OXFORD’S civic leaders turned out in force for this Home Guard church parade during the Second World War.
The macebearer leads a procession, followed by the mayor and city councillors in full regalia, to St Luke’s Church at Cowley.
We can’t identify any members of the civic party, but the man in Home Guard uniform was Norman Miller.
He was the brother of Dorothy Miller, alias Daphne Miles, who, as we recalled (Memory Lane, February 7), put on 2,000 shows for charities and other good causes, many of them in Oxford, during her long career as a dance teacher.
She adopted the stage name of Daphne Miles when she moved from London to Oxford in 1940 to escape the London Blitz.
She set up the Daphne Miles School of Dancing and put on numerous shows for charities and to entertain wounded British and American troops.
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