Sunday, July 4, 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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H.H. Asquith
Sutton Courtenay
Venetia Stanley
France
HER DAYI may dine with him [Lord Wemyss] tomorrow.. this afternoon we had quite a good picnic... Hunter... and me. He and I & one of the others had a really perfect bathe

Official Register

1915-07-04

Top News

Daily Edition

Six German Navy airships attempted to attack a Royal Navy squadron in the German Bight but were thwarted by bad weather.. German aviator Gunther Plüschow escaped from the Donington Hall prisoner-of-war camp in Leicestershire.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Venetia Stanley
Venetia Stanley

"My darling I am absolutely done by the heat... But this afternoon we had quite a good picnic... My poisoned thumb is not being a great success... so I suppose I shall have to make up my mind to tell her the truth..."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"I sent for Parkinson early as I was anxious to get leave to go down to Littlehampton with Beb... He did not give it to me, saying I must wait another day. However, I decided to disobey orders."