Lives of the First World War

Photo of the local memorial on Mumbles Seafront

Detail from photograph of the staff of the London & Provincial Bank branch in Wind Street, Swansea in 1914.

1914 photo, notes made in 1932. Front row: J John (now Manager, Morriston, Clydach and Pontardawe); H Morgan (now Manager, Aberystwyth); S West (now Manager, Cardiff Docks); D T Lewis, Manager (deceased); H A Penry (resigned); J L Jones (now Manager Pontardulais); W D Griffith (now Manager, Brecon). Second row: T White, Messenger; D W Edwards (deceased); J S H Russell (retired owing to ill-health as a result of war wounds); F Gittins (now Manager, Stroud); E W Davies (now Manager, Llanidloes); A E Pittard (now Manager, Frome); A M Morgan (now Manager, Llandilo); W J Joshua (now Clerk-in-Charge, Strood); J W C B Morris (now Chief Clerk, Canning Town); J D Rees (now Manager, Pontypridd). Third row: W J Evans (now Manager, Llangollen); E M Rees (resigned); T H Rees; J S Richards (now Clerk-in-Charge, Crumlin), H T Lewis (now Manager, Blaenau Ffestiniog); F Thomas (retired owing to ill-health as a result of war wounds); J M Rowlands; E Morris (deceased); I B Rees; S M Thomas (deceased).

Image from Barclays Bank Book of Remembrance - World War One. Completed in April 1959, with parchment pages, the book was decorated and gilded by Dorothy Hutton.

After WW2 it was decided that the permanent official Barclays Bank memorial should be an illuminated inscribed book of remembrance, one for each war. Originally put on display in a purpose-built wall case at 54 Lombard Street, the books were then put on display in the new head office building in the 1990s, and when the head office moved in 2005 to 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, the books were put on display in cases there. The WW1 book lists members of staff who lost their lives serving in the armed forces, separated into Barclays Bank, London and South Western Bank, and London and Provincial Bank. The book has parchment pages, with leather binding, engrossed, decorated and gilded by Dorothy Hutton, and bound by Sydney M Cockerell, and includes illustrations of head offices and coats of arms of the three banks. The image shows the page of the WW1 book which features this person’s name as an employee of Barclays Bank Limited.

Image of a London & Provincial Bank framed and glazed colour-printed WW1 roll of honour. Reproduced in monochrome in “History of Barclays Bank Limited”, P W Matthews & A W Tuke, 1926, page 400.

Image of the original London and Provincial Bank WW1 memorial panel formerly in the Great Hall at 54 Lombard Street. Published in Spread Eagle (the staff magazine of Barclays Bank), volume 26 (1951), page 461.