Sunday, October 24, 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
H.H. Asquith
HIS DAYRecuperating at The Wharf, Sutton Courtney
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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1915-10-24

Top News

Daily Edition

British High Commissioner Henry McMahon sent a letter to Hussein bin Ali confirming British support for an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire.. The polar exploration ship Endurance was breached by ice in the Weddell Sea.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"The London colonel sent a letter from Yvo's colonel at the Front. Yvo was leading a party of bombers in a gallant and futile attempt to take a German trench... This letter made Bibs sob for the first time."

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