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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Kirk Thomas Marley
|Army number=189534
|Rank=2/Lt
|Date of birth=21/1/1922.  Mother's maiden name Marley.
|Decorations=M.C. 31/8/1944 for service in N W Europe with 6th Bn DLI
|Age=69 or 70 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - granted an Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt 31/5/1941.  Posted to the 2nd Battalion DLI (Home details 14/11/1941).  Posted 30th Battalion DLI.  Posted 11th Battalion DLI 10/2/1942 (joined 18/2/1942).  Posted overseas May 1942.  Posted 70th Bn 22/6/1943.  Posted 6th Battalion DLI 1/6/1944.  Served Normandy.  Wounded and evacuated July 1944.  Transferred to the Parachute Regiment 26/5/1945.  Released as Honorary Captain.  Joined Territorial Army.  Captain 6th Battalion DLI 2/9/1954.  TARO 7/1/1959.
|Company/Battery=2nd Bn - A Company. 30th Bn - C Company. 6th Bn - S Company.
|Task or role=Duty Officer
|Promotions=W/S Lt 1/10/1942, T/Captain 11/1/1944, A/Major 5/11/1954.
|Wounded=Yes - July 1944 while with 6th Battalion.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died January 1991 in Cheshire.
|Home address=Father - Dr Charles Joseph Kirk.  Mother - ALice Marley.  In the 1939 General Register he was resident at 180 North Road, Darlington and working as a Law Articled Clerk.  Educated Merchiston Castle School and St Catherine's College, Cambridge.  Married 23/10/1948 to Hilary E Spalding at Darlington.
|Image Name=Thomas_Marley_Kirk.jpg
|Image Title=Lt Thomas Marley Kirk
|Source table=11DLI
}}