Rank/Rate: Seaman, Second Class

Service Number: 295 54 81

Birth Date: November 7, 1918

From: Dyersburg, Tennessee

Decorations: Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal

Ship: USS Canopus (AS-9)

Date of Death: October 24, 1944

Location: Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru

Circumstances: Died when Arisan Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark (SS-314)

Remarks: David was born in Friendship, Tennessee.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS Canopus (AS-9)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS Canopus (AS-9)

Find a Grave Memorial: S2 David Lexton Latham (Manila American Cemetery and Memorial).  David Latham has a cenotaph at the family plot at Friendship Cemetery, Friendship, Tennessee.