About this site

This website was originally created as our contribution to national and international commemorations of the centenary of the First World War. It explored the war from the perspective of 30 banks that existed at that time and went on to become part of today's NatWest Group.

In 2020 it was expanded to include information about the Second World War.  

The current contents of the site are as follows: 

• The section on banking in wartime offers article pages exploring a wide range of topics connected with the First World War and its legacy.  
• Case studies explores the wartime experiences of a range of individual bank employees in the First and Second World Wars, including people who served or died, their relatives and their colleagues.
• Our Fallen provides a searchable database of our 1,584 colleagues who died in the First World War and another 980 colleagues who died in the Second World War. 
• Our war memorials is a searchable database of more than 300 war memorials in our care, providing details of each memorial, its wording and location. You can follow links from each memorial's details to view biographies of the fallen they commemorate.