Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Lathbury har yanzu yana cikin umurnin 1st Parachute Brigade a lokacin yakin Arnhem, wani ɓangare na Operation Market Garden a Netherlands. A ranar 18 ga Satumba 1944 an yanke shi daga umurninsa yayin da yake tare da Manjo Janar Roy Urquhart, GOC na sashin, lokacin da ya ji rauni a ƙafar hagu kuma kashinsa ya karye, ya bar shi gurgu na ɗan lokaci. An bar Lathbury a cikin kulawar dangin Dutch na gida kuma ya zama fursunonin yaƙi. Ya ɓoye matsayinsa, yana nuna cewa shi dan jarida ne. Ya tsere tare da taimakon juriya na Dutch ta hanyar fita daga manyan kofofin asibitin da aka tsare shi. 'Yan tawayen Holland sun haɗa shi da wasu sojojin Birtaniya da ke ɓoye. Lathbury, tare da Laftanar Kanar David Dobie da Manjo Digby Tatham-Warter, sun shirya wani
tserewa a fadin Rhine. Lathbury da Digby sun haye Rhine a ranar 22 ga Oktoba tare da ma'aikata 137, suna haɗuwa da 'yan bindigar Amurka na Firayim Laftanar Frederick Heyliger's Company E na 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, wani ɓangare na Amurka 101st Airborne Division. Donald Douglas ne ya nuna Lathbury a cikin fim din 1977 "A Bridge Too Far".