Hi Sandra,
Army military records are available at ;
Army Personnel Centre,
Disclosure 2, Mail Pont 515
Kentigern House, 65 brown Street, Glasgow G2 8EX
Tel# 0845 600 9663
Are you sure you want WW2 ?, Philip Henry P Larton born 1896 surely WW1
Regards John Y
ps There is a Percy Larton in Commonwealth War Graves Commission records
a Private, number 715921 died age 24 on 29/08/1920 buried at Lourdes Cemetery
So he born 1896 but on record as serving in Canadian Forces.
No Phillip ( or Philip) Larter on records for WW2 on CWGC