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In memory of:

Assistant Cook Ernest Seymour Pelly

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Military service

Age: 64
Rank: Assistant Cook
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS Lerwick (London, England) (166435)
Birth: November 11, 1875 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Death: February 26, 1940 Houston

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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.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 264 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery Texas, United States of America

Houston, Harris County, Texas.

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