On this day — 4 September
296 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 4 September during the Second World War.
1939
- Flight Lieutenant William Frank Barton
- Flight Sergeant Ian Edward Maitland Borley
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Thomas Brocking
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Kenneth George Day
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Dore
- Flying Officer Henry Lovell Emden
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ralph Evans
- Flying Officer Earl Douglas Godfrey
- Sergeant Raymond Charles Grossey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Henderson
- Sergeant Owen Lobb Dunkirk Howells
- Sergeant Donald Edward Jarvis
- Flying Officer Herbert Brian Lightoller
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest William Lyon
- Flight Sergeant George Miller
- Pilot Officer William Joseph Murphy
- Sergeant Stanley George McKenna Otty
- Corporal George William Park
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Pateman
- Sergeant Albert Stanley Prince
- Corporal James Leslie Ricketts
- Flight Lieutenant Guy Percy Robinson
- Flying Officer John Frederick Ross
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Slade
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomson
- Flight Sergeant Albion John Turner
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Joseph Walsh
- Sergeant Bertie Greville Walton
- Sergeant Leslie Robert Ward
1940
- Sergeant John Wollaston Keith Allen
- Pilot Officer Richard Ambrose
- Leading Aircraftman William Francis Baldwin
- Sergeant John Keel Barker
- Sergeant Stanley Bews
- Flight Lieutenant David Campbell Bruce
- Flying Officer John Wintringham Cutts
- Sergeant Michael Montague Gallewski
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Percy Heath
- Pilot Officer George Royal Holyoke
- Leading Aircraftman Roy Arthur Hoskins
- Pilot Officer Douglas Eric Charles Myland
- Flying Officer Derek Keppel Coleridge O'Malley
- Pilot Officer Francis James Otterway
- Sergeant Douglas Gerald Palmer
- Sergeant Peter John Petrie
- Sergeant Hugh Arthur Powys-jones
- Sergeant John William Ramshaw
- Sergeant Laurie Andrew Woodney Rasmussen
- Pilot Officer John Harry Reynolds
- Flying Officer Alec Albert Gray Trueman
- Sergeant Edmond Ernest Raymond Walsh
- Sergeant Raymond Williams
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class Selwyn Rutherford Baker
- Aircraftman 1st Class John William Bell
- Flight Sergeant John Edward Bignell
- Pilot Officer George Henry Brown
- Pilot Officer Michael Medwyn Evans
- Flight Sergeant Frank Edward Greaney
- Pilot Officer John Stewart Harris
- Sergeant Harry Renton Harvey
- Sergeant David Colbourn Johnston
- Sergeant John Emrys Jones
- Sergeant James Cecil Kimberley
- Sergeant Michael Koransky
- Flying Officer Donald Millar Lake
- Pilot Officer Brian Allan McCallum
- Sergeant Lewis Desmond Parry
- Flight Lieutenant John Kennedy Rodger
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Louis Skinner
- Pilot Officer George Vivian Smith
- Sergeant Charles Oliver Steggall
- Flight Sergeant Wallace Howard Trewin
- Sergeant Robert Charles Vernon
- Sergeant Walter Harry Wallace
- Sergeant Robert Lawrence (larry) Ward
- Leading Aircraftman Percival Joseph Webb
- Sergeant Frank Woodcock
1942
- Flight Sergeant James Anderson
- Sergeant Edward Barr
- Flying Officer William Henry Bowler
- Sergeant Jack Lionel Brovender
- Sergeant Henry Brown Burnett
- Flying Officer John Callahan
- Flight Sergeant John Parker Campbell
- Warrant Officer Class II James Francis Cooper
- Flight Sergeant John Stanley Cooper
- Flight Sergeant George Henry Peter Dean
- Flight Sergeant George Edward Derbyshire
- Sergeant Alfred Dougherty
- Sergeant Alwyn Raymond Downe
- Pilot Officer William Royson Foxlee
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Frith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alexander Gardener
- Sergeant John Trevor Vivian Gill
- Sergeant Sidney Martin Girvin
- Sergeant Horace Llewellyn Grant
- Sergeant William Forbes Gray
- Flight Sergeant Dennis Arthur Green
- Sergeant Garnham Frederick Green
- Aircraftman 1st Class Derrick Frank Holder
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Ernest Holmes
- Leading Aircraftman John Fitzroy Hussey
- Flight Sergeant James Steven Jewett
- Flight Sergeant George Desmond Kirkby
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Graham Lavery
- Sergeant James Law
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Leslie Harry Mallinson
- Flight Sergeant Richard John Mayes
- Sergeant Robert Graham McDowall
- Flight Sergeant Frank Edward Meers
- Flight Sergeant John Alan Montgomery
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Muhammad Arifin Bin Budin
- Sergeant Richard Alfred William Newman
- Sergeant Roy Stanley Otter
- Sergeant Richard Oxley
- Flying Officer Allan Reginald Page
- Sergeant Benjamin Palmer
- Flight Sergeant John William Perry
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Aldege Phaneuf
- Sergeant Leslie George Rees
- Sergeant Rupert Ernest Renton
- Corporal William Henry Romalla
- Flight Sergeant William Bruce Sage
- Flight Sergeant Howard Bruce Shaver
- Sergeant Edward John Smart
- Pilot Officer William Richard Stephens
- Pilot Officer William Grant Storrier
- Sergeant Ernest Stanley Studholme
- Flight Sergeant Walter Thomas Tabor
- Sergeant Frank Edward Watkins
- Flight Sergeant Terence Raymond Whitehead
- Sergeant Albert Soffi Williams
- Sergeant Frank Harris Wright
1943
- Flying Officer Thomas Hessey Allanson
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Eugene Ashworth
- Sergeant Percy Barnsley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis George Barrell
- Sergeant Anthony Richard Duncan Bedbrook
- Flight Sergeant Norman Edwin Bellman
- Sergeant Robert Edward Belton
- Flying Officer Victor Edward Bill
- Flying Officer Raymond Thomas James Bilney
- Lieutenant Boyer
- Sergeant Leonard Sidney Breley
- Sergeant Kenneth Ernest Bright
- Flying Officer Frederick Timothy Brosnahan
- Sergeant George Banks Buchan
- Flight Lieutenant John Morton Buckle
- Sergeant Neville Edward Burgess
- Sergeant William Burnell
- Sergeant Ernest Albert Cannon
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Carmichael
- Flight Sergeant James Thomson Carruthers
- Sergeant Andrew Steel Carscadden
- Warrant Officer Ewin Garth Carthew
- Sergeant Victor John Caselton
- Sergeant William Ernest Caudell
- Flying Officer Leonard Frank Chapman
- Sergeant George Cheadle
- Flight Sergeant James Clark
- Flying Officer Harold Kenneth Coates
- Flying Officer Percy Hornby Coates
- Flight Sergeant Rae Warren Buddy Collins
- Sergeant John Cresswell Combes
- Flight Sergeant Norman James Conway
- Flight Sergeant Ralph William Cooke
- Sergeant Reginald Gordon Cooper
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Guy Crake
- Flying Officer Anthony Crockford
- Sergeant Percy Crow
- Pilot Officer James Samuel Kevin Dalziel
- Warrant Officer Class II Fred Hugh Davis
- Flight Sergeant George Switzer Dougherty
- Sergeant Joseph Richard Dunn
- Sergeant Henry Allen Eaton
- Flying Officer Bernard Frederick Edge
- Flight Sergeant George Stuart Fairbairn
- Flight Sergeant William Findlay
- Sergeant Harry Fisher
- Flight Sergeant Colin Albert Fleischfresser
- Flying Officer Sidney Milton Forrester
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Frederick Fowles
- Sergeant Alexander Ramsay Fraser
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Otway French
- Flying Officer William Austin Gardiner
- Flight Sergeant Cyril William Gibbs
- Squadron Leader Frank Edward Grant
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Trevor Gregory
- Flight Sergeant Keith Grieve
- Pilot Officer William Edward Grindley
- Sergeant Charles Lambert Hamilton
- Pilot Officer Edward Charles Harrill
- Pilot Officer James Noel Harris
- Pilot Officer Eric Bertram Harvey
- Warrant Officer Thomas Harold Hatchard
- Sergeant John William Hayton
- Flying Officer Philip Ernest Henley
- Flight Sergeant Eric Allan Hill
- Sergeant Lionel Hobson
- Sergeant Oliver Hughes Hodges
- Sergeant Daniel Hopkins
- Sergeant Oliver Henry Thomas Innocent
- Sergeant Henry Jack
- Sergeant Charles Geoffrey James
- Flight Sergeant Ivor Derrick Jennings
- Sergeant Hugh Ivor Jones
- Sergeant Herbert Freeman Jowett
- Flight Sergeant Lu Henry Kainamu
- Flying Officer Mervyn Noel Keehn
- Squadron Leader Carl Richard Kelaher
- Sergeant Clarence Kendrew
- Sergeant John King
- Sergeant Robert Otley Lander
- Sergeant Roland Eric Langford
- Flying Officer Jack Morgan Lauder
- Sergeant Ralph Lawson
- Flight Sergeant Robert Lawson
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Lesser
- Flying Officer Frank Edward Lewis
- Warrant Officer Class I Basil Edward Lindsay
- Flight Sergeant David Livingstone
- Sergeant John Cyril Lloyd
- Squadron Leader John Grant Mackenzie
- Flight Sergeant Ian Robert Macmillan
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Tremlett Mansfield
- Sergeant Herbert Richard Mantle
- Sergeant William Crawford McCartney
- Sergeant Robert McKeag
- Flight Sergeant George Vallance McMurray
- Leading Aircraftman James Dixon McPherson
- Flight Sergeant William John Henry Menlove
- Sergeant Albert Moore
- Sergeant Nigel John Morley
- Flight Sergeant Charles Morrison Niven
- Sergeant Frederick David Paddon
- Sergeant George Stanley Pawson
- Flight Sergeant Archibald James Pepperrell
- Flight Sergeant Henry Mitchell Porteous
- Sergeant Leonard Austin Price
- Sergeant William John Price
- Sergeant Lorimer Seymour Reynolds
- Sergeant David Bracken Richardson
- Flight Sergeant Edward Robinson
- Sergeant Eric Robson
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Henry Roe
- Sergeant Arthur Rolfe
- Flying Officer Leslie Walter Roper
- Flying Officer Samuel Thomas John Rundle
- Flying Officer Reginald Ernest Ryan
- Sergeant John George Sacre
- Sergeant Lewis Albert Saunders
- Flying Officer Thomas William Allan Saxby
- Sergeant Kenneth William Sedman
- Sergeant Maurice John Selby
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Daniel Arthur Shepherd
- Sergeant John Kelday Smith
- Sergeant William Arthur Southwell
- Flight Sergeant Lewis Alfred Squire
- Sergeant James Alexander Stewart
- Flight Sergeant John Lloyd Russell Stubbings
- Sergeant Arthur Sutcliffe
- Sergeant Ernest Albert Cecil Thirkettle
- Warrant Officer Dennis Arthur Tucker
- Pilot Officer Ronald Vincent Turner
- Sergeant Gordon Vardy
- Sergeant Jack Rowland Wales
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Alan Walker
- Warrant Officer Cyril Augustine Walsh
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Ward
- Flight Sergeant Leroy Anwyll Watson
- Flight Sergeant Denis Hamlin Webb
- Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth Douglas Wellwood
- Sergeant Edward Joseph Wilson
- Sergeant James Winchester
- Sergeant William Charles Luke Wood
- Sergeant Ronald Clifford Woolnough
- Sergeant Leslie Robert Wright
- Wing Commander John Maitland Young
- Flying Officer Richard Mahlon D'Arcy Zurbrigg
1944
- Warrant Officer Class II Brook
- Flight Sergeant John Paterson Cummins
- Lieutenant Dekenah
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Roy Haycock
- Warrant Officer Class I McNamara
- Lieutenant Moodie
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Vincent Perreau
- Corporal Joseph Omer Henri Paul Rinfret
- Lieutenant Zinn
1945
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Patrick Bourke
- Sergeant Keith Joseph Clark
- Corporal Harold Hiram Andrew Laventure
- Leading Aircraftman Michael John Moore
- Wing Commander Henry Rossiter Powell
- Warrant Officer Arthur Henry Sloane