Herbert Nicklin

Bank: National Provincial Bank

Place of work: Trustee department

Died: 8 May 1941

Herbert John Nicklin was born on 19 January 1920, the son of Joanna and John Herbert Nicklin, who worked for National Provincial Bank of England. John Nicklin, whose father Edward and brother Frederick also worked for the same bank, became manager of Putney branch in 1922. In 1924, when Herbert was 4 years old, John Nicklin died. Herbert was educated at King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds, paid for by the Bank Clerks' Orphanage.

In September 1936, at the age of 16, Nicklin joined the staff of his grandfather and father's bank, now known as National Provincial Bank, as a probationer at the trustee department in head office in London. He was promoted to clerk in January 1939. 

When war was declared in September 1939 Nicklin left his job at the bank and joined the armed forces. 

On 8 May 1941, whilst serving with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve aboard HM Yacht Viva II, Sub-Lieutenant Herbert John Nicklin was one of the 10 crew who were killed when German aircraft bombed and sunk the yacht off the coast of Cornwall. He was 21 years old.