Our people
Whether they went away to fight or stayed behind to keep banks running, life was transformed for all our staff.
Behind the counter
Bank staff worked together to meet new responsibilities, and to keep serving their customers, at the same time as worrying about colleagues on active service and coping with changing demographics in their own ranks.
On active service
Over 10,000 men from our banks served in the war. Their experiences could not have been more different from pre-war life behind a bank counter.
Case studies
The war affected our people’s lives in many different ways. These are some of their stories.
