On this day — 5 August
193 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 August during the Second World War.
1940
- Pilot Officer Peter Dahl Arup
- Pilot Officer Roy Kingsley Felstead
- Sergeant Frederick Herbert Hull
- Sergeant Lewis Reginald Isaac
- Pilot Officer Raymond Thomas Kean
- Pilot Officer Eric John Lester
- Sergeant James William Mallard
- Sergeant Dennis Mannion
- Sergeant George Hugh McCrory
- Pilot Officer Tom McKenzie Mitchell
- Flight Lieutenant John Llewelyn Rees
- Pilot Officer Robin Rustom
- Pilot Officer Stanley Thompson
- Sergeant Aubrey Douglas Wright
1941
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Augustus Allcroft
- Sergeant Eric Ashworth
- Leading Aircraftman Angus Henry Birch
- Sergeant Robert Brown
- Lieutenant Clarkson
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Copneigh
- Sergeant Noel Desmond Cryer
- Pilot Officer Edgar Alan Dare
- Sergeant Alan Davies
- Sergeant Wilfred Clarence Dean
- Sergeant Carl Deges
- Sergeant Sidney Charles Driver
- Pilot Officer William Richard Driver
- Pilot Officer John Rodger Duncan
- Sergeant Dennis Gold Fothergill
- Sergeant Frederick Douglas Fowler
- Sergeant Clifford Jack Fuller
- Air Sergeant Gordon Cyril Green
- Pilot Officer Harold William Griffin
- Sergeant Robert Grattan Gurney Griffin
- Sergeant Howard Hale
- Sergeant Sidney Owen Hirschfield
- Pilot Officer Nigel Howard Coupland Keable
- Sergeant Benjamin Lloyd-jones
- Sergeant Solomon Morris
- Air Sergeant Henry Avory Read
- Sergeant Arthur Harold Rhodes
- Sergeant Barrie Arthur John Richardson
- Sergeant Vernon Scholey
- Sergeant Herbert Smith
- Sergeant Eric Alexander Raven Thomson
- Sergeant Frederick Arthur Tysall
- Flight Sergeant Robert Lloyd Viner
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Woods
1942
- Flight Sergeant James Anderson
- Flying Officer Peter Allen Ball
- Sergeant Alan Francis Bell
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Harold Bentley
- Corporal Jack Willman Bolton
- Sergeant William Henry Charles Booth
- Flying Officer Colin Joseph Edward Boustead
- Sergeant Kenneth Caselton
- Leading Aircraftman William Henry Conyers
- Sergeant George Albert Cooke
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Davies
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Davis
- Flight Sergeant George Albert Firman
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Gamble
- Sergeant Keith Albert Gleadall
- Sergeant Norman Edward Greasley
- Sergeant Denis Herbert Conyngham Grey
- Flight Sergeant George Hall
- Sergeant John Frederick Heyman
- Flight Sergeant Earl Edwin Hopper
- Sergeant Williams Frederick Jacobs
- Pilot Officer Thomas Henry Jones
- Pilot Officer Peter Douglas Keeping
- Sergeant Arthur Stewart Killham
- Pilot Officer George Thomas Koellhoffer
- Sergeant Wilfrid Anthony Kup
- Pilot Officer Leslie Douglas Langusch
- Sergeant Walter Alfred Lansley
- Sergeant William Robson Leitch
- Flight Sergeant John David Luxton
- Flight Sergeant Alfred George Lynds
- Pilot Officer Norman Macleod
- Pilot Officer Ian Andrew James Macqueen
- Pilot Officer George Paxton Marshall
- Flight Sergeant Robert Charles Pearce
- Sergeant George Robert Phipps
- Leading Aircraftman James Gerald Riley
- Sergeant Sidney Sampson
- Sergeant Alfred Reginald Philip Saul
- Sergeant William Derek Scott
- Sergeant Edward Albert Smith
- Pilot Officer Stephen Allen Spencer
- Flight Sergeant Walter Lachlan Staines
- Sergeant Henry Anderton (andy) Thewles
- Sergeant Edward Thorley
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Edward Walden
- Flight Sergeant Bryn Williams
- Sergeant Douglas Arnold Wood
- Sergeant Noel Crompton Woolcock
1943
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Eric Adams
- Sergeant Osmund William St. Clair Alleyne
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Frederick James Baird
- Pilot Officer Arthur Beresford
- Flight Sergeant William Henry John Bowsher
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold James Coley
- Flying Officer Douglas Marchbank Croy
- Warrant Officer Leonard Davies
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Delahunty
- Leading Aircraftman Everett Archibald Dobson
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Clarence Drynan
- Flight Sergeant Roger Leigh Eaton
- Sergeant Clifford Ebbage
- Sergeant Robert Ralph Elsdon-howard
- Pilot Officer John Marcus Fischer
- Group Captain Albert William Fletcher
- Flight Sergeant William Frederick Frost
- Squadron Leader Gordon Keith Fison Garrad
- Corporal Edward William Gillingwater
- Pilot Officer Milton Eric Griff
- Flying Officer William Joseph Hoy
- Warrant Officer William Charles Jorgensen
- Flying Officer Leonard Thomas Joseph Kelly
- Flight Sergeant Wilbur Moats Lee
- Pilot Officer Lindsay McKay
- Corporal Robert Andrew McMaster
- Pilot Officer Philip Harold Morphett
- Sergeant Manuel Treharne Perkins
- Flight Sergeant Cyril John Peters
- Sergeant Harold Robinson Priestman
- Flying Officer George Biddie Reid
- Pilot Officer William Robert Gale Richardson
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Erwin Rowan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Alan Seymour
- Sergeant Victor Thomas Walter Sherwood
- Sergeant Kenneth George Slough
- Flying Officer William Granville Smith
- Flight Sergeant Roy Gordon Spencer
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Edward Stock
- Pilot Officer Roy Stanley Towler
- Sergeant Maxwell Robert Walker
- Sergeant Cyril Warburton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph William Ward
- Flight Sergeant George Hardwick Burgess Wilkie
- Flying Officer Frederick Williams
- Flight Sergeant Alfred Charles Wiltshire
1944
- Pilot Officer George Logan Allan
- Flying Officer Charles Edward Anderson
- Pilot Officer Joseph Edmond Bailey
- Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Bennett
- Flying Officer Ian Armstrong Blaikie
- Flight Lieutenant Arnold Raymond Blynn
- Pilot Officer Ernest George Boucher
- Air Vice Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd
- Pilot Officer Lowell Milton Brehaut
- Sergeant Norman Joseph Brightwell
- Flying Officer Harold Leonard Brown
- Pilot Officer George Alfred Chapman
- Sergeant James Robert Clarke
- Flying Officer Walter William Cooper
- Flying Officer Albert Edwin Crellin
- Wing Commander John Sidney Dunlevie
- Flying Officer John Walter Benson Earle
- Lieutenant Elliott
- Flight Sergeant William Brown Gracie
- Flying Officer James Robert Harrison
- Flying Officer Thomas McCauley Hood
- Lieutenant Jenkins
- Sergeant Norman Edward Jennings
- Sergeant John Joseph Lee
- Pilot Officer Thomas Edwin Lee
- Flight Sergeant Arthur George William Liddell
- Lieutenant Mathieson
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Joseph Meharry
- Flying Officer Bertram John Middleton
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Frederick Morgan
- Warrant Officer Class I Willis Don Murdie
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Allan Orr
- Pilot Officer Raymond Alexander Reed
- Sergeant Cyril Peter Shotton
- Flying Officer Thomas Henry Simpson
- Flight Sergeant Charles Burton Wylie
1945
- Flying Officer Andrew Aitken
- Flying Officer Hugh Campbell
- Pilot Officer John Elwood Foster
- Squadron Leader Frederick James Gillespie
- Pilot Officer William Messinger Hazelton
- Corporal Andrew Barton Hellard
- Corporal John Kerr
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Clifford Wilkins
- Air Sergeant Wootton