On this day — 5 December
186 airmen of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth air forces in this archive died on 5 December during the Second World War.
1939
1940
- Aircraftman 1st Class Frank George Baxter
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Richard Hugh Beauman
- Sergeant Jack Burall Courtis
- Corporal Jack Edmund Dangerfield
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Harby
- Pilot Officer Frank Wade Hicks
- Sergeant Charles Leonard Hopgood
- Warrant Officer Class II Marcus Maximillian Hough
- Sergeant Terence John James
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Francis Crozier Lucas
- Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Anthony Piggott
- Air Sergeant William Roller
- Corporal Henry Frederick David Sargeant
- Pilot Officer Patrick Herbert Telford
- Lieutenant Vermeulen
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Warwick
- Pilot Officer Cecil Reginald Young
1941
- Flying Officer Charles Edward Beloe
- Leading Aircraftman Ralph Lindsay Brockhoff
- Pilot Officer Frank Richard Clarke
- Flying Officer Hubert Weatherby Cottam
- Sergeant Gerald Maxwell Drennan
- Sergeant James Douglas Drennan
- Flight Lieutenant Allen Laird Edy
- Sergeant Ian Leslie Falconer
- Flight Sergeant Ronald James Fido
- Sergeant Wayne Fitch
- Sergeant Alfred Flint
- Flight Lieutenant Edward Murray Frisby
- Sergeant James Ross Gilmour
- Leading Aircraftman Anthony James Douglas Glaisher
- Pilot Officer Lawrence Charles Gooch
- Flight Sergeant Harold Sidney Douglas Goss
- Sergeant Edmondson Peter Greenhow
- Squadron Leader Thomas Grier
- Sergeant Gordon William Hutton
- Sergeant Arthur Gerald Johnston
- Sergeant Malcolm Edward Kent
- Squadron Leader Alexander Lees
- Sergeant John Donald Lenehan
- Sergeant Arthur Lloyd Lewis
- Sergeant Herbert Samuel Loader
- Sergeant Derek Julius Marcus
- Sergeant James Henry Mattingly
- Leading Aircraftman David Quaife May
- Sergeant Anthony Richard McCoy
- Air Sergeant McIntosh
- Sergeant Thomas Alexander Nesbitt
- Sergeant Sydney George Parrott
- Sergeant Douglas Walter Raley
- Flight Lieutenant William Samuel Rea
- Second Lieutenant Sandilands
- Pilot Officer Victor Harry Saunders
- Leading Aircraftman Ernest Cecil Thomson
- Flight Sergeant Scott Tudhope Calder Thomson
- Flight Lieutenant Stuart Thomson
- Flight Lieutenant Richard John Vaughan
- Sergeant John Herbert Walker
- Aircraftman 1st Class Henry John Webber
- Sergeant Allan James Wilson
- Sergeant Harry Wright
1942
- Sergeant David Ian Millar Allan
- Pilot Officer Peter Robert Allen
- Flight Sergeant Robert Gordon Baikie
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Humphrey Baird
- Sergeant John Allen Barrett-lennard
- Sergeant August Leroy Beckwall
- Sergeant Carlos Frederick Bonorino
- Sergeant Henry Bordewick
- Sergeant Francis Merer Browne
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Charles Cameron
- Pilot Officer Arthur Dickens Chiddenton
- Sergeant Ronald Craven
- Sergeant Clifford Leonard Dent
- Sergeant William Alfred Edwards
- Sergeant Arthur Gordon Bertley Gibson
- Sergeant Gerard Anthony Griffiths
- Sergeant Leslie Henry Harper
- Flying Officer George Newall Harrison
- Sergeant Robert Garland Baylay Harrison
- Sergeant Bernard George Hawkes
- Flying Officer John Charles Hodges
- Second Lieutenant Trevor Donovan Inglis
- Sergeant Herbert Gregory Jenkins
- Leading Aircraftman Christopher Ronald Lees
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bertram Percival Leetch
- Flight Sergeant John Crichton Macaulay
- Pilot Officer John William Macdonald
- Sergeant Robert John Marshall
- Sergeant Thomas Leon Mincher
- Sergeant Alan Mottram
- Sergeant Herbert Pendleton
- Sergeant Samuel Edward Pike
- Aircraftman 1st Class David Gomer Richards
- Flying Officer Jack Sawyer
- Sergeant Peter Claude Shipman
- Sergeant Ronald Charles Simmons
- Corporal George Robert Skelton
- Leading Aircraftman John Charles Smith
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Spence
- Aircraftman 1st Class Lewis Sutcliffe
- Pilot Officer Norman Taylor
- Flying Officer Kenneth Earle Warner
- Leading Aircraftman George White
- Leading Aircraftman William Thomas Whiting
- Corporal Arthur Williamson
- Sergeant Robert Mayer Woolley
1943
- Leading Aircraftman David Graham Alexander
- Sergeant John Winton Anderson
- Sergeant John Sydney Bates
- Flying Officer Herbert Douglas Blair
- Pilot Officer Aubrey Fraser Bond
- Sergeant Robert Stanley Bradbury
- Flight Sergeant Donald Thomas Bromhead
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Brown
- Pilot Officer John Burgess
- Sergeant Stanley George Burton
- Warrant Officer Martin Patrick Coakley
- Flight Sergeant David Cowan Douglas
- Flight Sergeant Cecil Roland Frizzell
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Reeve Halbeard
- Sergeant John Desmond Hickling
- Sergeant Randall Hunter
- Leading Aircraftman Edward Lowson
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Sydney Maher
- Leading Aircraftman James McCallum
- Flight Sergeant Donald Hugh McRae
- Flight Sergeant Lionel Champion Miller
- Flying Officer Frank Moss
- Sergeant Alan George Norton
- Flying Officer Francis Edward Oliver
- Sergeant Arthur David Peacock
- Sergeant John Phillips
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Clayton Potts
- Flying Officer Arthur Maurice Owers Pring
- Flying Officer William Reid
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Repton
- Sergeant Raymond Spierling
- Flight Sergeant Wilfred Kastner Sutherland
- Flying Officer Harry Forbes McPherson Taylor
- Squadron Leader Philip Michael Hermann Thomas
- Pilot Officer Neville John Veech
- Leading Aircraftman Peter Munro Watt
- Sergeant Christopher George Edward Wellington
- Sergeant Albert Douglas Wells
- Sergeant George Wilkinson
1944
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Lloyd Annand-smith
- Flight Sergeant Arie Gordon Baxter
- Sergeant Joseph Jean Paul Osias Berlinguette
- Flying Officer Joseph Rufin Boudreau
- Sergeant William McDonald Campbell
- Flying Officer Albert Victor Carter
- Sergeant George Albert Chevrier
- Flying Officer Kenneth Roy Collier
- Sergeant Ernest Newton Cook
- Flying Officer Everett Elwyn Cooper
- Air Mechanic Hendrik De Kock
- Flying Officer Richard Boyd Dowding
- Flying Officer Albert Edward (bert) Downing
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Lucien Marcel Dube
- Flying Officer Joseph Laurent Gerard Gilbert Dumas
- Pilot Officer Reginald Norman Etherington
- Flying Officer James Austin Hakewill
- Pilot Officer Edward James Francis Harwood
- Flight Sergeant Paul Andre Marc Jobin
- Flying Officer Maurice Jorgenson
- Pilot Officer Joseph Knoke
- Pilot Officer Robert Joseph Marsh
- Corporal Reginald William McGee
- Pilot Officer William James Murrell
- Pilot Officer Ian Thomas Myron
- Flying Officer Samuel William Pechet
- Flying Officer John Reid
- Sergeant Lester Wilber Roller
- Sergeant Joseph Ludger Norman Savard
- Flight Lieutenant Harold Angus Shewfelt
- Pilot Officer Frederick Gordon Sides
- Pilot Officer John Colquhoun Slawson
- Flying Officer John Albert Stewart
- Flying Officer Colin Joseph Trout
- Pilot Officer James Emil Virag
- Flying Officer Alan Norton Watson