Monday, September 27, 1915
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London
HIS DAYDining with the Benckendorffs
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Venetia Stanley
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Official Register
1915-09-27Top News
Daily Edition
Fergus Bowes-Lyon, brother of the future Queen Mother, and John Kipling, son of Rudyard Kipling, were killed in action.. HMS Caribbean foundered off Cape Wrath.
Cabinet Council
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Parliament
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Adjourned
Witness Observations
Margot Asquith
"We dined with Benckendorffs. … I motored back with Grey, who got on to his favourite topic (letting out secrets from here that will help the Germans)."
Cynthia Asquith
"Basil, Beb, and I left by the early train to come here to Holker Hall. ... To my misery, I was taken straight out for a long mountainous walk..."