St Martin-by-Looe, St Keyne and St Martin
Nave north 1
Entries in grey are not obtained from documentary evidence, but are inferred from content, context, etc.
Listed in the Imperial War Museum’s Register of War Memorials, reference 41234.
- Date of manufacture and insertion
- Number of lights
- 3
- Maker
- Morris, William of Westminster
- Main subject
- Christ presents a crown to the dedicatees. Longinus stands nearby. Cap badge of Royal Air Force officer.
- Donor
- Henry Moore Picken of Newby, Sunninghill, Berks and Beaumont, Pussellawa, Ceylon, father of Ronald Picken and husband of Mabel Picken
- Dedicatee
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- Lt Ronald Baynton Picken, RAF, killed aged 20 in an air fight off Albania
- Mabel Marion Picken, died aged 49
- Notes
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- Entry in 1918 Navy List, p 585.
- Obituary in magazine of Mount House School, Plymouth, Christmas , p 2.
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission ID 1651948.
- Death of Mabel Marion Picken, .
- Maker’s signature and address.
- Truro Diocesan Faculty 10/3/1920.
- Lt Picken belonged to 224 Squadron which, from , was equipped with DH.9 aircraft, which it used for bombing missions against targets in Albania and Montenegro.
Ye have seen [what I did unto the Egyptians, and] how I bare you on eagles’ wings and brought you unto myself ()
In memory of
Lieut. Ronald Baynton Picken, R.A.F.
who was killed in an air fight off Albania. , aged 20.
Also of Mabel Marion Picken his mother
who died five months later, aged 50.
The window above was erected by
the bereaved husband and father, Henry Moore Picken.(Inscription on a plaque near the window)
On the left are the two dedicatees, Lt Ronald Picken, dressed as a medieval soldier in armour, and his mother Mabel Picken, before Christ who holds a crown. On the right is the Roman soldier, Longinus
Detail from the top of the left-hand light. An aeroplane, probably a DH.9, which was the type in which Lt Picken was killed.