The Great War memorial plaque issued in remembrance of Private L. Pike, 1/5th Norfolk Regiment, 1/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, who died in the service of the famous “Vanished Battalion” in Gallipoli on 12 August 1915

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Lacey Pike), together with a Norfolk Regiment gilt metal cap badge, good very fine (2)
£150-200

Lacey Pike enlisted in the 1/5th Norfolk Regiment at Dereham, Norfolk. Posted to the 1/5th Battalion, he was among those to be posted missing, presumed killed in action, in Gallipoli on 12 August 1915. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.

For full details of the fate of the “Vanished Battalion”, see the footnotes to Lot 765.