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== Commemoration == |
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[[File:SR WC 4-6-2 34058 Sir Frederick Pile, Bitton, AVR, April 2006 P4030035 (9922504613).jpg|thumb|right|The Battle of Britain class locomotive ''Sir Frederick Pile'' at [[Bitton railway station]] in 2006]] |
[[File:SR WC 4-6-2 34058 Sir Frederick Pile, Bitton, AVR, April 2006 P4030035 (9922504613).jpg|thumb|right|The Battle of Britain class locomotive ''Sir Frederick Pile'' at [[Bitton railway station]] in 2006]] |
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In 1948, a locomotive of the [[Southern Railway (Great Britain)|Southern Railway]] [[SR Battle of Britain Class]] was named after Pile at [[London Waterloo railway station|Waterloo station]] in [[London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.34058.co.uk/Images/34058_32.jpg|title=side view of the locomotive showing the SIR FREDERICK PILE name and crest|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.34058.co.uk/Images/Crest1.jpg|title=Pile Family Crest as carried by the Southern Railway (Great Britain)-Southern Railway locomotive|publisher=}}</ref> After residing at [[Woodham Brothers]] scrapyard in [[Barry, South Wales]] it was initially preserved at the [[Avon Valley Railway]] for many years, and then moved to the [[Watercress Line]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.34058.co.uk| title = 34058 – Sir Frederick Pile| accessdate = 8 July 2006| publisher = 34058 Restoration Group| deadurl = yes| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060620053329/http://www.34058.co.uk/| archivedate = 20 June 2006| df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.semgonline.com/steam/blp51.html| title = Rebuilt Bulleid WC/BB 'West Country' and 'Battle of Britain' class 4-6-2| date = 23 June 2003| publisher = Southern E-Group}}</ref> [[Hornby Railways]] have released a model of this locomotive.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_details.asp?itemid=2477 | title=Rebuilt Battle Of Britain Class Locomotive – Sir Frederick Pile | publisher=Hornby Railways Collector's Guide | accessdate=31 March 2016}}</ref> |
In 1948, a locomotive of the [[Southern Railway (Great Britain)|Southern Railway]] [[SR Battle of Britain Class]] was named after Pile at [[London Waterloo railway station|Waterloo station]] in [[London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.34058.co.uk/Images/34058_32.jpg|title=side view of the locomotive showing the SIR FREDERICK PILE name and crest|publisher=|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041126185055/http://www.34058.co.uk/Images/34058_32.jpg|archivedate=26 November 2004|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.34058.co.uk/Images/Crest1.jpg|title=Pile Family Crest as carried by the Southern Railway (Great Britain)-Southern Railway locomotive|publisher=|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726135205/http://www.34058.co.uk/Images/Crest1.jpg|archivedate=26 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> After residing at [[Woodham Brothers]] scrapyard in [[Barry, South Wales]] it was initially preserved at the [[Avon Valley Railway]] for many years, and then moved to the [[Watercress Line]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.34058.co.uk| title = 34058 – Sir Frederick Pile| accessdate = 8 July 2006| publisher = 34058 Restoration Group| deadurl = yes| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060620053329/http://www.34058.co.uk/| archivedate = 20 June 2006| df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.semgonline.com/steam/blp51.html| title = Rebuilt Bulleid WC/BB 'West Country' and 'Battle of Britain' class 4-6-2| date = 23 June 2003| publisher = Southern E-Group}}</ref> [[Hornby Railways]] have released a model of this locomotive.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_details.asp?itemid=2477 | title=Rebuilt Battle Of Britain Class Locomotive – Sir Frederick Pile | publisher=Hornby Railways Collector's Guide | accessdate=31 March 2016}}</ref> |
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Sir Frederick Pile | |
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Mentioned in Despatches (United States)Commander of the Legion of Merit |
General Officer Commanding Anti-Aircraft Command
, one of the elements that protected Britain from aerial attack.
Early life
Pile was born in Dublin as the second child of Sir Thomas Devereux Pile, 1st Baronet and his wife, Caroline Maude Nicholson,[1] Sir Thomas served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1900 to 1901.
Pile had an older sister and two younger brothers. His youngest brother, Cyril John Pile, served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and was killed in action in 1917.[2]
Pile was
Career
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He served in the
General Staff Officer with 22nd Corps in France.[3]
After the war he was appointed a Brigade Major at Brighton and Shoreham District.[3] He transferred to the Royal Tank Corps in 1923.[3] In 1928 he became Commander of the 1st Experimental Mechanized Force and Assistant Director of Mechanisation at the War Office.[3] He went to Egypt in 1932 as Commander of the Canal Brigade Mechanized Force.[3]
In 1937 he became General Officer Commanding 1st Anti Aircraft Division and in 1939, at the start of the
Second World War, he was made General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Anti-Aircraft Command, a position he held throughout the war.[3] He was the only British general to retain the same command throughout the entire war. After Dunkirk he issued a General Order telling his men that they were the only British troops still firing at the enemy. He was to tell the story after the war, in his official dispatch and in his book Ack-Ack: Britain's Defence against Air Attack during the Second World War.[4] His plan for "Engagement of Long Range Rockets with AA Gunfire" (gunfire into a radar-predicted airspace to intercept the V-2 rocket) was ready on 21 March 1945 but the plan was not used due to the danger of shells falling on Greater London.[5]
Pile was created a
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in the 1945 New Year Honours.[6] After the War he became Director General of Housing with the Ministry of Works.[3]
He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery from 1945 to 1952.[3]
Personal life
In 1915 he married Vera Millicent Lloyd, with whom he had two sons. In 1932 he married Hester Mary Melba Phillimore. In 1951, he married Molly Eveline Louise Mary Home.[1]
Pile's elder son, Frederick Devereux Pile (1915–2010) served as a major in the Royal Tank Regiment. He won the Military Cross during the British Army's advance into Germany in 1945. He was later promoted to colonel and succeeded to the baronetacy on his father's death in 1976.[7]
Commemoration
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In 1948, a locomotive of the
Barry, South Wales it was initially preserved at the Avon Valley Railway for many years, and then moved to the Watercress Line in 2011.[10][11] Hornby Railways have released a model of this locomotive.[12]
References
- ^ a b "Frederick Pile". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ "Cyril John Pile1". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "King's Collections : Archive Catalogues : Military Archives". Liddell Hart Centre.
- JSTOR 2605627.
- ^ Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R. The Rocket Team. Apogee Books Space Series 36. p. 262.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "No. 34066". The London Gazette. 3 July 1934. p. 4222.
- ^ "Colonel Sir Freddy Pile". The Daily Telegraph. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ^ "side view of the locomotive showing the SIR FREDERICK PILE name and crest". Archived from the original on 26 November 2004.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Pile Family Crest as carried by the Southern Railway (Great Britain)-Southern Railway locomotive". Archived from the original on 26 July 2011.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "34058 – Sir Frederick Pile". 34058 Restoration Group. Archived from the original on 20 June 2006. Retrieved 8 July 2006.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Rebuilt Bulleid WC/BB 'West Country' and 'Battle of Britain' class 4-6-2". Southern E-Group. 23 June 2003.
- ^ "Rebuilt Battle Of Britain Class Locomotive – Sir Frederick Pile". Hornby Railways Collector's Guide. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
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