Private Pike Private Pike Private Frank Pike is a fictional Home Guard private and junior bank clerk; he was appointed as the platoon's information officer by Captain Mainwaring in The Man and the Hour. He is frequently referred to by Captain Mainwaring as "stupid boy". In the BBC television sitcom "Dad's Army" he was portrayed by Ian Lavender. Pike was born in 1922, and is the youngest of the Walmington-on-Sea platoon. Aged 17 when the series begins, he is not old enough to join the army, although presumably he has reached, or is nearing, his 18th birthday when he is about to
Private Pike 1, Pike does show some mild romantic attraction to Janet King, Mainwaring's secretary when he talks to her about his guard duties. In War Dance, Pike becomes engaged to an Army girl called Violet Gibbons who works in a fish and chip shop, but it gets called off. Later on, Pike starts seeing a young cinema girl called Ivy, who speaks so quietly, nobody can ever hear her say anything. He briefly develops a crush on Hodges's niece Sylvia, but that quickly fizzles out. In The Royal Train, it is revealed that Pike can drive a steam locomotive, having learned