Saturday, September 16, 1916
Sunny
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
1916-09-16Top News
Daily Edition
British soldiers captured and held the road between Ginchy and Lesbœufs during the Battle of Flers–Courcelette.. Two Imperial German Navy Zeppelins, L 6 and L 9, were destroyed by fire in their hangar due to an inflation accident.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"Letter from Basil in the morning, postponing discussion of the question to our next meeting. ... I wrote up the children's books, added largely to my Shakespeare anthology..."