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Ernest Seymour Pelly

In memory of:

Assistant Cook Ernest Seymour Pelly

February 26, 1940
Houston, Texas

Military Service


Age:

64

Force:

Merchant Navy

Unit:

Canadian Merchant Navy

Division:

SS Lerwick (London, England) (166435)

Additional Information


Born:

November 11, 1875
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Son of Nicholas H. Pelly and Elizabeth Alice Kendall of Trenton, Pictou, Nova Scotia. Husband of Alice Victoria Kendall of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Father of Shirley Minnie, Edith Alice May, Alexandra Muriel Blanche, Jessie Grace Emily and Florence Ethel Jane Pelly.

He died at Memorial Hospital in Houston, Texas, of bilateral bronchopneumonia following a prostatectomy where he was buried.

Commemorated on Page 264 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery
Texas, United States of America

Grave Reference:

N/A

Location:

Houston, Harris County, Texas.

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