About 100 people attended an annual memorial service for a Battle of Britain pilot.

It was to honour Roy Marchand, a member of the RAF’s 73 squadron, who died aged 22 after the Hurricane plane he was flying was shot down on September 15, 1940.

It crashed into a field at Nouds Farm, Teynham where a stone memorial was relocated in 1985 to mark where he died.

Remembrance services have been held at the site on the nearest weekend to his death ever since.

On Sunday , deputy Mayor, Cllr Anita Walker and a relative of Mr Marchand’s were among assembled guests to lay wreaths at the monument, as did Graham Holness, Faversham branch chairman of the Royal Air Force Association.

The service was presided over by Rev Steven Lillicrap from Teynham, and Faversham branch chaplain of the Royal Air Forces Association, Rev Canon Struan Dunn.

After the ceremony, a lunch reception was held at Brents Tavern in Faversham.

Deputy Mayoress, Sylvia Lawrence, who also attended, said: “It was a very poignant service and a real honour to be invited to share in a memorial of this brave pilot.”