Saturday, June 3, 1916

Sunny

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 DAYReturning to London (delayed by fog)
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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1916-06-03

Top News

Daily Edition

Canadian forces attempted a counterattack at Mont Sorrel but suffered heavy casualties.. The British passenger ship SS Golconda struck a mine and sank in the North Sea.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Diana Cooper
Diana Cooper

"Today, my last day, I am rather glad to find myself so popular with nurses and patients. ... 12, who has lain lost in her own dirt since I have been here... has suddenly developed a disease, incurable, called foetid bronchitis..."

Maurice Hankey
Maurice Hankey

"I wrote a memorandum setting out the likely consequences of the government's decision being allowed to stand."

Lord Riddell
Lord Riddell

"Called to see L. G. at Walton. Found him very excited regarding naval news. He spoke in strong terms of Balfour and the Board of Admiralty. He said Fisher should have been recalled..."