Monday, July 3, 1916

Light 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

1916-07-03

Top News

Daily Edition

British forces captured parts of La Boisselle and Ovillers.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

IN SESSION

>>Topics: Deutsche Bank, Independent Labour Party, Military Representatives, Arrests And Trials Procedure, Conscientious Objectors, Postal Telegraphists Recruitment

Witness Observations

Maurice Hankey
Maurice Hankey

"War Ctee., for Cabinet members only, on finance question. Very strained relations between Ll. George and McKenna, but we reached an agreement."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Breakfasted and wrote diary in bed. Papa asked me to lunch with him, and said he had begun to be hopeful yesterday, but the latest story had extinguished hope... Began to write to Beb when Whibley walked in."