Saturday, October 28, 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.
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HIS DAYReceiving Dardanelles papers and notes from Winston Churchill
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London
HER DAYWrote to Edwin Montagu
Official Register
1916-10-28Top News
Daily Edition
A plebiscite in Australia rejected military conscription by a narrow margin.. The British hospital ship SS Galeka struck a mine and sank.. Famous German flying ace Oswald Boelcke was killed in a mid-air collision.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Venetia Montagu
"Dont dine in Train will wait for You ask No 2 Mrs Morgan to dine Monday"
Cynthia Asquith
"Alex came to say goodbye at twelve. ... I bicycled to Mecklenburg Square to lunch with the Lawrences. ... Freyberg’s bedside atmosphere was a very sharp contrast."