PIKE, George Baden Powell
| Service Numbers: | 3426, 3426A |
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| Enlisted: | 26 June 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Teralba, New South Wales, 29 April 1900 |
| Home Town: | Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | horse breaker and steel worker |
| Died: | Chinchen Street, Islington, N.S.W., 28 August 1975, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-180. 3. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Jun 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3426, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Aug 1917: | Involvement Private, 3426, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Aug 1917: | Embarked Private, 3426, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Sydney | |
| 26 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3426A, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
48 years ago today, on the 1st September 1975, Private George Baden Powell Pike, 33rd Battalion (Reg No-3426A), horse breaker and steel worker from Platt Street, Waratah, New South Wales and Chinchen Street, Islington, N.S.W. (1937), father of three (Reginald, Joyce, George Robert), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 75. ANGLICAN 3-180. 3.
Born at Teralba, New South Wales on the 29th April 1900 to Aquilla Phillip, ANGLICAN 1-59. 67 of Chinchen Street, Islington, N.S.W. and Sarah Ann Pike nee Leonard - , ANGLICAN 1-59. 69; husband of Olive Berbina Pike nee Ashenden (married 1921, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 24.5.1949, Mayfield, N.S.W., age 47, sleeping here), George enlisted on the 23rd June 1917 with the 35th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A28 Miltiades on the 2nd August 1917.
Reported Missing in Action 11.8.1918.
Now reported not Missing 11.8.1918.
Admitted to hospital 3.9.1918 (boil, left shoulder and deafness).
Granted furlough from the 12.10.1918 to the 26.10.1918.
George returned home on the 20th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 26th March 1919.
Mr. Pike’s name has been inscribed on the Waratah Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Waratah-St Philip's Anglican Church Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at George’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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