Tuesday, October 24, 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.
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London
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-10-24Top News
Daily Edition
French forces recaptured Fort Douaumont near Verdun.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
FS
Frances Stevenson
"M. Thomas came over to London yesterday with an urgent message to D. from the French extreme Liberals to continue to press for a vigorous Balkan policy."
Cynthia Asquith
"Mary's twenty-first birthday. ... Woke up to terrible morning misery. The dreary detail of the John tragedy blackens life. ... Lunched with Whibley."