On this day — 5 October
198 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 October during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Sergeant Alan Algar
- Sergeant Harry Bennett
- Pilot Officer Andrew Stenhouse Boak
- Flying Officer Gilbert Keith Brackenridge
- Sergeant Francis John Brooker
- Sergeant Donald Bruce
- Sergeant William Arthur Cannon
- Sergeant Albert Richard Sidney Hall
- Pilot Officer John McIntosh
- Sergeant Robert John Neale
- Sergeant Walter Benedict Rayment
- Sergeant Andrew Russell
- Sergeant John Craig Scott
- Sergeant Charles Alfred Sherwood
- Pilot Officer Norman Sutton
- Sergeant Dudley Valentine
- Flight Lieutenant William Kynaston Williams
- Sergeant Charles Harold Wise
- Sergeant George Wood
- Flight Sergeant Philip Herbert Yorath
1941
- Leading Aircraftman William John Brennan
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Chapman
- Sergeant Brian Chadwick Gray
- Sergeant Travis Arnold Hutton Hiddleston
- Sergeant Lucien Georges Levy
- Air Sergeant George William Masencamp
- Leading Aircraftman Payakapran Shivanande
- Lieutenant Isaac Posel
- Leading Aircraftman Oswald Rose
- Sergeant James Munro Smith
- Squadron Leader Francis Joseph Soper
- Sergeant Patrick Peter Stuivenga
- Sergeant John Paul Townsend
- Sergeant Frank Deryck Ward
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Herbert Whittingham
1942
- Sergeant John Marshall Armstrong
- Flight Sergeant Charles Wendell Austin
- Sergeant Joseph George Wilfred Beauregard
- Sergeant John Norman Bourne
- Flying Officer Neville James Briant
- Flight Sergeant Howard Broom
- Flight Lieutenant Royston Denis William Carrington
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Geater Chacksfield
- Flight Sergeant Albert Clifford Challis
- Sergeant Walter Chester
- Pilot Officer William Edward Ambrose Chiddick
- Sergeant Victor Joseph Coombs
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Edward Crewe
- Leading Aircraftman John Clark Darling
- Pilot Officer Allan Jack Davenport
- Sergeant John Robert Dawson
- Sergeant Augustus Harold James Desmond
- Flight Sergeant Robert Doherty
- Flying Officer Leslie Clement Dorward
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Fraser Edwards
- Sergeant Thomas Robert Elliott
- Sergeant Royal Tuiri Eria
- Sergeant Leonard Fitzgerald
- Sergeant William Gorman
- Sergeant James Gracey
- Sergeant Arthur Green
- Sergeant George Green
- Flight Sergeant John William Richard Haley
- Flight Sergeant Philip Louis Hall
- Sergeant Kenneth Thorpe Harbridge
- Flying Officer Kenneth Howard Harrison
- Sergeant Leo Henry Hawkins
- Flying Officer Albert Hewitt Henderson
- Sergeant Albert Edward Holding
- Flight Sergeant John Gordon Howells
- Sergeant Sidney George Hunt
- Pilot Officer Horace Johnson
- Squadron Leader Jack Gordon Kerry
- Sergeant James Francis Killilea
- Leading Aircraftman Kevin Lynch
- Sergeant Kenneth Oswald Mackay
- Sergeant John Ross Masters
- Flight Sergeant Guy James Herman McElroy
- Sergeant Norman Tolson McMaster
- Flying Officer Lynds Farquhar McRae
- Sergeant Morgan
- Sergeant Albert Edward Musgrave
- Leading Aircraftman Clarence Hulme Myatt
- Sergeant Thomas Eric O'Connell
- Flight Sergeant Michael Francis O'Driscoll
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Leonard O'Grady
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Idris Raglan Owen
- Flight Sergeant Sidney Alexander Palmer
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Thomas Palmer
- Sergeant Peter Richard Parsons
- Flight Sergeant Keith Arthur Peters
- Sergeant Henry Arthur Douglas Pocock
- Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Edward Powell
- Flying Officer Robert Gordon Riddell
- Sergeant Ivor Horace Ridge
- Flying Officer Bryan Glendenen Robinson
- Flight Sergeant George Erwin Robson
- Flight Sergeant Henry Sutherland Rodger
- Leading Aircraftman George Linden Russell
- Flight Sergeant James Bertram Sandiford
- Warrant Officer Frederick Arthur Schaw
- Sergeant Frank Raymond Scott
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Harold Gourley Shaw
- Sergeant James Thorpe
- Flying Officer Francis Lionel Todd
- Flying Officer Hugh Wingfield Tracy
- Flying Officer George William Turner
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Ward
- Sergeant Alan Waring
- Sergeant Mack William Watterworth
- Aircraftman 1st Class Charles White
- Pilot Officer Robert Whyte
- Flying Officer Ronald Ernest Williams
- Leading Aircraftman Michael R. Woozley
1943
- Corporal George Langstaff Alexander
- Flying Officer John Allan
- Flight Sergeant George William Bridgewater
- Sergeant James Whamond Cameron
- Sergeant Alfred Lawrence Capon
- Flying Officer Peter Anthony Chappell
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Charles Cox
- Sergeant John Allenby Cummer
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Doddington
- Pilot Officer William Harry Earl
- Aircraftman 1st Class Samuel Fennell
- Sergeant Ernest Hatfield Fenning
- Flying Officer John Lawrence Foster
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Albert Edward Frost
- Sergeant Lucien Pierre Guay
- Flight Lieutenant Peter Anthony Wansbrough Gwynne
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Raymond Arthur Hall
- Squadron Leader Ronald Hawkins
- Sergeant Clifford Henry Hayward
- Sergeant Hubert James Henshall
- Sergeant Clifford William Holdsworth
- Sergeant Eric George Lane
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Albert Larocque
- Sergeant Calvin Frederick Lee
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Macarthur
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Keith Morcombe
- Pilot Officer Vernon Ashley Mumford
- Pilot Officer Thomas Westcott Nixon
- Flight Sergeant John Kevin O'Sullivan
- Flying Officer Frederick John Parsons
- Pilot Officer David Renfrew Petrie
- Sergeant Leroy Edgar Plate
- Warrant Officer Herbert William Robinson
- Flying Officer William Smart Ruxton
- Sergeant Boris Karl Short
- Leading Aircraftman Royston Graham George Smith
- Sergeant Frank Squibbs
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Edward Thompson
- Second Lieutenant John Vanstone
- Lieutenant Arnold Welsford
- Corporal Charles Wilbert Welsh
- Sergeant Frank Henry Witcher
- Pilot Officer Gordon Park Woods
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Woosnam
1944
- Corporal James Allman
- Flight Sergeant Leo James Comeskey
- Flying Officer Matthew John Goldie Cooke
- Corporal Leonard Ferguson Crothers
- Pilot Officer John Garfield Curle
- Flight Sergeant Ross Walter Cuthbert
- Flight Sergeant William Alexander Dickson
- Flying Officer Jack Llewelyn Dougan
- Sergeant Charles Frederick Farley
- Warrant Officer Errol Percival Ford
- Pilot Officer Alan Russell Galletly
- Flying Officer Stanley David Gaudin
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Francis Geraghty
- Pilot Officer Marcel Gravel
- Flying Officer George Arthur Green
- Sergeant Douglas Allenby Guest
- Flying Officer Philip Frank Charles Haydock
- Flying Officer Royce Allen Johns
- Flying Officer William Emil Miroslav Kon
- Pilot Officer Thornburn Harcourt Macgowan
- Sergeant James Horne McClafferty
- Squadron Leader Walter Read Moseley-williams
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Edwin Mosley
- Pilot Officer George Trevor Parker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Derrick David Ray
- Flight Sergeant Lionel Kenneth Robson
- Sergeant Barry Rosenberg
- Flight Sergeant Frank Stuart Burdett Scougall
- Sergeant Leslie Roy Smith
- Sergeant William Arthur Stephens
- Pilot Officer Thomas Helier Vautier
- Flying Officer Harold Frederick Wakeman
- Pilot Officer John Sherwood Williamson
- Flight Sergeant Harry A. Wintermute
- Pilot Officer Joseph M. Zareikin