An Emotive Great War Medal Pair and Memorial Plaque to an Officer in the Hampshire Regiment Who Was Reported Missing on his 20th Birthday, British War and Victory medals, ‘2. LIEUT H.V.W. PITE’ with bronze Memorial Plaque, ‘HORACE VICTOR WALTER PITE’, medals and plaque fitted in period glazed display case with Hampshire Regiment cap badge and brass rank pips. Horace Pite was reported missing on 10th April 1917, his 20th birthday, whilst serving with the 3rd Battalion Hampshire Regiment attached to 5th Battalion in Palestine. His loss was reported in The Middlesex County Times on 12 October 1917: Sec -Lieut Hoarce Victor Walter Pite, Hampshire R., who had been ‘missing’ since Apl. 10 (his 20th birthday), is now officially reported killed in action on that date in Palestine. He was the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. William A Pite, of 13 Elm Grove road, Ealing and grandson of the late Septimus H. Sibley F.R.C.S. Educated at Durston House, Ealing and the Grange, Eastbourne and privately he became a probationer of the Royal Institute of British Architects. From University College he entered the University of London OTC proceeding later to the Newmarket training camp. Obtaining his commission in September, 1917, he left England for Egypt, and went at once to the front in Palestine. He was a valued worker at All Saint’s Church, and for some time was a teacher at the Good Shepherd Mission. No details of his death have been received but a sergeant has written, ‘Mr. Pite never seemed to know what fear was.’ oarce Victor Walter Pite now rests in Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel and Palestine and is also commemorated on Ealing Memorial Gates and St. Michael and all Angels Church, Eastbourne.