Thursday, June 10, 1915

Cloudy

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
Londonⓘ
HIS DAYWorking in London (having returned from the Wharf on Monday, June 7). Presiding over a Cabinet or attending the House of Commons where the new National Government was sitting (Margot Asquith recorded on this day her impressions of the new government sitting in the House). Likely dealing with the Dardanelles Committee business; he received a report on the 9th and attended a meeting regarding Ashmead-Bartlett on the 12th
Venetia Stanley
Franceⓘ
HER DAYI've spent most of the day watching a man who is dying. Wrote to Edwin Montagu

Official Register

1915-06-10

Top News

Daily Edition

British seaplane carrier HMS Ben-my-Chree arrived at Lesbos to support Allied forces at Gallipoli.. Royal Navy torpedo boats HMS TB 10 and HMS TB 12 struck mines in the North Sea.. A Vorticist exhibition opened at the Doré Gallery in London.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith

"New National Government sitting in the House of Commons... A painful peculiar impression was made on me... I look on the new National Government with the deepest apprehension."

Venetia Stanley
Venetia Stanley

"My darling I've had rather a boring day, partly because it has been raining... I've spent most of the day watching a man who is dying..."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Bluetooth came to tea with me—rather a nice story about Lord Hugh. Bluetooth asked a mechanic how he was getting on and the man said: 'That Lord Hugh—ee's a regular 'ell-'ound!'"