On this day — 4 August
174 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 4 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Second Lieutenant Desmond Barton
- Sergeant Harold Norman Beard
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Gordon Bishop
- Lieutenant Harry Allen Clunie
- Squadron Leader Wilfred Ira Collett
- Flying Officer Hugh Christopher Corbett
- Sergeant Kenneth Walter Crane
- Sergeant Phillip Paul Duffy
- Captain Peter John Ffytche-hogg
- Warrant Officer Class II Stefanus Lodewicus Geyser
- Pilot Officer Michael Hohnen
- Air Mechanic Hupton
- Pilot Officer Charles Gordon Llewellyn
- Sergeant Harold Emmanuel Masters
- Lieutenant Arnand McKellar
- Air Mechanic Ian George McKenzie
- Air Mechanic Gysbertus Albertus Nezar
- Flight Lieutenant James Whaley Radbone
- Sergeant Kenneth George Russell Rew
- Sergeant Sydney Eric Riddington
- Flying Officer Ian Welsh Sutherland
- Sergeant Frederick Jethro Tremeer
- Sergeant John Patrick Walsh
- Sergeant William Watson
1941
- Sergeant Arthur Bell
- Flight Sergeant Terence Alfred Evelyn Bridewell
- Sergeant Andrew Stanley Cassells
- Sergeant Francis Neville Cave
- Sergeant George Edward Chugg
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest Court
- Sergeant Frank Craighton Dodd
- Wing Commander John Lionel Howe Fletcher
- Sergeant Ford
- Flight Sergeant Frank Grail
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Edward Hutchinson
- Squadron Leader Albert Kemsley
- Lieutenant Mahoney
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Thomas Mansfield
- Sergeant Allan Thomas Masson
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Wylie Shearer
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Philip Halery Sheppard
- Sergeant Cyril William Henry Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth William Tait
- Pilot Officer Graham Radford Timewell
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Jean Baptiste Berube
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Cadd
- Sergeant George Harry Churchley
- Sergeant Gordon Cooper
- Sergeant Harry Smith Dunbar
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Edward Gage
- Pilot Officer Albert George Grand
- Flight Sergeant Donald Gregory
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Dudley Haines
- Flight Lieutenant Michael Warnford Hamlyn
- Sergeant Francis Jonathan Henry Highmoor
- Sergeant Thomas Cunnah Hobgen
- Sergeant Albert William Howard
- Corporal Leonard Reginald Hunt
- Pilot Officer James Hilton Jump
- Pilot Officer Benjamin John Leader
- Flight Sergeant Claude Lorraine Love
- Sergeant Colin Roderick Donald Lowis
- Sergeant Athole Douglas Macleod
- Sergeant Douglas Burton St. John Malcolm
- Sergeant James Frederick Mayhew
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Samuel Milnes
- Sergeant Gordon Navey
- Sergeant Mervyn John Nichols
- Sergeant Charles Harold Odle
- Sergeant Hugh Godfrey Phillips
- Sergeant Stanley Leonard Portman
- Leading Aircraftman James Brignall Richardson
- Second Lieutenant Russell
- Leading Aircraftman Colin McCall Say
- Sergeant Ronald Alvis Shaw
- Pilot Officer Wilbur Bernard Sherry
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Solomon
- Sergeant Clement John Stuart
- Lieutenant Frederick C. P. Swart
- Sergeant Thomas Robinson Thompson
- Second Lieutenant Van Rensburg
- Pilot Officer Raymond Kenneth James Wildish
- Sergeant Victor Leslie Wiles
- Flying Officer Lawrence Vivian Wotzko
1943
- Aircraftman 1st Class Donald Astle
- Leading Aircraftman Eric John Bailey
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Ball
- Flying Officer Leslie Trewin Brooking
- Sergeant Vernon Francis Burnett
- Sergeant Henry John Harry Burtenshaw
- Sergeant Victor Keith Caiger
- Sergeant Peter Joseph Charlier
- Flight Sergeant Gordon James Dale
- Sergeant Kenneth George Dawson
- Pilot Officer Clarence William Elderton
- Sergeant George William Farler
- Sergeant Alan Kenneth Fleay
- Sergeant John William Dixon Fletcher
- Sergeant Colin Herbert Georgeson
- Sergeant Leon Patrick Gilbert
- Sergeant Herbert Gossop
- Flight Sergeant Vyvyan George Gowers
- Sergeant Frank Hadcroft
- Sergeant John Stephen Harris
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Harley Hart
- Flying Officer Victor Hnidan
- Flight Sergeant James Brown Horsburgh
- Sergeant Reginald John Howell
- Pilot Officer Thomas Johnstone
- Warrant Officer John William Jones
- Flying Officer George Noel Keith
- Warrant Officer Class I John Stanley Kelly
- Flight Sergeant Jack William Low
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Markey
- Flight Sergeant Frederick James Matthews
- Sergeant Edward Ernest Matty
- Flying Officer John McKenna
- Sergeant Eric Middleton
- Warrant Officer Peter John Newbery
- Sergeant Roy Ernest Newman
- Sergeant William Logan Nicol
- Warrant Officer John Newton O'Brien
- Corporal Philip Ralph Oliver
- Air Vice Marshal Augustus Henry Orlebar
- Pilot Officer Roderic Winston Papineau
- Flying Officer Harry Bertram Parliament
- Flight Sergeant Donald Leroy Redfern
- Warrant Officer Class II Keith Emerson Riddell
- Sergeant Schofield
- Sergeant Robert Oliver Steward Selwyn
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Smitham
- Flight Sergeant Derek Street Somers
- Sergeant Louis Marwell Trimmer
- Aircraftman 1st Class John McLeod Urie
- Sergeant Horace Wharton
- Sergeant Arthur Whitwam
- Flight Sergeant David Archibald Williston
- Sergeant George Wilson
1944
- Squadron Leader Ian Willoughby Bazalgette
- Pilot Officer John Beebar
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Walter Beveridge
- Pilot Officer Raymond Glen Bruegeman
- Flight Sergeant Robert Francis Coffey
- Flying Officer Patrick Edmund Cronin
- Pupil Pilot John Everton
- Flying Officer David Crawford Forman
- Pilot Officer Vernon Chester Gerrie
- Flying Officer Ramsay McKenzie Habkirk
- Warrant Officer Frederick Walter Handley
- Flight Lieutenant Robert William (bob) Hardcastle
- Flying Officer William Rudolph Heuchert
- Flying Officer James Caulfield Holder
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick Grant Jackson
- Flying Officer Jack Arthur Kelly
- Flight Sergeant Vernon Victor Russell Leeder
- Flying Officer George Gordon Perkins
- Pilot Officer Samuel Leonard Peters
- Lieutenant Pienaar
- Warrant Officer Geoffrey William Plenty
- Flight Sergeant Leonard James Reason
- Pilot Officer Edward Grigg Robinson
- Flying Officer Donald Gerald Stevenson
- Warrant Officer Peter Sturges
- Pilot Officer Cyril Bertie Sutton
- Flying Officer Arthur Milford Tindale
- Warrant Officer Ihaia William Trainor
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald Joseph Walter
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Wilson
1945
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lloyd Francis Bougourd
- Sergeant Charles Roderick Gray
- Flight Sergeant John Kelvin Hoare
- Sergeant Warren Selwyn Sharpe
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Grant Vallance