Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Chief Electrical Artificer Second Class H. A. Pike, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (M. 27585 H. A. Pike. E.A.5. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (M.27585 H. A. Pike, A/C.E.R.A 2, H.M.S. Basilisk.) contact marks and edge bruising, good fine (3) £60-£80

Howard Alfred Pike was born at Devonport in April 1899 and enlisted into the Royal Navy in August 1917 as an Electrical Artificer Fifth Class, being first assigned to the Royal Navy’s torpedo school, H.M.S. Defiance. He saw operational service during the Great War aboard the battlecruiser H.M.S. New Zealand, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in September 1932 whilst on the crew of the destroyer H.M.S. Basilisk, having been advanced Acting Chief Electrical Artificer Second Class. During the Second World War he served with the shore establishments H.M.S. Defiance and Cochrane.