Thursday, July 6, 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
1916-07-06Top News
The British secured complete control over La Boisselle at a cost of 9,850 casualties.. British submarine HMS E26 was lost in the North Sea with all 30 crew.
Cabinet Council
Parliament
>>Topics: Indian Labourers Imprisonment, The Mesopotamia Papers, Clause 1 Retention By Ex Constables Of, Clause 3 Power Of Police Authority To, 1St Lancashire Fusiliers Charles Cadden, Clause 1 Power To Substitute Standard Of
Witness Observations
"L. G. appointed Secretary for War. He is pleased."
"Day of conference, which opened most inauspiciously. At 7.45 a.m. Kitchener went off... for a private preliminary conference with Joffre... in came French... demanding where and when the conference was to be held."
"Went to lunch with Letty—we had it together on her bed. ... I am looking so ghastly that people stare at me in the street."