REMEMBRANCE services have taken place across the Cotswolds this week, as they do at this time in November every year.

This week, The Standard looks back at Remembrance services from 1968 and 1987.

On Friday, November 15, 1968, the paper commemorated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice after the 1914-18 war.

The paper reported that in practically every town and village large congregations were reported.

However, for the first time for many years no Remembrance Day parade was held in Cirencester because the town’s silver band was not available — they were leading the parade at Bibury — and because there was no RAF contingent.

On Friday, November 13, 1987, this paper remembered the dead of the two World Wars with pictures from parades in, among other places, Chedworth, Ampney Crucis, Fairford and Tetbury.

The paper reported that in Cirencester 300 attended a service at St John’s Church.

In Ampney Crucis soldiers from the Coldstream Guards, wearing full ceremonial dress, attended the parade, and in Cricklade a large crowd gathered at the war memorial for the wreath-laying.