Gerald Sabine

Bank: National Provincial Bank of England

Place of work: Southampton branch

Died: 22 October 1918

Gerald Sabine was born on 3 May 1896. In about 1912 he went to work for National Provincial Bank of England as an apprentice at its Southampton branch. Three years later he was promoted to a clerkship at the same branch.

During the First World War Sabine left the bank to join the army, and by 1918 he was a Lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), attached to the Hampshire Regiment. He died in Belgium on 22 October 1918. He was 22 years old and left a widow, Elsie Sabine, whom he had married the previous year.