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Hallmarked silver salver; part of a travelling communion set used by army chaplain Aneurin Davis, MC, HCF, MA in the First World War (1914-18). 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).

Somme, Battle of the, 1916 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)