Person:Percy Pellew (1)

From CWGC: Name: PELLEW, PERCY; Initials: P; Nationality: United Kingdom; Rank: Blacksmith 3rd Class; Regiment: Royal Navy; Unit Text: H.M.S. Princess Beatrice; Age: 47; Date of Death: 26/08/1944; Service No: D/MX 90263; Additional information: Son of Isreal and Mary Pellew; husband of Edith Mary Pellew, of Lowestoft, Suffolk; Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead; Grave/Memorial Reference: 4. G. 22; Cemetery: DELY IBRAHIM WAR CEMETERY.

Dely Ibrahim is a village in hilly country about 10 kilometres south-west of Algiers on the road to Blida. The War Cemetery lies on the slope of the hill about 500 metres short of the village of Dely Ibrahim. Allied troops made a series of landings on the Algerian coast in early November 1942. From there, they swept east into Tunisia, where the North African campaign came to an end in May 1943 with the surrender of the Axis forces. Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery contains 494 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War and 11 war graves of other nationalities. There are also 25 non-war graves, mostly of merchant seamen whose deaths were not due to war service.