View source for Markey Henry Thomas Lance Sergeant 3602385

{{Personnel
|id=2133
|Surname and forenames=Markey Henry Thomas
|Army number=3602385
|Rank=Lance Sergeant.
|Date of birth=Born Birkenhead 1916/17.
|Age=27 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Border Regiment 15/2/1940. Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 6/9/1940, and posted to the 10th Battalion DLI.  Served Iceland?  Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 19/6/1944 with 10th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Company/Battery=Company not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifle Platoon Sergeant.
|Promotions=None known beyond Lance Sergeant.
|Wounded=Not yet known other than the injuries which lead to his death.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Joined Brigade=6/9/1940.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 19-Jun-44.   Interred initially at St Pierre - Map reference 1/50,000 7F/1 847.682  Re-buried 21/5/1945 in Grave XI. L. 8. Bayeux War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads - "DUTY NOBLY DONE" HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. WIFE AND BABY SON, MUM AND DAD.
|Home address=Resident of Birkenhead.  Son of John and Maria Markey, husband of Edna May Markey, Birkenhead. 
|Source table=10DLI
}}