Penryn remembered the victims of a World War Two bombing raid that claimed many lives in a service at the Memorial Gardens last Wednesday morning.

The names of many, ranging from infants to pensioners, who were killed in the attack on May 11, 1941, were read out during the service, which was attended by members of Penryn Royal British Legion and the Town Council, along with members of the public.

Penryn RBL chairman Derek Williams read out the names of the 18 victims, ranging from four year old David Boxhall, and Percy and Ronald Pascoe, four and two respectively, to John Rickard Rapson, 78, as well as Richard Ralph, a former soldier who had survived the trenches of World War One only to be killed in his own home.

Chas Wenmoth, town councillor and RBL president, said it was a moving day as many Penryn residents still remembered the events of that day or had lost family members in the raid.

He said: "It affected the community terribly at the time.

"Ivor Pascoe, who was at the service, survived the raid. I believe he was the only member of his family to survive.

"There are various cousins and other people who would have been related to [the victims]."

Mr Williams also spoke the exhortation, while Reverend Ian Froom led the prayers, and town mayor Gill Grant laid a wreath following a one minute silence.