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.

In the 1939 National Register he is living with his parents in the St Pancras district of London, his occupation is recorded as a Musician.

[2] 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.

[5] In December 2021 a plaque in his memory was installed on the wall of his Camden home by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation.

Latutin's George Cross citation 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).Historical marker was placed at the home where Latutin lived in London by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation U.K.