On this day — 2 December
348 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 2 December during the Second World War.
1940
- Corporal William Bullock Brunning
- Flying Officer Hubert Davenport Buswell
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Anthony Chant
- Sergeant Alfred Scott Dunleavy
- Sergeant Ernest Thomas Farmes
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur William Gibbons
- Sergeant Gordon Palmer
1941
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Dennis Henry Annetts
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Arnell
- Sergeant Harold Ashton
- Sergeant Leonard Briggs
- Pilot Officer Arthur John Dearden
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Alfred Drury
- Sergeant Leonard Howard Fowler
- Sergeant William Robert Furzey
- Sergeant Harry Roy Grindrod
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Hepburn
- Sergeant Geoffrey Edward Hiller
- Lieutenant Hinde
- Wing Commander John Collins Mayhew
- Sergeant John Francis McGee
- Flight Lieutenant John Reginald Noble
- Aircraftman 2nd Class David Kibblewhite Pounds
- Pilot Officer Robert Morris Thomas
- Flight Sergeant Edwin Whysall Walters
- Lieutenant Wood
1942
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Edward Arridge
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Henry Batty
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Sydney Bell
- Corporal Gerald Robert Benstead
- Warrant Officer Class I George Thomas Campbell
- Pilot Officer Wladyslaw Marya Maurycy Ciechanowski
- Corporal James Harry (jim) Crebbin
- Flight Sergeant Harold Thomas Cunningham
- Flight Sergeant Christopher Higham Curling
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Raymond Davies
- Flying Officer John James Earls
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur McLeod Emslie
- Corporal Douglas Gardiner
- Sergeant Herbert William Goodman
- Corporal Arthur Gilbert Hewitt
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry William Edmund Hubble
- Corporal James Henry Jones
- Flying Officer Richard Lander King
- Sergeant Harry Newell
- Sergeant Eugene Thomas John O'Donoghue
- Leading Aircraftman Edgar Herbert Harrison Phillips
- Leading Aircraftman William Pratt
- Sergeant Edward Callougher Purvis
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Rees
- Aircraftman 1st Class Stanley Arthur Taylor
- Pilot Officer William Thomas Taylor
- Lieutenant Guy S. F. Tolmer
- Leading Aircraftman Sidney Herbert Tyne
- Sergeant Harry Walters
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley William Wellington
- Flying Officer Harold Lindsay Cathcart Woolley
- Flying Officer Thomas Arthur Buzzard Young
1943
- Sergeant William Ainscow
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Derek Hudson Alford
- Flight Sergeant Gerald Walter Allso
- Leading Aircraftman Cyril Francis Ashby
- Flying Officer Graham Leslie Ashman
- Flying Officer Shirley Waldemar Frank Baker
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Frederick Bamber
- Flight Sergeant Richard Hooton Banks
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Thomas Bassage
- Sergeant Frederick Donald Beattie
- Flight Sergeant James Murray Beatty
- Air Mechanic Albert Lawrence Bee
- Warrant Officer John Edward Bellamy
- Sergeant Henry Benedict Bellew
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Sidney Bennett
- Flying Officer Richard Trevor Bennett
- Warrant Officer Class II Roland Edward Black
- Sergeant James Lawson Blackwood
- Flying Officer Harry Frederick Charles Bonner
- Flying Officer John Frank Bower
- Sergeant Stuart Osmond Joseph Boxshall
- Flying Officer James Owen Boyd
- Sergeant Terence Charles Bramley
- Sergeant Frederick Lionel Brisco
- Sergeant George Henry Brittle
- Sergeant James Broadhurst
- Flight Sergeant Allan John James Brown
- Sergeant Harry Brown
- Sergeant Leonard Charles Brown
- Sergeant Charles Butler
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Francis Canavan
- Sergeant Bernard Carroll
- Sergeant John Harrison Catto
- Sergeant Jack Harvey Chambers
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Augustus Chapman
- Sergeant William Edward Cheal
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Cheetham
- Sergeant George Alfred Chilvers
- Pilot Officer William Alfred Clark
- Warrant Officer William Robertson Clarke
- Flight Sergeant Harold Leonard Clayton
- Sergeant John Cockroft
- Sergeant Arthur George Cole
- Flight Sergeant Ray Osmond Cole
- Pilot Officer Albert Thomas Stanley Collier
- Leading Aircraftman Anthony Christopher Convey
- Flying Officer Charles Clifton Cooper
- Sergeant George Hartley Cooper
- Sergeant Cyril Charles Corrie
- Squadron Leader Edward Geoffrey Manson Corser
- Pilot Officer Frank Geoffrey Cox
- Sergeant William Augustus Cox
- Sergeant David George Craig
- Sergeant John Miles Crossley
- Sergeant George Alfred Crowe
- Flying Officer Jerome Thomas Ellis Cumming-bart
- Sergeant Robert Curle
- Sergeant William Bryce Currie
- Pilot Officer Jack Proctor Dalton
- Sergeant Jack Bays Daniel
- Flying Officer Ulric John Gerry Davison
- Sergeant Michael John Day
- Flying Officer John William Frederick Deane
- Flying Officer Frederick Arthur Dell
- Leading Aircraftman Earl Joseph Deplanche
- Sergeant William Dowson
- Flying Officer Harry Oxley Dransfield
- Sergeant Edwin Draper
- Sergeant Jeffrey Alfred Duddridge
- Pilot Officer Allan Uriah Duncan
- Flying Officer Bernard Paul Duval
- Flight Sergeant Neville John Edmonds
- Flight Sergeant Colin Howard Edwards
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Edwards
- Pilot Officer Leslie Jewitt Ellis
- Sergeant George Alfred England
- Pilot Officer James Herbert John English
- Sergeant Lewis William Fisher
- Sergeant John Herbert Flack
- Sergeant John Ford
- Sergeant Alexander Harold Forward
- Flying Officer James Arthur Foulston
- Sergeant Herbert Fox
- Flight Lieutenant George Albert James Frazer-hollins
- Sergeant Ernest Lawrence French
- Sergeant John William Garland
- Squadron Leader John Munro Garlick
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Garnett
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Goldsmith
- Flight Sergeant James Robertson Goodwin
- Sergeant William Ellis Gough
- Sergeant Edward William Graves
- Flight Sergeant Peter Ritchie Gray
- Sergeant William Henry Green
- Sergeant Ivor Francis Groves
- Flying Officer Edward Vincent Harley
- Flight Sergeant William Walter Harrington
- Sergeant Herbert Charles Haslam
- Sergeant Ronald William Hayes
- Flying Officer Albert William Hazell
- Sergeant Eric Heap
- Sergeant Eric Hibbert
- Sergeant Dennis John Hobbs
- Flying Officer Alan Thomas Hook
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Thomas Hopps
- Flying Officer Francis David Kilmaine Howe-browne
- Sergeant Robert Hughes
- Leading Aircraftman Wallace Walter Hutchings
- Sergeant Robert Stanton Imeson
- Pilot Officer Robert Ernest Inglis
- Sergeant Thomas Richard Jackson
- Sergeant Harry Johnson
- Pilot Officer Leslie Joseph Johnson
- Flying Officer Robert Winn Johnson
- Sergeant William Paul Johnson
- Sergeant Robert Warren Jones
- Lieutenant Jordan
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Elias Kan
- Flying Officer Gordon Harry Kay
- Sergeant Harry Arnold Keast
- Sergeant Kenneth George Vincent Keir
- Warrant Officer Leslie Arnold Kent
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Kershaw
- Sergeant Harry George Keymer
- Sergeant Robert Henry Kibby
- Sergeant John Clarence Knox
- Lieutenant Russell E. Laing
- Corporal Frederick Lambert
- Warrant Officer Leonard Lawrence
- Pilot Officer Peter Alan Lee
- Sergeant Andrew Christie Leitch
- Corporal Richard Shearer Leonard
- Pilot Officer Roy Arthur Lewis
- Flight Sergeant Ross Franklin Linton
- Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Pomeroy Lowle
- Sergeant Albert George Luke
- Captain Hector Omdurman Macdonald
- Pilot Officer Arthur Mann
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Carrick Martin
- Sergeant Sydney Martin
- Warrant Officer Class II Francis Cole McCubbin
- Sergeant Arnold Brough McDonald
- Sergeant Alexander McDougall
- Flight Sergeant John Irvine McKee
- Flight Sergeant Frank Thomas Andrew McKernan
- Flight Sergeant Clarence Ray McLaren
- Flying Officer Reginald Willis McManaman
- Sergeant George Merrill
- Flying Officer Alan Roy Mitchell
- Flight Sergeant Harold Alexander Moad
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Moody
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Moore
- Warrant Officer Class II Albert Raymond (bert) Morgan
- Sergeant William John Morgan
- Pilot Officer Cecil Henry Mortimer
- Flight Sergeant Stephen Vincent Moss
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Godfrey Motley
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Victor Murrell
- Sergeant William George Neale
- Pilot Officer Ronald Frederick Neil
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Francis Newell
- Warrant Officer Denis John Nixon
- Sergeant Edward North
- Sergeant Douglas John Nuttman
- Flying Officer Julian Aylmer Osborn
- Pilot Officer Douglas Park
- Pilot Officer Ernest Harold Patrick
- Sergeant Derek Edward Percy Pearson
- Major Rupert Maliss Perkins
- Sergeant Norman Farrar Petty
- Flight Sergeant Ian Rupert Phelan
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Swaine Pilcher
- Sergeant Leslie Price
- Sergeant Edwin Walter Pritchard
- Sergeant Raymond Price Prothero
- Flight Sergeant Clarke Edward Quickfall
- Sergeant Robert Edward Rand
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Peter Ready
- Flight Sergeant James Gordon Redfern
- Sergeant George Henry Reveley
- Pilot Officer Desmond Albert Richardson
- Flight Sergeant James Richmond
- Flying Officer Leonard Rodmond Rinn
- Sergeant Thomas Manuel Robbins
- Pilot Officer Frederick John Roberts
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Jack Robertson
- Flying Officer Donald Frederick Robins
- Pilot Officer Walter Ernest Robinson
- Squadron Leader George Alan Roden
- Warrant Officer Class II Ivan Rodin
- Flying Officer Trevor Rosser
- Sergeant Alfred Sugden Rushby
- Sergeant Walter Leonard Sargent
- Second Lieutenant Edward Lawrence Saul
- Sergeant James Lynch Selkirk
- Flying Officer Malcolm Crimmins Shaw
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Douglas Shears
- Sergeant Malcolm James Sheryn
- Sergeant Thomas John Skyrme
- Lieutenant John E. Slater
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Slegg
- Sergeant Philip John Smart
- Sergeant Edward Smith
- Flight Sergeant Frank Smith
- Flight Sergeant William James Smith
- Flight Lieutenant Brian James Staniland
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Arthur James Stapleford
- Sergeant Harry Ernest Steele
- Pilot Officer Harley Vernon Stinson
- Sergeant Wilmer Edmond Stinson
- Sergeant Leslie Charles John Street
- Sergeant George Henry Stubbs
- Sergeant Eric Sullivan
- Flight Sergeant Victor Francis Suttor
- Pilot Officer Ernest Henry Tansley
- Sergeant Robert Tarling
- Flying Officer Ewart Arthur Taylor
- Flying Officer William John Taylor
- Warrant Officer Robert Kyffin Thomas
- Sergeant Roy Thomas
- Flight Sergeant Balder Thomasberg
- Pilot Officer Henry Tiller
- Flight Sergeant Walter Robert Tinman
- Flying Officer John Tomalin
- Sergeant Richard Henry Tomlin
- Sergeant Edward Arthur Topham
- Sergeant Frank Turner
- Sergeant Henri Antonius Van Hal
- Air Mechanic Van Zyl
- Flying Officer Robert Frederick Waddington
- Sergeant Jack Wadsworth
- Flying Officer Arthur James Wakefield
- Flight Sergeant William Arthur Walke
- Flying Officer Donald Cameron Walker
- Flight Sergeant John Wallace
- Sergeant Robert Sugden Ward
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Wardrop
- Pilot Officer Alexander McCracken Watson
- Sergeant Richard William Webb
- Sergeant Peter Rodney Webber
- Flying Officer Arnold Weldon
- Sergeant Phillip Eric Wells
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Frederick Wells
- Sergeant Roy Horace Wells
- Flying Officer Gerald Arthur West
- Sergeant Ronald Gordon Whitmarsh
- Sergeant Harold William Whitmore
- Warrant Officer Reginald Russell Wicks
- Sergeant Alan Wiles
- Flying Officer John Alfred Williams
- Sergeant Stanley Williams
- Sergeant Leo Wilton
- Sergeant John Owens Winters
- Sergeant Herbert William Witham
- Sergeant Kenneth Wood
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Alan Wood
- Sergeant Albert Woodley
- Sergeant Eric George Wyatt
- Flight Sergeant William Arthur Young
1944
- Pilot Officer Joseph William Ash
- Flight Lieutenant Walter Herbert Cook
- Sergeant Robert William Davidson
- Flying Officer Louis Oswald Day
- Flying Officer John Ernest Freeman
- Second Lieutenant Owen Goschen
- Flying Officer John Edward Grant
- Flight Lieutenant John Carmichael Griffith
- Warrant Officer Class I Frederick Russell Hall
- Pilot Officer David Philip Lee Hawkins
- Corporal Ronald Lamond Thomson Joy
- Captain John Frederick Kinnery
- Flight Lieutenant John Allan Kirkcaldie
- Wing Commander John Albert Wyatt Lawrence
- Pilot Officer John Ambrose Mahoney
- Wing Commander Alan Michael Murphy
- Flying Officer Robert Leslie Nash
- Sergeant Joseph Roger Marcel Patenaude
- Flying Officer John Benjamin Pittman
- Pilot Officer Frank Ferrier Porter
- Flight Lieutenant George Balfour Nicol Ramsay
- Flying Officer Robert Howard Shiells
- Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
- Flying Officer Mortimer Samuel Sucharov
- Sergeant Joseph Romeo Antoine Trudel
- Flying Officer Stewart Tulloch