Peter Penty

Bank: National Provincial Bank

Place of work: London Westminster branch

Died: 5 April 1944

Peter Frederick Whitaker Penty was born on 28 January 1920, the son of Norman and Ethel Grace Penty of Croydon. He followed his father to join the staff of National Provincial Bank. He was appointed as a probationer in April 1937 at London Westminster branch progressing to junior clerk effective from July 1937 and to clerk in July 1939. 

Not long afterwards, at the end of August 1939, Penty left the bank to go on full time war service. He was commissioned into the Indian Army in October 1940, and by 1944 held the rank of Acting Major. He was killed in action in Burma on 5 April 1944, whilst leading his company for the second time that day in an assault on an enemy position. He was 24 years old. His commanding officer wrote of him: 'He was my adjutant for over two years, and it is no exaggeration to say that I looked upon him as my almost indispensable right-hand man, as well as one of my closest friends'.