On this day — 3 December
180 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 3 December during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Aircraftman 1st Class Walter Douglas Victor Aldridge
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William Frederick Boseley
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Percy Griffiths
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Ian Reid-haven Harris
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred George Haslett
- Flying Officer Guy Hubbard
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Havelock Matson
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred John Patterson
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Smith
- Aircraftman 1st Class Peter Smyth
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Edward Whittaker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Basil Harvey Simmonds Worth
1941
- Aircraftman 1st Class Albert Everall Bennett
- Warrant Officer Robert Edward Lewis Boorman
- Leading Aircraftman Francis George Broomhall
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Doncaster
- Pilot Officer Wilfred Sefton Emmett
- Sergeant Sydney James Epps
- Sergeant Maurice Walter Gerald Fox
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Christopher Gallivan
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Walter Heaps
- Sergeant Eric Willows Jackson
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Walter Lea
- Leading Aircraftman Daniel Lipman
- Pilot Officer Eric Gerald Marker
- Squadron Leader Thomas Gilbert Pace
- Sergeant Robert Archibald Smart
- Pilot Officer John Strathdee
- Sergeant Robert Meek Tait
- Corporal Geoffrey Topham
- Leading Aircraftman Edwin Howard Tureczek
- Leading Aircraftman Andrew Patrick Walker
1942
- Sergeant John Martin Beart Albrecht
- Sergeant Felix Henry Aldous
- Sergeant Everard Aloysius Aspell
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Clephan William Hamilton Bell
- Sergeant Alfred Brindle
- Sergeant Erlin Leslie Ross Brown
- Corporal Edward Cross
- Flying Officer Robert Morison Cumming
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Daniels
- Flight Sergeant Lawrence Keith Day
- Sergeant Hedley Dyke
- Flight Sergeant Theodore Ian Mardon Edwards
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Elrick
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Forrester
- Flight Sergeant John Francis Garland
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ronald Joseph G. Gibbs
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Eric Godfrey
- Sergeant Alan Moffatt Hamilton
- Flight Sergeant Brian Hereman Hubert Hanan
- Sergeant Eric John Harrild
- Sergeant George William Harris
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Allengy Harris
- Flight Sergeant Albert Morse Borden Johnson
- Sergeant Robert Francis Hughes Kenyon
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Robert King
- Sergeant John Law
- Sergeant Thomas McCallum
- Warrant Officer Class II Athol Malver William McCrae
- Sergeant Alexander Watson McMorrine
- Aircraftman 1st Class Francis Meredith
- Corporal Albert Edward Mitchell
- Sergeant Reginald Ernest Mitchell
- Sergeant Laurence Clifford Molloy
- Sergeant Bernard Moore
- Flight Sergeant Harry Morrissy
- Sergeant John Brian Muir
- Sergeant Kenneth Hunton Park
- Flying Officer Donald Edward Pike
- Sergeant Cyril John Pope
- Flight Lieutenant John Harry Prentice
- Corporal Donald Arnold Riley
- Aircraftman 1st Class James Emslie Robb
- Sergeant George Allen Robson
- Sergeant Ronald Henry Sankey
- Sergeant Alexander Scott
- Sergeant Ronald Semley
- Flight Sergeant Eugene Simbalist
- Flight Sergeant Richard Grange Stolz-page
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Cecil Swarbrick
- Sergeant John William Taylor
- Aircraftman 1st Class Noble William Taylor
- Squadron Leader John Greet Gordon Walkington
- Flying Officer Reginald Wallace
- Sergeant Samuel Weaver
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lionel Harry Whaite
- Leading Aircraftman William Harry Herbert Whitfield
- Sergeant Charles Raymond Wildsmith
- Sergeant Thomas Tweedy Wilkinson
- Flight Sergeant John William Edward Wilson
1943
- Flight Sergeant Harold William Addis
- Sergeant George William Arlett
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Theodore Barnson
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Bedford
- Leading Aircraftman Alastair Farquhar Blue
- Leading Aircraftman John Harold Bolsworth
- Flight Sergeant John Milton Booth
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Butterfield
- Corporal Wilfred George Carder
- Sergeant Ebenezer Roy Claxton
- Leading Aircraftman Robert Arthur Climenhage
- Sergeant James Frederick Cole
- Sergeant Thomas John Cornelius
- Warrant Officer Clive Arthur Cox
- Leading Aircraftman Hugh Francis Cumming
- Sergeant Robert William Davison
- Flying Officer Ronald Frederick Denney
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Patrick Devon
- Sergeant John Hubert Duncan
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Albert Charles Efemey
- Pilot Officer Thomas Leslie Ford
- Warrant Officer John Gartside
- Flight Sergeant Lloyd William Lewis Godfrey
- Flight Sergeant John Graham
- Leading Aircraftman Percy Harold Green
- Flying Officer Ralph Nicolaus Grest
- Pilot Officer Edward Thompson Hargreaves
- Sergeant John Frederick Harmes
- Corporal Frederick William Harris
- Corporal Alfred Patrick Hickman
- Flight Sergeant Murray Noel Jennings
- Leading Aircraftman George Edward Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Maurice William Jones
- Sergeant Richard Emrys Jones
- Sergeant George Henry Kaye
- Flight Sergeant John Arthur Colin Kemmett
- Sergeant William John King
- Sergeant Thomas Lafferty
- Flying Officer Edward Henry Lawrence
- Flying Officer John Francis Lee
- Warrant Officer Class II Irvin Melville Lowe
- Leading Aircraftman Arthur Marjoram
- Sergeant Derrick Ivor Thomas Munn
- Flying Officer Leonard Charles Perry
- Sergeant Stanley James Pope
- Aircraftman 1st Class Leslie Joseph Pugh
- Sergeant James Alfred Benjamin Radley
- Leading Aircraftman John Russell Rice
- Flight Sergeant Robert Edward Duncan Richards
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Norman Row
- Flight Sergeant Frank Wallace Rutherford
- Sergeant James Waugh Scott
- Sergeant John Henry Sharpe
- Pilot Officer Johannes Lambertus Sluijter
- Sergeant Ronald Smithers
- Flight Sergeant William Thomas Collins Styles
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Sidney Sykes
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Richard Gordon Taskis
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Thomas
- Warrant Officer Hugh Timlin
- Pilot Officer Colin William Walker
- Pilot Officer James Francis Ward
- Flying Officer Rowland George Warmington
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Edgar Warwick
- Leading Aircraftman Timothy Gurney Whiteland
1944
- Leading Aircraftman Laurence Barr
- Leading Aircraftman Charles Stanley Bascom
- Flight Sergeant Bernard William Corrigall
- Flight Sergeant Floyd John Cousins
- Lieutenant Owen Douglas De Smidt
- Corporal Dennis Guy Furnell
- Flying Officer Norman Douglas Harrison
- Sergeant Edward Hinchey Hodgins
- Flying Officer George Ernest Jones
- Flight Sergeant John Robert Milligan
- Flying Officer Robert Castle O'Neill
- Flying Officer Errol Philip Parcell
- Flight Sergeant Leslie William Poulson
- Sergeant Gordon William Richards
- Flying Officer Roy James Sanders
- Flight Lieutenant William Lee Saunders
- Pilot Officer Alfred William Edward Sugden
- Flying Officer William Warfield
1945
- Sergeant Frederick George Walter Glew
- Flight Sergeant Harvey Allan Graham
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Hooper
- Sergeant Frank Geoffrey Turner