Name
Geoffrey Davies Pike (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/08/1918
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Colonel
9th Gurkha Rifles
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HAIDAR PASHA MEMORIAL
Screen Wall. Panel 12
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 2 Jun 1880 in Ninfield, Sussex son of Captain F Pike. Educated at the United Services College 1894-97. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Indian Army on 17 Jan 1900 and Lieutenant 17 Apr 1902.
Wartime Service
He became British Military Agent in the Caucasus and was killed accidentally or deliberately by the Bolsheviks in Vladikavkaz.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Buried Vladikavkas Hospital Cemetery.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
