Thursday, August 31, 1916
Light 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.
Map Unavailable
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-08-31Top News
Daily Edition
German forces launched the largest counterattack of the Battle of the Somme against the British at Delville Wood and High Wood.. The Royal Flying Corps established No. 63 Squadron.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"Sat to McEvoy again, this time in my love-in-a-mist blue teagown... Papa picked me up there and drove me home. Bluetooth advised me to write to Evelyn Fitzgerald..."