Sunday, October 8, 1916
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
H.H. Asquith
No correspondence or official record found.
Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-10-08Top News
British forces assaulted the Stuff Redoubt on the Ancre Heights.. Bad weather slowed the British advance at the Battle of Le Transloy.. The Imperial German Flying Corps was reorganized and renamed the German Air Force (Luftstreitkräfte).
Cabinet Council
Parliament
Witness Observations
"Dined with L. G. at Walton. ... L. G. told with great glee of his meeting with Mr. Hedges, of Hedges & Butler, at Rheims. ... L. G. said, 'My view is that I am responsible to the country for the result of the war.'"
"I lunched alone with Brenda. ... Put on my oilskins and went to visit Freyberg again. He speculates a great deal as to whether he will be killed or not."