Tuesday, October 17, 1916
Heavy 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
1916-10-17Top News
Daily Edition
A British tank destroyed German defenses at the Butte de Warlencourt.. British soldier Harry Farr was executed for cowardice, a sentence later attributed to shell shock and posthumously pardoned.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"Fearful wet morning and I had a most unpleasant bicycle ride to John’s studio. ... Angela came to see me at six. She seemed to think her affairs were going better..."