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Re: Attack on HG-73, 26th September 1941
Posted by:
Steve Pimentil
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Date: June 06, 2011 10:51PM
Mark,
Re your Q2 about Alfonso Pimentil, the bosun and last survivor of the Cortes. He was my grandfather. The grave at Clifden was still in reasonable condition when my father took us there to search for it successfully in 1970.He even managed to speak with one of the nuns at the then still active convent, who remembered the shipwrecked filipino. I visited it on my own in 1990, when it was a little overgrown, but I persevered and found it eventually. When I returned in 2006 with my own children, it was much more overgrown, but I knew where to look, and we found it, cleared some of the undergrowth and took a couple of photos, which I would be happy to send on to you. The grave is not that far from the entrance, on the left hand side, near the top of the slope on which the cemetery lies. There is a fine view of the sea. Not such a bad place for a sailor to come to rest.
Regards
Steve Pimentil
Re your Q2 about Alfonso Pimentil, the bosun and last survivor of the Cortes. He was my grandfather. The grave at Clifden was still in reasonable condition when my father took us there to search for it successfully in 1970.He even managed to speak with one of the nuns at the then still active convent, who remembered the shipwrecked filipino. I visited it on my own in 1990, when it was a little overgrown, but I persevered and found it eventually. When I returned in 2006 with my own children, it was much more overgrown, but I knew where to look, and we found it, cleared some of the undergrowth and took a couple of photos, which I would be happy to send on to you. The grave is not that far from the entrance, on the left hand side, near the top of the slope on which the cemetery lies. There is a fine view of the sea. Not such a bad place for a sailor to come to rest.
Regards
Steve Pimentil
