Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Lathbury ka nọ n'ọchịchị nke 1st Parachute Brigade n'oge Agha nke Arnhem, akụkụ nke Operation Market Garden na Netherlands. Na 18 Septemba 1944 a napụrụ ya iwu ya mgbe ọ nọ na ụlọ ọrụ nke Major General Roy Urquhart, GOC nke ngalaba ahụ, mgbe ọ merụrụ ahụ nke ukwuu n'ụkwụ aka ekpe ya na ọkpụkpụ azụ ya gbajiri, na-ahapụ ya ka ọ daa ngwọrọ nwa oge. A hapụrụ Lathbury n'aka otu ezinụlọ ndị Dutch nọ n'ógbè ahụ ma ghọọ onye mkpọrọ agha. O zochiri ọkwá ya, na-eme ka à ga-asị na ọ bụ onye isi ndị agha. Ọ gbapụrụ site n'enyemaka nke ndị òtù mgba ahụ bụ́ ndị Netherlands nanị site n'isi n'ọnụ ụzọ nke ụlọ ọgwụ ebe a kpọchiri ya pụọ. Ndị òtù nnupụisi nke Netherlands mere ka ya na ndị agha Britain ndị ọzọ zoro ezo nwee mmekọrịta. Lathbury, ya na Lieutenant Colonel David Dobie na Major Digby Tatham-Warter, haziri otu
ịzọga n'ofe Osimiri Rhine. Lathbury na Digby gafere Rhine na 22 Ọktọba na ndị ọrụ 137, na-ejikọ ndị paratroopers US nke First Lieutenant Frederick Heyliger's Company E nke 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, akụkụ nke US 101st Airborne Division. Lathbury bụ onye Donald Douglas gosipụtara na ihe nkiri 1977 "A Bridge Too Far".