| Notes: | MFP. Awarded the 1915 Star, Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1) France, 18/1/1915 to 23/12/1915. He was born and resided in West Bromwich and enlisted in Oldbury. No inscription on gravestone.
Army Register of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929. 23/4/1915 died of wounds Poperinge, 3 Casualty Clearing Station. Shown as MFP attached MMP. 11/8/1915 his father Thomas received £16-05-00 12/2/1917 he received a further £2-08-03 and 7/7/1919 £6 war gratuity.
Info from Pension Index Card: Latham, Thomas Francis, No. 1248, MFP, Dependant Sarah Latham, 48 King Street, West Bromwich.
Thomas Francis Latham.
Extract from the Western Mail 20 April 1938. FROM THE GREAT WAR BATTLEFIELDS. Pilgrims Who Left Wreaths of Remembrance.
Cardiff members of the British Legion who had visited the old battlefields on the Western Front returned home on Tuesday.
Whilst in the neighbourhood of Poperinghe a visit was paid by the Lord Mayor of Cardiff (*Alderman O. C. Purnell, J.P.) and his party to the Military Cemetery there to place a wreath on behalf of Mrs. Elliot Seager, of Cardiff, wife of the ex-High Sheriff of Glamorgan, on the grave of her brother Trevor A. Jones who was killed in action.
The old cemetery in the same sector also was visited and Mr George Latham, a member of the Cardiff City Fire Brigade and the Lord Mayor of Cardiff placed wreaths as tributes to the memory of Mr. Latham's brother, the late Cpl. Thomas Latham of the Military Mounted Police.
Extract from the Scotsman, 17/5/1915. Wounded.
Military Foot Police, attached to Military Mounted Police - Latham, 1248, Lance Corporal T. |
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