The Remembrance Day service and parade in Oxford in 1965 was held on one of the coldest days for months, writes George Dugdale.

Temperatures were so low that several young girls collapsed.

They were taken to a nearby shop, owned by Mr and Mrs H Bailey, and given warm drinks. They quickly recovered.

In the picture above, choristers - from St Giles Church and St John's College - lead the singing as the Lord Mayor of Oxford, Alderman Kathleen Lower, lays her wreath at the war memorial in St Giles.

The clergyman leaning forward on the rostrum is the Rev Norwyn Macdonald Ram - aka 'Mac' - then priest-in-charge at St Martin and All Saints Church in High Street and later City Rector and Vicar of St Michael at the Northgate.

The Oxford Mail reported: "The coldest morning in Oxford for months kept down attendance at the service, but past and present members of the services paraded in strength."

We wonder how many layers of clothing the young choir boys were wearing under their cassocks and surplices to survive the conditions!

The short service at the war memorial was conducted by Mr Ramm and the Rev SC Crowe, president of the Oxford Free Church Federal Council.

Colonel RB Cole, the well-known Oxford solicitor, read the Exhortation.

The Pressed Steel Band accompanied the hymns, and the signal for the two-minute silence was given by one of the 25-pounder guns of the Oxfordshire Yeo- manry. The Last Post and Reveille were sounded by two buglers from the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

Earlier, the Lord Mayor had appealed to people in Oxford to support the Poppy Appeal and for more collectors to come forward.

Was her appeal successful? And does anyone recognise any of the choristers who braved the wintry conditions?