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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1941 to
Wales and
its people .
January –
RAF Llandwrog opens near
Caernarfon as a
Bomber Command training airfield.
[2]
2 January –
Cardiff Blitz : 165 people are killed in Luftwaffe air raids on
Cardiff , and
Llandaff Cathedral is seriously damaged.
[3]
17 January –
Swansea Blitz : 58 people are killed in an air raid on
Swansea , the town's worst individual raid.
[4]
20 January – Welsh press magnate
William Ewart Berry is created
Viscount Camrose .
13 February –
RAF Valley opens on Anglesey as a
Fighter Command station.
14 February – Six people are killed in an air raid on
Port Talbot .
[5]
17 February – Noted Baptist minister
Samuel James Leeke finds his Swansea home destroyed by an air raid.
[6]
19 -
21 February –
Swansea Blitz : 240 people are killed in air raids on Swansea. Much of the city centre is destroyed.
[7]
[8]
26 February – Four people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff. Buildings damaged include
Cardiff University and a children's home.
[9]
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.
[10]
27 March – The
Faraday , a cable-laying ship, is sunk by German planes off St. Ann's Head in Pembrokeshire, killing 16 crew.
[10]
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 10 cm 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 .
[11]
29 April – 26 people are killed in air raids aimed at coal mines in the
Rhondda , and a further seven in Cardiff.
May – The
Ministry of Information issues more than 14 million copies across the United Kingdom of a leaflet Beating the Invader , with a preface from Churchill, giving advice on what to do "if invasion comes"; there are also 160,400 copies of a Welsh version headed Trechu'r Goressgynnydd .
[12]
8 May – Three German
Heinkel He 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 .
26 –
27 May – "Operation David":
Western Command stages an exercise involving 20,000 troops simulating an invasion landing between
Porthcawl and
Kidwelly and a "Battle of
Pontardulais ".
[13]
30 May – Major air raid on
Newport .
1 June – A German
Junkers Ju 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.
[14]
13 June – The ferry St Patrick is sunk by German planes off
Strumble Head , killing thirty.
[15]
[16]
1 July – 37 people are killed in an air raid on Newport.
5 July –
Alun Lewis marries Gwenno Ellis in Gloucester.
[17]
11 July – In a
mining accident at
Rhigos Colliery in
Glamorgan , 16 miners are killed.
[18]
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.
[19]
[20]
12 October – A German
Heinkel He 111 is shot down near
Holyhead , killing four crew.
[21]
22 October – A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near
Nefyn , killing four crew.
[21]
October –
Alun Lewis receives his army commission.
25 November – Five miners are killed in a
mining accident at Abergorki Colliery, Rhondda.
6 December –
Ruperra Castle is seriously damaged by fire while soldiers are billeted there.
[22]
unknown dates
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in
Old Colwyn )
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Rowland Jones, "Hydref"
[29]
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown –
J. M. Edwards , "Peiriannau"
[30]
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – withheld
Stars of BBC radio's
ITMA programme are moved to Bangor to record the show, because of the Blitz in London.
[32]
1 January –
Martin Evans , geneticist and academic (in Stroud, Gloucestershire)
5 February –
Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn , politician (d. 2003)
26 February –
Rhys Jones , archaeologist (d. 2001)
27 February –
Charlie Faulkner , rugby union footballer
28 February –
Tristan Garel-Jones , politician (d. 2020)
31 March –
David Trefgarne, 2nd Baron Trefgarne , politician
[33]
11 April –
Arthur Davies , operatic tenor (d. 2018)
13 April –
Margaret Price , operatic soprano (d. 2011)
20 April –
Grace Coddington , fashion model and editor
16 June –
Bill Morris , rugby union footballer
7 July
11 August –
Nerys Hughes , actress
20 August –
Anne Evans , operatic soprano
26 September –
Patrick Hannan , political journalist (d. 2009)
26 October –
Charlie Landsborough , singer and composer
10 December –
Jeff Jones , cricketer
Approximate date –
Ieuan Rees , calligrapher and stonecutter
2 January – Sir
John Rowland , civil servant
11 January –
Frederick Llewellyn-Jones , lawyer, 75
[34]
20 January –
Margaret Lloyd George , first wife of
David Lloyd George , 74
[35]
22 January –
David Williams , Swansea politician, 75
3 February –
Sir Clifford John Cory, 1st Baronet , coal-owner, 81
[36]
10 March – Sir
William Henry Seager , politician, 79
11 March
16 March – Sir
David Hughes-Morgan , solicitor and landowner, 70?
20 March –
Jack Powell , Wales rugby union international, 58
17 April – Sir
William Henry Hoare Vincent , civil servant, 75
[39]
11 July –
Arthur Evans , archaeologist of Welsh descent, 90
[40]
13 July –
Lot Jones , footballer, 59
15 July –
Jack Elwyn Evans , rugby footballer, 43 or 44
23 July –
Joe Jones , footballer, 54
27 July –
Thomas Alfred Williams , Dean of Bangor, 71
17 August –
David Edward Lewis , businessman and philanthropist, 75
[41]
11 September –
Harry Grindell Matthews , inventor, 61
[42]
16 September –
George Irby, 6th Baron Boston , scientist and archaeologist, 81
[43]
18 October –
Geraint Goodwin , writer, 38
[44]
10 December –
Admiral Tom Phillips , Welsh-descended naval officer, 53 (killed in Japanese attack on
HMS Prince of Wales )
[45]
22 December –
Richard Summers , Wales rugby union international, 81
31 December –
George Isaac Thomas (Arfryn), composer and conductor, 46
[46]
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