On this day — 2 October
229 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 2 October during the Second World War.
1939
- Flight Lieutenant John William Allsop
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Rogerson Bell
- Leading Aircraftman Fred Ellison
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Francis Hill
- Squadron Leader Hartley Sampson Ivey
- Pilot Officer Alan Gordon Salmon
1940
- Leading Aircraftman Robert William Ammon
- Corporal William Brown
- Corporal Eric Godfrey Clark
- Squadron Leader John Walter Dallamore
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Dukes
- Sergeant Donald Bannerman Fleming
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Douglas Fox
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William George Garner
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Hodge
- Leading Aircraftman John Kerr Irwin
- Corporal Basil James Johnson
- Sergeant Myles Mackenzie
- Sergeant Charles Hugh Le Blanc Newbery
- Sergeant John Devine Robertson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard Rushall
- Sergeant Reginald Philip Sweett
- Sergeant Ronald Edwin Thompson
- Flight Lieutenant Roger Murray George Zambra
1941
- Sergeant Henry Norman Edge
- Pilot Officer Carlyle Gray Everiss
- Pilot Officer Cyril Ernest Horwood
- Flight Lieutenant John Wilfred Lund
- Sergeant Kenneth George Port
- Flight Sergeant Tivers
- Leading Aircraftman Charles David Walker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wond
1942
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Adsett
- Lieutenant Badcock
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Ben-hertz
- Sergeant David Stanley Benner
- Flight Sergeant Hermanus Boonzaier
- Flying Officer Ernest Rex Butterworth
- Sergeant Alfred John Carl
- Sergeant Robert Charles Carrington
- Lieutenant Chipps
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Christie
- Sergeant Harold Moffat Clark
- Sergeant John James Clarkson
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Copestick
- Sergeant Peter Cribb
- Sergeant Peter Kirk Crombie
- Sergeant Gordon Alfred David
- Sergeant Duffy
- Sergeant Allan Roy Evans
- Lieutenant Thomas Finlayson
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Charles Foers
- Sergeant Alfred Gander
- Sergeant Benjamin Frederick Goldsmith
- Flight Sergeant Norman Frederick Temple Goldsmith
- Squadron Leader William Roy Greenslade
- Sergeant Maldwyn Griffiths
- Sergeant William Henry Gull
- Flight Sergeant David George Hackett
- Flying Officer Paul Anthony Harding
- Sergeant Norman Henderson
- Sergeant Frederick Leonard Hughes
- Sergeant Cyril Edward Jeffrey
- Sergeant John Thomas Jones
- Sergeant Rex Nigel Hugh Jones
- Pilot Officer Joseph Alec Charles Kite
- Leading Aircraftman Frank William Ling
- Sergeant George Wilfred Martin
- Sergeant William Harper McElney
- Flight Sergeant Robert Francis McIntyre
- Sergeant Sidney Messham
- Sergeant Ernest Leslie Moore
- Flying Officer Arthur Bryan Morlidge
- Sergeant Bruce Wellesley Morrow
- Warrant Officer Class I Edward Warren Murphy
- Sergeant George Nelson
- Flight Sergeant Charles Joseph Neubert
- Sergeant Charles O'Callaghan
- Flight Sergeant William Orange
- Flying Officer Charles Jack Osmond
- Pilot Officer Victor Henry Parry
- Pilot Officer Raymond Ignatius Phillips
- Flight Sergeant Hubert Douglas Price
- Flight Sergeant George Rae
- Pilot Officer Robert Dunham Reesor
- Pilot Officer Arnold Ridgway
- Corporal Roy Owen Roberts
- Sergeant Frederick Livingston Roleston
- Sergeant John Reginald Simpson Scott
- Sergeant George Henry Shannon
- Sergeant Marshal Kenneth Smith
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Aitken Stephenson
- Warrant Officer Class I Sidney Vernon Stowe
- Flying Officer Harding James Stuart
- Flight Sergeant Helfi Sveinn Sveinson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Gordon William Tew
- Sergeant Kenneth Tempest Turvey
- Lieutenant Van Dyk
- Second Lieutenant Douglas Haig Velleman
- Flight Lieutenant Julian Edward Powis Walford
- Flight Sergeant Lionel Harry Williams
- Lieutenant Charles Alax Wilson
- Lieutenant Wolmarans
1943
- Aircraftman 1st Class Anthony Abela
- Flying Officer Francis Victor Anderson
- Sergeant Robert Mitchell Appleton
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Dorrien Archer
- Sergeant George Frederick Austin
- Flying Officer Charles Francis (paddy) Bale
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Geoffrey Beardsmore
- Flying Officer Angus Fyfe Bell
- Sergeant Robert Bishop
- Pilot Officer John Robert Brannan
- Flying Officer Archibald Ferguson Bremner
- Flight Lieutenant Jack Bruce Burnet
- Flying Officer Norman Lee Burton
- Flying Officer Robert Edward Halliburton Burton
- Flight Sergeant Philip Stuart Camsell
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Albert Carter
- Leading Aircraftman Spencer George Challenger
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Helm Chambers
- Sergeant Dudley Sydney Champion
- Sergeant Thomas Bernard Churn
- Pilot Officer Robert Kelly Clements
- Flight Lieutenant Cyril Herbert Cleveland
- Flying Officer James Gibson Connor
- Sergeant Allan Joseph Copegog
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Richard Cote
- Sergeant Keith Thornton Creamer
- Flight Sergeant Hironimus Dominik Alouise Dauk
- Flying Officer Acton Farquhar Daunt
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Henry Dick
- Sergeant George David Dodson
- Sergeant George Douglas
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Francis Draycott
- Flying Officer Robert Ernest Dunn
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Dyde
- Sergeant William Edward Edmonds
- Sergeant Frank Ellick
- Sergeant Paul Engel
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Fairclough
- Pilot Officer William Homer Fuller
- Lieutenant Griffin
- Flying Officer Frederick John Sydney Guppy
- Flying Officer Ivan William Hall
- Flight Lieutenant Gordon Hamilton
- Sergeant Herbert Anthony Hay
- Sergeant Leslie Hockey
- Sergeant Clifford Hopkinson
- Sergeant John Herbert Victor Horsley
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Frederick Hubball
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Hurrell
- Sergeant Herbert John William Hynds
- Sergeant George Samuel Kemp
- Sergeant Edward Cecil Kent
- Sergeant Ronald Large
- Sergeant Philip Maurice Lay
- Squadron Leader Richard Le Roy Lee
- Pilot Officer Robert Gibson Leese
- Lieutenant Lewin
- Flying Officer Jack Victor Linford
- Pilot Officer Frank Leathley Robinson Lloyd
- Sergeant Joseph Lowe
- Warrant Officer Class II Brendan Hilary Macisaac
- Sergeant David Maclean
- Flight Sergeant Irwin Andrew Martin
- Pilot Officer Douglas Graham McDiarmed
- Flight Sergeant Archie Harold Duncan McDonald
- Sergeant John McGuirk
- Sergeant Hugh McMullin
- Pilot Officer Alan Seabrook Mitchell
- Sergeant Terence Monaghan
- Flight Sergeant Charles Guy Morris
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth George Mortlock
- Sergeant Robert Alexander Mushet
- Sergeant Charles Storer Nelson
- Sergeant Leslie Nichol
- Sergeant James Edwin Nixon
- Sergeant Frederick Herbert Partridge
- Sergeant Leslie Austin Pinchess
- Sergeant Donald Postlethwaite
- Sergeant Thomas Powell
- Pilot Officer Thomas Patrick Quinn
- Pilot Officer Donald Thompson Randall
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Lapage Robinson
- Sergeant John Cosson Scammell
- Flight Sergeant Francis Sheehan
- Flying Officer Stanley Joseph Shewell
- Sergeant Leslie Alexander Sim
- Sergeant Albert Frederick Simpson
- Sergeant Arthur Edward Smith
- Pilot Officer Bertram Charles Smith
- Sergeant Aubrey Bramley Taylor
- Sergeant Leonard Walkington
- Flight Sergeant Edward Francis Warr
- Sergeant Kenneth Watt
- Flight Sergeant James Frederick Wheatley
- Sergeant Nathaniel John Edward Wheeler
- Sergeant Reginald Edgar Woodford
- Flight Sergeant Roland Reuben Woodhouse
1944
- Flying Officer Hudson Garth Ainslie
- Flight Lieutenant Russell Reginald Bouskill
- Sergeant Taras Stefan Buchkowski
- Flight Lieutenant John Christopher Chesters
- Sergeant Gordon Farrell Cumming
- Flying Officer Ernest Raymond Davey
- Lieutenant Michael Duchen
- Flight Lieutenant Roland Gwynne Evans-evans
- Sergeant John William Fraser
- Leading Aircraftman Martin Dustin Goss
- Flying Officer Maurice Jack Hamblin
- Flight Sergeant Robert William Garth Henry
- Pilot Officer Clyde John Hogan
- Flight Lieutenant George Albert Long
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander McCann
- Flying Officer John Francis Muir
- Flight Sergeant Earl William Reid
- Flying Officer Louis Eber Eldred Robinson
- Warrant Officer Stanley Clifford Shutt
- Flight Sergeant Roy Smith
- Flying Officer Frederick Martin Stickel
- Second Lieutenant Leighton Aaron Verity
- Sergeant Edwin Lloyd Wilson
- Corporal Stanley Wilson-lanyon