William Pettigrew

Bank: National Bank of Scotland

Place of work: Edinburgh Forrest Road branch

Died: 29 September 1944

William James Douglas Pettigrew was born in Edinburgh in December 1922, the son of William and Agnes Helen Hampton Pettigrew. He was educated at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh. After leaving school in 1939 he went to work for National Bank of Scotland. 

In 1942 Pettigrew left his job at the bank's Edinburgh Forrest Road branch to go on war service, joining the Fleet Air Arm. He trained in Canada, after which he was posted to an aircraft carrier, HMS Fencer, as a torpedo bomber reconnaissance pilot. Sub-Lieutenant Pettigrew was killed in the course of undertaking anti-U-boat patrols in the North Sea on 29 September 1944. He was 21 years old. 

William Pettigrew is commemorated on a bank war memorial at Gogarburn campus, Edinburgh.