Westminster Bank Westminster Bank Westminster Bank was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1834 until its merger into the National Westminster Bank in 1970; it continued to exist as a dormant registered non-trading company until 4 July 2017 when it was dissolved Considered one of the Big Five, it expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies. In 1834, the London and Westminster Bank was the first firm founded under the auspices of the Bank Charter Act 1833, which allowed joint-stock banks to be established in the capital. For
Operations on the Ancre, January–March 1917 to surrender. The army group commander "Generalfeldmarschall" Crown Prince Rupprecht, advocated a withdrawal to the on 28 January, which was initially refused but then authorised on 4 February and the first " day" was set for 9 February. The British attacks in the Actions of Miraumont from and anticipation of further attacks, led Rupprecht on 18 March to order a withdrawal of about on a front of the 1st Army to the , from Essarts to Le Transloy on 22 February. The withdrawal caused some surprise to the British, despite the interception of wireless messages from The second German withdrawal