Walter Johnson

Bank: London & County Westminster Bank

Place of work: London Lombard Street branch

Died: 30 May 1917

Walter Charles Littley Johnson was born on 2 April 1887, the son of Charles Littley Johnson and his wife Ellen Gertrude. In June 1906, when he was 19 years old, he went to work for London & County Bank. In 1909 London & County Bank merged with London & Westminster Bank and Johnson became an employee of the enlarged London County & Westminster Bank.

During the First World War Johnson left his job as a clerk at the bank's London Lombard Street branch to join the army. By 1917 he was a Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment. He died in France on 30 May 1917. He was 30 years old.

Walter Johnson is commemorated on a bank war memorial at NatWest City of London office.