On this day — 3 November
277 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 November during the Second World War.
1939
- Pilot Officer George Francis Astley Barwell
- Leading Aircraftman George William Bowman
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stephen Colin Colbridge
- Corporal Denis Dermot Kane
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Canning Lewis
- Sergeant Thomas Edward Page
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur James Saffin
- Flight Lieutenant John Maclachlan Harvey Sinclair
- Aircraftman 1st Class Cornelius Wilson
1940
- Pilot Officer David Ross Allen
- Sergeant Ernest John Bayliss
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Maurice Arthur Dyas
- Pilot Officer Anthony Hugh Hamilton Garrad
- Pilot Officer Henry Gordon Gilbert
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Lemuel Godfrey
- Sergeant John Henry Green
- Sergeant Peter Louis Gregory
- Sergeant James Greig
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Knowles
- Sergeant Harold Frederick John Moynham
- Squadron Leader David Alwyne Pemberton
- Squadron Leader George Read
- Sergeant Basil Edward Redgrove
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Rankin McHarry Rowlands
- Sergeant Henry Frank Thorndyke
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Ronald Noel Tooth
- Corporal Robert Charles Whittington
- Pilot Officer Lionel Graham Williams
1941
- Sergeant Neville Bradley
- Sergeant Ralph Broxap
- Flight Sergeant Ben Clark
- Sergeant Gavin David Colville
- Sergeant Harold Alexander Cook
- Sergeant Allister George Dumville
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Henry Fisher
- Sergeant Charles Colborne Gardner
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Reginald Gerrish
- Flying Officer John Harrop
- Flying Officer Francis Norman Heapey
- Sergeant Laurence Geoffrey Hillier
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Victor Hinks
- Sergeant William Henry Jeffries
- Leading Aircraftman Harold Henry Killick
- Sergeant Eric Alfred Main
- Sergeant Joseph Roy Mansfield
- Sergeant James Elsdon Mears
- Sergeant Thomas Wilson Robson
- Major Schempers
- Second Lieutenant Patrick Sherry
- Sergeant James Gordon Smith
- Sergeant Gwilym Enric Sully
- Pilot Officer Patrick Charles Daniel Thornton
- Aircraftman 1st Class Dennis Tudor
- Pilot Officer Jhr. Hans Walter Van Panhuys
- Flying Officer Henry Edward Prescod Williams
- Sergeant George Eric Williamson
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Acker
- Flying Officer Roland Dean Ambrose
- Corporal Edward William Ashfield
- Lieutenant Douglas George Bailey
- Sergeant Thomas Bailey
- Pilot Officer Norman Charles Beck
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert Gerard Belec
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Hodgson Bird
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Breen
- Sergeant Alan Norman Brown
- Sergeant Hedley Walter Carter
- Flight Sergeant Clutterbuck
- Sergeant Charles Lynn Cockburn
- Pilot Officer Lorenzo Diaz Coupland
- Sergeant Leslie Cousins
- Flying Officer Gilbert Francis Daw
- Sergeant Thomas Elder
- Flying Officer Patrick Joseph Farren
- Sergeant Francis John Faye
- Leading Aircraftman Marshall Douglas Fleming
- Warrant Officer Class II John Joseph William Forster
- Sergeant Leonard George Frederick Gravett
- Sergeant Thomas Smith Gregory
- Pilot Officer Frederick Alfred Griffin
- Sergeant Frantisek Horky
- Flying Officer Clifford Leonard Horncastle
- Flight Sergeant Eric Arthur Howard
- Flight Sergeant Leslie Eric Letchford Huddleston
- Lieutenant James
- Sergeant Adam Keen
- Flight Lieutenant James Macnichol Kellas
- Wing Commander Cyril Frank King
- Pilot Officer Richard Barthold Klintworth
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Chilrose Lawrence
- Flying Officer Douglas Leslie McGregor
- Sergeant Bruce Oliver Kingsley McRoberts
- Flying Officer Alexander Duncan Melville
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Austen Seymour Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Nichols
- Sergeant Austin Michael Nott
- Aircraftman 1st Class William James Olliver
- Sergeant James Osborn
- Flight Sergeant Donald Frederick Page
- Pilot Officer Arthur Laurence Rebman
- Flight Sergeant Robert George Stuart Rennie
- Warrant Officer Norman William Robins
- Air Mechanic Robinson
- Flight Lieutenant Terence Aubrey David Sassoon
- Warrant Officer Leslie Morgan Saxby
- Flight Sergeant Carl Clynton Shook
- Lieutenant Smuts
- Leading Aircraftman John Francis Swain
- Sergeant Kenneth James Thorne
- Sergeant Douglas Thursfield
- Sergeant Michael Bernard Valette
- Flying Officer Egbert Watts Wall
- Pilot Officer Walter Leonard Wallis
- Flight Sergeant Henry William Ward
- Sergeant Harold Hayden Warren
- Corporal Thomas Edwin Watson
- Sergeant Alan Weller
- Sergeant John Brinley Williams
- Flying Officer Raymond Oliver Worthington
- Warrant Officer Class II Basil Ralph Yorke
1943
- Sergeant Eric William Hardy Bates
- Sergeant Gerald Percy Baylis
- Sergeant Stanley Beedle
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm Owen Morley Bell
- Flight Sergeant John Gladstone Blackwood
- Flying Officer Charles Ward Blagborne
- Lieutenant Frans Booyse
- Sergeant George Edwin Boucher
- Sergeant George Ernest Boxer
- Pilot Officer Roy Arthur Brawn
- Air Sergeant Breedt
- Lieutenant Colonel Johannes Frederick Britz
- Flight Sergeant George James Byers
- Pilot Officer Robert Cameron
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Henry Carfoot
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Nixon Carr
- Pilot Officer William George Clutterbuck
- Flight Sergeant James Maurice Cummings
- Sergeant Thomas William Davis
- Sergeant Sydney John Day
- Flying Officer Donald Willoughby Ditzler
- Sergeant Nevill William Dowie
- Sergeant Dennis Drury
- Flight Sergeant Edward Anzac Dunlop
- Flying Officer Robert George Eaton
- Sergeant Charles Roder Melville Edgar
- Flying Officer Rex Harcourt Edmeades
- Sergeant John Edmunds
- Sergeant Richard Walker Elder
- Leading Aircraftman Dennis Elliott
- Sergeant John Charles Ellis
- Flying Officer Bruce Alan Elmore
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Henry Evans
- Sergeant Samuel Eyre
- Leading Aircraftman Andrew Fallon
- Flight Lieutenant Roland John Fielder
- Warrant Officer Class II Charles Edward Flewin
- Sergeant Arthur Fogg
- Flight Sergeant James Galloway
- Sergeant Melvin Ellis Gee
- Sergeant Robert Coats Graham
- Sergeant Lawrence Ernest Hance
- Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Arthur Harden
- Sergeant James Henry Harper
- Pilot Officer Alan Grant Harris
- Lieutenant Harrison
- Sergeant Gordon Edward Haskings
- Sergeant Francis Patrick Heaton
- Sergeant Edward James Helm
- Flight Sergeant James William Sutherland Henderson
- Flight Lieutenant Donald Elliott Hicks
- Pilot Officer Tom William Hilliard
- Flying Officer Allen Keith Hodgkinson
- Flight Sergeant George Thomas Hooper
- Sergeant Charles Roy East Hunt
- Sergeant John Hutton
- Flying Officer William Harvey Jacobs
- Pilot Officer John Alan Jeffreys
- Sergeant Ronald Jobson
- Flight Sergeant William Whitelaw Johnston
- Pilot Officer Robert John Jones
- Sergeant Jeffrey George Kirby
- Sergeant Derek Kneale
- Flying Officer William Laskie
- Squadron Leader William James Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Stephen McCarthy List
- Sergeant Reginald Littlehales
- Air Corporal Louw
- Pilot Officer Stephen John Lucas
- Warrant Officer Class II Steven William Lucyk
- Flight Sergeant Colin Murray Macdonald
- Pilot Officer Alan Edward Mackenzie
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Mallin
- Sergeant Wilfred Henry Marson
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Frank Stuart Maunders
- Sergeant Ronald William McDonald
- Sergeant Harry Francis McKernin
- Warrant Officer Class I Gerald Frederick McKinnon
- Warrant Officer Class II Norman Stanley McLeod
- Flight Sergeant Charles Percy Miller
- Sergeant Herbert Minns
- Sergeant George Morrison
- Sergeant Edward Alan John Murray
- Warrant Officer Class I Gerald Thompson Mutton
- Flying Officer Douglas Arthur Naismith
- Sergeant William Frederick Neill
- Pilot Officer Charles Peter North
- Sergeant Bernard O'Connell
- Second Lieutenant William Oswald
- Sergeant Joseph Edward Owen
- Sergeant Thomas Raymond Oxley
- Sergeant Jack Parsons
- Sergeant Victor George Penny
- Pilot Officer Alfred Herbert Petty
- Captain Pickup
- Sergeant Peter Henry Potter
- Sergeant Christopher Joseph Poulton
- Sergeant Sidney Aaron Robbins
- Sergeant Harry George Rogers
- Flying Officer Colin Patrick Ross
- Flying Officer James Earl Sauve
- Pilot Officer Alan John Scott
- Sergeant Norman John Shakespeare
- Sergeant William Shaw
- Flight Sergeant John Shepherd
- Sergeant Harry Bernard Shimwell
- Sergeant Leonard Frank Shirley
- Sergeant Raymond Skelton
- Pilot Officer Frank Walton Smily
- Sergeant James McGregor Smith
- Sergeant Robert Clifford Smith
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Henry Smitherman
- Flight Lieutenant James Steele
- Warrant Officer Alexander George Sutherland
- Flight Sergeant Roy Arthur Tann
- Flight Lieutenant Cecil George Thomas
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Ralph Henry Todhunter
- Sergeant Favel Tomachepolsky
- Sergeant George Herbert Casebourne Wade
- Flight Sergeant John Walker
- Sergeant Eric George Wall
- Flight Sergeant Ronald Walton
- Sergeant Frederick Arthur Watkins
- Sergeant Allan Desmond Weigh
- Pilot Officer Henry Maxwell Welch
- Sergeant Cyril Terence Wheldon
- Flying Officer Lester Lyle Whitham
- Flight Sergeant Wilfrid Hubert John Williams
- Sergeant Adam Ness Williamson
- Sergeant Henry Leonard Wood
- Sergeant Ronald Victor Woods
- Flying Officer Peter Meredith Wooldridge
- Sergeant Richard Donald Yates
- Warrant Officer Class II Robert Allen Young
1944
- Flying Officer William Selby Pace Bonar
- Lieutenant Ernest Borland
- Leading Aircraftman Bernard Vincent Brown
- Pilot Officer Albert Jean William Cayer
- Sergeant Stanley George Claughton
- Sergeant Lawrence Edgar Eddie
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Goddard
- Lieutenant John A. P. Gustafson
- Sergeant David Hamilton
- Corporal William Hodgson
- Sergeant John Richard Lock Leonard
- Air Marshal Sir Francis John Linnell
- Flying Officer Richard Owen Lloyd
- Flying Officer Ralph Nelson Macdonald
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Terence Maher
- Sergeant Vere William Mullany
- Flight Sergeant Charles Frederick St. John
- Group Captain Wilfred Edward Surplice
- Air Corporal Nicolas A. (nico) Van Der Westhuizen
- Sergeant Stephen Hartley Samuel Webster
- Flying Officer Archie Whitelaw