On this day — 3 August
346 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Sergeant Gerald Charlesbeth Brams
- Sergeant Jack Millen Croft
- Sergeant James Dempsey
- Sergeant Owen Prys Evans
- Sergeant Benjamin Peter Gannon
- Pilot Officer Reginald Torrance Gerry
- Pilot Officer John Allan Gilbert
- Sergeant Ernest Walter Ralph Grieve
- Sergeant William Logan Johnston
- Sergeant Arthur Mitchley
- Warrant Officer Class II Powell
- Pilot Officer Ronald William Pryor
- Flight Sergeant Richard James Ruffell-hazell
- Sergeant Douglas Frederick Spencer
- Leading Aircraftman Gerald Campbell Swainger
- Sergeant Patrick William Swinson
- Flying Officer Arthur Richard Brian Tedder
- Pilot Officer Sidney John Scott Wilde
1941
- Pilot Officer Hyman David Abrams
- Sergeant John Norman Alder
- Sergeant Edward Roy Amos
- Pilot Officer David Marcus Batley
- Flight Sergeant George Ewin Bolam
- Sergeant Leonard Robert Burrows
- Sergeant Ian McDonald Cheyne
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Landas Cohen
- Pilot Officer George James Leonard Crabb
- Pilot Officer William Henry Crane
- Sergeant William Fleming
- Aircraftman 1st Class George McKinley Frazer
- Flying Officer Harry Trevor Gilbert
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas William Gurnell
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard Martin Halmkin
- Flight Sergeant William Harrison
- Sergeant David Gall Hodge
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Roy Hutson
- Air Mechanic Janse-van-rensburg
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Stanley Lock
- Flying Officer Keith John Masters
- Sergeant Edgar James Matthews
- Pilot Officer John Arthur Maxwell
- Pilot Officer Robert Hubert McGlashan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Peacock
- Flying Officer Stanley Norman Prowd
- Sergeant Ronald Maurice Ramsden
- Sergeant Arthur Ernest Simpkin
- Flight Sergeant Harold Soar
- Sergeant Earle John Stevenson
- Flying Officer Peter Bernard Verver
- Leading Aircraftman Leonard George Washington
- Sergeant Hugh Peter Stuart White
- Sergeant Martin Anthony Young
1942
- Sergeant Harold Victor Anson
- Flight Sergeant Ian Aubrey Baines
- Leading Aircraftman James Lewis Joseph Barnes
- Aircraftman 1st Class Montague Andrew Baxendale
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Benham
- Sergeant Walter William Berridge
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Vivian Henry Bodenham
- Sergeant Charles Sydney Butcher
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth McGeorge Byers
- Leading Aircraftman Gilleasbuig Kilmichael Cameron
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Haydn Frederick Chote
- Leading Aircraftman John Pirie Clark
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Craddock
- Flight Sergeant John Campbell Daley
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Digby Davies
- Flying Officer John Thomson Dick
- Sergeant Kenneth Gordon Dunn
- Sergeant Norman John Durkan
- Pilot Officer Jack Edgar Forster
- Flight Sergeant William Arthur Friendship
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth John Garmston
- Flight Sergeant George Glasgow
- Leading Aircraftman Patrick Sydney Glover
- Sergeant Stewart Ernest Fenton Hatch
- Pilot Officer Claude Dominic Hemy
- Pilot Officer Archibald Jack Hicks
- Squadron Leader Louis Alexander George Howard
- Sergeant Robert Selwyn Hughes
- Flight Sergeant Henry Stephen Impett
- Flight Sergeant George Kenneth Irwin
- Pilot Officer Harry Gordon Locke
- Pilot Officer Louis Vernon Longley
- Leading Aircraftman Charles George Tone Mann
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Arthur McBrien
- Sergeant Ian Robert Ellis Meiklejohn
- Pilot Officer Laurent Joseph Onesime Nadeau
- Flight Sergeant George Nelson
- Sergeant William Fincham Parker
- Pilot Officer Roy Campbell Prince
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm William Randall
- Pilot Officer Kemp Wetherall Richardson
- Warrant Officer Class I James Alexander Riddell
- Sergeant Henry Rossbottom
- Corporal Donald Simpson
- Sergeant Derek Smith
- Sergeant Archie Frank Sparham
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Gear Sprott
- Sergeant Peter Martin Stewart
- Sergeant Philip James Stewart
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Dennis Turner
- Sergeant John Urwin
- Sergeant Ronald William Vessey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Waites
- Pilot Officer Robert Joseph Wallace
1943
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Allcorn
- Sergeant William Kenneth Ambrose
- Sergeant William George Anderson
- Flying Officer Edward Joseph Andrews
- Sergeant Donald William McGlashan Archer
- Sergeant Walter Frederick Ardron
- Sergeant Alan Ashworth
- Warrant Officer Rhubert Mellor Austin
- Flying Officer Albert Victor Aylott
- Warrant Officer Ronald Jack Badger
- Pilot Officer Cyril Philip Bailie
- Sergeant John Herbert Baily
- Flying Officer Marshall Edwin Balkam
- Sergeant John William Barrett
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Kirk Baxter
- Sergeant Ronald Cecil Victor Beck
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Arthur Charles Bedward
- Sergeant Eric James Bell
- Flight Sergeant Dudley William Bellamy
- Sergeant Robert William Bennett
- Pilot Officer Charles Henry Best
- Sergeant Albert Samuel Biffin
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Alexander Bird
- Warrant Officer Class I Gordon Clark Bradley
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Brown
- Sergeant Thomas Brownless
- Flying Officer Charles Edward Thomas Bryan
- Sergeant John Ray Richard Burfield
- Sergeant Robert Horace Burn
- Warrant Officer Royce Reginald Burton
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Button
- Corporal Ernest William Carpenter
- Flight Sergeant David Ellis Murray Carson
- Sergeant Edward Cavanagh
- Sergeant Derek Charlesworth
- Warrant Officer Class II Mack Chepil
- Flying Officer William Douglas Christie
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Clifford
- Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole
- Sergeant James Hamilton Connel
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Scott Corlett
- Flight Sergeant James Arthur Couper
- Sergeant John Cowan
- Sergeant Frederick Arthur Crawford
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Keith Henry Creighton-kelly
- Sergeant Leonard George (len) Croft
- Flight Sergeant William James Crozier
- Sergeant Charles Dennis Curtis
- Sergeant Dennis Edward Dalton
- Sergeant Eric Darbyshire
- Flight Lieutenant Henry William Julius Dare
- Warrant Officer Ronald Dash
- Flying Officer Edward Wills Davidson
- Sergeant Ronald Cecil Davies
- Flying Officer Ralph Balkwill Delbridge
- Sergeant Peter Frank Dewdney
- Flying Officer Spencer Inglis Dillon
- Flight Lieutenant James Anthony Patrick Drummond
- Leading Aircraftman Rupert Joseph Norman Drury
- Sergeant Lionel Walter Eade
- Flying Officer Douglas Cunningham Elder
- Sergeant John James Evans
- Sergeant Leonard Thomas Evans
- Flight Sergeant Myrddin Evans
- Flying Officer Percival James Samuel Evans
- Sergeant Raymond Brown Farmery
- Sergeant Vincent Francis Fernando
- Sergeant George Arthur Filleul
- Sergeant Roy Eppy Fincham
- Flying Officer Gerald William Fitzgerald
- Warrant Officer James Flynn
- Sergeant Patrick John Forde
- Sergeant William John Forgan
- Flying Officer Basil John Fox
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Fox
- Sergeant Ronald Sidney Fry
- Sergeant Leslie Ernest Fuller
- Flying Officer Harvey George Funkhouser
- Pilot Officer Alexander Garalick
- Sergeant Ernest Edward Gardner
- Sergeant Henry Gardner
- Flight Sergeant Harold Prentiss Gaudry
- Sergeant Evan David Giles
- Sergeant Leslie Francis Gilkes
- Flying Officer Colin Cortland Godley
- Sergeant William McKinlay Grant
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Singer Gray
- Sergeant Desmond Thomas Green
- Sergeant Albert Frank Gregory
- Sergeant David Griffiths
- Sergeant Harry Raymond Robertson Guley
- Sergeant Reginald Harbour
- Sergeant Bertram Stanley Harris
- Sergeant George Austin Hodges
- Sergeant William Henry Hodges
- Pilot Officer Tony Angelo Holman
- Sergeant Robert Edward Horswill
- Sergeant Maurice Richard Howe
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Raymond Howgill
- Sergeant Ernest Francis Hunting
- Sergeant William Hutchinson
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Arthur Ing
- Flight Sergeant Frank Faulks Innes
- Sergeant Joseph Isherwood
- Sergeant Frank Jackson
- Sergeant Basil Jefferies
- Sergeant Francis Walter Jeffrey
- Sergeant Robert Hugh Jones
- Sergeant Ronald Leslie Jones
- Sergeant Stanley Alfred King
- Flying Officer Ernest Bruce Kirkham
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Yarwood Kirkham
- Flight Lieutenant Brian McMenamen Laing
- Sergeant Norman Leo Lauzon
- Sergeant Archibald Thomson Lees
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Samuel Edward Lees
- Sergeant Gilbert Dalton Loveridge
- Sergeant John Wilson Lunn
- Flying Officer Richard Lyon
- Sergeant Leslie George Lythgoe
- Pilot Officer David Mackenzie
- Sergeant Gordon William Mackenzie
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Martin Matheson
- Flying Officer Thomas McKean McCall
- Flight Sergeant Daniel John McCarty
- Pilot Officer Devereaux Richard Cecil McDonald
- Sergeant Stanislaus Cyril (stan) McKiernan
- Flying Officer Harvey Craig Miller
- Sergeant Eddie Millward
- Flight Sergeant Alan Raymond Moffatt
- Sergeant Arthur Lawrence Morse
- Sergeant Sidney Harold Mortimer
- Pilot Officer Robert John Mosen
- Flying Officer Frank Dennis Mottram
- Sergeant Harold Victor Mullane
- Sergeant Harold Nash
- Sergeant Ronald Neal
- Flying Officer Stanley Norris
- Sergeant Alan Ord
- Flight Sergeant Eric O'Shaughnessy
- Sergeant John Paty Padley
- Warrant Officer Arthur William Horace Page
- Sergeant Richard Leonard Pasquins
- Sergeant Sydney John Passey
- Flying Officer John Pattison
- Sergeant Ronald James Perrin
- Sergeant Laurence Alfred Herbert Petts
- Sergeant Herbert Pickup
- Sergeant Stanley Thomas Pitt
- Flying Officer Eric Albert Povey
- Sergeant Benjamin Pratt
- Sergeant Thomas Purdie
- Pilot Officer John Robert Francis Ratcliffe
- Flight Sergeant Harold Roy Raven
- Sergeant Dudley Herbert Read
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Cecil Oliver Reeves
- Sergeant Robert Reid
- Pilot Officer James Darcy William Renno
- Sergeant James Orville Rice
- Sergeant Fred James Richards
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Craiglaw Rigby
- Sergeant Benjamin Robinson
- Flying Officer Frederick Lennox Rogers
- Sergeant Thomas Leslie Rose
- Sergeant Douglas Rowbotham
- Sergeant John Sadeski
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Eckert Schlegel
- Sergeant William Arthur (bill) Sewell
- Sergeant Herbert William Charles Simms
- Sergeant Stanley Sinclair
- Warrant Officer Class II Edward Robert Sklarchuk
- Warrant Officer Class II Earl George Smith
- Flight Sergeant John Smyth
- Sergeant James Wilson Sneddon
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Stanley Sobin
- Pilot Officer Edmund Solomon
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Herman Spanke
- Sergeant Herbert Alfred Sparrow
- Sergeant Maurice Frank Spencer
- Sergeant Leslie G. Spurgeon
- Sergeant Thomas Stanley
- Warrant Officer Class II William Stirling
- Warrant Officer John Stafford Stoneman
- Sergeant Frederick John Swift
- Flight Lieutenant Walter William Swinnerton
- Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
- Flight Sergeant James Leonard Keith Talbot
- Sergeant Edward Talgam
- Flying Officer John Ormond Patrick Tanner
- Sergeant John Tarver
- Sergeant John Peter Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Albert Charles Temple
- Sergeant Douglas Arthur Thomas
- Flight Sergeant Edward Claude Thompson
- Pilot Officer Richard Keith Thompson
- Sergeant William Howard Thompson
- Flight Sergeant Jack Thomson
- Warrant Officer Howard Frederick Thurston
- Flying Officer William Turner
- Sergeant Thomas Edward Wadeson
- Sergeant George Albert Walker
- Sergeant William Miller Welsh
- Pilot Officer Allan Ralph Wilden
- Sergeant Stanley John Williams
1944
- Flying Officer Corran Perry Ashworth
- Flight Sergeant Harry Arnold Bonniface
- Lieutenant Nigel G. Boys
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Henri Jules Elie Chouinard
- Flying Officer Robert Clive Fidock
- Flying Officer Francis Ormond Gilmore
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Heidtman
- Flying Officer William Alexander Henderson
- Flight Sergeant Jesse Ervin Hirstwood
- Flight Sergeant William Roy Hullett
- Warrant Officer Henry Stan Jordan
- Pilot Officer Sidney Keen
- Warrant Officer Keith Edward Kerridge
- Warrant Officer Class I Michael James Doran McGuire
- Flying Officer Douglas Keith Moores
- Flying Officer John George Redpath
- Flying Officer William Samuel Richards
- Pilot Officer Bernard Lawrence Rowland
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Smith
- Flying Officer Wilbert Stephens
- Pilot Officer Ross Edwin Sutherland
- Pilot Officer Harold David Thomson
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Gerrard Walker
1945
- Warrant Officer Class I James Brown
- Flying Officer James Clampit
- Pilot Officer Alan Walter Coventon
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Cross Finlayson
- Warrant Officer David Joseph Gallagher
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Emil Gihl
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Hookway
- Warrant Officer Thomas (jeff) Jeffery
- Flight Lieutenant Wallace Roy Mansill
- Warrant Officer Colin William McCarthy
- Flying Officer William Pitt Ranger
- Warrant Officer Jack Edmund Wilmith