Richard Heathfield

Bank: Coutts & Co

Place of work: London Strand office

Died: 14 September 1944

Richard Heathfield was born in Richmond, Surrey in 1925, the son of Constance and Frederick Heathfield. He worked for Coutts & Co, London.

In January 1943 Heathfield left the bank to go on military service as a Trooper with the 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars. He remained with the regiment, with a brief interlude of 6 months at the Bovington Tank School and at various stations in England. In August 1944 he proceeded overseas to join in the North West European Campaign. During an action to secure the army's bridgehead over a Belgian canal, Trooper Heathfield was killed when a German self-propelled gun put a shot through the turret of his tank. He was 19 years old.

Richard Heathfield is commemorated on a bank memorial at Coutts & Co, London 440 Strand.