Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Engine Room Artificer A. Pike, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Tiger at the Battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland

1914-15 Star (269515 A. Pike. Act. C.E.R.A.3, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (269515 A. Pike. C.E.R.A.2 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (269515 Arthur Pike, E.R.A. 1Cl. H.M.S. Indus.) good very fine and better (4)
£150-200

Arthur Pike was born in Yeovil, Somerset, on 3 August 1877 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class, serving in H.M.S. Vivid II, on 15 November 1898. Advanced Engine Room Artificer 1st Class on 27 August 1911, he served in H.M.S. Indus in this rate from 7 December 1912 to 31 July 1914, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 21 November 1913. He served during the Great War, first on the Home Port Defences in Torpedo Boat 5, and then in H.M.S. Tiger, from 3 October 1914 to 2 September 1920, and was present at the Battle of Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915, where her Q-turret sustained a direct hit; and the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, where the Tiger was hit a total of 18 times during the battle, and suffered 24 dead and 46 wounded.

Pike was advanced to his ultimate rate of Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class on 1 November 1916, and after a brief spell in H.M.S. Vivid II was shore pensioned on 14 December 1920. He died in Honiton, Devon, in 1956.

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