1940 in Wales

none 1940 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1940 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of BangorC. J. Litzenberger Eileen Groth Lyon The Human Tradition in Modern Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=S8YbICxXWDQC&pg=PA92 2006 Rowman & Littlefield 978-0-7425-3735-4 92 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Crwys Events 21 January - Lowest ever temperature recorded in Wales, −23.3 °C (−9.9 °F) at Rhayader.Paul Simons Since Records Began London Collins 2008 978-0-00-728463-4 205–7 27 January - A freak ice storm across the UK brings down telephone and electricity lines in many parts of Wales.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/26/weatherwatch-1940-ice-storm-added-to-misery-of-war Weatherwatch: 1940 Ice Storm added to misery of war 26 January 2018 Stephen Moss The Guardian 8 April 2019 3 March - The steamer Cato is damaged by a mine off Nash Point and 13 of the crew are killed.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-34298417 Porthcawl's Guinness shipwreck remembered 19 September 2015 BBC News Wales 8 April 2019 March - The scenic railway opens at Barry Island Pleasure Park. May The newly created Coalition Government includes Hugh Dalton as Minister of Economic Warfare.Sheila Lawlor Churchill and the Politics of War, 1940-1941 https://books.google.com/books?id=TU085SfQNUQC&pg=PA36 12 May 1994 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-46685-1 36 Alun Lewis enlists. 8 May - Three Nazi German Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111s crash in separate incidents over Wales: one near Wrexham, one at Malpas in Denbighshire, and one at Bagillt, Flint. In all nine crew are killed and four captured. 3 July - Cardiff is bombed for the first time. 9 July - Cardiff suffers its first bombing fatalities.Edwin Webb John B. Duncan Blitz Over Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=7dAWAQAAIAAJ 1990 Spellmount 978-0-946771-89-9 95 10 July - Ten people are killed in an air raid on Swansea Docks, as shipping convoys become a target.Julitta Rydlewska Barbara Braid Unity in Diversity, Volume 1: Cultural Paradigm and Personal Identity https://books.google.com/books?id=WBVQBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 18 September 2014 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 978-1-4438-6729-0 69 11 July - Communist minister and poet Thomas Evan Nicholas ("Niclas y Glais") and his son are arrested and interned for "endeavouring to impede recruitment to HM Forces". Nicholas is eventually released on 20 October.https://www.llyfrgell.cymru/fileadmin/fileadmin/docs_gwefan/amdanom_ni/cylchgrawn_llgc/cgr_erth_XXXVrh1_2010_01.pdf Thomas Evan Nicholas 1879-1971 National Library of Wales 6 September 2019 11 August - Seventeen people are killed in an air raid on Manselton, Swansea. 14 August - Three German Heinkel 111s are shot down during an air-raid on Cardiff, and another over North Wales after a raid on RAF Hawarden. 22 August - A steamer, the Thorold, is sunk by German aircraft off the Skerries. Ten crew are killed. 2 September - 33 people are killed in an air raid on Swansea. 3 September - Eleven people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff. 4 September - A German Junkers Ju 88 crashes near Machynlleth. Four crew and a Gestapo officer are captured. 13 September - A German Heinkel 111 crashes into a house in Newport, Monmouthshire.https://thisisnotgwent.co.uk/the-story-of-the-german-bomber-that-crashed-into-stow-park-avenue/ The story of the German bomber that crashed into Stow Park Avenue en This is Newport 13 September 2026 22 November - The steamer Pikepool is damaged by a mine off Linney Head, Pembrokeshire, with the loss of 17 crew. The Urdd changes its policy to include 16- to 25-year-olds. Gwilym Williams becomes chaplain of St David's College, Lampeter. Percy Cudlipp becomes editor of the Daily Herald. Alun Talfan Davies and his brother Aneirin found the publishing house Llyfrau'r Dryw. Arts and literature Lewis Casson directs John Gielgud in King Lear. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor (radio)) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheld National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - T. Rowland Hughes National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld New books Richard Bennett - Cyfrol Goffa Richard Bennett Clara Novello Davies - The Life I Have Loved David Delta Edwards - Rhedeg ar ôl y Cysgodion John Cowper Powys - Owen Glendower (U.S. publication) Howard Spring - Fame is the Spur Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (published 2011; partially set in Wales, 1940) Music Mai Jones & Lyn Joshua - "We'll Keep a Welcome" (performed for the first time in the forces' variety show, Welsh Rarebit on 29 February) Grace Williams - Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (score dated 9 February) Film March 25 - Plaza Cinema opens in Port Talbot.Plaza Cinema, Talbot Road, Port Talbot http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/18212 Cinema Treasures 2017-06-14 April 6 - Paul Robeson and Rachel Thomas star in The Proud Valley (cinematic release) Broadcasting 25 February - The Proud Valley is the first film to have its première on radio, when the BBC broadcasts a 60-minute version.Stephen Bourne Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television Second Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=0N1Ou7V5IJUC&pg=PA28 30 November 2001 A&C Black 978-0-8264-5539-0 28 May - The BBC Radio Variety Department relocates to Bangor because of wartime disruption; it will broadcast from here until August 1943.British Broadcasting Corporation BBC Handbook https://books.google.com/books?id=pIYiAQAAIAAJ 1944 50 August - The National Eisteddfod of Wales is broadcast on the British Home Service, including 15 minutes each for the crown and chair ceremonies.http://www.literaturewales.org/encyclopaedia/i/130659/ Literature Wales: Encyclopedia - Broadcasting 2013-01-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031019/http://www.literaturewales.org/encyclopaedia/i/130659/ 2016-03-04 dead Sport Football 13 April - Wales defeat England 1 - 0. Quoits - Jack Price wins the Welsh championship for the third time. Births 4 January - Brian Josephson, theoretical physicisthttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1973/josephson/biographical/ Brian D. Josephson Biographical The Nobel Prize 9 April 2019 17 January - Leighton Rees, darts champion (died 2003)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1432468/Leighton-Rees.html Leighton Rees 10 June 2003 The Telegraph 9 April 2019 23 January - Ted Rowlands, politician 1 March - David Broome, show jumping championJulia Longland Clear round!: Interviews https://books.google.com/books?id=rPZT7KXY29wC 1 October 1978 Mayflower Books 978-0-8317-0012-6 112 16 May - Sir Gareth Roberts, physicist (died 2007) Hilsum C. Cyril Hilsum 10.1098/rsbm.2011.0016 Sir Gareth Gwyn Roberts. 16 May 1940 -- 6 February 2007 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2011 57 379–393 free 7 June - Tom Jones, singer Robin Eggar Tom Jones – The Biography 14 29 June - John Dawes, rugby player (died 2021)John Dawes rugby profile ESPN Scrum.com 17 July - C. W. Nicol, Japanese writer and environmentalist (died 2020 in Japan) 3 September - Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Uruguayan writer of Welsh descent Eduardo Galeano, influential Uruguayan author, dies at 81 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/eduardo-galeano-influential-uruguayan-author-dies-at-81/2021/09/3/7b6a263a-e1fb-11e4-81ea-0649268f729e_story.html The Washington Post 2021-09-03 2022-01-07 0190-8286 en-US Adam Bernstein 20 September - Anna Pavord, gardening writerPeople of Today (2017) Debrett's, "Anna Pavord" 1 October - Atarah Ben-Tovim, flautist and children's concert promoter (died 2022)https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/07/atarah-ben-tovim-obituary Atarah Ben-Tovim obituary 7 November 2022 The Guardian June Emerson 8 August 2023 14 October - Christopher Timothy, actorIn Bala, Gwynedd. Screen International Film and TV Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=6uBkAAAAMAAJ 1990 Screen International, King Publications Limited 978-0-900925-21-4 220 31 October - Eric Griffiths, skiffle guitarist with The Quarrymen (died 2005)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/03/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Obituary: Eric Griffiths Dave Laing 3 February 2005 3 December 2017 Theguardian.com 4 November - Daniel Sperber, Talmudic scholarhttps://cris.biu.ac.il/en/persons/daniel-sperber Daniel Sperber Bar-Ilan University 8 August 2023 30 November - Peter Shreeves, footballer, coach and manager 5 December Michael Jones, medieval historian "Exotic" Adrian Street, professional wrestler (died 2023) 24 December - John Marek, politician date unknown Donald Evans, Welsh-language poetDonald Evans Rhydwen Williams https://books.google.com/books?id=G0AcAQAAIAAJ 16 December 1991 University of Wales Press 83 Keith Miles, detective novelist and screenwriterhttp://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/miles.html The Many Roles of Keith Miles Pierce J Kingston September 1999 January Magazine 14 December 2010 Deaths 12 February - William Edwards, educationist, 89https://biography.wales/article/s-EDWA-WIL-1851 Edwards, William (1851-1940), H.M. inspector of schools Edgar William Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 9 November 2019 21 February - Sir Alfred Edward Lewis, banker, 71https://biography.wales/article/s-LEWI-EDW-1868 Lewis, Sir Alfred (Edward) (1868-1940), banker Edward Morgan Humphreys Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 9 November 2019 15 March - John Davies, author, 71 20 March - William Thomas Edwards (Gwilym Deudraeth), poet 7 April - Ernest Rowland, priest and Wales international rugby player, 75 27 April - Fred Cornish, Wales international rugby player 23 May - Hugh Hesketh Hughes, polo player, 37 (killed in action)Hugh Hesketh Hughes http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2280639 Commonwealth War Graves Commission Regiment/Service: Welsh Guards Date of Death: 23/05/1940 Service No: 103800 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead 11 April 2011 4 June - Owen Picton Davies, businessman and politician, 68 25 June - Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player, 51 3 July - George Bevan Bowen, landowner, 82‘BOWEN, Sir George Bevan’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 30 Nov 2013Obituaries (Obituaries) The Times Friday, Jul 05, 1940; pg. 7; Issue 48660; col E 8 August - Daniel Lleufer Thomas, lawyer and biographer, 76https://biography.wales/article/s-THOM-LLE-1863 Thomas, Sir Daniel Lleufer (1863-1940), stipendiary magistrate David Williams Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 9 November 2019 20 August - Henry Maldwyn Hughes, Wesleyan minister 26 September - W. H. Davies, poet and author, 69Lawrence Normand W.H. Davies https://books.google.com/books?id=n9IfAQAAIAAJ 1 September 2003 Seren 978-1-85411-261-3 152 9 October - Sir Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador 9 November - Gwilym Owen, physicist 15 December Robert Thomas Jones, quarrymen's leader, 66https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-THO-1874 Jones, Robert Thomas (1874-1940), Labour leader David Thomas Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 9 November 2019 Sir David Richard Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, industrialist See also 1940 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1940 in Europe Category:1940s in Wales