My grandfather, John Ernest Llewellyn Poulson, took a job with Barclays Bank after leaving the Royal Field Artillery around 1920, apparently helped by his grandfather, Upstanding Edwin, who offered assistance to Gamps (given his father the Wastrel, John Walden Poulson, didn’t or couldn’t).

I initially thought Ernest Izod Arundel Ellis worked with Gamps at Barclays, but he worked for a competitor, Lloyds, initially in Southsea. I have only found a little information about Uncle Ernie; his father, James Morgan Ellis, was an explorer, described in an obituary as “…pioneer of the development of the British-owned islands in the central Pacific.” – but I believe Gamps and Ernie met as young bank clerks because a boarder introduced them. They were about the same age, both just leaving the service, both tall and handsome, both cricket lovers and bank clerks – and became friends.