Autographs of Thomas Pike

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike, GCB, CBE, DFC & Bar, DL (29 June 1906 – 1 June 1983) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He served in the Second World War as a night fighter squadron commander and then as a station commander. He was Chief of the Air Staff in the early 1960s and, in that role, deployed British air power as part of the British response to the Brunei Revolt. Also, in the face of escalating costs, he implemented the cancellation of the British Blue Streak ballistic missile system but then found the RAF was without any such capability when the Americans cancelled their own Skybolt ballistic missile system. He went on to be Deputy Supreme Commander Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in the mid-1960s.
Born the son of Captain Sydney Royston Pike and Sarah Elizabeth Pike (née Huddleston), Pike was educated at Bedford School between 1915 and 1923 before joining the Royal Air Force as a flight cadet on 17 January 1924. On successfully passing through the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, he was commissioned as a pilot officer on 16 December 1925 and immediately posted to No. 56 Squadron at RAF Biggin Hill where he flew Gloster Grebes and then Armstrong Whitworth Siskins. Promoted to flying officer on 16 June 1927, he attended the instructors' course at the Central Flying School in Autumn 1928 and then became an instructor first with No. 5 Flying Training School at RAF Sealand and then, from May 1929, at the Central Flying School, where he was a member of the aerobatic team.\nPromoted to flight lieutenant on 9 July 1930, Pike attended the Long Aircraft Engineering Course at the Home Aircraft Depot at RAF Henlow from August 1930 and then joined the engineering staff at the RAF Depot in the Middle East in October 1932. He became an instructor at No. 4 Flying Training School at RAF Abu Suwayr in November 1934 and, after attending the RAF Staff College from January 1937, he was promoted to squadron leader on 1 February 1937. He was posted to No. 10 Flying Training School at RAF Ternhill as Chief Flying Instructor in January 1938 and then became a staff officer in the Deputy Directorate of Peace Organisation within the Air Ministry in February 1939.
Pike served in the Second World War, initially on the air staff within the Directorate of Organisation at the Air Ministry, and was promoted to the temporary rank of wing commander on 1 March 1940 (made permanent in April 1942). He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 219 Squadron flying Bristol Beaufighters from RAF Tangmere in February 1941 and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 13 May 1941 for showing great skill in intercepting enemy aircraft at night, destroying a raiding aircraft on his first night patrol. He was awarded a bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross on 30 May 1941 for engaging attackers at night when the aerodrome was illuminated by the glare from a large number of incendiary bombs.
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Traded items with a signature of Thomas Pike

The most expensive item with a signature of Thomas Pike (Air Marshal Thomas Pike Signed Letter To Air Chief Marshal Percy Bandon) was sold in November 2025 for £35.00 while the cheapest item (RAF 14 MARSHAL OF RAF SIR THOMAS PIKE Cover SHS Canc 1990 Signed LADY PIKE) found a new owner for £0.75 in March 2014. The month with the most items sold (3) was December 2025 with an average selling price of £4.44 for an autographed item of Thomas Pike. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2025 with £19.91 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.75 was March 2014. In average, an autographed item from Thomas Pike is worth £4.44.

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Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	1970 RAF SC14 SPECIAL COVER SIGNED BY MARSHAL OF THE RAF SIR THOMAS PIKE	£6.25
	Air Marshal Thomas Pike Signed Letter To Air Chief Marshal Percy Bandon	£35.00
	CMD14d Sir Thomas Pike MRAF RAF cover Signed Lady Pike Wife of MRAF Sir T Pike	£3.45
	CMD14d Sir Thomas Pike MRAF RAF cover Signed Lady Pike Wife of MRAF Sir T Pike	£5.44
	CMD14d Sir Thomas Pike MRAF RAF cover Signed Lady Pike Wife of MRAF Sir T Pike	£4.44
	CMD14d Sir Thomas Pike MRAF Signed. Lady Pike. Wife of MRAF Sir T Pike	£4.82
	Dennis Nicholls 56 squadron & Sir Thomas Pike signed First day Cover	£9.75
	HA25c Portal of Hungerford Signed MRAF Thomas Pike, D Nicholls Battle of Britain	£11.95
	MRAF SIR THOMAS PIKE GCB CBE DFC Signed MRAF Viscount Portal RAF Cover	£4.99
	MRAF SIR THOMAS PIKE GCB CBE DFC Signed MRAF Viscount Portal RAF Cover	£4.99
	RAF CMD SERIES COVER No.14B - LADY PIKE SIGNED - SIR THOMAS PIKE	£1.55
	RAF SC14 SPECIAL MARSHAL OF THE RAF SIR THOMAS PIKE GCB, CBE, DFC* SIGNED COVER	£6.72
	RAF SIGNED FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED BY SIR THOMAS PIKE DFC	£1.49
	RAF38 Honouring 56 Sqn Signed Marshal of RAF Sir Thomas Pike No 56 Sqn	£11.95
	Sir Thomas Pike signed The Viscount Portal of Hungerford cover RAFM HA25	£5.25