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''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).