Name
Horace Leslie Pike
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/6926
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2C
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
Born and resident in Arlesey in Bedfordshire, he enlisted in Hitchin. His home was at 28, Balmoral Road, Hitchin and he was the second son of Mrs Pike of 28, Balmoral Road, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
Horace was allocated Regimental Number 4/6926 six months before the war commenced.
He was sent to the 4th Battalion of the Bedfords and was posted missing believed wounded in action but was later presumed killed in action. On that day the Battalion took part in an attack towards Beaucourt on the ground between the River Ancre and Beaumont Hamel facing north-east. The German trenches were approximately 200 yards distant. There were over 100 casualties in the Battalion on that day.
He has no known grave and is remembered on 2C of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
