Philip Ingleby

Bank: Williams Deacon's Bank

Place of work: Manchester St Ann Street office

Died: 7 August 1944

Philip Ingleby was born in Cheshire on 7 October 1920, the son of Bernard and Annie Ingleby. He was educated at Altrincham Grammar School. In November 1936, not long after his 16th birthday, he went to work for Williams Deacon's Bank at its head office in St Ann Street, Manchester. 

In August 1941 Ingleby left the bank to go on military service, training as a navigator in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. On 7 August 1944 Flying Officer Ingleby was the navigator in the two-man crew of a Mosquito which took off from RAF Woodhall Spa on a training flight. During the flight an engine and wing failure caused the plane to crash into the sea off the Lincolnshire coast, killing both men on board. Flying Officer Ingleby was 23 years old.

Philip Ingleby is commemorated on a bank war memorial at Hardman Boulevard office, Manchester.