Saturday, August 19, 1916
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
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H.H. Asquith
No correspondence or official record found.
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-08-19Top News
Daily Edition
The Royal Navy and German Navy clashed in the North Sea; British light cruisers HMS Nottingham and HMS Falmouth were sunk by submarines.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"At about 5.30 a call of 'Cynthia' interrupted my dreams. I sprang up, wide awake, and found Beb who somehow had got a motor at Taunton and had broken into the house."