Wednesday, July 5, 1916
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-07-05Top News
A hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico killed 34 people and caused $3 million in damage across Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee [2]
Cabinet Council
Parliament
Witness Observations
"I went to dine with L. G., whom I found in a state of excitement awaiting the arrival of an officer from the Front bearing dispatches as to the munitions."
"Crossed in evening to Calais, special train and Scout attentive, with the Prime Minister, Balfour, Kitchener, and Crewe... for conference next day with the French."
"Went to Cadogan Square and met Mary, who had just come up from the Strickland. Another letter from Tom previous to the others she has received, and for the first time writing of Ego: ‘Ego was instantaneously killed by a shell...’"