Simmon Latutin

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name=Simmon Latutin

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born=25 July 1916
died=30 December 1944
placeofbirth=London
placeofdeath=Mogadishu, Somaliland
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allegiance=United Kingdom
branch=British Army
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rank=Captain
unit=Somalia Gendarmerie
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battles=World War II
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Captain Simmon Latutin GC (25 July 1916–30 December 1944) was a British Army officer who was posthumously awarded the George Cross, the highest British (and Commonwealth) award for bravery out of combat. He won his award for the gallantry he showed in rescuing 2 comrades, and attempting to save a boy, from a blazing ammunition store on the 29 December 1944 in Mogadishu, Somaliland.

He was commissioned into the The Somerset Light Infantry in 1942, and was seconded to the Somalia Gendarmerie at the time of his GC action. He died of his burns the next day.cite web
url=http://www.gc-database.co.uk/recipients/LatutinS.htm
title=Simmon Latutin, GC
publisher=George Cross database
accessdate=2007-11-18] He was born on the 25 July 1916 in London and had been educated at London Polytechnic and the Royal Academy of Music, where a memorial to him was unveiled in 2006. [cite web|url=http://www.gc-database.co.uk/new.htm|title=Update page|publisher=George Cross database|date=12 December 2006|accessdate=2007-11-24] Notice of his award appeared in a supplement to the London Gazette of the 6 September 1946, dated 10 September 1946.LondonGazette
issue= 37717
date=6 September 1946
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accessdate=2007-11-25 ] He is buried in the Nairobi war cemetery Kenya. [cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2160690|title=Commonwealth War Graves Commission — casualty details|publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|accessdate=2007-11-25]

References

ee also

List of George Cross recipients