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
- Soldier and mother : Christ with crown : Centurion. Above the Holy City a biplane is flying. Air Force badge below inscription
- Donor
- Henry Moore Picken
- Dedicatee
- Lt Ronald Baynton Picken, RAF, died , and his mother Mabel Marion Picken, wife of HM Picken, Beaumont, Pussellawa, Ceylon, died
- Notes
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- Death of Mabel Marion Picken, .
- Maker’s signature and address.
- Truro Diocesan Faculty 10/3/1920.
- “Killed in an air fight off Albania, 6/9/1918, aged 20.”
- CG claims plane to be Sopwith Camel - more likely Bristol Fighter.
- 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.