Eric Hill

Bank: Parr's Bank

Place of work: London Bartholomew Lane office

Died: 19 November 1916

Eric Battley Hill was born in London in 1896, the son of Horace William Hill, a law court clerk, and his wife Clara Lucy. He started working for Parr's Bank sometime after the outbreak of war in 1914. He later left his job at the bank's London Bartholomew Lane office to join the army, and by 1916 was a Second Lieutenant in the Essex Regiment, attached to the Trench Mortar Battery. He died of peritonitis in France on 19 November 1916. He was 20 years old.

Eric Hill is commemorated on a bank war memorial held at NatWest Group Archives.