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William Pike (British Army officer)

British Army officer (1905–1993)

Summary

British Army officer (1905–1993)

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Lieutenant-General
name	Sir William Pike
honorific_suffix
birth_date
death_date
birth_place	Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
death_place	Alton, Hampshire, England
allegiance	United Kingdom
branch	British Army
serviceyears	1925−1963
servicenumber	31590
rank	Lieutenant-General
unit	Royal Artillery
commands	59th Army Group Royal Artillery
77th (Highland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
battles	Second World War
Korean War
Suez Crisis
awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order

77th (Highland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery Korean War Suez Crisis Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Lieutenant-General Sir William Gregory Huddleston Pike, (24 June 1905 − 10 March 1993) was a senior British Army officer who served as Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1960 to 1963.

Military career

Pike entered Bedford School in 1914, and was further educated at Marlborough College.

The grave of Lieutenant-General Sir William Pike in [[Bentley, Hampshire]].

After graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Pike was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 28 January 1925. He served with the British Indian Army until 1936

Pike later served in the Korean War as Divisional Commander, Royal Artillery for 1st Commonwealth Division. Chief of Staff for Far East Land Forces in 1957 and Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1960 before retiring in 1963. He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1962 to 1970.

Family

He married Josephine 'Josie' Tompson; their son is Lieutenant General Sir Hew Pike. His brother was Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Thomas Pike.

References

'PIKE, Lt-Gen. Sir William (Gregory Huddleston)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
{{London Gazette. (27 January 1925)
[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/PIKE1.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]
and fought in the [[Second World War]] taking part in the [[Dunkirk evacuation]] and commanding the 77th (Highland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery during the landings in [[Morocco]] and [[Algeria]] in March 1943. On 11 March 1944, Pike was promoted to [[brigadier]] and appointed to command [[59th Army Group Royal Artillery]], a headquarters that was about to embark for the Far East. On arrival at the [[Ranchi]] training area, 59 AGRA and the artillery regiments placed under Pike's command prepared for an amphibious assault on the coast of [[British Malaya. Malaya]], which was called off after the [[Surrender of Japan]].59 AGRA War Diary, February–December 1945, [[The National Archives (United Kingdom). The National Archives (TNA), Kew]] file WO 172/7515.
"Army commands".
(2004). "Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike".

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