On this day — 3 July
220 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Joseph William Davidson
- Flight Sergeant John Clark Dawson
- Leading Aircraftman David Handforth Hawkes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas James Jones
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Keymer
- Flight Sergeant Roderick George Morison
- Flying Officer Harold Morrey Selwyn
- Flying Officer Samuel Gustav Soderholm
- Sergeant Bernard Lloyd Trayhurn
- Sergeant John Rex Burgess White
1941
- Warrant Officer Frederick Charles Adams
- Sergeant George Alfred Avory
- Leading Aircraftman Bernard Albert Belcher
- Sergeant James Archer Cormack
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfred Cottom
- Sergeant Walter Cross
- Pilot Officer Baron Rene Joseph Marie G. G. Del Marmol
- Sergeant John Diggory
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Mojzesz David Dornsaft
- Sergeant Desmond Colbert Kent Dunne
- Pilot Officer Guy Marie Jules Dupret De Beco
- Flight Lieutenant Samuel Alexander Ellaby
- Sergeant James Alexander Gordon Forsyth
- Sergeant Edward Ryder Foster
- Sergeant Jack Edward Foster
- Pilot Officer Joseph Wesley Greening
- Sergeant Roydon Horatio Hartstone
- Sergeant Richard Edward Haycock
- Sergeant John French Hollingworth
- Sergeant Albert Jepson
- Sergeant Harold Jones
- Pilot Officer Gerald Moore Kennedy
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Franklin Kidd
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Densham Pearce Lucas
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Cedric Marsh
- Sergeant Gordon William Lash Matthews
- Sergeant Martin Kean McHugh
- Sergeant William Fraser McKay
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Lyon Miln
- Sergeant Arthur Thomas Lort Mortimer
- Sergeant Douglas Macdonald Napier
- Sergeant John Ross Nation
- Pilot Officer Malcolm Richard Peter Oxley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Roger William Pett
- Warrant Officer Douglas James Pitcher
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Reed Place
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie George Proud
- Sergeant Ian Laurie Reid
- Sergeant Russell Addisson Reid
- Flight Lieutenant John Francis Sharp
- Flying Officer Bertram Charles Hollins Simms
- Sergeant Archibald Murdock Smith
- Sergeant Donald Jeffery Taylor
- Sergeant Ronald Turner
1942
- Warrant Officer Gordon Stuart Bolton
- Sergeant Alan Denis Bond
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Robert Bonner
- Pilot Officer Terence John Brady
- Sergeant Geoffrey Hugh Butler-williams
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Vincent Chicoine
- Sergeant Kenneth James Chippindale
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Edward Crothers
- Sergeant Dennis Melville Davis
- Sergeant Frederick Kenneth Dennis
- Sergeant Darryl Downing
- Flight Sergeant Ian Clarke Dunn
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Dean East
- Sergeant John William Edwards
- Sergeant Thomas Alfred Elliott
- Sergeant David Evans
- Sergeant Richard Fairhurst
- Sergeant William Edward Furness
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Gale
- Sergeant Henry Arthur George
- Flight Sergeant Jack Edward Gibbs
- Sergeant Harold John Gill
- Sergeant John Benson Hall
- Sergeant Jack Douglas Hancocks
- Leading Aircraftman Haynes
- Sergeant Geoffrey Hill
- Sergeant George Leonard Hodson
- Sergeant Harold Hole
- Pilot Officer Thomas Middlebrook Horsfall
- Sergeant James Hutcheson
- Sergeant Peter Frederick Inman
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Maxwell Johnston
- Sergeant David Morris Jones
- Wing Commander Kenneth Duke Knocker
- Sergeant Ernest Joseph Lawer
- Pilot Officer Archie Thomas Little
- Sergeant Raymond John Liversuch
- Pilot Officer Daniel Malofie
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Thomas Paul Marlow
- Flight Sergeant Burnett Hamilton Martin
- Flight Sergeant Joseph John Francis Martin
- Sergeant Robert Tom Charles Martin
- Sergeant Allan Edwin McCrae
- Leading Aircraftman Bruce Sidney McCredie
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth McGee
- Sergeant Russell George Mercer
- Leading Aircraftman James Rowland Moody
- Pilot Officer Robin William Morton
- Sergeant Tristram Edward Leonard Palmer
- Warrant Officer Class I John David Ritchie
- Sergeant Thomas Stanley Ross
- Leading Aircraftman Bernard Victor Shaw
- Flight Sergeant Alvin Leslie Spafford
- Pilot Officer Douglas Wilberforce Spooner
- Pilot Officer Peter Richard Vincent Sullivan
- Flight Lieutenant Cyril Bernard Temlett
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Teys
- Flying Officer Sydney James Thorne
- Sergeant John William Caddick Underwood
- Sergeant John Noel Waddington
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Watton
- Sergeant Frank Stuart Weaver
- Flying Officer Albert Ernest William Webb
- Sergeant Cultra Vallance Webb
- Sergeant Alexander Frederick Whittick
- Flight Sergeant Robert William Whytock
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Arthur Wild
- Flight Sergeant Charles Garnett Wilde
- Sergeant Owen Llewellyn Williams
- Sergeant Robert Oscar Williams
- Flight Sergeant Ernest George Wilson
- Sergeant Leonard Alwyn York
1943
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Armitage
- Flight Sergeant Reginald William Ault
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Stephen Banks
- Sergeant Gordon Henry Bennett
- Leading Aircraftman Pryce Oliver Bowen
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Cachia
- Lieutenant Campbell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Allan Carter
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Cheney
- Pilot Officer Calder Leper Cleland
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert William Stenhouse Combe
- Sergeant Robert Norman Cowie
- Second Lieutenant Daniels
- Corporal Edwin Kenneth (ken) Davis
- Sergeant Edwin Albert Deacon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Allan Boylan Dempster
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Ross Dixon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert John Cleland Dobbie
- Pilot Officer Clifford Edwards
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur James Fennell
- Flight Sergeant Lancelott James Frazer
- Leading Aircraftman Louis John Garwood
- Sergeant Keith Pratt Gemmel
- Flight Sergeant Donald James Gillies
- Flight Sergeant Ronald George Gravett
- Flight Sergeant David John Griffiths
- Air Commodore John William Boldero Grigson
- Pilot Officer Martin Cyril Beaufort Grimaldi
- Sergeant Edgar John Heywood
- Leading Aircraftman Horace William Holland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Christmas Hughes
- Sergeant Dennys Cyril Hunt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon William Charles Hutchings
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Jeffery
- Wing Commander Benjamin Heywood Jones
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald John Clement Kelly
- Flight Lieutenant Ewen Samuel Knox
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edgar John Kurtz
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Orville Alvin Lamont
- Sergeant Charles Albert Lane
- Pilot Officer George Mattinson
- Captain McBride
- Sergeant John Patrick McGarry
- Pilot Officer Frank Mellor
- Lieutenant Meredith
- Flight Sergeant Meyer
- Leading Aircraftman Hugh Riches Morling
- Warrant Officer Class I James Earl Morrison
- Warrant Officer William Nickalls
- Lieutenant Oakes
- Flight Sergeant Morris Claude Prout
- Leading Aircraftman George Edward Rayner
- Sergeant William John Rees
- Corporal Adam Cumming Reid
- Flying Officer Herbert Jack Rothwell
- Major Schravesande
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Shoemake
- Second Lieutenant Smith
- Sergeant Gerald Alec Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Spencer
- Flying Officer Walter Frank Spier
- Second Lieutenant Jellicoe K. Stopforth
- Corporal James Straughan
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Francis Joseph Truscott
- Sergeant Alan Edwin Tytherleigh
- Flight Sergeant White
- Corporal Thomas Robert Wills
- Flying Officer John Dalton Wilson
- Sergeant John Dobbie Macdonald Winton
- Sergeant Charles Young
1944
- Sergeant Paul Illtyd Anwyl
- Flight Lieutenant William John Francis Coote
- Warrant Officer Rex Frederick Cottrell
- Corporal Kevin Harold Crouch
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Grant
- Captain Judd
- Pilot Officer Chester Dwane Knox
- Flying Officer Robert William McLaren
- Flying Officer Kenneth Joseph Andrew Moderwell
- Second Lieutenant Nowers
- Warrant Officer Class I Preston
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Robert Reeves
- Warrant Officer Class II Robertson
- Flying Officer Wallace Allan Smart
- Pilot Officer John Willard Staples
- Sergeant David Arthur Stephens
- Flight Sergeant John Bradford Watts
1945
- Flying Officer Trevor Batley
- Flight Sergeant Robert William Braik
- Corporal Aston Alfred Clark
- Flying Officer James Doyle
- Flying Officer Hendrick John Van Der Pol