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More than 63 years after bombs and shells ripped through Dover, a service is being held to honour the civilians who stood on the Home Front.

The service of remembrance and thanksgiving will commemorate all the Dovorians who lost their lives in both wars of the 20th century.

It is being held on Tuesday, November 6, at 10.30am at St Mary’s Church in Biggin Street, Dover.

The remembrance service will include a thanksgiving for the people who captured the guns at Calais in September, 1944, ending the shelling over Dover.

More than 200 civilians died from bombing and shelling, and records show 464 bombs and 2,226 shells fell on the town – statistics that gave the area the name of Hellfire Corner.