Monday, August 28, 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
Map Unavailable
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H.H. Asquith
No correspondence or official record found.
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-08-28Top News
Daily Edition
Italy declared war on Germany, and Germany declared war on Romania.. Aircraft designer Frank Barnwell was awarded a contract to produce 50 Bristol fighter planes with Rolls-Royce Falcon engines.. British efforts to capture the front line German trench at Delville Wood were slowed by hardened defenses.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"I went up by early train accompanied, of course, by Whibley. ... Dined with Basil at Queen's Restaurant. We drank Lachrymae Christi..."