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Military service
Service number:
798695
Age:
22
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
172 Sqdn.
Death:
November 14, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 236.
Additional information
Son of William Henry and Alice Margaret Pike, of Buchans, Newfoundland.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William Earle Pike
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Photo of William Pike
A superimposed photo of William (left) and his brother, Herb Pike. -
Runnymede Memorial
Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto,"Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE. During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometres by road west of London.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Earle Pike
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Earle Pike
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 189 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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