On this day — 3 October
298 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 October during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alfred Armstrong
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Neville Brown
- Flying Officer Willis Stewart Brown
- Sergeant Frank Vyvyan Bundock
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Fincastle Campbell
- Sergeant Alfred Jack Cheesman
- Sergeant Alan Ernest Chetter
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Frederick Cooper
- Sergeant Edward Francis Cryer
- Pilot Officer Paul Spencer Dally
- Sergeant Elton Arthur Dancer
- Sergeant Hugh Dunbar
- Flying Officer William Charles Espley
- Pilot Officer Colin Anthony Hobson
- Sergeant David Ernest Hughes
- Sergeant Cyril Thomas Arthur Jacobs
- Sergeant Kenneth Lord
- Flying Officer Keith Ian Macdonald
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Henry Moon
- Leading Aircraftman Rodney Elmore Muller
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Mervyn O'Donnell
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Pinder
- Sergeant John Anthony Smith
- Sergeant Ian Alexander Zamek
1941
- Sergeant Herbert Cox
- Pilot Officer Robert Arban Gee
- Squadron Leader Charles Duncan Bremner Green
- Sergeant Jack Allan Marshall
- Squadron Leader Donald Ian McLeod
- Sergeant Arthur Simpson Riddell
- Pilot Officer Charles Fraser Rogerson
- Flight Sergeant Michael Leslie Sharpe
- Flight Lieutenant Sidney George Stock
- Sergeant Andrew Albert Taylor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Hubert George Thompson
- Flight Sergeant James Rankin Walker
- Sergeant John Charles Ward
- Flight Sergeant Harold Watson
- Sergeant Gerald Edgar Francis Woods-scawen
1942
- Sergeant John Robert Butler
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Sidney Cole
- Sergeant Stanislaus Vincent Corcoran
- Warrant Officer Robert Duncan
- Leading Aircraftman Oliver Firmin
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Galley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert George Gooch
- Sergeant Cecil Clive Hale
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Hardisty
- Flying Officer Kenneth Roy Hendy
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Hood
- Flying Officer Peter Roger Forrest Hughes
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert John Johnston
- Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Gordon Levett
- Sergeant Roderick Hector Macintyre
- Major Herbert Graeme Maclaren
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Radford Maxfield
- Leading Aircraftman Laurence Thomas Moore
- Leading Aircraftman Ronald William Penrose
- Flying Officer Beaufort Read Kennan Petter
- Sergeant Allan Sidney Herbert Powell
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph Keelan Price
- Flight Sergeant Harold Sansome
- Corporal William Cudworth Silverwood
- Flying Officer Lionel Vernon Osman Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Charles Stumm
- Sergeant Richard Anthony Lister Thornhill
- Sergeant Arthur Adnah Walker
- Aircraftman 2nd Class James Nelson Williamson
- Second Lieutenant John Pilgrim Zahn
1943
- Flight Sergeant Richard Harry Adams
- Leading Aircraftman Andrew Adamson
- Flying Officer David Anderson
- Corporal Stanley Harold Anderson
- Sergeant Edgar James Andrews
- Pilot Officer Brian Andrew Armstrong
- Sergeant John Francis Albury Bailey
- Sergeant William James Baker
- Sergeant George Kenneth Barnes
- Sergeant Timothy John Barrett
- Sergeant Frederick Walter Bate
- Sergeant Jack Stear Beech
- Sergeant John Edward Arthur Beecher
- Sergeant James Philip Belfield
- Sergeant William Bell
- Sergeant Rowland Bennett
- Flight Lieutenant George Theodore Berg
- Sergeant James Briggs Elder Birrell
- Sergeant Robert Allan McCulloch Blackburn
- Sergeant Rex Blanchard
- Warrant Officer Murray Ronald Braines
- Sergeant William Armit Bryson
- Flying Officer Bruce Alan Bunning
- Flying Officer Richard Selwyn Bussey
- Leading Aircraftman David Henry Butcher
- Pilot Officer Derek William Hanson Butterfield
- Flight Sergeant Albert Joseph Cadeau
- Pilot Officer Frank Ian Calvert
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Milton Carr
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Thomas Carrigan
- Sergeant Thomas Harry Wentworth Cheetham
- Flying Officer Robert Christie
- Sergeant Thomas Hill Clapp
- Sergeant Murray Cohen
- Sergeant Humphrey Coldham-fussell
- Flying Officer John Edward Colyer
- Flying Officer Leonard Edward Morgan Coote
- Sergeant Robert Cornwell
- Sergeant Harold Edward Cracknell
- Sergeant Derrick Roy Lionel Crapper-bovey
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Miller Crawford
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon James Crebbin
- Sergeant Frederick Edward William Crowther
- Squadron Leader William Arthur Cuddie
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Edwin Dalton
- Sergeant Thomas William Hodgson Dalziel
- Flight Sergeant Edward Vicary Davidson
- Sergeant Charles Clement Davison
- Flying Officer James Jeremiah Dawkins
- Sergeant John Dawson
- Flying Officer John Bernard Joseph De Macedo
- Sergeant Yves De Meillac
- Leading Aircraftman George Adam Devonport
- Sergeant John Dixon
- Sergeant Donald Harold Douglas
- Pilot Officer William Robert Drake
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Bryson Duncan
- Pilot Officer Francis Bernard Edwards
- Sergeant Edgar Farrer
- Sergeant Henry Featherstone
- Flying Officer Jack Chisholm Findlay
- Sergeant Albert Finnemore
- Flying Officer Bruce Gregory Foley
- Sergeant Arthur Ronald Fuller
- Flight Sergeant John Kennah Gale
- Flying Officer Milton Edwin Garbutt
- Sergeant Charles Ross Garrick
- Flying Officer Harold Wallace German
- Flying Officer John Bryant Gleeson
- Flying Officer Percy Frederick Leyton Glynn
- Flying Officer Robert Philip Goldstein
- Sergeant James Frederick Gordon
- Sergeant Leslie Thompson Graham
- Flight Sergeant James Arthur Bryce Gray
- Sergeant Ernest Edwin Greenfield
- Pilot Officer Fred Grundy
- Flight Lieutenant James Alfred Grundy
- Flight Sergeant William Trevor Guy
- Pilot Officer Robert Harder
- Flight Sergeant Garnet McMillan Herbert
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Heron
- Sergeant Kenneth Herring
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Hetherington
- Flight Sergeant Eugene Heweston
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Emmerick Highland
- Pilot Officer James Robert Hillhouse
- Sergeant Albert John Hodgkins
- Sergeant Harry Howarth
- Squadron Leader Cecil Walter Lloyd Hulke
- Flying Officer Vincent Longmead Hyatt
- Flight Lieutenant William Thomas Irwin
- Flying Officer George Delwin Isaacs
- Sergeant John Jackson
- Sergeant William Baird Jarvie
- Sergeant Islwyn Jenkins
- Sergeant Philip Leslie Johnson
- Sergeant Harold George Jones
- Flight Sergeant John William Kealy
- Flight Sergeant Roy Vincent Bernard Knox
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Napoleon Emile Roger Labelle
- Sergeant Arthur William Lake
- Flight Sergeant George Lamb
- Sergeant Alexander (lex) Lang
- Wing Commander Albin Laut
- Sergeant Louis Lazarus
- Flight Lieutenant Frederick John Lees
- Sergeant Eric Kenneth Leeves
- Sergeant Angus Earle Leslie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Levy
- Flight Sergeant John Galway Lockrey
- Sergeant Charles Thomas Lockwood
- Sergeant Leslie Wilfred Longman
- Sergeant Alfred Longworth
- Sergeant James Lundy
- Sergeant Clement Maclean
- Pilot Officer Lennox Cameron Main
- Sergeant Reginald Gray Martin
- Flight Sergeant Thomas McPhaile Martin
- Leading Aircraftman Harry Maskery
- Flight Sergeant Brian Duncan Michael McDonell
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Archibald McIver
- Sergeant Alexander McAuslan McKinlay
- Flight Sergeant Donald Harvey McKitterick
- Sergeant Andrew McLaughlin
- Sergeant Alexander Boyd McLelland
- Sergeant John Joseph McShane
- Sergeant Archibald Miller
- Flight Sergeant William Anderson Miller
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest William Mitchell
- Flying Officer Thomas James Muir
- Sergeant Anthony Jack Murtagh
- Flight Sergeant Charles John Cameron Norquay
- Pilot Officer Hartley Graham Norton
- Sergeant Ashley William Frederick Notman
- Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Potter O'Donnell
- Sergeant Gilbert Henry Ordway
- Sergeant Spencer Otty
- Pilot Officer Arthur Thomas Parker
- Flight Sergeant William Glen Parker
- Sergeant Henry Edward Parsons
- Wing Commander William Mitchell Penman
- Sergeant Charles George Perides
- Sergeant Donald Pickersgill
- Sergeant David Bannerman Polson
- Leading Aircraftman Sully Posner
- Flight Sergeant Graham Ernest Potter
- Pilot Officer Leonard James Powell
- Sergeant William Henry Powis
- Flight Sergeant Julius Price
- Sergeant William Edward Price
- Flight Sergeant Frank Pullom
- Sergeant Melvyn Punshon
- Warrant Officer Douglas William Graham Randall
- Wing Commander George Alfred Reid
- Leading Aircraftman John James Renwick
- Sergeant Stanley Winston Riddler
- Pilot Officer John Turner Rogerson
- Pilot Officer Maurice Root-reed
- Flight Sergeant Douglas John Rowan
- Sergeant Thomas Philip Rowlands
- Sergeant Alfred Peter Royse
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Martin Scammell
- Flight Sergeant Lester Charles Schmidt
- Warrant Officer Michael Francis James Scollin
- Corporal Herbert James Sharp
- Flight Sergeant Frank William Shaw
- Pilot Officer Keith Fred Shaw
- Flying Officer Maurice Gordon Sheerman
- Sergeant Robert Short
- Sergeant Norman Sidaway
- Sergeant Frederick Percy Smith
- Flight Sergeant Frederick William Smith
- Flight Sergeant Harold Smith
- Sergeant Thomas Smith
- Sergeant John Buckland Speake
- Flight Sergeant John Ronald Speirs
- Sergeant Stuart Donald Stait
- Sergeant Bruce Edward Stehr
- Pilot Officer Kenneth John Stephenson
- Sergeant John Henry Stevens
- Sergeant Ronald Steventon
- Sergeant Donald Hugh Strong
- Sergeant Douglas Charles Sullivan
- Sergeant Alan John Tait
- Sergeant Clifford Edward Tarbin
- Sergeant Kenneth Gordon Taylor
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Lindsay Thomson
- Pilot Officer Arthur Thorp
- Sergeant Leslie Turner
- Pilot Officer Francis Lambert Tyo
- Sergeant Eric Charles Wadsworth
- Pilot Officer William Thomas Waitt
- Sergeant Calvin Hudson Wardrope
- Sergeant Reginald Arthur Waters
- Flying Officer Reginald Thomas Watkinson
- Sergeant Robert Martin Watson
- Pilot Officer William Joshua Watson
- Sergeant William Arthur Whalley
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Arthur Clarence Wilkinson
- Sergeant Griffith Emlyn Williams
- Sergeant Robert Wilson
- Pilot Officer Albert Edward Winn
- Warrant Officer Bert Sam Wipiti
- Warrant Officer Stanley Woolhouse
- Flight Sergeant Allan Walter Wright
- Sergeant James Arthur Young
- Sergeant John Thomas Zuidmulder
1944
- Warrant Officer Class II Attwell
- Warrant Officer Class II Aylett
- Corporal Ronald Edwin Curnow
- Sergeant Harold Edwin Day
- Captain Dietrich
- Lieutenant Du Toit
- Flight Sergeant Arnold Thomas Hill
- Flying Officer Jack Martin
- Sergeant James Walter Douglas McKay
- Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Vernon Membrey
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Murray
- Lieutenant Nagel
- Sergeant John Lisle Oliver
- Lieutenant Oosthuizen
- Sergeant Frank William Skottowe Webb
- Warrant Officer David Augusta Wolfe