Monday, August 2, 1915

Heavy Rain

Correspondence (0)

Gap in Correspondence

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

Archive Silence
Map Unavailable
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H.H. Asquith

No correspondence or official record found.

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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1915-08-02

Top News

Daily Edition

A Sopwith Baby took off from HMS Campania, marking the first time a British aircraft launched from an aviation ship with wheeled floats.. No. 5 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was established at Dover.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Received good 'love letter' from Bluetooth in the morning. ... After lunch he drew and I had the joy of reading aloud 'Lycidas' and a large selection of very familiar beloveds..."

Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith

"2nd August I took a group of friends to Blenheim, where we found the little Duke fussy and insignificant. ... England has always been more grateful or shown more gratitude to her soldiers than to her Prime Ministers."