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1942 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1942 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - vacant
  • Princess of Wales – vacant
  • Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Crwys

    • Events

  • 30 January – Scarweather lightvessel in Swansea Bay sinks.
  • 28 March – St Nazaire Raid: Lt-Commander Stephen Halden Beattie steers HMS Campbeltown through an enemy attack, winning the Victoria Cross for his courage under fire.
  • 25 April – A Nazi German Luftwaffe Junkers 88 crashes into a hill near Builth Wells. Two crew members are killed, the other two taken prisoner.
  • 25 May – The Glamorganshire Canal closes.
  • 20 July – An RAF Lockheed Hudson crashes near Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, killing thirteen crew.
  • 30 July – A Heinkel 111 crashes on Pwllheli beach, killing three crew. The survivor is captured.
  • 11 August
  • An American Flying Fortress crashes in the Berwyn range, killing its six crew.
  • An RAF Wellington bomber crashes into St Brides Bay, killing six Polish crew.
  • 18 August – The body of a German pilot is washed ashore at Newton on the South Wales coast. He is buried in the village of Nottage.
  • 22 October – The Welsh Courts Act is passed, allowing the Welsh language to be used in courts of law.
  • 31 October – An RAF Wellington collides in mid-air with an RAF Bristol Beaufort near Bangor, killing seven crew.
  • 16 November – An RAF Lancaster bomber crashes into Dolwen Hill, Llanerfyl, near Welshpool, killing seven crew.
  • The South Wales Coal Dust Research Committee is set up.
  • During the building of RAF Valley, a hoard of La Tène metalwork is found in Llyn Cerrig Bach.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Cardigan)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheld
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Herman Jones
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

    • New books

  • D. Gwenallt Jones - Cnoi Cil
  • John Gwilym Jones - Y Dewis
  • Thomas Jones (T. J.) - Cerrig Milltir
  • Roland Mathias - Days Enduring
  • Leslie Norris - Tongue of Beauty
  • John Cowper Powys - Owen Glendower (U.K. publication)
  • Hilda Vaughan - The Fair Woman (retelling of "The Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach", later republished as Iron and Gold)

    • Music

  • Sir Granville Bantock - Two Welsh Melodies and Celtic Symphony

    • Film

  • Ray Milland stars in Reap the Wild Wind

    • Sport

  • Football
  • 9 May – Wales defeat England 1-0
  • 24 October – Wales defeat England 2-1

    • Births

  • 2 January – Billy Hullin, Wales international rugby union player
  • 1 February – Terry Jones, writer, comedian and actor
  • 15 February – Leslie Griffiths, Methodist minister and politician
  • 9 March – John Cale, experimental rock musician
  • 13 March
  • John Mantle, dual-code rugby player
  • Meic Stevens, singer-songwriter
  • 28 March – Neil Kinnock, politician
  • 1 April – Karl Francis, film-maker
  • 5 April – Peter Greenaway, film-maker
  • 20 May – Lynn Davies, athlete
  • 21 May – David Hunt, Secretary of State for Wales 1990-93
  • 25 May – Ron Davies, footballer
  • 8 June – Doug Mountjoy, snooker player
  • 13 July – Hywel Gwynfryn, television presenter
  • 17 July – Spencer Davis, musician
  • 18 July – Roger Cecil, painter (d.2015)
  • 20 July – Sylvia Heal, politician
  • 16 September – Barrie Hole, footballer
  • 16 September – Jeff Young, rugby player
  • 24 November – Craig Thomas, thriller writer (d.2011)
  • 5 September – Chris Corbett, rugby player
  • 12 September – Delme Thomas, rugby player
  • 2 December – Brian Evans, footballer (d.2003)

    • Deaths

  • 1 January – John Baldwin Hoystead Meredith, Welsh-Australian soldier and doctor
  • 7 January – Edward Arthur Lewis, historian
  • 27 January – Tom Barlow, Welsh rugby player and cricketer, 77
  • 10 February – Felix Powell, musician, 63
  • 15 February – Frank Treharne Jones, lawyer
  • 22 March – Ebenezer Griffith-Jones, academic
  • 24 March – Will Osborne, Wales international rugby union player, 66
  • 22 April
  • John John Evans, journalist
  • James Morgan Pryse, Welsh-descended American author, publisher, theosophist and founder of the Gnostic Society, 96
  • 14 May – Walter Watkins, footballer
  • 10 July – Sydney Curnow Vosper, artist, 75
  • 22 July – Gilbert Joyce, Bishop of Monmouth, 76
  • 6 August – Francis Green, antiquary
  • 12 September – Valentine Baker, pilot, 54 (killed in flying accident)
  • 24 September – David Walters (Eurof), minister and author
  • 10 October – Geraint Goodwin, novelist and short story writer, 39
  • 14 October – Jem Evans, Wales international rugby union player, 75
  • 26 October – Richard Mathias, politician, 79
  • 7 December – Lionel Beaumont Thomas, businessman, British Army officer and politician, 49
  • 22 December – Elias Henry Jones, British Army officer, educationist and author, 59

    • References

    1942 in Wales Wikipedia
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