Sunday, June 6, 1915

Sunny

Correspondence (0)

Gap in Correspondence

No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.

Archive Silence
H.H. Asquith
Sutton Courtenay
HIS DAYSpending the weekend at his country home, The Wharf (Margot Asquith recorded that they motored from The Wharf to London on Monday, June 7). Resting after his recent visit to the British General Headquarters in France (from which he had returned in the early hours of Friday, June 4)
Venetia Stanley
France
HER DAYI walked a little way to wave to you but only saw Reggies fine upstanding figure on the bridge.. Wrote to Edwin Montagu

Official Register

1915-06-06

Top News

Daily Edition

British general Aylmer Hunter-Weston beat back the Ottoman defense at the Third Battle of Krithia.. British carrier SS Immingham was lost in the Mediterranean.. The London Underground opened a new station at Maida Vale.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Venetia Stanley
Venetia Stanley

"My beloved what's all this. ... I hear tonight from Sylvia... saying you think I may have changed my mind. How can you?"

Lord Riddell
Lord Riddell

"Golfed with L. G. ... R.: It looks as if it might be over in twelve months unless the Germans secure a marked success on the Western Front..."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Delicious drive home. Bluey told me amusing gossip, that Jack Pease had been expelled by McKenna... because he was seen holding Pamela's hand."