- 1944 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1944 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"
*Archbishop of Wales -David Lewis Prosser
*Archdruid of theNational Eisteddfod of Wales - CrwysEvents
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23 January - An RAF Halifax crashes in the Elan Valley, killing nine crew.
*28 March - Nine people are killed in an air raid onCardiff .
*11 April - An RAF Lancaster bomber crashes near Llanwrtyd Wells, killing eight crew.
*16 August - Lt.Tasker Watkins leads a bayonet charge at Barfour in Normandy, winning the VC for his courage.
*17 October - The first "Welsh Day" debate takes place in the House of Commons.
*10 December - American Liberty ship "Dan Beard" istorpedo ed offStrumble Head , resulting in the deaths of 29 crew.
*20 December - An American Liberator plane crashes into the sea off Anglesey, killing eight crew.
*Plaid Cymru transfers its head office fromCaernarfon toCardiff .
*SirThomas Williams Phillips becomes permanent secretary of the new government ministry created to implement thenational insurance system.
*SirDavid Brunt is awarded the royal medal of theRoyal Society for his work inmeteorology .
*Goronwy Owen andLlewellyn Thomas Gordon Soulsby are knighted.
*Dylan Thomas is best man at the wedding of his friendVernon Watkins - but fails to turn up.Arts and literature
*BBC commentator
Alun Williams marries Perrie Hopkin Morris, daughter of SirRhys Hopkin Morris .Awards
*National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in
Llandybie )*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair -
D. Lloyd Jenkins
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown -J. M. Edwards
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - "withheld"New books
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Rhys Davies – "Black Venus"
*Thomas Rowland Hughes - "William Jones"
*Edward Morgan Humphreys - "Ceulan y Llyn Du"
*Alun Lewis - "The Last Inspection"
*SirPercy Emerson Watkins - "A Welshman Remembers"
*SirIfor Williams - "Lectures on early Welsh Poetry"New drama
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James Kitchener Davies - "Meini Gwagedd"
*Emlyn Williams - "The Druid's Rest"Music
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Harry Parr Davies - "Jenny Jones" (musical)
*Grace Williams - "Sea Sketches"Film
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The Halfway House ", starringMervyn Johns ,Glynis Johns andRachel Thomas , is set in Wales.Broadcasting
*August -
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports on the liberation ofParis for BBC radio.
*Launch of the "Noson Lawen" series on BBC radio.port
*Football - The first post-war match between Wales and England ends in a 1 - 0 victory for Wales.
Births
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21 January -Peter Rodrigues , footballer
*17 February -Karl Jenkins , composer
*24 March - Steve Jones, biologist
*8 April -Hywel Bennett , actor
*15 April -Dave Edmunds , musician
*5 May -John Rhys-Davies , actor
*11 June -Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport , politician
*16 June -Brian Protheroe , English-born singer and actor of Welsh parentage
*7 July -Glenys Kinnock , politician
*31 July -Endaf Emlyn , TV presenter, musician and director
*21 October -Mandy Rice-Davies , socialite
*29 November -Gareth Wardell , politicianDeaths
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5 March -Alun Lewis , poet
*7 May -Charles Alfred Howell Green , Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales
*16 June -David Davies, 1st Baron Davies , philanthropist and MP
*25 June -James Atkin, Baron Atkin , judge
*14 July -Albert de Belleroche , painter
*5 August -Maurice Turnbull , cricketer
*September -David Davies, 2nd Baron Davies (killed in battle)
*5 October -Laura Evans-Williams , singer
*8 December - Sir William Jenkins, MP for Neath
*"date unknown" -Ethel Lina White , crime novelist
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