R.M.Mack Memorial Window Paston Norfolk

The Paston family correspondence during the English Civil War gives us an insight into that conflict with family members becoming casualties, victims and victors.

The church at Paston, next to their great house is dotted with memorials to later generations who got fatally mixed up in the great events of their times. The church itself is 14th Century and has an innate calm inside that makes viewing the memorials all the more moving.

Lt Commander Mack was the younger son of Hugh Paston Mack & just one of that long line to lay down his life for his country. His brand new destroyer HMS Tornado hit a mine off Maas in 1917 killing all but one of the crew. Needless to say Lt.Cmdr Mack went down with his ship. An account of the events by the sole survivor, one Stoker Lemon, is held in the IWM.