Saturday, June 19, 1915
Sunny
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
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Londonⓘ
HIS DAYReceiving pressure from King George V regarding the Irish Home Rule crisis; the King urged a meeting between the Irish leaders Redmond and Carson under the aegis of the Speaker or himself [1]. Likely seeing his son Herbert ('Beb') listed in the morning casualty list (Beb had been wounded in the lip by a shell splinter but was actually recuperating on leave at Littlehampton with his wife Cynthia) [2]
Franceⓘ
HER DAYVisit from Anthony Henley. Excursion to Hardelot. Long walk and dinner on the sands (apricots, pate de fois gras, champagne). Wrote to Edwin Montagu
Official Register
1915-06-19Top News
Daily Edition
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Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Venetia Stanley
"My darling I've just got your letter... I suppose I did nominally go for a month only... Anthony came to see me yesterday..."
Cynthia Asquith
"Beb in morning list of casualties. ... At 3.30 Beb, John and I motored to Greatham and had tea with Lawrence."