Sunday, December 31, 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.
Archive Silence
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Gloucestershire
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-12-31Top News
Daily Edition
Douglas Haig was promoted to Field Marshal of the British Army.. By year's end, over 17,000 officers and men were deployed in Great Britain for home air defense.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Lord Riddell
"Dined with L. G. at Downing Street. He said he would now have to reply to the Germans' peace terms, and that after dinner he would get to work."
Cynthia Asquith
"All went to church. Papa read the lessons. ... I had a telegram from my cinema agent, whose glittering name is the only bright spot in my life."