On this day — 2 August
165 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 2 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Charles James Allsup
- Sergeant Warren Seymour Barrett
- Sergeant Rex Beales
- Sergeant Harry Alexander Bowmer
- Sergeant Kenneth Roy Bryant
- Sergeant Edward John Clarke
- Sergeant James Reuben Close
- Sergeant John Harold Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Royston Sydney Davis
- Pilot Officer Deryck Allnutt Drew
- Sergeant Arthur Gordon Herbert
- Squadron Leader Henry Cecil Sawyer
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Wentworth Aylward Sheahan
- Pilot Officer Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth
- Sergeant Sydney Smith
- Sergeant Thomas Reginald Timewell
- Sergeant Howard Percival White
1941
- Sergeant Andrew William Allardice
- Leading Aircraftman Halcombe George Brock
- Wing Commander Kenyon Oswald Burt
- Pilot Officer Reginald Cox
- Flight Sergeant Angus Douglas Willis Curr
- Sergeant William Richard Davey
- Flight Sergeant William Howard Dulwich
- Sergeant William Thomas Ellis
- Corporal John Henry Wreford Fogden
- Sergeant Allan Hughes Geils
- Leading Aircraftman Fred Gilleard
- Sergeant Lawrence Hill
- Pilot Officer John Read Horn
- Leading Aircraftman William Ronald Hunnam
- Sergeant Reginald Ernest Jones
- Sergeant Robert Kent
- Pilot Officer Andrew Owen Learmonth
- Corporal Peter George Mansell
- Sergeant Henry Bruce McKenzie
- Sergeant John Gerald O'Callaghan
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert Prout
- Sergeant Thomas Christopher Quinlan
- Sergeant John Moorby Reed
- Sergeant Gordon Alan Smith
- Sergeant Raymond George Smith
- Flight Sergeant George Cyril Starkey
- Pilot Officer Douglas McDonald Steven
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William George Talbot
- Lieutenant Archibald Angus Leuchars Tatham
- Lieutenant Tennant
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Mason Thomas
- Sergeant William Horace Walker
- Sergeant Wilson Watson
- Sergeant Edward Young
1942
- Sergeant James George Barlow
- Pilot Officer Ronald Garland Blamires
- Sergeant Donald Ernest Bottomley
- Sergeant Herbert Bridges
- Sergeant William Stead Burns
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Cedric Jack Calloway
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Colin Campbell
- Flight Sergeant James Alan Cummings
- Flying Officer Ronald Victor Ellyard
- Lieutenant Geddes
- Second Lieutenant Johannes Geyser
- Sergeant Harold Lewis Green
- Corporal William Henry Grubham
- Pilot Officer James William Guthrie
- Lieutenant Leslie John Harper
- Sergeant Reginald Richard Hinton
- Sergeant Albert Leslie Hopkins
- Squadron Leader Jack David Humphreys
- Leading Aircraftman James Wilson Johnston
- Sergeant Norman Mathew Langlands
- Sergeant Gordon Ralph Lewis
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Marrison
- Lieutenant Martin
- Warrant Officer Douglas Leslie McConnell
- Sergeant Matthew Leonard McLeod
- Flight Sergeant Cormack Terence McLoughlin
- Flight Sergeant Angus Milton Nicholls
- Flight Sergeant Hamilton Earle Prime
- Air Mechanic George Silberman
- Sergeant Robert Edward Simkin
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Page Speakman
- Sergeant Henry Thomas Swain
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles Coulter Walker
- Sergeant William Ralph Wells
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Whalley
- Pilot Officer Peter Alaric Worth
1943
- Sergeant John Douglas Ashley
- Flight Sergeant James Bell
- Sergeant John Hinds Borland
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Charles Bowker
- Sergeant Ronald Vincent Bragg
- Sergeant Robert Nodin Plessay Brown
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Charles Browning
- Sergeant Leslie Albert Charlton
- Sergeant George Henry Clarkson
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Monteith Cosh
- Sergeant William Mitchell Crosbie
- Sergeant John Cunningham
- Sergeant Daniels
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Gerald Davis
- Sergeant Ronald Coverdale Dixon
- Aircraftman 1st Class Fred Dockray
- Sergeant Ian Harry Walter Franks
- Sergeant Thomas Alfred Hallam
- Sergeant John Frederick Hallett
- Sergeant John Desmond Hayes
- Flying Officer Cecil George Hill
- Warrant Officer Class I Herbert Edwin Kontzie
- Pilot Officer William Charles Liebermann
- Flying Officer Logan Kenyon Lindsay
- Sergeant James Edward Maddock
- Sergeant Wilfred Marlow
- Warrant Officer Class II Cyril Cobb McLellan
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Gerald Lionel Menkes
- Sergeant John William (bill) Perry
- Sergeant Stelois Petron Pithara
- Pilot Officer Alexander Arkle Pottinger
- Wing Commander Thomas Patrick Pugh
- Flight Sergeant Eric Hempel Sherman
- Flight Sergeant Ivan Harley Shields
- Sergeant Harold George Shoobert
- Sergeant Joseph Smith
- Sergeant Ronald Henry Smith
- Sergeant Robert McKie Stapley
- Flight Sergeant Edgar Stow
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Ronald Trery
- Sergeant John Alexander Trotter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward John Parry Williams
1944
- Flying Officer Alick Ronald Bradley
- Flight Lieutenant John David Rupert Bernard Carruthers
- Flight Sergeant Edgar Glynn Challis
- Pilot Officer John Edward Code
- Flight Sergeant Frank James Crabb
- Pilot Officer Paul Patrick Davies
- Flying Officer James Roderick Delahunty
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred George Barrett Dial
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Olivain Gerald Dicaire
- Warrant Officer Alan Dyer
- Flying Officer Arthur Richard Dyer
- Flight Sergeant Keith Macdiarmid Finney
- Flying Officer Frederick John Glazier
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Heap
- Flight Lieutenant Laurence Francis Hickey
- Sergeant Darrell Thomas Higgins
- Flight Sergeant Russell Howard
- Warrant Officer Hildebrand Alfred Johansson
- Warrant Officer John Sylvester Le Maire
- Flying Officer James Douglas Macklem
- Flight Sergeant John Alexander Woodrow McKinnon
- Pilot Officer John Jerome Pigeon
- Pilot Officer Edmund Francis Pitkin
- Flight Sergeant Paul Clifford Read
- Warrant Officer Albert Ronald Rix
- Flight Sergeant Garnet Keith Scheadel
- Pilot Officer Lloyd Snider
- Flight Lieutenant George Douglas Stark
- Pilot Officer Mervin Hugh Waters
- Sergeant Edward Francis Wood
1945
- Lieutenant Craib
- Lieutenant East
- Flying Officer Kenneth Hugh Leslie Houghton
- Flight Lieutenant Benjamin Bernard Newman
- Flight Lieutenant James Alexander Sprigge