Friday, August 11, 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
No correspondence or official record found.
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-08-11Top News
Daily Edition
British forces used flamethrowers and explosive-laden pipes to flush German defenses out of High Wood near Bazentin, France.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"Whibley in very good pip-pip form at breakfast... A new man arrived—Captain Lane—A.D.C... to Smuts. We had the most extraordinarily comic political debate after dinner."