On this day — 5 November
183 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 November during the Second World War.
1939
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Clarence Bailey
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Henry Dye
- Leading Aircraftman David George
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alan Hardman
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Aubrey Neville McQuade
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Henry Charles Newman
- Sergeant Edward Thomas Summers
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Watson
1940
- Pilot Officer Donald McIntosh Gray
- Pilot Officer Norris Hart
- Sergeant Andrew William Hay
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Leslie Hayes
- Pilot Officer Frantisek Hradil
- Sergeant Edward Kenny
- Sergeant Charles McCulloch
- Sergeant Stanley Nicholls
- Flying Officer Albert Robert Nivison-smith
- Sergeant Thomas Henry Sansum
- Corporal William James Thomas Stevens
- Sergeant Edwin Horatio Sturt
- Sergeant Gilbert Ernest Turner
- Leading Aircraftman John Samuel Eagle Whitmore
- Sergeant Stanley Allan Wormald
1941
- Flight Sergeant Richard Leonard Armsby
- Sergeant George Henry Sydney Bennett
- Pilot Officer John Daniel Berry
- Second Lieutenant Blake
- Air Sergeant Brand
- Sergeant Guy Nelson Bryan
- Air Sergeant Clarence
- Pilot Officer Patrick Hourston Moar Clark
- Pilot Officer James Francis Codville
- Sergeant William Philip Dales
- Sergeant Albert Frederick Daniels
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Darbyshire
- Wing Commander Rupert Stanley Darbyshire
- Sergeant James Eric Davis
- Sergeant Eric William Elkington
- Pilot Officer Llewellyn Newton Evans
- Sergeant Robert Lionel Frank
- Flight Sergeant Francis James Hazlett
- Sergeant Thomas Edward Hedefine
- Flying Officer George Anthony Hoar
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Roderick William Holt
- Flight Sergeant Francis Thomas James
- Pilot Officer John Joseph Kelly
- Air Sergeant Lloyd
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Albert Lowe
- Flight Sergeant James Garfield Mackay
- Flight Sergeant Stanley Robert Mandall
- Second Lieutenant Meintjes
- Sergeant Thomas George Miskin
- Sergeant Reginald John Morris
- Flight Sergeant William John Pearce
- Pilot Officer Henry Leslie Powell
- Sergeant Joseph Sansome
- Flying Officer Edward Lees Shea
- Leading Aircraftman John Angus Macdonald Teacher
- Sergeant Harry Vickers
- Pilot Officer Harry Walter
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Richardson Yeates
1942
- Sergeant John Robert Reginald Allison
- Flight Sergeant Harold Paull Stanfield Annells
- Sergeant James Canavan
- Pupil Pilot Carr
- Sergeant Douglas Croot
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Dickinson
- Warrant Officer Class II George Walter Harttung
- Sergeant Edmund Cheley Hoffman
- Flying Officer Albert Alexander Horvath
- Flying Officer Bertram Arnold Kirkham
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Anthony McArdle
- Sergeant Kenneth Milburn
- Warrant Officer Class II Roderick Charles Mutch
- Flying Officer Laurence Cuthbert Pyke
- Sergeant Neil Wedgwood Reid
- Flying Officer Donald Frederick Rowe
- Warrant Officer Class II Stanley Herbert Spallin
- Sergeant Robert Henry Stevens
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Arthur Stillman
- Leading Aircraftman George Terence Young
1943
- Flight Sergeant George Frederick Austin
- Captain Henry Barnard
- Flight Sergeant John Blackshaw
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Frederick Brown
- Flight Sergeant Ian McGregor Burch
- Sergeant Patrick Maurice Butler
- Pilot Officer Keith Baines Callaghan
- Flight Sergeant Ian Hope Callister
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Godfrey Carter
- Leading Aircraftman Leslie Eric Childe
- Sergeant Josiah Wilmore Cope
- Flight Sergeant Ivan Frederick Cummins
- Pilot Officer Hugh Eagleson
- Sergeant Cyril Reginald Edbrooke
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Graham Fox
- Warrant Officer Class II Harvey Chambers Freeman
- Flight Lieutenant John Gordon
- Sergeant Walter Gordon
- Flying Officer Peter Thomas Leeds Hallett
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Richard John Harrild
- Flying Officer Ralph Gamble Hayes
- Warrant Officer Thomas Francis Jefferson
- Pilot Officer Robert Ewen Jobling
- Flight Sergeant Robert Eynon John
- Sergeant Walter Jones
- Pilot Officer Harold Nevill Longley
- Sergeant Frederick Ernest Macartney
- Flight Sergeant John James Mann
- Flying Officer Apollon Paul Mazur
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Menere
- Corporal Montague Merrick
- Pilot Officer Donald Francis Moore
- Flying Officer William George Palmer
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Raymond Patience
- Squadron Leader Herbert Peter Peters
- Flying Officer Bertram Hamilton Pringle
- Flight Lieutenant Derrick Joseph Oswald Pyne
- Flying Officer Arthur William Frederick Quick
- Flying Officer Maurice George Rendall
- Sergeant Arthur Richmond
- Flight Sergeant Philip James Russ
- Flying Officer Peter Warren Sykes Smallwood
- Leading Aircraftman Alec Samuel Smith
- Sergeant Victor Jack Southgate
- Flying Officer Kenneth Stakes
- Pilot Officer John Alexander Swift
- Flight Lieutenant Paul Rowland Taylor
- Sergeant John Arthur Thompson
- Flight Lieutenant John Passmore Tremlett
- Flight Sergeant John Joseph Walsh
- Flying Officer Douglas Clement Welch
- Leading Aircraftman Robert George Williams
- Sergeant Jack Winstanley
- Flying Officer Percival Maurice Wroath
- Flying Officer William Yurchison
1944
- Flying Officer James Llewellyn Allan
- Flight Sergeant John Banfield
- Leading Aircraftman Rosslyn Glover Banford
- Flying Officer Anthony Carlyle Cameron
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Orme Cato
- Corporal Lewis Charles Liversedge Cawthorn
- Pilot Officer Robert James Chalmers
- Flying Officer Antony Dutton Chapman
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Gavin Cedric Clarke
- Flight Sergeant Anthony Young Cousins
- Pilot Officer James Patrick Durkin
- Flight Sergeant Kevin James Gerathy
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Giffard
- Flying Officer Robert John Granger
- Flight Sergeant John Donald Hance
- Flight Sergeant Harry Kenneth Harley
- Pilot Officer Donald Keith Harris
- Warrant Officer Roydon Sargood Hornabrook
- Aircraftman 1st Class James John Kelly
- Pilot Officer David Thomas Lee
- Sergeant Francis William Louch
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Rowland Bond Loving
- Sergeant Ivor Matthews
- Pilot Officer Evered Austin McCasker
- Flight Sergeant John Stirling McLay
- Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Morris
- Leading Aircraftman Allan Francis Joseph O'Shea
- Sergeant Kenneth Albert Poulden
- Flight Lieutenant Neil Robison
- Pilot Officer Gilmer Arnold Running
- Flight Sergeant Edward Maxwell Ryder
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Samuel Scott
- Warrant Officer Derek George Stewart
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Roy Stone
- Warrant Officer Robert Douglas Stopher
- Flight Sergeant Howard Jeffrey Tolhurst
- Lieutenant Henry David Wheeler
1945
- Flying Officer Walter Fred Conley
- Corporal William John Ellis
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Hulme
- Flying Officer Wallace Ewing Lang
- Flight Lieutenant Mervyn Cyril Steward Long
- Flight Sergeant Arnold Emerson Stinson
- Sergeant Alfred Williams