A Teignmouth fighter pilot shot down in the Battle of Britain was honoured again on the anniversary of his death.

Sgt Gerald Henry Edworthy was killed on September 3, 1940, while attacking bombers above the Thames estuary.

He was an old boy of the former Teignmouth Grammar School, and a memorial 'flag deck' has been built at what is now Teignmouth Community School in his honour and for others from the town involved in military actions across the years.

The memorial parade was organised by the TS Canonteign Teign Valley Sea Cadets, who joined family, school staff, students and dignitaries at the ceremony on Saturday.

One of last year's guests, Group Capt Billy Drake, who destroyed more than 20 enemy aircraft in the second world war, recently died, but another veteran who took part in the Battle of Britain, Flt Lt Frank Newman, from Torquay, attended the service and laid a wreath to all pilots lost in the battle on behalf of the RAF Association.

Air cadets from Dawlish also laid a wreath and the event marked the beginning of two weeks of fundraising for the Wings Appeal, leading up to Battle of Britain Day on September 15.

A NAAFI style tea and cake tent was manned by women in 1940s fashions, with all takings going to the appeal.

September 3 also marked Merchant Navy Memorial Day, when the first cargo ship was sunk by the Germans in 1939, and a wreath in memory of the sailors who died bringing vital supplies to the UK was laid by the sea cadets' youngest member, Abigail Carroll.