06-Jun 02:00 @BreakerMorant
The London stagecoaches have been cancelled. Plan to sneak onto a troop train coming from Edinburgh. There’s no way we can get back to the regiment before bugle call though.
Unbelievably, Vogan has taken it on himself to escort the Curies to London. I tell them they won’t be let on a troop train but Marie Curie produced a bottle of French cognac and with that we have no trouble getting them two seats.
06-Jun 07:00 Daily Chronicle
The Daily Chronicle Sat Morning Headline – “MANY MASSACRED BY MARTIANS”.
The Chronicle also prints Henderson’s last telegram. “THE MARTIANS, ALARMED BY THE APPROACH OF A CROWD, KILLED A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH A QUICK FIRING GUN STOP” but ends reassuringly: “Formidable as they seem to be, the Martians have not moved from their pit. Indeed they seem incapable of doing so. Probably this is due to the relative strength of the Earth’s gravitational energy.”
06-Jun 08:10 @ToniWantsToVote
#papers are incredibly worrying today. People have been #killed! #Martians have a quick firing gun. But they’re still in their pit #gravityiswinning – I hope?
06-Jun 08:20 @ToniWantsToVote
#papers confirm that more troops have been mobilised. Also now there’s pine-woods burning. If they’re still in the pit, how is this happening? #gravity?
06-Jun 09:00 @ToniWantsToVote
@hgwellsbro telegraphic communication with #Woking has been disrupted. Probably the #fires.
YOU OK STOP
06-Jun 10:15 @ToniWantsToVote
@NUWSS has put the word out to get our acts together and organise #justincase Very glad I’ve started my emergency kit already. #antisepticssavelives #anasetheticscouldbenecessary
06-Jun 12:00 @BreakerMorant
Back in London, the news is that the Weybridge Artillery did inflict some damage but not enough to stop the Martians.
06-Jun 12:45 @BreakerMorant
No trains going to Dover. We could ride there, but Curies agree it is not safe to travel.
06-Jun 13:00 @BreakerMorant
Brown was waiting for us at the club. We are to be Court-Marshalled for desertion, which in war means executed.
06-Jun 13:20 @BreakerMorant
Rumours are that 4 tripods used poisonous black smoke, which wiped out an artillery placement set to ambush them.
06-Jun 13:30 @ToniWantsToVote
No further word from @hgwellsbro Hope he’s all right!
Why on earth did he head for #Woking?
#gettingworried #Woking #Martians
06-Jun 14:00 @ToniWantsToVote
Many troops moving around #London today. Heard #loudsounds just now. Rumor says trains are stopped for #troops? Was that #artillery I heard? #emergencykit is ready. No word from @hgwellsbro #reallyworried
06-Jun 14:05 @ToniWantsToVote
@NUWSS has called us in to organise assistance for vulnerable. #someonemustorganise #justincase #whereisthegovernment?
06-Jun 14:10 @ToniWantsToVote
@hgwellsbro are you safe? #desperatetohearfromyounow
06-Jun 16:50 @#4Coy-COLDM-GDS @LtJRDullanty
FROM COLONEL COLDSTREAM GUARDS GENERAL SIR STEPHENSON STOP
TO: LT. JAMES ROBERT DULLANTY NO 4 COMPANY SPEC OPS STOP
NO 4 COY HAS BEEN MOBILIZED STOP AS PER STANDING OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS IN THE EVENT OF AN INVASION YOU ARE DIRECTED TO PROCEED WITH 1ST AND 2ND PLATOON 4 COY TO TILBURY FORT WHERE YOU ARE TO ACT USING YOUR OWN DISCRETION.
06-Jun 16:51 @LtJRDullanty
Lieutenant James Robert Dullanty (1870 – 1897)
The youngest son of Sir John Dullanty, whose estate at Rotch Wood abutted the Queen’s estate at Balmoral, James enlisted at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst following three years at Oxford University studying history.
Lieutenant Dullanty received the Sword of Honour on his graduation in 1892 from Sandhurst. The Sword being awarded to the most outstanding graduate of each intake.
With his father’s support he joined the Coldstream Guards, formed in 1650 it was the oldest continuously serving regiment of the British Army. As well as guarding the monarch and undertaking ceremonial duties, its soldiers served as infantry in almost every major campaign fought by the Army.
Lt. Dullanty’s talent as a mimic and musician earned him an immediate commission in the Guards’ 4th Coy, which trained in special operations as well as providing the Regiment’s band.
The only picture known to exist of Lt J R Dullanty: taken by Christina Broom (1863–1939), who after the war made an extensive chronicle of the leaders of the Suffragette movement between 1900 and 1906. For the leaders of the campaign for the enfranchisement of women, photographs that would distance them from the popular press imagery of militancy and disorder proved vital tools.
(originally modelled by Captain-Heneage: Roger-Fenton-Crimean-War-photograph-collection)
06-Jun 16:55 #TilburyFort
At the start of the 18th century, Tilbury Fort was one of the most powerful forts in Britain. However, by 1889, Tilbury Fort’s bastion design had become out-dated. The government considered the defences further down the Thames to be sufficient and Tilbury was therefore not improved. By 1889 Tilbury was largely redundant as a defensive fortification, although it was still in use as a strategic depot.
Tilbury Fort served as a mobilisation centre to support a mobile strike force in the event of an invasion, part of the wider London Defence Scheme, and large storage buildings were accordingly added to the site to store materiel.
06-Jun 16:57 #4Coy-COLDM-GDS
FROM COLONEL COLDSTREAM GUARDS GENERAL SIR STEPHENSON STOP
TO: LT. MARKUS KILVANEY NO 4 COMPANY SPEC OPS STOP
NO 4 COY HAS BEEN MOBILIZED STOP AS PER STANDING OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS IN THE EVENT OF AN INVASION YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED TO HOLD YOURSELF AND 3RD AND 4TH PLATOONS 4 COY READY FOR IMMEDIATE DEPLOYMENT ENDS
06-Jun 17:00 @ToniWantsToVote
Tried to catch a train to @NUWSS HQ. Total disaster, walked instead. #notrainsrunning #chaos #artillery #troopseverywhere #iwaslate
06-Jun 18:00 @ToniWantsToVote
#headlinessensational
#Martianskillingpeople
#battles
#arewewinning?
#armydeployed
06-Jun 18:03 @ToniWantsToVote
@NUWSS has organised us into small groups. I’m with @lizcadbury and her #highenergysnacks, and also @graceharwoodstewart
#wehasskills
#dividedskirts
#pocketsarefull
06-Jun 18:04 @ToniWantsToVote
Am feeling #fearful, but also #determined. Meeting @lizcadbury and @graceharwoodstewart at Liz’s flat in #QueenAnnesMansions. Good high point for easy viewing, but large building so hopefully #wewillbesafe and #roomforrefugees
06-Jun 18:05 @ToniWantsToVote
@lizcadbury says there’s plenty of room so @graceharwoodstewart and I can turn it into an #infirmary if required.
06-Jun 19:16 @HGWells #Woking
In reaction to the arrival of the new Battery, the shield the Martians are using rises itself slowly from the ground by means of 3 legs. Wells (who is observing this) later identifies this as the first of the fighting-machines – a ‘tripod’.
06-Jun 19:22 @HGWells #Woking
The 12th Battery doesn’t even get to fire. As the Battery’s limber gunners move to the rear the first of their guns explodes behind them, followed a moment later by their ammunition blowing up.
