Friday, August 4, 1916

Sunny

Correspondence (0)

Gap in Correspondence

No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.

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H.H. Asquith
London
HIS DAYSpeaking at the Queen's Hall meeting (Anniversary of the War). Attending a meeting at Queen's Hall (Anniversary of the War)
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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1916-08-04

Top News

Daily Edition

British reinforcements at the Battle of Romani overturned the German-Ottoman assault.. Australian forces secured the second network of German trenches at Pozières.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith

"To return to the 4th of Aug. 1916, the anniversary of the War... I ran in to tell Alice Wimborne that Henry had settled that she and Ivor Wimborne were to go back to the Irish Viceregal lodge. ... Cys, Eliz, Puff, Henry, Bongie and I dined early and went to Queen’s Hall."

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Frances Stevenson

"We went on Wednesday night [a August] to a private view of the ‘Somme Films’, i.e. the pictures taken during the recent fighting."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Had the motor to take me to the station, and Polly and I went by the ten o'clock. We had the most awful journey—everybody in England seemed to be going to Minehead. ... I arrived at Pixton after four..."