USE IN TWO WARS

Southland Times, Issue 24232, 16 September 1940, Page 8

USE IN TWO WARS

HISTORIC COMMUNION SERVICE A communion service, p Sam Browne belt and field glasses, all of which were used in the Great War, will probably be taken on to another battlefield by Chaplain-Captain N. F. Sansom, formerly the Presbyterian minister at Woodlands, who is to go into camp with the 4th Reinforcements. The communion service, consisting of a leather case containing a silver communion cup and a silver wine flask, was used in the Great War by the Rev. G. H. Gilbert, a chaplain in the forces. For about six years after the war Mr Gilbert was minister of St. Paul’s Church, Invercargill, and then he accepted a call to St. Andrew’s Church, Hamilton.

The communion service was given to Mr Sansom when he was in Hamilton by Mr Gilbert. The silver flask contains the remainder of French wine used by Mr Gilbert in his last communion service in France and Mr Sansom promised that he would use the wine at the first commrmion he held on active service.

The Saha Browne belt which will be worn by Mr Sansom was used in the last war by the Rev. J. E. Lopdell, formerly of Wyndham, and now of St. Stephen’s, Lower Hutt. Mr Donald Falconer, of Gorge Road, gave Mr Sansom a pair df field glasses, which were also .used in the 1914-18 .war, .