In December 1915, he, along with his battalion, were ordered to move to Mesopotamia(now Iraq) to take part in the First World War combat there against the Turks and Germans. They reached Basra, Mesopotamia in January 1916 and then, Latif Khan and his battalion participated in the Battle of Dujaila, where Khan was killed in action after single-handedly silencing a number of enemy machine guns, on 8 March 1916; for which action he was awarded the IDSM. He was buried at the battle site and is remembered on the World War I Basra War Memorial.