Private Filepe (Philip) Pimentil was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1924, in Liverpool, the son of Filipino-born sailor Alphonso Cevallos and Kate Gertude Pimentil (née Clarkson), of Liverpool.
Aged 20, Pimentil died on 16 July 1944, in Operation 'Pomegranate' during the Battle for Caen, while serving with the 5th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment in the Normandy Campaign. His father had died in March 1941, in a hospital in Clifden, Ireland, having survived the successive sinkings of the merchant ships Cortes and Lapwing, the latter of which had picked him and two others up.[1][2]
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Bayeux Memorial.
Notes[]
- ↑ Alphonso Cevallos Pimentil, uboat.net. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ↑ Cortes, uboat.net. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
References[]
- Pimentil, Filepe, cwgc.org. Retrieved 27 October 2012.