On this day — 4 July
378 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 4 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Eric Thomas Apperson
- Sergeant Percy Fallows Bailey
- Sergeant Arthur Baird
- Flight Lieutenant William Sharman Bull
- Sergeant Keith Stephen Bushell
- Sergeant Henry Cartwright
- Pilot Officer Jack Humphrey Gilling
- Sergeant George Howard Goldsmith
- Pilot Officer Selby Roger Henderson
- Flying Officer Eric Bell Lancaster
- Pilot Officer Stanley John Lester
- Sergeant Emrys Ivor Lewis
- Sergeant Kenneth Everitt Lewis
- Pilot Officer James Elmer Mackinnon
- Sergeant James Wilson Mallinson
- Sergeant Terence Joseph William Maloney
- Sergeant George Edwin Maydon
- Sergeant Andrew Isaac John Nicol
- Sergeant Fred Robinson
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond James Russell
- Sergeant Jesse George Stanley
- Sergeant Gordon Clifton Sumner
- Pilot Officer Desmond Arthur Todd
- Leading Aircraftman John Lindsay Williamson
- Flight Lieutenant Ivor Chudleigh Bethune Worthington-wilmer
1941
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Arthur Bailey
- Flight Sergeant Norman Edward Bowering
- Sergeant Frederick William Rodney Charles
- Pilot Officer Nicholas Aitken Cooper
- Sergeant Reginald Copeland
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Clifford Davies
- Sergeant Francis John Day
- Pilot Officer John Robert Leslie Dunn
- Sergeant David Arthur Dupree
- Sergeant Patrick Joseph William Ennis
- Sergeant George Frederick Entwistle
- Flight Sergeant Evan David Evans
- Sergeant Hilton William Fish
- Sergeant Donald Fraser Gibson
- Flight Sergeant Reginald William John Green
- Sergeant Thomas Hackston
- Sergeant Owen Hall
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Marshall Harris
- Pilot Officer William Garbutt Henderson
- Sergeant William Joseph Harry Hoskins
- Sergeant Dennis Walter Hughes
- Wing Commander Ralph George Hurst
- Sergeant John Cecil Brandon Irwin
- Flying Officer Michael Montgomery Lambert
- Sergeant William Hamilton Lapsley
- Sergeant William Angus Mackillop
- Warrant Officer Samuel Joseph Magee
- Flight Sergeant William Ronald Mathias
- Sergeant Spencer Ronald Mayor
- Sergeant Robert Murray Milligan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Morris
- Squadron Leader Oswald Robert Compton Moseley
- Sergeant Felix Geoffrey Nanke
- Sergeant Eric Gordon Nethercott
- Flying Officer Harold Parker
- Wing Commander Lawrence Victor Elliott Petley
- Air Mechanic Quin
- Sergeant Philip Herbert Reay
- Sergeant Ian Leslie Toynton Reis
- Sergeant Allan Ernest Routley
- Sergeant Arthur Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Smith
- Sergeant Robert Simeon Sparkes
- Pilot Officer Raymond Briscoe Webster
- Pilot Officer Harold Harry Wells
- Sergeant John Edward White
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Alfred Wilmot Wilkinson
- Leading Aircraftman William Percy Wise
1942
- Sergeant William Thomas Balchin
- Air Mechanic Barnes
- Sergeant Arthur Frank Bolton
- Sergeant Jack Brown
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry Brown
- Sergeant Sydney Ronald Burford
- Sergeant Mervyn Caddy
- Corporal Thomas Sandeland Carling
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Henry Coleman
- Pilot Officer Arthur Archibald Delve
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stewart Leslie Donaldson
- Sergeant William Edward Dwyer
- Sergeant Murray Charles Ellis
- Pilot Officer Randolph Loring Fairfax
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Bertram Gardner Finlay
- Air Sergeant Geyer
- Sergeant Jerome Aiden Patrick Goss
- Leading Aircraftman Willie Hanson
- Sergeant Mervyn Maurice Hazell
- Pilot Officer Charles Masterman Henning
- Pilot Officer Joseph Jenks
- Sergeant Eric Knight
- Flying Officer Robert Wallace Komiski
- Lieutenant Landau
- Sergeant William Frederick Lefevre
- Sergeant Harry Edgar Levine
- Sergeant Edward Colin Marshall
- Flight Lieutenant Patrick Randal McDonnell
- Corporal Alexander Gordon McHardy
- Pilot Officer John Kenneth McKechnie
- Pilot Officer Anthony George Merritt
- Sergeant Bruce Morgan
- Sergeant John Walter Morton
- Pilot Officer Alexander Mackay Petrie
- Sergeant Anthony Leo Potts
- Sergeant Jack Pritchard
- Sergeant James Metcalfe Raine
- Pilot Officer Don Ross Rehill
- Lieutenant Frederick James Rusk
- Sergeant John Samson
- Sergeant Reginald Theodore Smith
- Pilot Officer Robert Lorne Storey
- Flying Officer William Hilton Thomlinson
- Corporal Walter Edward Toon
- Sergeant Harry Victor Turton
- Second Lieutenant Tzamtzis
- Pilot Officer Percy James Voyzey
- Sergeant Leslie Wagstaffe
- Sergeant Leslie Warwick
- Squadron Leader Peter Wynn Mason West
- Flying Officer Clifford Whitehead
- Corporal Lionel Robinson Whitehead
- Sergeant Herbert Thomas Willig
- Lieutenant William George Duncan Wilson
1943
- Sergeant Sidney Adams
- Flight Sergeant John Albert Anderson
- Sergeant Norman Hubert Apperley
- Corporal Bernard George Armson
- Flight Sergeant William Ernest Armstrong
- Sergeant Ronald George Armsworth
- Sergeant Alec Frederick Backler
- Sergeant Donald Robert Baird
- Pilot Officer Johial William Baker
- Sergeant George William Barber
- Sergeant Sam Barham
- Flying Officer Ronald Owen Barker
- Sergeant Arthur Leonard Baseley
- Sergeant Richard William Baybut
- Sergeant Oliver Beard
- Pilot Officer Angus Hugh Bell
- Sergeant Elmer Betts
- Sergeant Alfred Thomas Bishop
- Flight Sergeant John Philpott Bishop
- Flight Sergeant Eric Charles Blackman
- Flying Officer George Raymond Bousfield
- Sergeant Robert Abner Hugh Bowring
- Flying Officer Dennis Charles Bradshaw
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Herbert Brinton
- Sergeant George Stuart Brodie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Toles Brodie
- Flying Officer Earl Kenneth Campbell
- Sergeant Leslie Stanley Capp
- Flying Officer Herman Joe Carver
- Sergeant Charles Leslie Chalker
- Warrant Officer Class II Patrick Kelly Chambers
- Sergeant Henry Alan Clark
- Flight Sergeant James Crichton Clark
- Sergeant James Joseph Close
- Warrant Officer Geoffrey Raymond Cobby
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Emile Combres
- Sergeant Percy Victor Cook
- Squadron Leader Arthur Alan Cookson
- Sergeant Joseph John Costello
- Sergeant Anthony Graham Cox
- Sergeant Herbert Cox
- Pilot Officer George Arthur Cozens
- Squadron Leader Arthur Percival Craigie
- Sergeant Maurice Leonard Charles Criswick
- Sergeant Dennis Arthur Crowsley
- Sergeant James Frederick Croxall
- Pilot Officer Lewis William Curtis
- Sergeant Alfred Cuthbertson
- Warrant Officer Edward Arthur Daley
- Sergeant Frank Albert Dalton
- Flight Sergeant James Anderson Davie
- Sergeant Roy Ernest Debben
- Sergeant William Henry Dickinson
- Pilot Officer Horace Charles Dillingham
- Sergeant Morris Dixon
- Flight Sergeant William Trevor Dobson
- Warrant Officer Class II George Francis Dohaney
- Flight Sergeant William Matthew Donaldson
- Flying Officer Robert Leonard Donovan
- Sergeant George Neville Downing
- Flying Officer Eric Douglas Eastwood
- Sergeant Joseph Eccles
- Pilot Officer James William Edmonds
- Sergeant Thomas Eric Edmondson
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Eric Eversfield
- Sergeant Leslie Harold Everton
- Sergeant Charles Henry Fenton
- Sergeant Francis Field
- Sergeant Stanley Eric Finch
- Flying Officer Arthur Baker Foster
- Sergeant Stanley Foster
- Sergeant John Edwin Foy
- Sergeant Robert Freeland
- Sergeant Ronald William Freeman
- Sergeant Albert Edward Garlick
- Sergeant John Stephen Garnham
- Warrant Officer Class II Byron Homer Garoutte
- Flight Sergeant Paul Gee
- Flight Sergeant George Brotchie Robertson Gerry
- Pilot Officer Andrew Patrick Gilmour
- Sergeant Richard Charles Sydney Golding
- Leading Aircraftman Howard Elmer Gray
- Sergeant Malcolm Lionel Green
- Sergeant John Hall
- Pilot Officer Chalmers Halliday
- Sergeant Robert Froude Hathaway
- Sergeant Harold Joseph Hawkridge
- Squadron Leader Wilfred Stanley Herring
- Flying Officer Arnold Raymond Herron
- Flight Sergeant Reginald McLeod Hicks
- Pilot Officer Norman Ernest Hill
- Flying Officer William John Hills
- Sergeant Patrick Hodgkinson
- Flying Officer Russell Hodgson
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Allen Hogg
- Sergeant Jack Holmes
- Leading Aircraftman David Hopkins
- Sergeant Albert James Horne
- Sergeant Douglas Oswald Humphries
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie William Hunt
- Flight Sergeant Dobson Hunter
- Sergeant Roy Henry Ingram
- Sergeant Frank Bertram Jackson
- Flight Sergeant Rufus George Jenkins
- Sergeant John Jolly
- Sergeant Arthur Jones
- Pilot Officer Albert Edward Kelly
- Sergeant Francis Simpson Kelly
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Knight
- Pilot Officer Joseph Moise Gaston Lalonde
- Sergeant Frank Morrison Lamb
- Flying Officer Robert Kenneth Lamb
- Flight Sergeant Howard Langlands
- Flying Officer Leonard Francis Le Chien
- Sergeant Arthur Frederick Robert Leonard
- Pilot Officer Frederick Howard Levi
- Flight Sergeant Glen Edwin Lewis
- Sergeant George Alfred Lilley
- Sergeant Peter Richard Lissner
- Sergeant David Lock
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Anthony Lund
- Leading Aircraftman John Henry Lytle
- Sergeant Edward Donald Charles Mackintosh
- Sergeant Richard Mailey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Neville Alfred Makin
- Sergeant John McClean
- Sergeant William McConnell
- Warrant Officer Class II Lee Henry Alexander McCormick
- Sergeant Alexander Patrick McGinley
- Sergeant William McGuire
- Sergeant Alexander McKechan
- Flight Sergeant Donald Harold Milne
- Pilot Officer Roy Frederick Moore
- Corporal William Albert Moquet
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Morley
- Sergeant Francis William Morrell
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Lionel Brian Morrison
- Sergeant Stanley Walter Munn
- Sergeant Hugh Murray
- Sergeant Ronald Sydney Naile
- Air Corporal Rudolph Nolte
- Pilot Officer Patrick Peter Gordon O'Brien
- Flying Officer Lawrence Philip Oldham
- Warrant Officer Class II Brock Laverne Owen
- Sergeant John Elwyn Owen
- Flying Officer Henry Weston Parry
- Flying Officer James Kinnell Paterson
- Sergeant George Edward Patrick
- Sergeant Joseph Peck
- Flying Officer Archibald McLeod Penman
- Pilot Officer Arthur Frederick James Perrott
- Sergeant Francis Elliot Pilkington
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Charles Platt
- Sergeant Thomas Geoffrey Porter
- Flight Sergeant Charles William Preston
- Warrant Officer Class II William Harold Pym
- Pilot Officer John Rankin
- Flight Lieutenant Peter William Reading
- Sergeant Cyril Reddell
- Flying Officer Ernest George Redman
- Flying Officer Jonah Bruce Reeves
- Flying Officer Lewis Garnier Rembridge
- Flight Lieutenant Fred Albert Reynolds
- Pilot Officer Ronald Stanley Rich
- Sergeant Thomas Riley
- Flight Sergeant Peter Geoffrey Rothera
- Flying Officer James Rudolph Rumbel
- Sergeant Frank Sadler
- Flight Sergeant William Scarlett
- Sergeant Max Scheddle
- Flying Officer Roderick Alfred Sedgley
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Septimus Selby
- Sergeant John Sellers
- Flying Officer Wilfred Tasman Shannon
- Flight Sergeant Victor Harrison Shea
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Charles Smith
- Sergeant Thomas Reginald Maxwell Smith
- Flying Officer John Robert Spaetzel
- Flying Officer James Henry Stewart
- Sergeant Bennett Stokes-roberts
- Sergeant Alfred Reginald Stone
- Sergeant Allan Henry Taylor
- Pilot Officer Jeffrey Charles May Taylor
- Pilot Officer William Bryce Taylor
- Pilot Officer William Howard Taylor
- Sergeant Robert Erle Thallon
- Sergeant George Thomson
- Sergeant Victor George Trew
- Sergeant John Thomas Vodden
- Flight Lieutenant John Alfred Wakeford
- Sergeant Frederick Henry Walton
- Sergeant Arthur Raymond Warnick
- Sergeant Ronald Henry Warrell
- Sergeant Alan Leonard Warren
- Corporal Frank Charles Weaver
- Flying Officer Herbert Clifford Wheal
- Sergeant Gordon Roy White
- Sergeant Paget Derick White
- Sergeant Stewart Whitelock
- Sergeant David Oliver Wilcox
- Sergeant Percy Eric Wilkins
- Sergeant William John Williams
- Sergeant Harry Leonard Wilson
- Sergeant Kenneth Wolstencroft
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Woodall
- Warrant Officer Lewis Zalsberg
1944
- Warrant Officer Sidney Bickell
- Flight Lieutenant Laurence Roy Brady
- Captain Brink
- Flying Officer John Stanley Brown
- Flying Officer Frank Kenneth Burleigh
- Flying Officer Arthur Albert Connor
- Flying Officer Joseph William Henry Conway
- Flying Officer John Raymond Daly
- Flight Sergeant Patrick John Dunford
- Warrant Officer Charles Thomas Fairweather
- Pilot Officer Allan Thompson Field
- Flying Officer Ernest Gatenby Fletcher
- Flight Lieutenant Alexander William Fraser
- Sergeant Theodore Gabryelski
- Flight Sergeant Archie Oswald Gillett
- Lieutenant Gishford
- Flying Officer Robert John Gray
- Warrant Officer Launcelot Harrison
- Flight Sergeant James William Hern
- Lieutenant Jack Albert Holt
- Sergeant George Andrew Jones
- Flight Sergeant John Kennedy
- Sergeant William Marshall
- Sergeant John Manning Maud
- Flying Officer Malcolm John McLeod
- Lieutenant Nel
- Pilot Officer Harold Pearson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Christopher Petty
- Sergeant Keith Lawrence Popejoy
- Warrant Officer Class I Donal David Charles Stewart
- Pilot Officer William Alan Tees
- Pilot Officer Blair Everett Vipond
- Flying Officer Noel Edwin Webb
- Lieutenant Jan Westerbeek Van Eerten
- Leading Aircraftman John Ernest James Williamson
- Lieutenant Norman Walter Witt
- Flying Officer Allison Stewart Woolaver
1945
- Flight Sergeant John Alonzo Bowden
- Flight Lieutenant Robert James Dall
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Henry Donaldson
- Warrant Officer Edgar Charles Juffs
- Leading Aircraftman John McLachlan
- Flying Officer Roy Holden Marshall Patterson
- Flight Lieutenant Alfred Ronald Thompson