Peter Douglas Herbert Raymond Pelly was born on 24 September 1904 , the second son of '' Rev '' . Douglas Raymond Pelly ( 1865 – 1943 ) , DSO , and his wife Verena Noellie , '' née '' Herbert ; the elder son was Air Marshal Sir Claude Pelly . A graduate of Emmanuel College , Cambridge , Rev. Douglas Pelly fought in the Matabele War and the First World War ; he was the son of Rev. Canon Raymond Percy Pelly ( died 1911 ) , the vicar of Great Malvern ( 1896 – 1910 ) , himself the grandson of Sir John Pelly , 1st Baronet . Commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1918 , Peter Pelly served on HMY '' Victoria and Albert '' in 1939 , but during the Second World War commanded HMS '' Windsor '' in 1940 when it was engaged in evacuating from Northern European ports . He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau for the role he played in this work , and was promoted to the rank of Commander in the navy in the same year . He was then attached to the 15th Cruiser Squadron off Crete and Malta and received the Distinguished Service Order ( in 1942 ) . From 1943 to 1945 , he was with the Plans Division at the Admiralty and worked with the Cairo , Tehran , Quebec and Yalta Conferences . In the last months of the war , Pelly commanded HMS '' Ameer '' off Malaya
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