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Lionel Lamb
Bank: Westminster Bank
Place of work: London North Acton branch
Died: 17 July 1944
Lionel Geoffrey William Lamb was born on 21 July 1922, the son of Geoffrey and May Annie Christine Lamb. In November 1939, at the age of 17, he joined the temporary wartime staff of Westminster Bank, working at its branch in North Acton.
He later left the bank to go on military service, becoming a Trooper in the 1st Derbyshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps. He was killed in action in Italy on 17 July 1944, just a few days before his 22nd birthday.
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Martin Bodimeade May 19 2026 7:22PM
The nephew he never knew, his sister’s son, followed his footsteps for 6 years, working for NatWest from 1972 to 1978. He knew about the plaque in the branch in Northolt where Lionel worked and thought about him on the many times he drove along the Western Avenue where the branch used to be. Lionel’s sister kept several mementos of him and passed them down, and c2000 their brother found the grave where he is buried and found the place that he fell. They remembered and missed him to the end of their lives.