case, communion set, case, communion set
Accession Number
NAM.2024-12-5-1-1
Description
Small rectangular leather covered case for a travelling communion set; part of a travelling communion set used by army chaplain Aneurin Davis, MC, HCF, MA in the First World War (1914-18). Case was originally lined in blue; the detachable yellow velvet lining was probably added by the next vicar who used it. Davis used the communion set regularly on the Western Front during 1916-18, including the Somme, Vichy, the Great Retreat of March 1918 and subsequently all through the British advance until 12 October 1918, when he was wounded and had to return to hospital in Oxford to recover. Associated with the Western Front, World War One (1914-18).
Events
Somme, Battle of the, 1916 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)
