Sheila Rogers

Bank: National Provincial Bank

Place of work: London head office

Died: 20 February 1944

Sheila Warrington Rogers was born on 13 September 1912, the daughter of James Francis Warrington Rogers and Dorothy Maud Rogers. She was educated at St Michael's Convent, North London. She joined the staff of National Provincial Bank in March 1935 as a lady clerk in solicitor's department, head office, London. Her sister Joan Rogers worked for the bank at Lombard Street and her cousin worked at Overseas branch. 

During the Second World War Sheila devoted nearly all of her free time to local ARP duties and fulfilled her post as ARP officer to the Bank's division of the British Red Cross Society. 

On the night of 20 February 1944, Sheila Rogers was watching an enemy raid with her brother Mike, 14 years her junior, outside their home at 99 Cat Hill, East Barnet. A bomb exploded directly opposite them, severely injuring Mike and killing Sheila. She was 31 years old.

Her obituary in the bank's staff magazine recalled 'her kindness and loyalty to her friends and her modesty. All her activities, and they were many and varied, were carried out with a quiet competence and complete lack of show. Her looks belied her as, although serious in appearance, she had a lively sense of humour...she was not only a loyal colleague but a delightful and much loved friend.'