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Royal Academy of Music.
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Simmon Latutin
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He was commissioned into The Somerset Light Infantry in 1942, and was seconded to the Somalia Gendarmerie at the time of his Government College action. He died of his burns the next day. He was born on 25 July 1916 in London and had been educated at Regent Street Polytechnic and the Royal Academy of Music, where a memorial to him was unveiled in 2006.
Notice of his award appeared in a supplement to the London Gazette of the 6 September 1946, dated 10 September 1946.
He is buried in the Nairobi war cemetery Kenya. citation.
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He won his award for the gallantry he showed in rescuing two comrades, and attempting to save a boy, from a blazing ammunition store on 29 December 1944 in Mogadishu, Somaliland. Latutin"s appeared in the London Gazette on 6 August 1946: The King has been graciously pleased to approve the posthumous award of the George Cross in recognition of most conspicuous gallantry in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner to Captain Simmon Latutin 242974 Somalia Gendarmerie (Harrow Middlesex).
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United Kingdom