David Irons

Bank: Royal Bank of Scotland

Place of work: Forfar branch

Died: 6 July 1944

David Murray Irons was born on 17 July 1918. In 1936 he went to work for the Royal Bank of Scotland as an apprentice at its Forfar branch. 

In September 1939 Irons left the bank to go on military service, and by 1944 he was a Captain in the Black Watch. He was killed in action in Italy on 6 July 1944. He was 25 years old.

David Irons is commemorated on a bank war memorial at 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.