Eric Spicer

Bank: National Provincial Bank

Place of work: Conisborough branch

Died: 1 October 1944

Eric Waldo Spicer was born on 24 March 1918, the son of Walter Harold and Kathleen Spicer. He was educated at Laurence Sherriff School, Rugby and Rossall School, Fleetwood. He joined the staff of National Provincial Bank as a probationer at Birmingham Horsefair branch in September 1935. He was promoted to junior clerk a few months later and moved to Tamworth branch in August 1936. He was promoted to clerk in January 1938, moved to Bedford branch in June 1939 and to Conisborough (Conisbrough) branch in September 1939. 

Spicer was a good athlete and was a member of his school team when they won the Public Schools Physical Training Cup. He was also a keen tennis and rugby player. Whilst working at Tamworth branch he played rugby for the town's team and also in county trial matches, and later he played for his division in Ireland.

In January 1940 he left the bank to go on war service, joining the Reconnaisance Corps (Green Howards). He served in England and Ireland and was posted to Normandy soon after D-day in June 1944. Serjeant Spicer was killed on 1 October 1944. He was 26 years old.

His colleagues later remembered him in the bank's staff magazine: 'quiet and unassuming he was greatly liked, not only by his colleagues in the bank, but also by all with whom he came in contact, and his death in action is a sad blow to all who were privileged to know him.'