On this day — 5 July
384 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 July during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Reginald John Spurway Ellicott
- Pilot Officer Brian Firminger
- Wing Commander Joseph Henry Hargroves
- Sergeant Robert Mark Livermore
- Pilot Officer Douglas Keith Milne
- Leading Aircraftman George Grant Milne
- Air Mechanic Moss
- Sergeant George Rimmer
- Sergeant Ewart William Smith
- Pilot Officer Alan Stewart
- Flight Sergeant John Frederick Taylor
1941
- Sergeant Frederick Coulson Adams
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Angus Ronald Matheson Anderson
- Corporal Edward Astley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Arthur Auckland
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie James Austin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Richard Avery
- Corporal Walter George Aveson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cyril Frank Bailey
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur John Ballinger
- Sergeant William Archibald Bartleman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Herbert Bateman
- Sergeant Bernard William Frederick Bates
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Harold Beament
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Bowes Black
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick James Boswell
- Pilot Officer Gerald Evelyn Botham
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Richard Brand
- Corporal Henry Broadhurst
- Flying Officer Cyril Stanley Brocklebank
- Corporal Joseph Brown
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Oscar Brown
- Sergeant Albert Edward Brownbill
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Robert Bullock
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Butler
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Philip Henry Frederick Cane
- Aircraftman 1st Class Don Lionel Carloss
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred George Carr
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Carr
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Frederick Carr
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin Delaney Chapman
- Corporal Eric Chapman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alan Merton Cheesman
- Pilot Officer Lorne Smith Christman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie William Claydon
- Corporal Donald Jones Close
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Clough
- Aircraftman 1st Class Maurice Collingwood
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ernest Connock
- Flight Sergeant Norman Wallace Cook
- Aircraftman 1st Class Rodney Dennis Coombes
- Sergeant Andrew Gordon Costello
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Patrick Arthur Costello
- Leading Aircraftman Matthew Frank Craggs
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Percy Croft
- Corporal Warwick George Cudworth
- Corporal Nathan Daren
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roland Ernest Davies
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold James Deakin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard Dearnley
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Sidney Deighton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Campsall Dennison
- Corporal William Peter Denson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Norman Dickinson
- Warrant Officer Walter Doe
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Edward Donnelly
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Victor Pidsley Drower
- Sergeant Glyn George Duckers
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alphonsus Thomas Egan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Albert Elliott
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Faram
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Tyndel Farquhar
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Kenneth Faulkner
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bruce Alexander Macgregor Fergusson
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Charles Forsyth
- Leading Aircraftman George Frederick Foulger
- Corporal Archie Freeborn
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Ernest French
- Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Stanley Fry
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Archibald Fullarton
- Sergeant Reginald Aubrey Gilbert
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Gilholm
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Halton Girvan
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Ernest Grant
- Aircraftman 1st Class David James Richard Bernard Gray
- Pilot Officer George Frederick Edward Greenhalgh
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth Wilfred Gregory
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jackson William Hall
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Louis Roland Hambidge
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Jack Kenneth Hammond
- Aircraftman 1st Class Conrad Hams
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Frank Harrison
- Leading Aircraftman William Thomas Hayward
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arnold Heath
- Leading Aircraftman Archibald Hunter Hendrie
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Herk
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Ernest Hey
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Neil Higham
- Leading Aircraftman Neville Hill
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Hobbs
- Sergeant Thomas Arthur Holden
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Holland
- Sergeant Douglas Hone
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Hooper
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Anthony Horn
- Sergeant Gerald George Hutson
- Corporal Sydney Gilbert Iles
- Sergeant Henry John Ingram
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Earl Romulus Jack
- Leading Aircraftman Emrys Angell James
- Leading Aircraftman Houghton Jaques
- Sergeant William Kenneth Jenkins
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley John Jerome
- Sergeant Douglas Alfred Johnson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Jones
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eugene Bramley Jordan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Maurice Joseph
- Corporal Claude Kenward
- Pilot Officer Robert Ernest Kerr
- Sergeant Kenneth Albert King
- Leading Aircraftman John Harding Kirkham
- Pilot Officer Kenward Ernest Knox
- Corporal Richard Cameron Lawson
- Leading Aircraftman Samuel Leachman
- Sergeant Sidney Linley
- Aircraftman 1st Class Anthony Ewart Littlejohn
- Sergeant Harold Ibitson Lotherington
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Edward Walter Lynch
- Flight Sergeant Henry Mainey
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bernard Malone
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Herbert Marsh
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alan Martin
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Russell Martin
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Hodge Masterton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Mathie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John McAllister
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Thomas McCarthy
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Polson McGregor
- Pilot Officer Francis McHardy
- Aircraftman 1st Class Andrew McKinney
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Jack McLean
- Leading Aircraftman George Gilbert Medland
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bernard John Messer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gerald Wilfred Michaelson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Edward Mills
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Joseph Mitchell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Duncan Moore
- Sergeant Peter Haselden Morris
- Aircraftman 1st Class Vernon Morris
- Sergeant Stanley Carlton Morse
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lawry Brimson Mortimer
- Corporal Alexander Davidson Mowatt
- Corporal Simon William Smith Muir
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Dennis Munslow
- Sergeant Alfred Dennis Ford Murcutt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Malcolm Murray
- Leading Aircraftman George Henry Nickells
- Corporal Herbert William Nudds
- Sergeant Jack Oaten
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert George Ogg
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Edward Oram
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred James Osborne
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh Paisley
- Leading Aircraftman Parker
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Patterson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Donald Henry James Peppercorn
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Reginald Albert Phipps
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Laurence Ninian Pitblado
- Corporal Ernest Charles Pittaway
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis Alfred Popejoy
- Chaplain The Rev. Herbert Cecil Pugh
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Joseph Quill
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick William Redgate
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Richardson
- Aircraftman 1st Class William George Richardson
- Corporal Harold Victor Richmond
- Leading Aircraftman Clarence Albert Ripley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Douglas Rogers
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Bernard Rose
- Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Charles Rothwell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert James Rouse
- Sergeant George Charles Peter Sanderson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Scrugham
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Seddon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Segar
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Shipman
- Leading Aircraftman George Ian Simpson
- Leading Aircraftman Michael Singleton
- Leading Aircraftman Donald Aldous Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Charles Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Horace William Smith
- Corporal William Frederick Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Henry Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Herbert Alfred Snell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Noel Spurrier
- Sergeant Ronald Grant Stratton
- Leading Aircraftman Glyn Stephen Sullivan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Jack Swadling
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Swatton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Charles Theobalds
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Thomas
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ivor Gwessyn Thomas
- Corporal Charles Thompson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Frederick Thornton
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick William Thorpe
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Ernest Turner
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Turner
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Frederick Turner
- Pilot Officer George Francis Wadeson
- Leading Aircraftman Bernard Gilbert Wakefield
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas William Walker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Henry Waterhouse
- Corporal Gerald Frederick Waters
- Corporal Ernest Watt
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Rueben Wilfred Webber
- Aircraftman 1st Class William George Webster
- Corporal John Welsh
- Leading Aircraftman John Greenwood Whitlock
- Aircraftman 1st Class Vernon Sydney Howard Wigg
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Price Williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Williams
- Flight Lieutenant William Thellusson Doughty Windham
- Sergeant Edwin Wood
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Alan Woodford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Lewis Woods
1942
- Sergeant James Alexander
- Sergeant James Falconer Anderson
- Leading Aircraftman William Benjamin Bowen
- Wing Commander Brian Gethryn Carr-harris
- Pilot Officer Brian William Challis
- Leading Aircraftman John Ciarlo
- Sergeant Ernest Charles Craddock
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Reginald Crowest
- Sergeant George Cutter
- Corporal Gerald Sydney Fuller
- Leading Aircraftman Herbert Lewis Gale
- Sergeant Adam Hogg
- Pilot Officer Horace Gordon James
- Leading Aircraftman Clement Stuart Llewellyn
- Leading Aircraftman John Lockhart
- Sergeant Gilbert Ingram McBoyle
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Gerald De Baillou Monk
- Sergeant Solomon Myers
- Sergeant Russell Stanley Pearce
- Flight Lieutenant Robert King Porter
- Pilot Officer George Douglas Brian Raffill
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Charles Roper
- Pilot Officer Lionel Derrick Rymer
- Leading Aircraftman Wilford Arnold Orville Scott
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Oliver Simpson
- Sergeant Kenneth Jermyn Smith
- Pilot Officer Percy Ewart Stumbles
- Sergeant Philip Raymond Swan
- Sergeant George Tomkins
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond William Vallack
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Wallace
- Sergeant Alexander James Proctor Walton
- Warrant Officer Victor Cecil Mayo Wheeler
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Stanley St. Clair Whitbourn
1943
- Sergeant Norman Allen
- Lieutenant Batchelor
- Squadron Leader Arthur Cecil Bawtree
- Flying Officer Walter Robert Butt
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Roy Clarke
- Flying Officer James Keith Collier
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Thomas Creber
- Flying Officer Robert Ellis
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Benjamin Harris
- Sergeant Lawrence Stanley Hodgkins
- Lieutenant Hofmeyr
- Lieutenant Frank A. Hunt
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Reuben Leeks
- Corporal John Alexander Mackintosh
- Leading Aircraftman Francis Lyon McKinlay
- Sergeant Cyril James Moore
- Sergeant Henry John James Neve
- Flying Officer James Frederick Newman
- Flight Sergeant Perry
- Leading Aircraftman Owen William Phillips
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Robinson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Hugh Ryan
- Flight Sergeant Rainald Russell Salzman
- Flight Sergeant Smook
- Sergeant Lorne Glen Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Ronald John Bovven Tindall
- Lieutenant Van Dijl
- Squadron Leader Blair Eustace Galloway White
- Sergeant Eric William White
- Leading Aircraftman John Elias Zora
1944
- Sergeant George Baillie
- Flying Officer William Gordon Baird
- Pilot Officer Douglas Frank Jakes Baxter
- Flying Officer Ronald Charles Ostend Beazer
- Warrant Officer Class I James Bicknell
- Flight Sergeant John Norman Bond
- Sergeant Earl Wesley Bookhout
- Flying Officer Harold Braathen
- Pilot Officer Hedley Royden Brewer
- Pilot Officer John Alexander Buckham
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Lorne Burston
- Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Richmond Burt
- Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Bush
- Flying Officer Alfred Kyrwood Carter
- Leading Aircraftman Donovan Joseph Chester
- Flying Officer William Ronald Chowen
- Warrant Officer Ivan Henry Clark
- Flight Lieutenant John Grant Cooke
- Squadron Leader Alec Panton Cranswick
- Flying Officer Richard Vernon Doupe
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Dowling
- Flight Sergeant James Donaldson Clarre Elward
- Sergeant Ronald William Gardner
- Sergeant Joseph Paul Adelard Gauthier
- Pilot Officer Wilfred Charles Gay
- Pilot Officer William Gracie
- Sergeant Ralph Frithjaf Hillman
- Flying Officer Jack Paull Hodges
- Flying Officer Gordon Ross Hodgson
- Pilot Officer Frederick William Hood
- Sergeant Neil Scott Hurder
- Pilot Officer Thomas Corson Jenkins
- Warrant Officer Leonard Horace Johnson
- Corporal Jordaan
- Flying Officer Reginald Herbert Kille
- Squadron Leader George Frank Lambert
- Pilot Officer Robert Thomas William Longley
- Pilot Officer Jack Franklin Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Francis Maher
- Warrant Officer Class II Jack Manning
- Flight Sergeant Edward Jerome McCloskey
- Pilot Officer Leslie McLean
- Sergeant Owen Miller
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Keith Mollet
- Flight Sergeant Walter Raymond Moore
- Pilot Officer Donald More
- Flying Officer Claude Alexander (bud) Moss
- Flying Officer Lawrence Francis O'Brien
- Flying Officer Francis Emanuel O'Connell
- Flight Lieutenant James Victor Patrick
- Flying Officer William Hannah Clingen Ramsay
- Flight Sergeant William Wilson Rennie
- Pilot Officer Arthur Emerson Roe
- Flying Officer Hector Scott Keable Ross
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Desmond Round
- Flying Officer John Thomas Sammon
- Flight Sergeant Donald Shoobridge
- Pilot Officer Alexander Gunn Sinclair
- Flying Officer Ronald Richard Smith
- Pilot Officer John Albert Solomon
- Pilot Officer William Richard Stevens
- Pilot Officer Stanley John Swartz
- Flying Officer Leonard Taylor Sykes
- Pilot Officer David McNab Thomson
- Pilot Officer James Robert Truscott
- Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne
- Flight Sergeant Edward Walker
- Warrant Officer Bryan Ward
- Pilot Officer James William Weyers
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Roy Whimpey
- Pilot Officer Donald Frederick Wilson
- Pilot Officer William Henry Winder
- Flight Sergeant Robert Anthony Wixted
- Sergeant Ernest Albert Wood
- Flying Officer William Archibald Young
- Flight Lieutenant Bernard Yunker
- Leading Aircraftman Philip George Zakaib
1945
- Pilot Officer Martin Allan Burrows
- Warrant Officer Bruce Ferguson Butchart
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Michael Cornelius
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth McL. Gilmour
- Warrant Officer Harold Allan Gooding
- Air Mechanic Jacobs
- Warrant Officer Class I Peter J. Marais
- Squadron Leader John Robert Walter Redman
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Rogers
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Leslie Rollings
- Flight Sergeant Harold Shadforth
- Flight Lieutenant Rex Victor Skinner
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Fraser Stanley
- Flight Sergeant Roy Tapper
- Flight Sergeant James Ogilvie Ross Vickers