On this day — 3 September
305 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 September during the Second World War.
1939
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Aston Bowyer
- Pilot Officer Ellard Alexander Cummings
- Aircraftman 1st Class George William Hart
- Pilot Officer John Noel Laughton Isaac
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Ronald Renfrew Stewart
- Aircraftman 1st Class Philip Herbert Warren
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Henry Benfold
- Pilot Officer Camille Robespierre Bon Seigneur
- Warrant Officer Class II Patrick William Westley Byrnes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Leonard Cain
- Aircraftman 1st Class Donald Campbell
- Air Sergeant Alexander Adolphus Cusens
- Lieutenant Robert Graham Donaldson
- Air Mechanic Du Plessis
- Air Sergeant Francois Petrius Du Toit
- Sergeant Gerald Henry Edworthy
- Pilot Officer John Robert Seaforth Gordon
- Flying Officer David Harry Wellstead Hanson
- Pilot Officer Douglas William Hogg
- Sergeant Frederick John Howarth
- Pilot Officer John Reginald James Laidlay
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William John Lloyd
- Sergeant George Herbert Loomes
- Flying Officer Harry Nalder Major
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Edward Mangion
- Air Sergeant Cornelius Maritz
- Flight Lieutenant Michael Patrick O'Reilly
- Leading Aircraftman James Veitch Patten
- Air Sergeant James Victor Penberthy
- Pilot Officer Robert Henry Shaw
- Aircraftman 1st Class Andrew Sorbie
- Sergeant Karel Stibor
- Sergeant Melville Tanner
- Sergeant John Wynne Turner
- Sergeant Ronald John Whiffen
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold George Wood
- Corporal Stanley George Wright
1941
- Group Captain John Francis Tufnell Barrett
- Pilot Officer William Mather Bishop
- Sergeant Lionel Black
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Milbert Bowen
- Flight Sergeant Donald Machell Bozer
- Sergeant Jesse Clemence Brakeman
- Sergeant Ronald Leslie Cole
- Pilot Officer John Richard Cox
- Sergeant Francis Kenneth Crossley
- Pilot Officer John Peter Boston Cushion
- Sergeant Dennis Napier Neville De Brath
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Edward Dowse
- Flying Officer Lawrence Duckworth
- Pilot Officer Arthur Robert Fitch
- Pilot Officer Douglas Stewart Fraser
- Sergeant Owen Henry Glengarry
- Air Sergeant Grabe
- Sergeant Clifford Hambleton
- Sergeant Walter Duncan Hamer
- Flight Lieutenant Howard Moule Hammond
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Bruce Harrison
- Pilot Officer Harry Hilts Hay
- Sergeant Theodore Stephen Hewland
- Sergeant Lindsay Thomas Hutchison
- Sergeant Alexander Frederick Jaggers
- Flying Officer Ross James
- Corporal Harry Knott
- Pilot Officer Frank John Kruszynski
- Pilot Officer Andrew Allison Law
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd Theodore Lawson
- Pilot Officer William James Mason
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Hubert May
- Flight Sergeant James Patrick McKay
- Sergeant Forbes McNeill
- Flight Sergeant Seward Terry Modeland
- Sergeant James Ernest Nicholson
- Pilot Officer Jackson Corwin Nixon
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold John Perks
- Sergeant Leslie Whitehouse Price
- Corporal George Raymond Priestley
- Sergeant Leslie Miller Readett
- Sergeant Thomas Percy Alexander Riddell
- Sergeant Lesley Alexander Robertson
- Sergeant Thomas Robertson
- Flight Lieutenant John Ronald Melville Sales
- Sergeant George Richard Simpson
- Sergeant Denis Slater
- Sergeant Donald Enright Soles
- Sergeant James Stevens
- Sergeant Arthur Henry Stroud
- Flight Sergeant Augustin Charles Turgeon
- Flight Sergeant Henry Benjamin Turner
- Sergeant Harry Nutt Unwin
- Wing Commander George Engebret Valentine
- Sergeant Norman Willingham
- Sergeant John Kenneth Young
1942
- Sergeant Willie Allinson
- Pilot Officer Leslie Israel Alter
- Sergeant William Anderson
- Sergeant Richard John Bebbington
- Pilot Officer Joseph Stanislas Emile M. Bernier
- Sergeant Edwin Harry Beyer
- Flying Officer William Hastings Russell Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Cassidy
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Charles Cassidy
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Roland Clarke
- Sergeant William Stewart Collins
- Sergeant Samuel Coop
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Ross Cooper
- Sergeant Edwin Charles Alfred Coules
- Aircraftman 1st Class Fred Ivor Court
- Sergeant William Henry Creed
- Sergeant Edward John Cutting
- Sergeant Wynford Davies
- Flight Sergeant Robert James Deans
- Sergeant Jack Duncan Duffus
- Sergeant Alan Rendal Duncanson
- Sergeant Frank Ekins
- Flight Sergeant Rhys James Evans
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Colin Ewing
- Sergeant Frederick Stephen Fish
- Squadron Leader Douglas Sinclair Forsyth
- Pilot Officer Alec Leonard Foster
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert James Foster
- Pilot Officer John Handel Freestone
- Sergeant John Davidson Frost
- Sergeant Harry Edward Goldie
- Pilot Officer Gerald Charles Hart
- Flight Lieutenant Lawrence David Hillier
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Hulme
- Flight Sergeant Eric Richmond Hunting
- Sergeant Thomas Amwyl Jeffries
- Pilot Officer George Edward Johns
- Pilot Officer John Keddie
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Laing
- Pilot Officer Ronald George Lewis
- Sergeant John Innes Montgomery Logan
- Pilot Officer Noel Rees Macqueen
- Flight Sergeant Glenville McArter
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Arthur McGrath
- Sergeant Paul McLarnon
- Pilot Officer Keneth Ederic Michael Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Francis Edward Monckton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alan Albert Moore
- Sergeant Alexander Douglas Muir
- Pilot Officer Graham John Nicholson
- Sergeant William Ernest Overend
- Pilot Officer Edward McGee Palmer
- Leading Aircraftman Josef Pavlat
- Pilot Officer Herbert Orlando Peel
- Flight Sergeant Jean Gerard Pellettier
- Sergeant Frederick Pettitt
- Flight Sergeant Robert Joseph Pollock
- Pilot Officer George Handy Quinn
- Sergeant Robert George Reynolds
- Sergeant George Francis Ridgway
- Flight Sergeant George William Roberts
- Sergeant Thomas Vaughan Robinson
- Sergeant Archibald Rogers
- Pilot Officer Francis Rogers
- Sergeant Sidney Bryan Ronaldson
- Sergeant Aubrey Francis Rooke
- Sergeant Alan Shakespeare
- Sergeant Howard William Spencer
- Pilot Officer Raymond Charles Taylor
- Flying Officer Harry William Thompson
- Sergeant Raymond Turley
- Pilot Officer Charles Frederick Walter Underwood
- Flight Sergeant Rolfe Devonport Walker
- Wing Commander Archibald Philip Walsh
- Flying Officer Francis Philip Winter-taylor
- Sergeant Alexander Hillhouse Woods
- Sergeant Robert George Wraight
- Sergeant Joseph Wright
1943
- Flight Sergeant Walter Howden Allan
- Sergeant Dennis Sydney Audley
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick James Barnes
- Sergeant Alan Bell
- Sergeant John Billington
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Allen Bradshaw
- Sergeant David Ronald Browne
- Sergeant David George Davidson Burnside
- Flying Officer David James Carpenter
- Warrant Officer Class II John William Chester
- Pilot Officer John Cyril Collins
- Pilot Officer John Franklin Curtis
- Pilot Officer Neil Howard Denyer
- Pilot Officer David Laing Dodds
- Sergeant Albert William Frederick Edwards
- Sergeant George Ezard
- Flying Officer Clifford Foderingham
- Sergeant Robert Leslie Freeman
- Sergeant Wilfred Frank Garner
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Alfred Gawler
- Flying Officer Reginald Campbell Gilbert
- Sergeant Kenneth Gilbey
- Flying Officer Macdonald Stuart Gordon
- Flying Officer William Campbell Gordon
- Sergeant John Austin Lindsay Grant
- Leading Aircraftman John Hall
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Hancox
- Flying Officer Robert Thomas Hood
- Flight Sergeant Tom Hoyle
- Squadron Leader Ian McArtair Huntly-wood
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Arthur Innes
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Robert Jacob
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Ernest Jollands
- Pilot Officer Svein Josephson
- Warrant Officer Harry Kenneth Kells
- Sergeant Arthur Leonard Kent
- Flying Officer Kenneth Joseph Knight
- Sergeant Adrian Roland Joseph Le Page
- Warrant Officer Frank Leslie
- Warrant Officer Class I Wilfred James Louden
- Pilot Officer Samuel Keith Lowry
- Flight Sergeant Clifford Charles Maw
- Sergeant Kenneth James May
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Oswald Steele McCulloch
- Group Captain Austin Flower McKenna
- Sergeant Leslie John Andrew McKenzie
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Carson McLean
- Flight Sergeant Robert Barr McPhan
- Sergeant Hugh McQuade
- Sergeant Leslie John Milton
- Sergeant William Connell Mitchell
- Pilot Officer Jacques David Munn
- Sergeant Arthur Thomas Newton
- Sergeant Christopher Frank Nordhoff
- Flight Sergeant Thomas David Phillips
- Sergeant Harold Picking
- Pilot Officer Herbert Glyn Price
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Edwin Price
- Sergeant Jack Albert George Reynolds
- Sergeant William Ralph Rodgerson
- Flight Sergeant Horace Robert Ross
- Flight Sergeant Kimble Calvin Sanderson
- Sergeant William Douglas Saunders
- Sergeant Robert Ashmore Scott
- Sergeant Gordon Llewellyn Seward
- Flying Officer Michael O'Meara Shanahan
- Sergeant Michael John Christopher Simpson
- Sergeant Eric John Smith
- Warrant Officer Class II John Harold Smith
- Corporal John Henry Smith
- Flight Sergeant John Simmonds Smith
- Flying Officer Frederick Gordon Charles Spanner
- Flight Sergeant John Andrew Spence
- Flight Lieutenant Hume Melville Stafford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Latham Stephen
- Flying Officer Angus William Stewart
- Pilot Officer William Ivan St. Johns
- Sergeant Allan Charles Taylor
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Alexander Taylor
- Sergeant Leslie John Thorpe
- Sergeant William Tucker
- Flight Sergeant Jack George Gabe Turner
- Sergeant Norman Allen Tyreman
- Flying Officer Arthur Wallace
- Sergeant George Albert Wareham
- Sergeant Samuel Graham Warke
- Sergeant Charles Herbert Albert Warner
- Pilot Officer James Frederick Waterman
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas John Davies Waterman
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Bernard Watkins
- Squadron Leader Robert Grant Watson
- Sergeant Francis William Watts
- Flight Sergeant Arthur John Charles Whitehead
- Flight Sergeant George Wilson
- Flying Officer Richard Warren Wolfe
- Corporal Sydney Edward Woodhouse
- Corporal Albert Edgar Woolhouse
- Sergeant Alan Leslie York
- Sergeant Arthur Young
- Flying Officer Gordon Havelock Young
- Flying Officer James Lawson Young
1944
- Flying Officer Maxwell Cox
- Lieutenant Robert Albert Hargrave
- Sergeant Roy Kilner
- Pilot Officer Robert Arthur Lamb
- Wing Commander William Milligan
- Flight Sergeant Keith Panwick
- Lieutenant Rees
- Sergeant Kenneth Clarence Richardson
- Pilot Officer Lindsay George Walker
- Flight Sergeant Roy Walmsley
- Warrant Officer John Albert White
- Sergeant Albert Anthony Joseph Willis
- Squadron Leader George Arthur Wilson
- Pilot Officer William Baker Wright
1945
- Sergeant Norman John Bailey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Sim Beedie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Brinley Botcher
- Flight Sergeant John Albert Chellew
- Flight Sergeant Harold Stewart Currie
- Warrant Officer Norman Francis Finch
- Warrant Officer Henry Thomas George Griffin
- Warrant Officer Cedric Ernest Hall
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Halyard
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Hares
- Warrant Officer Leslie Hunter Jorgensen
- Corporal Harry Littlewood
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Lindsay Norton
- Flying Officer Arthur William Orman
- Leading Aircraftman Andreas Stanley Petersen
- Corporal Hilton George Shung
- Sergeant Albert Victor Whittington
- Flight Sergeant John Young