On this day — 5 September
229 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 September during the Second World War.
1939
- Pupil Pilot James Healy Cavanagh
- Flying Officer Arnold Victor Dolphin
- Pupil Pilot John Whitford Hadley
- Sergeant Alexander Oliver Heslop
- Corporal Harold William Johnson
- Pilot Officer Anthony Richard Playfair
- Leading Aircraftman John Quilter
- Aircraftman 1st Class Geoffrey Sheffield
- Second Lieutenant Derrick Tyler
1940
- Flight Lieutenant Edwin John Alway
- Sergeant Kenneth Lavery Daly
- Sergeant Malcolm Gray
- Sergeant Charles Kenneth Hames
- Squadron Leader Hilary Richard Lionel Hood
- Sergeant Maurice Herbert Jones
- Flying Officer Peter James Christopher King
- Sergeant Alexander Logan McNay
- Sergeant Cuthbert Mein
- Sergeant John Edward Moss
- Flying Officer Kenneth Munro
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Major Nue
- Squadron Leader Philip Campbell Pinkham
- Sergeant Joseph Robson
- Flight Lieutenant John Terence Webster
- Pilot Officer Douglas Cyril Winter
- Sergeant Francis William Kenneth Wood
- Sergeant John Wright
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Ian Ross Mackenzie Aird
- Pilot Officer David Bourne
- Sergeant Robert Brady
- Sergeant Peter Morton Cordy
- Pilot Officer Geoffrey Laurence Dames
- Sergeant William Henry Fagan
- Sergeant Leslie Herbert Hook
- Flight Sergeant Eric Francis Howarth
- Sergeant William Hutton
- Sergeant Victor Frank Hyatt
- Air Sergeant Lane
- Sergeant Frederick Alan Leitch
- Captain Douglas Dolley Pannell
- Pilot Officer John Raymond Parsons
- Flying Officer Kenneth Stanley Peterson
- Pilot Officer Arthur Wescombe Searle
- Sergeant Richmond Douglas Starkie-bence
- Flight Sergeant James Joseph Stritch
- Sergeant Frederick William Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Frank Vokes
- Air Sergeant Mark Warwick
- Flying Officer Richard Henry Wheeler
1942
- Flight Sergeant Victor Ethelbert Ames
- Sergeant John Wilfred Atkinson
- Sergeant Frederick Walter Baker
- Sergeant Henry John Balkwill
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Page Barber
- Sergeant Frederick John Charles Barnes
- Flight Sergeant Alec Henry Beesley
- Flying Officer Sydney Frank Belbin
- Flight Sergeant Louis Arthur Biggin
- Sergeant Stanley Bland
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Leonard Percival Boxer
- Sergeant Robert Brook
- Sergeant George Kirtley Brown
- Flight Lieutenant Jeffrey Bryan
- Sergeant Thomas Bernard Burrowes
- Sergeant Herbert Randall Bushell
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Castle
- Sergeant Edward Cowan
- Sergeant James Grant Crockett
- Warrant Officer Class II Reginald Harley Culp
- Leading Aircraftman William Currie
- Leading Aircraftman James Robertson Davie
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Lewis Davies
- Pilot Officer Frederick Randall Egerton Davies
- Lieutenant Sydney Dennis Davis
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Charles Elsey
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Bartholemew Fetherston
- Flying Officer Frederick James Fife
- Sergeant Harold Clifford Finch
- Sergeant George Fleck
- Pilot Officer Robert Hicks Frame
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Isaiah Gallagher
- Sergeant Daniel Cameron Garrity
- Flight Sergeant John Davidson Gill
- Pilot Officer Norman Ingram Gill
- Flight Sergeant James Douglas Gordon
- Sergeant John Macenzie Oberlin Harris
- Sergeant Dennis Edgar Harrison
- Pilot Officer Robert Walter Harrison
- Pilot Officer Adam Byers Hastings
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Henderson
- Sergeant Arnold Peter Hendriksen
- Captain Daniel Jacobus Jacobs
- Aircraftman 1st Class Raymond Morse James
- Sergeant George Smith Jennings
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Berry Jennings
- Pilot Officer Peter Clement Vellacott Joslin
- Flight Sergeant Richard Arthur Kertson
- Flight Sergeant Jaroslav Kovanda
- Flight Sergeant Ian Craigie Lamont
- Leading Aircraftman John Patrick Bruce Learmont
- Sergeant John Darrah Love
- Sergeant John Campbell Luton
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edwin John Mathison
- Flight Sergeant Edward Joseph May
- Pilot Officer Arthur McCarthy
- Pilot Officer Robert Harold McLelland
- Sergeant Elwyn Meredith
- Sergeant John Wynne Merifield
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Ernest Miller
- Flight Sergeant Russel Wilbert Lewis Mills
- Pilot Officer Claude Reginald Frederick Morris
- Pilot Officer Arthur Sidney Needham
- Corporal Donald Henry Nelson
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Graham Nicholls
- Sergeant William James North
- Sergeant John James Parish
- Pilot Officer Vivian Weston Parry
- Sergeant Cecil Vivian Pattison
- Sergeant Alan Potts
- Flight Sergeant Edward Donald Burnett Rae
- Warrant Officer Karel Richter
- Flight Sergeant Warren Henry Ridder
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Ritchie
- Flight Sergeant Andrew Crawford Stark Robertson
- Sergeant James Morton Robertson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Round
- Flying Officer Richard Gerald Rowlands
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Roy
- Sergeant James Arthur Royle
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Redfearn Schlacks
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Mervyn Selway
- Sergeant Frank Smith
- Sergeant Frank Shervell Smith
- Pilot Officer John Douglas Smith
- Flight Sergeant Glen Andrew Soeder
- Sergeant Iain Menzies Robertson Stewart
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Norbert Tapp
- Flight Lieutenant Chenery Thomas
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth C. Waite
- Corporal Thomas Albert Watts
- Air Mechanic William Weekes
- Sergeant John Douglas Whitehead
1943
- Flight Sergeant David William Anderson
- Flying Officer Robert Barclay Anderson
- Corporal Ronald Hayden Bailey
- Flight Sergeant Albert Beckett
- Sergeant Wallace John Robert Blakeley
- Flying Officer Gilbert Stanley Bray
- Flight Sergeant John Livingstone Brooks
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Middleton Buckby
- Sergeant John Smart Carmichael
- Flying Officer John Coulthard
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Ernest Frederick Cowdrey
- Sergeant John Graham Curran
- Sergeant John Dale
- Flying Officer James Lloyd Darby
- Sergeant Maurice Paul De Sachy
- Sergeant Arthur Cyril Dickinson
- Pilot Officer Norman Thomas Duxbury
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Charles Evans
- Flying Officer Victor Roy Folkersen
- Pilot Officer Reginald Maurice Charles Frencham
- Sergeant Leonard Gaffee
- Flight Sergeant Patrick James Gone
- Sergeant Leslie Green
- Warrant Officer Russell Henry Grigg
- Corporal William Douglas Gunn
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Hamilton
- Flight Sergeant Robert Harrison
- Flight Sergeant Jeffrey Allan Heath
- Sergeant Leslie Holding
- Sergeant Roy James Humbles
- Sergeant Frank Johnson
- Pilot Officer Thomas Frederick Edward Johnson
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Jones
- Air Mechanic John Kiely
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Christopher Laker
- Sergeant Walter Lauder
- Sergeant William Edwin Frederick Lavender
- Flying Officer John Augustin Le Rossignol
- Flying Officer Ronald Lofthouse
- Sergeant Maurice Maddison
- Captain Charles Edward Martin
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Vincent McMahon
- Pilot Officer Donald Reading Moon
- Sergeant Walter Newton
- Flight Sergeant William Theodore Pedler
- Warrant Officer Reginald Edmund Percival
- Sergeant George William Plummer
- Sergeant Frank William Pratt
- Flying Officer Jack Miller Reed
- Group Captain Edward Brownsdon Rice
- Sergeant Sidney James Richardson
- Sergeant Henry Edmund Rolfe
- Sergeant Albert Walter Salt
- Flight Lieutenant Verdun Ashley Scott
- Flying Officer John Norman Scotton
- Flight Sergeant Cecil George Smith
- Flight Sergeant James Albert Sugg
- Pilot Officer John Taylor
- Flying Officer Jeffrey Stuart Thomas
- Flight Sergeant Robert Mercer Todd
- Warrant Officer Class I John Walczak
- Sergeant Terence Anthony Walkden
- Flight Sergeant Henry Edward Walker
- Warrant Officer Clement Batstone Wiggins
- Flight Sergeant Harley Joseph Williams
- Sergeant Roy Wilson
- Flying Officer Harold Maurice Woodroffe
- Sergeant Ronald William Woods
- Flight Lieutenant Roy Herbert Woollacott
1944
- Pilot Officer Reginald Elwyn Byrne
- Flight Sergeant Christopher Joseph Deutscher
- Pilot Officer William John Doughty
- Warrant Officer Ernest Ronald Gadsden
- Pilot Officer Roy McVicar McIlveen
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Glenister Thurling
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Wolfe Tuck
- Group Captain Charles Bruce Turner
- Flight Sergeant Harold Thomas Wise
1945
- Aircraftman 1st Class James William Booth
- Warrant Officer Christopher William Brazier
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin Leslie Clement
- Flying Officer David Fitzhardinge Kingscote
- Leading Aircraftman William Hanson Twidale