The wartime bombing of Penryn was remembered this weekend with a special memorial service.

For the third year running the event, which took place at the town’s Memorial Gardens, paid tribute to the 18 victims who died in a raid on the town in May 18, 1941.

It was first held in 2011 to mark the 70th anniversary and has now become an annual event.

The Memorial Gardens themselves were created as a lasting tribute to the bombing.

The names of those that lost their lives 72 years ago were: David Lander Boxhall, aged 4, Florence Annie Burleigh, aged 40, Florence Ivy Hale, aged 27, Louise Opie, aged 63, Gladys Pascoe, aged 33, Mary Ellen Pascoe, aged 64, Mary Ellen Pascoe, aged 35, Percy Pascoe, aged 4, Ronald Pascoe, aged 2, RC Pearce, Phillipa Pengelly, aged 41, Ethel Ralph, aged 37, Melvin Elise Ralph, aged 13, Richard Ralph, aged 42, John Rickard Rapson, aged 78, John Charles Tyler, aged 41, and Marjorie Lovisa Tyler, aged 35.