Thursday, December 21, 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.
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-12-21Top News
Daily Edition
British forces occupied El Arish in the Sinai Peninsula.. The release of Irish prisoners involved in the Easter Rising was announced.. HMS Hoste and HMS Negro collided and sank in the North Sea.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Lord Riddell
"Called at Downing Street... Later called and saw the P.M., who said meeting with miners had gone off most satisfactorily. While at Downing Street saw Gardiner..."
Cynthia Asquith
"Amazed to hear, ‘Good Morning Lady Cynthia’, and to find Claud had come to meet and help me... Lunched with Bluetooth, who was very depressed... Went to see Colonel Freyberg, v.c., at three."