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Chalice marked 'Vanpoulles Purley' under base. From from the field communion set used by the Reverend Aled Huw Thomas while serving as an Army Chaplain with the Black Watch. Used on deployment in Bosnia (1994), Northern Ireland (1996/1998), Oman (2001) and Iraq (2004).

''This very simple box is a field communion kit. It was mine when I served as an Army chaplain. I used it in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, the First Gulf War and the Second Gulf War in Iraq. It has everything necessary to hold a field communion service for all your soldiers. I used to set-up an altar on the back of a Land Rover, there you could do a short service of 10-15 minutes… without all the great trappings the civilian clergyman would have. An Army chaplain has to get by with far less and travel far lighter.'' Source: oral history interview with Aled Huw Thomas conducted by Elen Phillips (2016).