1941 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1941 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales – "vacant"
*Princess of Wales – "vacant"
*Archbishop of Wales – Charles Alfred Howell Green
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Crwys

Events

*2 January – 165 people are killed in air raids on Cardiff.
*13 February – Opening of RAF Valley in Anglesey.
*14 February – Six people are killed in an air raid on Port Talbot.
*17 January – 58 people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
*20 January – Welsh press magnate William Ewart Berry is created Viscount Camrose.
*17 February – Samuel James Leeke finds his Swansea home destroyed by an air raid.
*19 February-21 – 240 people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
*26 February – Four people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff.
*February – Six cattle are killed in an air raid on Cwmbran.
*3 March – 51 people are killed in air raids at Cardiff and Penarth.
*11 March – Three people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
*21 March – The coaster Millisle is sunk by German planes off Caldey Island, killing ten crew.
*27 March – The Michael Faraday, a cable-laying ship, is sunk by German planes off St Ann's Head in Pembrokeshire, killing 16 crew.
*31 March – Three people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
*March – Co-developer Edward George Bowen is on board the first American experimental airborne 10cm radar.
*12 April – Three people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
*15 April – 12 people are killed in an air raid on RAF Carew Cheriton.
*29 April – 26 people are killed in air raids at Rhondda, and a further seven in Cardiff.
*8 May – Three German Heinkel 111s are shot down. Nine German crew members are killed, and the remaining three taken prisoner.
*11 May – Three people are killed in an air raid on RAF Saint Athan.
*12 May – 32 people are killed in an air raid on Pembroke Dock.
*30 May – Major air raid on Newport.
*1 June – A German Junkers 88 is shot down near Llandudno, killing four crew.
*11 June – The Baron Carnegie, a cargo ship, is sunk by German planes off Strumble Head, killing 25 crew.
*13 June – The ferry St Patrick is sunk by German planes off Strumble Head, killing 30 people.
*1 July – 37 people are killed in an air raid on Newport, Monmouthshire.
*5 July – Alun Lewis marries Gwenno Ellis.
*11 July – In an accident at Rhigos Colliery in Glamorgan, 16 miners are killed.
*28 July – An RAF Wellington bomber crashes into Garn Fadryn on the Lleyn peninsula, killing six crew.
*7 August – An RAF Wellington bomber crashes into Rhosfach in the Berwyn range, killing six crew.
*28 August – An RAF Blackburn Botha with a crew of three crashes into the sea off Rhosneigr, Anglesey. A further eleven people die in the rescue attempt.
*September – Sir Archibald Rowlands joins the Beaverbrook and Harriman mission to Moscow.
*10 October – Two planes collide at RAF Llandwrog, killing seventeen people.
*12 October – A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near Holyhead, killing four crew.
*22 October – A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near Nefyn, killing four crew.
*October – Alun Lewis receives his army commission.
*25 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Abergorki Colliery, Rhondda.
*6 December – Ruperra Castle is seriously damaged by fire.
*Closure of the tinplate works at Kidwelly.
*Artist Frank Brangwyn and administrator Elias Wynne Cemlyn-Jones are knighted.
*Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans becomes Head of the Production Executive Secretariat at the War Cabinet Offices.

Arts and literature

*Lyn Harding makes his last stage appearance was in the West End in 1941 at the age of 74.

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Old Colwyn)

*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – David Emrys James
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Dafydd Owen
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – "withheld"

New books

*Ambrose Bebb – "Y Baradwys Bell"
*Edward Tegla Davies – "Gyda'r Glannau"
*Rhys John Davies – "Y Cristion a Rhyfel"
*Griffith Wynne Griffith – "The Wonderful Life"
*Vernon Watkins – "Ballad of the Mari Lwyd"
*Ernest Llwyd Williams – "Hen Ddwylo"
*Nantlais Williams – "Darlun a Chân"
*William Williams (Crwys) – "Mynd a Dod"

Music

*David Wynne – "Songs of Solitude"

Film

*"How Green Was My Valley" (book by Richard Llewellyn) stars mainly American and Irish actors, but minor players include Rhys Williams.

Broadcasting

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port

*Football
**June 7 – Wales lose 2-3 to England.
**October 25 – Wales lose 1-2 to England.

Births

*5 February – Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, politician
*26 February – Rhys Jones, archaeologist
*27 February – Charlie Faulkner, rugby player
*31 March – David Trefgarne, 2nd Baron Trefgarne, politician
*13 April – Margaret Price, operatic soprano
*7 July – Michael Howard, politician
*11 August – Nerys Hughes, actress
*20 August – Anne Evans, operatic soprano
*26 October – Charlie Landsborough, singer and composer
*10 December – Jeff Jones, cricketer

Deaths

*2 January – Sir John Rowland, civil servant
*20 January – Margaret Lloyd George, first wife of David Lloyd George
*3 February – Sir Clifford John Cory, Baronet, coal-owner
*10 March – William Henry Seager, politician
*11 March – Sir Henry Walford Davies, composer
*17 April – Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent, civil servant
*11 July – Arthur Evans, archaeologist of Welsh descent
*11 September – Harry Grindell Matthews, inventor
*16 September – George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, scientist and archaeologist
*10 October – Geraint Goodwin, writer
*31 December – George Isaac Thomas (Arfryn), composer and conductor