Captain John Nicol Fergusson PIXLEY (1907)

4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Born 7 April 1888 in Kensington, London
Killed in action 12 October 1917, aged 29
Buried at Artillery Wood Cemetery, near Boezinge, Belgium. Also commemorated on the war memorials at the Muthaiga Country Club, Nairobi, Kenya, and St Paul’s Church, Wooburn.

Jack Pixley was the second son of Colonel Francis William Pixley, VD, and Elizabeth Mary, née Simpson, of Wooburn House, Wooburn, Bucks.

He was educated at Hawtrees Prep School, Margate, at Eton College, and privately before matriculating at Merton in 1907.

He was in British East Africa when war broke out; he joined the East African Mounted Rifles and took part in several engagements before returning to England and joining the 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards, on 13 April 1916.

He was killed in action near Houthulst Forest, during the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), on 12 October 1917.