View source for Kidd Merrick Athelstan 2/Lt 117993

{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Kidd Merrick Athelstan
|Army number=117993
|Rank=2/Lt
|Decorations=M.i.D. 14/2/1946
|Date of birth=Born 15/11/1919, Wandsworth.  Birth registered March 1920.
|Age=97 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - granted an Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt 10/2/1940.  Posted ITC Brancepeth 24/2/1940.  Attached to 10th Battalion DLI 24/2/1940.  Posted 10th Battalion DLI 26/3/1940.  Served B.E.F.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI by 5/5/1940 as a 2/Lt. Taken Prisoner of War - possibly in the Ficheux area.  Repatriated.  Relinquished Commission on the grounds of disability 11/2/1946 and granted the rank of Honorary Lt.
|Promotions=W/S Lt 9/9/1941, T/Captain 1/9/1944.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - Oflag O6B/O7B Eichstatt PoW Number 303.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 31/1/2017 at Ashstead, Surrey.  Had been resident in Leatherhead, Surrey.
|Home address=Father - Alvin Kidd (1881 - 1957).  Mother - Irene Chuter (1892 - 1968).  Married Peggy M North (1920 - 2007) 23/6/1945 at St Luke's, London SW.
|Source table=11DLI
}}