Richard Hopps

Bank: National Provincial Bank

Place of work: Tenby branch

Died: 6 February 1940

Richard Vernon Hopps was born on 13 May 1908, the son of Walter and Ada Mary Hopps. He was educated at St Andrew's Preparatory School, Tenby, and Denstone College. He joined the staff of National Provincial Bank as a probationer in July 1926 at Maesteg branch. He moved to Neath branch in May and to Port Talbot branch in January 1928. He was promoted to clerk in January 1929 and moved to Walsall branch in February 1931, to Pembroke branch in September 1933, to Newport Monmouthshire branch in June 1936 and to Tenby branch in July 1937.

Outside work Hopps was a territorial soldier, a member of the Pembrokeshire Yeomanry. He was mobilised for active service in the Royal Artillery on the outbreak of war in September 1939, and by early 1940 held the rank of Captain. He died in a military hospital in Wales on 6 February 1940. He was 31 years old and left a widow, Nesta Llewellin, whom he had married in 1937.