On this day — 4 October
235 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 4 October during the Second World War.
1939
- Pilot Officer Richard Atkinson Barker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cyril Arthur Bates
- Leading Aircraftman John Forbes
- Pilot Officer Brian Leslie Gordon Harker
- Sergeant Letchford
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frederick Henderson May
- Pilot Officer John William Crawford McFarlane
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis Leo McGurk
- Flying Officer Desmond George Perry
1940
- Flying Officer Michael Joseph Berry
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Storrar Donaldson
- Leading Aircraftman James Percival Fleming
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth McLeod Gillies
- Sergeant Leslie Kendray
- Sergeant George Norman Lindsey
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Walter Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Strong
1941
- Leading Aircraftman Francis William Bidgood
- Air Mechanic Bleackley
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Reginald McLeod Brown
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Brown
- Flying Officer Victor George Collins
- Sergeant John Frederick Duggan
- Pilot Officer John Edward Anthony H. Fairfax
- Pilot Officer Charles Rawdon Keith Fry
- Air Mechanic Grobler
- Sergeant Fred Harrison
- Sergeant Leslie Luck
- Leading Aircraftman Duncan Macmillan
- Aircraftman 1st Class Eric Colebourne Mason
- Sergeant Kenneth Charles Philip
- Pilot Officer Francis Soltau Pillans
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Charles Ryall
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Armstrong Scott
- Sergeant Leslie Edward Sexton
- Sergeant Oliver John Simmonds
- Sergeant Ian Harper Stirrat
- Sergeant Victor Arthur Taylor
- Sergeant John Ernst Turner
- Pilot Officer Peter John Bryan Veitch
- Pilot Officer Ronald Leon Giles Williams
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest Henry Winnard
- Sergeant Douglas Winstanley
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Richard James Baker
- Pilot Officer Joseph Henry Barton
- Sergeant Basil Boyton
- Pilot Officer Jack Chinery
- Warrant Officer Class II George Pass Fargher
- Flight Sergeant Murray Irving Gass
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George James Arthur Gibbons
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Alec Gilbert
- Squadron Leader Robert Gray
- Sergeant Ernest Roy Harris
- Sergeant John Edward Hatherly
- Sergeant Charles Ronald Hawkins
- Flight Sergeant George Alexander Hogarth
- Sergeant Thomas Frederick Hyndman
- Warrant Officer Ernest John Knight
- Pilot Officer Alfred Jean Edouard Leclezio
- Flying Officer Eric Lyon
- Sergeant Joseph Francis Maher
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth McGregor Moore
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Richard Nelms
- Corporal Denis O'Shea
- Flying Officer Jerome David Phelan
- Flying Officer Robert Clarke Porter
- Sergeant Joseph Guy Stuckless
- Pilot Officer Norris Thomas
- Sergeant Robert Short Timewell
- Flight Sergeant Bernard Clive Williams
1943
- Sergeant Walter Adamson
- Pilot Officer Felix Norman Alexander
- Sergeant John Alexander Baker
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Edward William Ball
- Sergeant George Henry Beach
- Leading Aircraftman William Edward Biltcliffe
- Flight Sergeant Aldo Bortolussi
- Sergeant William James Boyce
- Sergeant Gordon John Percy Boyd
- Flying Officer James Albert Brett
- Sergeant William Frederick Bristow
- Flight Sergeant Roy Edward Brook
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Brown
- Flight Lieutenant John Nigel Grey Bruce
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Arthur Carter
- Warrant Officer Class I Ellwin Clair Champion
- Sergeant George Ernest Chapman
- Leading Aircraftman John Chrystal
- Flight Sergeant Andrew William Clark
- Sergeant Christopher Arthur Clark
- Squadron Leader Arthur Sydney Cook
- Pilot Officer Michael John Coyle
- Flight Sergeant James Curry
- Flying Officer Jack Ralph Dale
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Ernest Dallwitz
- Flight Sergeant William Anthony Dearman
- Sergeant Thomas Lynas Dickie
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Fawkner Dufty
- Leading Aircraftman Gordon Francis Edwards
- Flying Officer Thomas John Elliott
- Flying Officer Albert James Ellis
- Flying Officer Stanley James Ellis
- Flying Officer Arthur Russell Fare
- Leading Aircraftman William Peter Fenwick
- Flight Sergeant Alan Fieldhouse
- Flight Sergeant John Douglas Flyn
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Arthur Foale
- Warrant Officer Class II Jean Gilbert Felix Fortin
- Flying Officer Chris William Foster
- Flight Sergeant John Edmund Francis
- Flight Lieutenant Albert Leslie Furr
- Flight Sergeant Walter Francis Garrod
- Sergeant Walter Edward James Giles
- Flight Lieutenant Stephen Clifford Paul Godfrey
- Warrant Officer John Thomas Goozee
- Sergeant John Annandale Gouk
- Sergeant Charles Alexander Green
- Flight Sergeant Edward Herbert William Griffin
- Flight Lieutenant Ernest Melville Charles Guest
- Flight Sergeant Eric Charles Hamblyn
- Flying Officer William Harry Hamilton
- Second Lieutenant Hamlyn
- Flight Sergeant Merrik Haslegrave
- Squadron Leader John Edward Ross Hayter
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Richard Heeley
- Pilot Officer Richard Munro Hogg
- Flight Sergeant George John Thomas Horton
- Flight Sergeant Francis Mervyn Howship
- Sergeant Eric Francis Hudson
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Robert Ingham
- Sergeant Gordon Hunter Jackson
- Flight Sergeant Sydney Edward Jackson
- Flying Officer Oliver Barton James
- Sergeant Michael John Jones
- Sergeant Edwin John Keightley
- Leading Aircraftman John Thomas Key
- Sergeant Peter James King
- Sergeant Thomas Lackenby
- Flight Sergeant Keith Albert Langley
- Sergeant Robert Leybourne
- Wing Commander Richard Maitland Longmore
- Flight Sergeant William Buthart Mackinley
- Sergeant Charles John Massie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Charles May
- Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth Alexander Bernard McArthur
- Pilot Officer Robert McGhie
- Flight Sergeant Daniel William McInnis
- Flight Lieutenant Conal Brenden Thomas McSweeney
- Sergeant Maurice Mensforth
- Flight Sergeant Fraser Frederick Mercer
- Sergeant Harvey Johnson Middleton
- Warrant Officer Ernest Arthur Mincham
- Leading Aircraftman Philip Henry Monks
- Leading Aircraftman Stuart George Mullens
- Pilot Officer Kevin Pierre Murphy
- Flying Officer Robert Clayton Newcomb
- Flying Officer Robert Anderson Nimmo
- Sergeant Benjamin Joseph Noakes
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Paddison
- Flight Sergeant John Elmer Paquet
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Edward Parsons
- Sergeant Howard George Paskins
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Fields Patterson
- Flight Sergeant Charles Pennycook
- Warrant Officer Class II John Lyle Perrin
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Pickles
- Corporal Harry Pountain
- Sergeant Leslie POW
- Flight Sergeant John Kenneth Prudhoe
- Sergeant Pierre Louis Joseph Marie Quenet
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Ranger
- Flight Lieutenant John Rintoul
- Sergeant John Hill Rogers
- Warrant Officer William Thomas Saunders
- Corporal Walter Bert Sayer
- Warrant Officer Class II Paul Howard Sheldon
- Sergeant John George Shepherd
- Leading Aircraftman Percy William Shepherd
- Corporal Leslie Joseph Dozell Smith
- Flying Officer Donald Burton Stewart
- Warrant Officer William Stott
- Flight Sergeant John Timothy Sullivan
- Flying Officer Robert Wood Tait
- Flight Sergeant Garth Shearly Taylor
- Sergeant Ernest Thorpe
- Sergeant Fred Tweedale
- Flying Officer James Bayly Watchorn
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Charles Webb
- Flight Lieutenant Leonard Sidney Webb
- Flying Officer Francis Maxwell Webber
- Sergeant Derek Wigglesworth
- Flying Officer Cecil James Morley Wilkie
- Sergeant David Lessels Wilkie
- Sergeant Stanley Wilkinson
- Sergeant Cyril Raymond Winterbottom
- Sergeant Ralph Frederick Worsey
- Flight Sergeant Charles Christopher Wren
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Yates
1944
- Flying Officer Robert Ranui Bradshaw
- Flying Officer Richard Gladstone Campbell
- Flying Officer Hugh Thomas Conlin
- Flying Officer George Ross Duncan
- Sergeant Ernest Finney
- Flying Officer Andrew Gaddess
- Warrant Officer Class I Richard James Gregory
- Lieutenant Hopkins
- Warrant Officer Louis Irving
- Pilot Officer William Russell Karstens
- Sergeant Leslie Mathias Langley
- Flying Officer Joseph Armand Roger Lucien La Palme
- Flying Officer William George Layng
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Alden Macleod
- Pilot Officer Robert McCloy
- Flight Lieutenant John Richard Murray
- Flight Sergeant George Noble
- Sergeant Glenn Edward Opie
- Corporal John Walter Phillips
- Pilot Officer Gordon Ernest Pratt
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Harry Ridgway
- Pilot Officer George Arthur Slater
- Pilot Officer Floyd Alexander Steels
- Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
- Flying Officer Burnham John Malcolm Thorp
- Pilot Officer Thomas Bernard Tierney
- Pilot Officer Donald Alexander Trott
- Sergeant Zahleck Wasserman
- Sergeant Lewis Phillip Willetts
- Sergeant Edward Cecil Wright
1945
- Flying Officer Donald Carlos Gordon
- Flight Sergeant William Henry Maroney
- Corporal Wiremu Pomare Paku
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Gilbert Dwight Sheppard