1918 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1918 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1918 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1918 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – DyfedRhys James Ednyfed Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850-1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales s-REES-EVA-1850 National Library of Wales 2 August 2018 1959 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron GlanuskDod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes Dod 1921 356 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest GreavesNational Museum of Wales Adroddiad Blynyddol The Museum 1935 3 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-EvansThe county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland Dalcassian Publishing Company 1860 443 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Hinds Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon (from 24 January) Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Henry Gladstone, later Baron Gladstone Ivor Bulmer-Thomas Gladstone of Hawarden: A Memoir of Henry Neville, Lord Gladstone of Hawarden Murray 1936 197 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st BaronetDavies Sir William Llewelyn s-WILL-BRO-1800 Williams family, of Bron Eryri, later called Castell Deudraeth, Meirionnydd 30 January 2020 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett MilbankWhitaker's Almanack Joseph Whitaker Whitaker's Almanack 1913 847 (until 30 January); Arthur Walsh, 3rd Baron Ormathwaite (from 5 April)Obituary, The Times, 15 March 1937 Bishop of Bangor – Watkin WilliamsBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage Burke's Peerage Limited 1925 2437 Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughess-HUGH-JOS-1807 Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop William Thomas Havard William Havard 26 October 2021 Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, 978-0-19-954087-7 Bishop of St Davids – John Owens-OWEN-JOH-1854 Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 19 March 2022 Events January – Coalowner, Liberal politician and Minister of Food Control David Alfred Thomas is created Viscount Rhondda; following his death on 3 July the title passes by special remainder to his daughter, the suffragette Margaret Mackworth. 26 January – An Irish steamship, the Cork, is torpedoed by a U-boat off Point Lynas in Anglesey. Twelve crew are killed.https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/1446.html Cork Uboat.net 25 October 2012Irish cross-channel boat sunk. 29 January 1918 3 41699 D 29 January – The steamship Ethelinda is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Twenty-six crew are killed.https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/2041.html Ethelinda Uboat.net 3 December 2012 4 February – The steamship Treveal is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Thirty-three people are killed.https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/6106.html Treveal Uboat.net 10 October 2012 5 February – The steamship Mexico City is torpedoed by a U-boat off South Stack, Holyhead. Twenty-nine crew are killed.https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/4120.html Mexico City Uboat.net 25 October 2012 March Miners' leader A. J. Cook is imprisoned for sedition under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 for his public opposition to the war.Martyn Ives Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Charter in 1919 https://books.google.com/books?id=qtQ6DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA163 15 September 2016 BRILL 978-90-04-32600-2 163 Submarines R5 and R6 are laid down at HM Dockyard Pembroke Dock; as with HMS L34 and L35 ordered later in the year, they will be cancelled in 1919 before completion. 2 March – The British submarine H5 is rammed and sunk, having been mistaken for a U-boat, off Porthdinllaen. All twenty-six crew are killed.Ceremony for Armed Forces Day marks submarine tragedy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10354060 BBCNews BBC 1 July 2010 19 June 2010 7 March – The steamship Kenmare is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Twenty-six crew are killed.https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/3295.html Kenmare Uboat.net 25 October 2012 7 April – The steamship Boscastle is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Eighteen crew are killed.https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/875.html Boscastle Uboat.net 26 October 2012 21 April – The steamship Landonia is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Twenty-one crew are killed.https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/3491.html Landonia Uboat.net 23 October 2012 9 May – The steamships Baron Ailsa and Wileysike are torpedoed by a U-boat off Pembrokeshire. Fourteen crew are killed.https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/640.html Baron Ailsa Uboat.net 12 November 2012https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/6531.html Wileysike Uboat.net 11 October 2012 19 May – The German U-boat SM UB-119 is sunk, perhaps off Bardsey Island.https://uboat.net/wwi/boats/index.html?boat=UB+119 UB 119 Uboat.net 16 November 2012 15 June – The steamship Strathnairn is torpedoed by a U-boat off Bishops and Clerks, Pembrokeshire. Twenty-one crew are killed. 22 August – The steamship Palmella is torpedoed by a U-boat off South Stack, Holyhead. Twenty-eight people are killed.https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/4645.html Palmella Uboat.net 13 November 2012 16 September – The steamship Serula is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Seventeen crew are killed.https://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/5535.html Serala Uboat.net 11 November 2012 18 September – The 38th (Welsh) Division is involved in the Battle of Épehy. Autumn – Edward Thomas John (Liberal MP for East Denbighshire) defects to the Labour Party. 10 October – Three seamen are killed while returning to their ship by boat at Milford Haven. 14 October – The steamship Dundalk is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Twenty-one crew are killed.http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/1747.html Dundalk Uboat.net 22 October 2012 11 November – Armistice Day. Able Seaman Richard Morgan, serving aboard Garland 1913 6, is the last Welshman – and perhaps the last Briton – to be killed on active service in the First World War, in the course of which over 40,000 Welsh people have lost their lives. 15 November – The British submarine H51 is launched at Pembroke Dock. 14 December – United Kingdom general election: For the first time, a woman stands as a parliamentary candidate in Wales: Millicent MackenzieCylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=rRhw3MTZUuAC 2003 337 stands unsuccessfully for the University of Wales, itself a new parliamentary seat (which is won by Herbert Lewis). Home Rule for Wales is included as a policy in the manifesto of the Labour Party. William Brace becomes Labour MP for Abertillery. Alfred Onions becomes Labour MP for Caerphilly. John Hugh Edwards becomes Liberal MP for Neath, his previous constituency of Mid Glamorganshire having been abolished. Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet, becomes Liberal MP for Wrexham. David Sanders Davies becomes Liberal MP for Denbigh, standing against Edward Thomas John. December – The beginning of the 1918 flu pandemic which lasts into the following year and kills about 10,000 people in Wales. Arts and literature John Morris-Jones is knighted for his services to literature.Parry Sir Thomas Thomas Parry (author) MORRIS-JONES (formerly JONES ), Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864-1929), scholar, poet, and critic s-MORR-JOH-1864 1959 August is fixed as the annual month of the National Eisteddfod of Wales. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Neath) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – John Thomas Jobhttps://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair?_ga=2.196744876.1631880097.1570104027-963760572.1570104027 Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 October 2019 3 October 2019 29 September 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190929131826/https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – D. Emrys Lewis New books W. H. Davies – A Poet's Pilgrimagehttp://www.gwales.com/goto/biblio/cy/9781909696044 Poet's Pilgrimage Gwales 5 December 2019 David Delta Evans – The Rosicrucian Moelona – Rhamant y Rhos Music Walford Davies is appointed director of music to the Royal Air Force. Film The Life Story of David Lloyd George (drama, not shown publicly until 1996) Sport Baseball – First records of the Grange Gasworks Ladies team playing in Cardiff. Births 15 January – Billy Lucas, international footballer (died 1998) 6 March – Billy Hughes, footballer (died 1981)The Encyclopedia of Birmingham City Football Club 1875~2000 Matthews, Tony October 2000 Britespot Cradley Heath 116 0-9539288-0-2 7 May – Robert Davies, politician (died 1967) 9 May – Sir Kyffin Williams, artist (died 2006)s10-WILL-KYF-1918 WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918-2006), painter and author yes David Meredith 8 February 2019 20 May – David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech (died 1985)https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/27/world/lord-harlech-is-dead-at-66-ambassador-to-us-in-1960-s.html Lord Harlech is dead at 66 New York Times 27 January 1985 Barnaby J. Feder 8 February 2019 24 May – Jack Edwards, soldier and activist (died 2006)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1526416/Jack-Edwards.html Obituary: Jack Edwards The Daily Telegraph 15 August 2006 1 October 2016 London 28 May James Eirian Davies, Methodist minister and poet (died 1998)s10-DAVI-EIR-1918 Davies, James Eirian (1918-1998), poet and minister D. Ben Rees 2015 4 May 2023 Mary Vaughan Jones, children's author (died 1983)The School Librarian School Library Association 2003 94 6 June – Susan Williams-Ellis, founder of Portmeirion Pottery (died 2007)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1570963/Susan-Williams-Ellis.html Susan Williams-Ellis 30 November 2007 The Telegraph 27 July 2020 19 June – Ivor Griffiths, footballer (died 1993) 4 July – Tony Garrett, chairman of Imperial Tobacco (died 2017) 25 July – Dennis David, RAF ace (died 2000)Gp Capt Dennis 'Hurricane' David https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1354606/Gp-Capt-Dennis-Hurricane-David.html 21 May 2018 8 September 2000 19 August – Dilys Elwyn Edwards, composer (died 2012)s10-ELWY-DIL-1918 ELWYN-EDWARDS, DILYS (1918-2012), composer yes Rhidian Griffiths 8 February 2019 19 September – Penelope Mortimer, writer (died 1999)https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/22/guardianobituaries1 Penelope Mortimer The Guardian 22 October 1999 Giles Gordon 8 February 2019 26 September – John Rankine, author (died 2013) 14 October – J. A. G. Griffith, lawyer and academic (died 2010)Martin Loughlin, 'John Griffith obituary', The Guardian (25 May 2010), retrieved 23 July 2019. 19 October – Charles Evans, doctor and mountaineer (died 1995)Robert Charles Evans 1918–1995, obituary by Michael Ward, Geographical Journal, Vol. 162, No. 2 (Jul., 1996), pp. 257–58 3 November – Glyn Williams, international footballer (died 2011) Deaths 2 January – Rupert Morris, clergyman and teacher, 74s-MORR-HUG-1843 Morris, Rupert Hugh (1843–1918), cleric and antiquary Jenkins Robert Thomas 2008-10-16 30 January – Powlett Milbank, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 6530793 8230 12 July 1918 15 February – William Evans, judge, c.71 13 April David Ffrangcon Davies, baritone, 62David Thomas Ffrangcon-Davies The singing of the future https://books.google.com/books?id=qac7AQAAIAAJ 1968 Pro Musica Press 277 Thomas Tannatt Pryce, VC recipient, 32 (killed in action)David Harvey Monuments to Courage: 1917-1982 https://books.google.com/books?id=Bls-AQAAIAAJ 1999 K. and K. Patience 111 24 May – Evan Williams, US-born tenor of Welsh parentage, 50 (blood poisoning)Evan Williams Dies. Famous Oratorio Tenor Was a Coal Miner in His Youth https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/05/25/112640274.pdf The New York Times May 25, 1918 12 January 2015 3 July – David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, industrialist and politician, 62Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Committee for Privileges Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda: Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee for Privileges https://books.google.com/books?id=nkUJAAAAIAAJ 1922 H.M. Stationery Office 13 September – Samuel Thomas Evans, MP, 59Publication (London Topographical Society) London Topographical Record https://books.google.com/books?id=wehZAAAAIAAJ 1931 34 21 September – Emily Charlotte Talbot, heiress, 78The New International Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=bXwxAQAAMAAJ 1919 Dodd, Mead and Company 446 27 September – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano, 26 (medical complications)Gerald Norris A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ June 1981 David & Charles 978-0-7153-7845-8 297 15 October – William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 63 16 October – Robert Williams, architect and social campaigner, 70WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1848 - 1918), architect, author and social reformer s12-WILL-ROB-1848 yes 7 September 2022 15 February 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220215175026/https://biography.wales/article/s12-WILL-ROB-1848 live 4 November – Wilfred Owen, poet from the Welsh borders, 25 (killed in action)Philip Guest Wilfred Owen: On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War https://books.google.com/books?id=WtGXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 12 August 1998 Pen and Sword 978-0-85052-614-1 118 25 November – William Griffith, mining engineer who worked with Cecil Rhodes, 65s-GRIF-WIL-1853 Griffith, William (1853-1918), mining engineer and author Idwal Lewis 1959 6 April 2022 30 November – Lewis Richards, footballer and barrister, 57Venn John Alumni Cantabrigienses Part II Volume V 1953 Cambridge University Press Cambridge 288 1 December John Griffiths, artist, 81s-GRIF-JOH-1837 Griffiths, John (1837-1918), artist Charles Heber Humphreys 1959 6 April 2022 Fred Perrett, Wales international rugby union player, 27 (died of wounds received in action)https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/world-war-one-wales-rugby-7166621 World War One: The Wales rugby internationals who died on the battlefield 25 May 2014 Robin Turner WalesOnline 14 October 2019 See also 1918 in Ireland References Wales Category:1918 in Europe Category:1910s in Wales