Percy Ireland Lathy: the later years

[Geordie daughter]

I have been slowly building up a picture of this man's life, and now I am trying to discover where he was living between 1928, when he travelled to New York on the Minnetonka, and his eventual retirement to the north of France sometime in the mid-to-late 1930s. Percy was born in Sussex in 1874, and died in an internment camp in France, in 1943. If anyone can dig up evidence of his return from America or his final journey to France, I'd be very grateful.

[heywood]

There are some immigration records for him. This is the last I can see.

17th September 1928 he returned from NY on the Minnewaska.
Proposed address 135 Westbourne Terrace Paddington
Country of last permanent residence - France
Intended residence ‘Foreign Country’ (presumably France)

Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Ireland_Lathy

[heywood]

In 1926 , he embarked Lisbon for Southampton and gave France as his last permanent residence and future residence ‘a foreign country’.

[Geordie daughter]

Thank you, Heywood, that's really helpful. Because Percy travelled so much, it's taken me a long time to fill in the gaps in his life. He had been curator to Madame Fournier de Horrack in Paris from around 1917 onwards, but I don't know if he was still employed by her when he sailed off to America in 1928. His personal life was a bit of a mess at that point, and he may have become estranged from his family by then, too.