Robinson Ferguson
- Sergeant James Albert Gaiter
- Sergeant James Steele Gething
- Leading Aircraftman Horace Louis Girling
- Sergeant Gerald Glassbrook
- Sergeant Kenneth Walter Hailey
- Sergeant Frederick John Lawrence Hanson
- Pilot Officer Leslie James Harcus
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Victor Harding
- Sergeant Ernest Harrison
- Flight Sergeant Norman Rhodes Hartley
- Sergeant Eric Edwards Hayes
- Sergeant Basil Theodore Haylock
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Alfred Hill
- Warrant Officer Class I Frank Alex Holmes
- Flight Sergeant Jack Leon Hutchison
- Pupil Pilot Isaac
- Sergeant George Francis Jenkins
- Flying Officer John Walter Keene
- Sergeant William Kendall
- Sergeant Gerard Joseph Laing
- Flight Sergeant Solomon Levitus
- Sergeant Stanley Holmes Lincoln
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Douglas Kingsley Macpherson
- Warrant Officer Class II George Henry Herbert Marks
- Flight Sergeant Alastair Macnab McKelvie
- Leading Aircraftman Robert McMillan
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Campbell McPherson
- Flying Officer James Howard Menary
- Sergeant Albert Moorcroft
- Pilot Officer Peter John Moore
- Sergeant Wilfred Frank Morgan
- Sergeant Joseph Gray Myers
- Sergeant George Nixon
- Captain Robin Pare
- Sergeant Edward Ernest Patchett
- Leading Aircraftman Laurence Francis Pickup
- Sergeant Sydney Walstead Precious
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Dennis Price
- Flight Sergeant Robert George Dunlop Read
- Corporal David Reid
- Sergeant Ewart Gladstone Ronson
- Pilot Officer Herbert Percy Rose
- Pilot Officer David Francis Rouleau
- Warrant Officer Cecil Denis Ryan
- Pilot Officer George Frederick Sanderson
- Pilot Officer Elwood Raymond Seibold
- Sergeant Douglas Malcolm Sharp
- Sergeant William Simons
- Sergeant David Roderick Stewart
- Flight Sergeant John Lauson Tarran
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Henry Taylor
- Sergeant Tom Gordon Prentis Townsend
- Sergeant Graeme Yeoman Wadlow
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur William Wakely
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Frederick Waldon
- Sergeant Maurice Stanley Jack Waller
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Hamilton Way
- Sergeant Norman Frederick Webber
- Pilot Officer John Davidson Weir
- Sergeant Albert Wheeler
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Arthur Wilkinson
- Flying Officer Thomas Reader Russell Wood
1943
- Flight Sergeant Leonard John Austin
- Flying Officer Jack Standish Banks
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Frederick Bavin
- Flight Sergeant Leo Albert Boire
- Sergeant Roland Frank Brier
- Flight Sergeant Jack Brooke
- Flight Lieutenant John Bowyer Buckley
- Warrant Officer Edwin Erle Burton
- Wing Commander Howard Frizelle Burton
- Sergeant Francis Robert Carter
- Flying Officer Robert Wynn Hunton Carter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Dennis Townsend Clark
- Wing Commander Paul Temple Cotton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Creaney
- Flying Officer David Taylor Dorward
- Flight Sergeant Du Plessis
- Flying Officer Dennis Victor Edwards
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Clark Gladstone Gadsby
- Wing Commander Jack Goodhead
- Air Sergeant Green
- Squadron Leader Osgood Villiers Hanbury
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Alfred Harris
- Corporal Maurice Heyes
- Flying Officer John Henry Howell
- Warrant Officer Donald James Innes-smith
- Sergeant George Albert King
- Pilot Officer Selwyn Noel Langdale
- Flight Sergeant John Liddle
- Sergeant William Lister Lumsden
- Flying Officer Edward James McSherry
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfred Tom Medley
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Ernest Morshead
- Flight Sergeant Eric Haakon Neilson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Maxwell Stanley Nelson
- Pilot Officer Cecil Aspland Nicholls
- Flight Sergeant James Holden Nuttall
- Wing Commander Eric Paul
- Pilot Officer Harold Douglas Pepper
- Sergeant Eric Prescott
- Flight Sergeant Henry Eric Rawlins
- Sergeant Colin Arthur Richardson
- Sergeant Albert Arthur Ross
- Flying Officer Frank Radcliffe Simon
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph Silvio Smith
- Corporal Arthur Leslie Stather
- Sergeant Frederick John Stiles
- Flying Officer Ronald Charles Wood
- Group Captain Robert Gordon Yaxley
- Squadron Leader John Kenneth Young
1944
- Warrant Officer John Andrew Ashdown
- Warrant Officer Max Milson Bettington
- Lieutenant Denis Oswald Bilse
- Flying Officer Bruce Graham Black
- Lieutenant Campbell
- Flying Officer William Grant Cantlay
- Flight Sergeant Harry Cosgreave Caswell
- Pilot Officer George William Chambers
- Flight Sergeant George Ernest Chaplin
- Flying Officer Cyril Branston Cohen
- Squadron Leader George Edwin Coldrey
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth George Coleman
- Flying Officer Robert Duncan Crone
- Flight Sergeant Bryan James Dowling
- Captain Van Duckitt
- Flying Officer Jack Ellsworth Dye
- Flying Officer Robert Alexander Faulafer
- Warrant Officer Charles Faust
- Corporal John Arthur Forknall
- Lieutenant Forsyth
- Flying Officer John Kinnaird Greenway
- Flight Sergeant Vernon Nelson Hansen
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Harnden
- Flying Officer Ernest Osborne Heyworth
- Pilot Officer Norman Joseph Hodgins
- Flight Sergeant Francis Rodney Hughes
- Warrant Officer Robert Gerald Huxtable
- Flight Sergeant Hubert Clarence Johnson
- Pilot Officer Norman Johnston
- Warrant Officer Francis Joseph Keegan
- Pilot Officer David Austin Kelley
- Flight Sergeant John Ernest Thomas Ridgeway Kingham
- Sergeant Roland George Lindsay
- Pilot Officer Donald Frederick McCorkle
- Pilot Officer Leslie Asa McCrea
- Flight Sergeant John William Arthur Montgomery
- Sergeant Maurice Munns
- Flying Officer Clifford Gerald Neville
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Edward John Bastin Northcott
- Leading Aircraftman Clifford Kither Orton
- Flight Sergeant Joe Oshlack
- Warrant Officer Class II John Osborne Paige
- Flying Officer Denis Clement Farmer Perkins
- Flight Sergeant Victor Wilfred Phillips
- Pilot Officer Joseph Gerard Maurice Renaud
- Flight Sergeant John Thomas Ridgway
- Pilot Officer Archibald Lancelot Smith
- Flight Sergeant Francis Raymond Sweeney
- Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson
- Flying Officer Robert James Tomlinson
- Flight Sergeant Owen Leslie Tyte
- Lieutenant Wentzel
- Flying Officer Wesley John White
- Warrant Officer Class I Frederick Henry Theodore Whittard
- Flying Officer John St. Clair Wootton
- Pilot Officer Archibald John Stuart Wright
- Pilot Officer William Alexander Younie
1945
- Sergeant Robert Leonard Bouch
- Sergeant Roy Edward Bough
- Corporal Basil Carey
- Flight Sergeant William Gordon Davidson
- Flying Officer Sulo Matt Harju
- Air Corporal Schoeman