Anthony Went

Bank: Westminster Bank

Place of work: London Threadneedle Street office

Died: 13 July 1943

Anthony de Quincy Went, known to his family as Tony, was born on 24 April 1919, the son of Joseph James Went and his wife Dorothy. He was educated at Westcliff High School and joined the staff of Westminster Bank in 1936. 

Outside work Went was a Territorial soldier, a member of the Royal Army Service Corps. He was mobilised at the outbreak of war, leaving his job at the bank's London Threadneedle Street to go on active military service. He was posted to France as a lorry driver and remained in continental Europe until the evacuation from Dunkirk, where he arrived carrying 75 soldiers in a vehicle scheduled for 25. He spent five days on Dunkirk beach before being evacuated. 

After returning to England Went was posted to Coventry, arriving there on the evening of a severe air raid in which several of his immediate companions were severely injured, but Went escaped unharmed. 

In 1942 Went volunteered for gliding and parachuting duty, and was attached to a parachute field ambulance and posted to the Mediterranean, where he was lost at sea on 13 July 1943. Driver Went was 24 years old and left a widow, Eva, whom he had married in 1942.

Anthony Went is commemorated on a bank war memorial held at NatWest Group Archives.