Norman Pring

Bank: National Provincial Bank

Place of work: Ringwood branch

Died: 5 April 1942

Norman Gardner Pring was born on 9 September 1906, the son of Leonard and Clarice Pring. He was educated at Ardingly College, Sussex. He joined the staff of National Provincial Bank as a probationer at Staines branch in November 1922, following in the footsteps of his father, who was accountant at the bank’s Holloway branch. He was appointed a junior clerk at Kirkley branch in 1923 and progressed to clerk at the same branch in 1925. He later transferred to Newark branch, London City office, Southampton branch, and then in 1934 to Ringwood branch. 

Pring left the bank to go on full time naval service at the end of August 1939, just before the outbreak of war. By 1942 he held the rank of Lieutenant-Commander and was serving as a Paymaster aboard HMS Dorsetshire. He was one of 227 crew killed in the sinking of Dorsetshire on 5 April 1942. He was 36 years old and left a widow, Margaret, whom he had married in 1936.