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‘The Monstrance’, 1918 (c). Chromolithograph reproduction of an original by A Pearse 1918 (c), published as part of a mounted set by S H and Company Limited, Clerkenwell, London, 1920 (c). Depicting an angel in a night sky holding up a monstrance with two angel children alongside, and on the battlefield German troops looking up with flames in the distance. Associated with the Battle of Mons, Western Front, World War One and the Boer War. The image is mounted onto thin card, with the title above and explanatory text printed below. From a collection of items relating to the career of George Arthur William Kennard. Kennard joined the Buffs Regiment and served with them in South Africa and World War One, and he may have later transferred to Royal Artillery.

Mons, Battle of, 1914 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)