On this day — 2 July
222 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 2 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Colin Graham Bush
- Squadron Leader Hurll Fontayne Chester
- Sergeant Henry Eric Archibald Craven
- Sergeant Stanley Croxon
- Sergeant Noel Francis Lloyd Davies
- Sergeant Owen Sandford Gander
- Sergeant Dennis Arthur Green
- Sergeant Herbert Histon
- Squadron Leader Edward Cunliffe Ingham
- Pilot Officer Cecil John Trevelyan Jones
- Sergeant Cyril Lee
- Sergeant David Leishman
- Sergeant George Elliott Little
- Sergeant Robert James McAllister
- Flying Officer Laurence Herbert McFarlane
- Sergeant Harold Pearce
- Pilot Officer Douglas Redmayne
- Pilot Officer Reginald Charles Sankey
- Flight Sergeant Frederick George Wells
1941
- Flight Sergeant Jack Eric Balch
- Flight Sergeant Dennis George Barbone
- Sergeant Alexander Richard Batch
- Sergeant Alexander George Brown
- Lieutenant Buchanan
- Sergeant Robert Harland Crafts
- Flight Sergeant Bryan Crocker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Rollin Crossland
- Leading Aircraftman William Darling
- Aircraftman 1st Class Clifford William Dodd
- Sergeant Adolf Dolejs
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Alfred Downing
- Flight Sergeant Samuel Albert Elsy
- Sergeant Philip Ivan Ferebee
- Sergeant James Vivian Gill
- Pilot Officer Richard Hapala
- Sergeant Oldrich Helma
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Holl
- Flight Sergeant Denis Arthur Huntley
- Sergeant Jaroslav Lancik
- Sergeant John D'Estreville Lenfestey
- Pilot Officer Peter Donald Macalister
- Air Sergeant Malan
- Flight Sergeant Glyn Davies Mansel
- Sergeant William James Megran
- Flight Sergeant James Timothy Melvin
- Flying Officer John Powell Middlehurst
- Sergeant Jaroslav Petrucha
- Sergeant Antonin Plocek
- Flight Sergeant Edward Francis Porter
- Pilot Officer Ronald James Powell
- Sergeant Cecil Charles Reidmuller
- Sergeant Henry Jackson Robinson
- Sergeant James Rooney
- Air Sergeant Saks
- Flight Sergeant William Gordon Sharratt
- Pilot Officer John Godfrey Shepherd
- Air Mechanic Smith
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Henry Wood Smith
- Flight Sergeant James William Stanley
- Pilot Officer Standish Locksley St. Vincent-welch
- Sergeant William Mervyn Symmons
- Air Sergeant Thomas
- Flight Lieutenant Mark Walter Howchin Uphill
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Watkinson
- Flight Sergeant Jack Wright
1942
- Flight Sergeant William Adamson
- Warrant Officer William Royden Allison
- Flight Sergeant Richard John Anderson
- Sergeant Eric William Bond
- Sergeant Maurice Alfred Brett
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Robert Brown
- Leading Aircraftman James Cameron Campbell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfred Henry Carey
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Clark
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cecil Bertram Clarke
- Flying Officer Robert Angas Clough
- Sergeant Harry Kenny Cox
- Corporal Gilbert Cruickshank
- Pilot Officer Graham Lucas Donne
- Flight Sergeant Arthur William Doughty
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest Everall
- Sergeant John Alfred Eyers
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Kingsley Farnie
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Gibbons
- Sergeant Roland Greaney
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Hargraves Harris
- Sergeant Reuben Leonard Hill
- Pilot Officer Richard Sydney Horswill
- Sergeant William Walter Hughes
- Pilot Officer John Hurst
- Flying Officer Gerald Griffith Oakes James
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey George Jeary
- Leading Aircraftman John Henry Johnson
- Pilot Officer Harry Kelly
- Sergeant James Sheriff Kennedy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Lapish
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alwin Arthur Liddington
- Flight Sergeant Harold Ernest Magladry
- Sergeant Jack Mainwaring
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Edmund Gordon Meyrick
- Pilot Officer John Henry Moss
- Sergeant Joseph Wallace Neu
- Corporal Bertie Henry Nichols
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Frederick Noton
- Wing Commander Alan Robertson Oakeshott
- Flying Officer Alphonse Peter Ouellette
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Alvery Pearce
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Ernest Pithers
- Leading Aircraftman Portelli
- Flight Sergeant John Edward Ratigan
- Flying Officer Garnet Graham Retallack
- Sergeant Charles Ian Scott
- Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Scott
- Sergeant Frederick George Shears
- Sergeant Edward John Simmons
- Flight Sergeant Edward William Spiller
- Sergeant Kenneth Charles Swaby
- Sergeant William James Taylor
- Corporal Alban James Thomas
- Sergeant Nevile Todd
- Flying Officer Vernon Frank Evans Treherne
- Group Captain Ivor Guy Vaughan-fowler
- Sergeant Walter McDonald Watson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas George Wood
- Pilot Officer Abdulgani Ydlibi
1943
- Sergeant Kenneth Boardman Astall
- Flight Sergeant Robert Elmer Atkinson
- Flying Officer George Ronald Birnie
- Sergeant Michael Bloomfield
- Air Sergeant Botha
- Aircraftman 1st Class Clifford Edwin Bozworth
- Warrant Officer Class II James Millar Brownie
- Sergeant Kenneth Reginald Burrows
- Flight Sergeant William Beauchamp Cameron
- Pilot Officer Stanley Edward Carey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Jack Carter
- Sergeant Wilfred Martin Coopey
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Corless
- Flying Officer Frank Charles Creed
- Sergeant Donald James Davie
- Aircraftman 1st Class William James De Garis
- Corporal Leslie Tomlinson Fielding
- Sergeant Leonard William Fisher
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Storey Forster
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis John Fox
- Leading Aircraftman William George Gibson
- Flight Sergeant Bernard William (bunny) Gould
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Haigh
- Flying Officer Douglas Harker
- Leading Aircraftman Taliesin Llewellyn Harris
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Harry Hellewell
- Sergeant Richard William Hewitt
- Flight Sergeant John Henry George Kirby
- Sergeant Robert George (bob) Lancelott
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Ezra Laycock
- Flying Officer Dennis Lister
- Warrant Officer Class I James Lowry
- Leading Aircraftman James Alexander Macdonald
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Alexander McLoughlin
- Sergeant William Sydney Hugh Menzies
- Air Sergeant Edward McM. Miller
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert George Mills
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Mithan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lewis Daniel Moore
- Leading Aircraftman David Parry
- Sergeant Stanley Eldridge Pegg
- Flight Sergeant Verne Arthur Joseph Poulin
- Sergeant Roderick Henry Richards
- Sergeant Cecil Frederick Archie Rivers
- Leading Aircraftman Hugh Rooney
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Frederick Rowe
- Warrant Officer Class II Roy Frederick Shattock
- Sergeant William Shearer
- Flight Sergeant Milton Kenneth Simpson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Donald William Stent
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Darwin Taylor
- Sergeant Douglas Menzies Thomson
- Sergeant Leslie Gordon Turville
- Flight Sergeant Jeffry Weeden
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Boice Whitman
- Sergeant William Ross Willard
- Leading Aircraftman Charles William John Young
- Sergeant Ralph Charles Young
1944
- Flying Officer Harlow Wilbur Bowker
- Pilot Officer John William Bracken
- Flight Lieutenant John Giblin Caddy
- Warrant Officer William John Cooper
- Flying Officer Thomas Albert Charles Daymond
- Flying Officer Douglas John Evans
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Frank
- Corporal Robert Hall
- Lieutenant Harris
- Pilot Officer Edward James Holmes
- Flying Officer Gordon Frederick Hutchinson
- Pilot Officer Ernest William Morgan
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Francis Murphy
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Goodhand Parker
- Pilot Officer Lionel Ernest James Parkes
- Sergeant Robert Michael Pitts
- Flight Lieutenant John Leonard Gostwycke Wates
1945
- Flight Lieutenant Athol Martin Andrews
- Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Ashdown
- Flight Lieutenant Dudley Reginald Atkins
- Flight Lieutenant Roy McDowall Beattie
- Flight Sergeant Leslie William Devereux
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Andrew William Evans
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Geoffrey Featherstone
- Aircraftman 1st Class Montague Roy Feltham
- Flight Lieutenant Kelvin Elliott Harrison
- Flying Officer Thomas Hockings
- Flight Sergeant Arthur James Hogg
- Flying Officer Herbert Elgar Mofflin
- Flight Sergeant Keith Lawrence Patten
- Flight Lieutenant Alan James Proctor
- Corporal Ronald Walpole Buist Robinson
- Flying Officer Frederick Dunlop Rutledge
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Robert Sapwell
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Stroud
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas William Willett
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Raymond Kerferd Young