Saturday, June 24, 1916
Light Rain
Correspondence (0)
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No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
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HIS DAYDining at Cavendish Square with family
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-06-24Top News
Daily Edition
16 British conscientious objectors were sentenced to death, later commuted to penal servitude.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"Gave Beb lunch at home... and then went to have it with Basil at Queen's Restaurant. ... Travelled down to Littlehampton by 3.50. A minute after my arrival, to my astonishment, enter Beb!"
Lord Riddell
"L. G. asked me to dinner, but I was unable to go. I went after dinner. I told him I had invited Brade for to-morrow... I said, 'Acceptance of office is far better than resignation...'"
Maurice Hankey
"There now followed for Hankey a brief interlude in Scotland with Asquith..."