LATTIMORE, Ivon Gladwin
| Service Number: | 5382 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 December 1917, Lismore, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Casino, New South Wales, 15 November 1898 |
| Home Town: | Whian Whian, Lismore Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Natural causes (choking), Mildura, Victoria, 22 April 1928, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 5 Dec 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5382, 31st Infantry Battalion, Lismore, New South Wales | |
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| 2 Mar 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5382, 31st Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Ormonde embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 2 Mar 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5382, 31st Infantry Battalion, SS Ormonde, Sydney | |
| 9 Sep 1918: | Wounded "The Last Hundred Days", GSW (right thigh) | |
| 3 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5382, 31st Infantry Battalion |
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Ivon Gladwin Lattimore - Enlisted 5 December 1917 – 31st Infantry Battalion – Sern: 5382
Ivon, the younger brother of Arnold Lattimore, had been working on the family farm at Whian Whian near Dunoon in northern NSW when he decided to enlist at Lismore. A wounded 1952 Pte. Arnold Harvey Lattimore (/explore/people/347175) had been back home for the last six months and Ivon was keen to get in on the action before the war finished. He was assigned to the 15th Reinforcement of the 31st Battalion of the 5th Infantry Division. He became the last of our family ANZACS to enlist in the war.
Ivon was 5 foot 9 inches tall, with a fair complexion, blue eyes and brown hair. He left Sydney on 2 March 1918 on the Ormonde arriving at the Australian camp at Suez on 4 April. He soon contracted measles and was confined until the end of the month. He arrived in England on 5 May 1918. From there he was sent to France in August 1918, just after the start of the Battle of Amiens on August 8th.
A month later in September Ivon was shot in the right thigh during the attack by the 31st Battalion on the Hindenburg Line around the St Quentin Canal. This was the Battalion’s last action of the war. He was taken to the 5th General Hospital in Rouen and then sent on to England, eventually recuperating in the 3rd Western General Hospital in Cardiff, Wales. By the time he recovered, the war was over.
On arriving in London on his way back to Australia, he went missing for some days, for which he was fined a total of nine day’s pay. Many soldiers realised they only had one chance to see London (or other parts of Britain) so they often took off when the opportunity presented itself. His brother Arnold had done the same thing.
Ivon returned to Australia on 19 May 1919 and was formally discharged on 3 June. He never really settled down after returning and he moved from place to place until he went to visit an Army friend in Mildura in 1928 where he died after choking on food or drink or both which partially paralysed his lungs. He was 29 years old. - Glendon O'Connor 2015
"DEATH.
LATTIMORE.— At Mildura Hospital, on the 22nd April, 1928, Ivan Gladwin, aged 29 years, late A.I.F., son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Lattimore, Dunoon." - from the Lismore Northern Star 23 Jun 1928 (nla.gov.au)
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