A D-DAY hero’s name will live on in Bovey Tracey in a new development.

Sadler Green in Brimley now bears the name of Jack Sadler. He died after being injured in the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, but is not mentioned on the town’s war memorial.

A grocer’s assistant, Jack was working for the Co-op when he was called up.

He volunteered for commando service and completed training at Achnacarry, near Ben Nevis, in Scotland.

He landed on Sword Beach on D-Day, where his unit was tasked with capturing a coastal battery at Ouistreham to protect the amphibious landings.

The commando then moved inland to link up with airborne troops landed the night before to secure bridges over the River Orne.

Jack, 18, was wounded on Sword Beach when landing, and again when the vessel evacuating him to England was attacked by enemy aircraft. He died in hospital at St Albans and was buried in Bovey Tracey on June 29, 1944.

His father, then living in Paignton, had previously lived and worked in Bovey for a number of years and chose to bury his son there.

Mark Bailey of the Bovey Tracey HeritageTrust explained: ‘Although buried in our town cemetery, he is not on our war memorial.

‘And so the decision was taken to name this development “Sadler Green” in his memory.’

After Richard Pearce recited the Commando Prayer, a minute’s silence was observed for Jack and for Pte Bryan Ferguson of No 3 Commando, who is also buried in Bovey Tracey, having died in Feb 1944 of wounds sustained in Italy.

After the simple ceremony Mark took the commemorative cross and laid it on Jack’s grave in the town.

He said: ‘Their deaths represent but a very small part of the resultant physical, cultural and environmental damage and misery when man abandons co-operation and collaboration and resorts to conflict.’