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Claude Wellington Pike was born at Windsor Ontario in 1892 and attended local Public Schools. He was a graduate of the Windsor Collegiate later known as Patterson High School.Lt. Pike is also commemorated on the Masonic War Memorial at Malden Park, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Claude Wellington Pike
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Lieutenant Claude Wellington Pike
Born in Vancouver B.C. but lived in Windsor. Enlisted with the 99th Battalion in May 1916. Killed in action at the Somme, October 8, 1916.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Claude Wellington Pike
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Claude Wellington Pike
Image source from news article as shown regarding Lt Pike's ultimate sacrifice
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Lieutenant Claude Wellington Pike
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Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Claude Wellington Pike
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Born in Vancouver B.C. but lived in Windsor. Enlisted with the 99th Battalion in May 1916. Killed in action at the Somme, October 8, 1916.
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Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
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Image source from news article as shown regarding Lt Pike's ultimate sacrifice
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 148 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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