William Crozier

Bank: National Provincial Bank

Place of work: Redcar branch

Died: 21 October 1941

William Leslie Crozier was born on 6 March 1892. He was educated at Rosebury House School, Scarborough and Scarborough College. He joined the staff of National Provincial Bank as an apprentice at Scarborough (Union Bank branch) in February 1910. During the First World War he left the bank to go on military service, serving in the Yorkshire Regiment from September 1914 to March 1917. 

After demobilisation Crozier returned to the bank, subsequently working at Barnsley, Wombwell, Scarborough, March and Bedal branches before becoming manager of Redcar branch in August 1938. On the evening of 21 October 1941, Crozier was in the Zetland Club, Coatham Road, Redcar when it was destroyed by an enemy bomb and he was killed. He was 49 years old and left a widow, Sybil, whom he had married in 1924.