VETERANS, cadets civic leaders and people young and old, took part in Teignmouth's Service of Remembrance on the seafront on Sunday.
It was organised by the Royal British Legion and the town council to honour the dead of two world wars and other conflicts.
Arthur Brooks, a Church of England reader, conducted the service.
There was a flypast by a Russian Yak, piloted by an east Devon man, followed by wreath laying.
A special guest was Jack French, a former Teignmouth resident who, as a naval telegraphist, played a key role in the famous Yangtse Incident of 1949, when the Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst was trapped under fire on the river for three months during the Chinese civil war.
Mr French's last visit to his boyhood home was in November, 1949, when he and two other Teignmothians from Amethyst received a hero's welcome.
This year the Torbay Brass Band performed the March Past with Salute to the Amethyst. The music, written by two RNVR officers, Lt Cdr David Brown and Henry George, in 1949, was adapted for the band by Laura Rossi, a former student at Teignmouth Community College, and now a professional musician in London.
Town historian, writer and photographer Viv Wilson was a driving force behind the commission, which was also sponsored by the town council, Corpdata, Teignmouth Pier and individuals.