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LATTER, Percy Frederick
(Service number 35285)

Aliases	Died as Frederick Percy Latter
First Rank	Driver	Last Rank	Driver

Birth

Date	21/11/1893	Place of Birth	London, England

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Werry's Hotel, Timaru
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Miss Eva LATTER (sister), G.P.O., London W., England
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	20th Reinforcements, New Zealand Engineers
Date	30 December 1916
Transport	Athenic
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Engineers

Military Awards

Campaigns
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Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Caretaker

Death

Date	16 January 1973	Age	80 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 43, Plot 786
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Percy Frederick Latter was born in 1893 in London, England. he was resident in Timaru wehen he enlisted with the New Zealand Forces. On 28 November 1923 at St Peter's Church, Temuka, he married Lily Mary Hobbs. Lily predeceased Percy by over 35 years.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [13 January 2017[; Timaru cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [13 January 2017]

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