The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Aug. 2 - 1915. My Dear Winifred, Many thanks for P.C. I am so glad you are enjoying yourself and can get out a lot. The Baby must be sweet and very amusing in his little ways. I hope it will keep fine for you all the time. Much love, Yours, E.G."
Admiralty Arch
Admiralty Arch is a landmark building in London which incorporates an archway providing road and pedestrian access between The Mall, which extends to the southwest, and Trafalgar Square to the northeast.
The building was completed in 1912.
Admiralty Arch, commissioned by King Edward VII in memory of his mother, Queen Victoria and designed by Sir Aston Webb, is now a Grade I listed building.
In the past, it served as the residence of the First Sea Lord and was used by the Admiralty.
Until 2011, the building housed government offices, but in 2012 the government sold a 125-year lease over the building for redevelopment into a luxury hotel, restaurant and apartments.
Armenian Genocide
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 2nd. August 1915, American ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr. reported to the U.S. Government that during a meeting with Interior Minister Talaat Pasha, it was confirmed that the Ottoman government was pursuing a policy of deliberate and planned deportations of ethnic Armenians.
Morgenthau had been collecting mounting evidence of genocide over months, and admonished Pasha with the statement:
"Our people will never forget these massacres".
The Armenian Genocide was the systematic mass murder and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians carried out in Turkey and adjoining regions by the Ottoman government between 1914 and 1923.
The starting date is conventionally held to be the 24th. April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the region of Angora (Ankara), up to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders, the majority of whom were eventually murdered.
The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases - firstly the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour.
The second phase was the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm by means of death marches leading to the Syrian Desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.
Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
A Take-off at Sea
Also on that day, a Sopwith Baby airplane equipped with wheeled floats took off from sea carrier HMS Campania, the first British aircraft to do so on a British aviation ship.
'Sealed Valley'
Also on the 2nd. August 1915, Metro Pictures released its first feature film 'Sealed Valley'.
Gary Merrill
The day also marked the birth in Hartford, Connecticut of Gary Merrill, American actor, best known for his lead role in 'All About Eve'. He was husband to Bette Davis. Gary died in 1990.
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