From Bank to Battlefield
Staff Profiles
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Corporal Walter Harry MacQueen, a bank clerk with the Commonwealth Bank's Head Office, was the first Sydney-based member of staff to enlist, signing up on 16 August 1914 (just days after the proclamation of war). By the end of the war, a total of 206 Commonwealth Bank officers had made the same decision to serve. Some of them didn't survive, others suffered injuries that could never be overcome while the lucky ones somehow picked up the pieces of their old lives after the hostilities were over. The mixed fate of these Bank staff who saw active service was a reflection of the war's brutality as well as an acknowledgement of their courage, tenacity and resourcefulness.
Ronald Grahame Henderson
22 years
Clerk
Percy William Bostock
23 years
Clerk
Leslie George Fussell
31 years
Clerk
Percy John Worrell Stephenson
26 years
Clerk
Louis Henry Morris
35 years
Manager
Lyndon Clifford Clinch
34 years
Clerk
Arthur Oscar Rigg
24 years
Clerk
Reginald Clarence Owst Atkinson
24 years
Clerk
Ernest Hilmer Smith CB VD
36 years
Bank Superintendent
Vivian Cyril Brooke
27 years
Clerk
Charles Ashbourne Treadgold
22 years
Bank Clerk
Roy Wood Croft
20 years
Clerk
Roy Harrison
25 years
Bank Officer
Herbert TC Layh
29 years
Bank Clerk
Walter Harry MacQueen
27 years
Bank Clerk
Norman Wilson
20 years
Bank Clerk
Arthur Henry Cobby
22 years
Bank Clerk
Francis Claud Lloyd
22 years
Clerk
Robert Sabeston
32 years
Clerk
Percy Britten Wald
27 years
Accountant
Oswald Langton Carlile
26 years
Clerk
Roland Alaric Pryce Jackson
21 years
Clerk
Arthur William Henry Stallwood
29 years
Clerk
Elizabeth Ellen Murrell
37 years
Nurse
Douglas Oswald Luke Kitto
19 years
Clerk
John Arthur Chambers
19 years
Clerk
William Hermann Thummler
29 years
Clerk
Cyril David McIntyre
20 years
Clerk
Battle Profiles
Centenary of the First Battle of Bullecourt, 11 April 1917
Branch Profiles
At the height of hostilities during World War I, just over half the staff from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's (CBA) Hobart Branch had enlisted. As the Reserve Bank descended from the central banking division of the Commonwealth Bank, we honour the staff from the Hobart Branch and share their story. Read more.
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