1943 in Wales

none 1943 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1943 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1943 in the United Kingdom#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 – Crwyshttps://biography.wales/article/s2-WILL-WIL-1875 Williams, William Welsh Biography Online National Library of Wales 5 October 2021 Events 19 January - Three-year-old twins Neil and Jacqueline Coleby die of exposure on the slopes of Caerneddau; despite an extensive search their bodies are not found until 24 January.Missing Coleby twins remembered 75 years after deaths George Herd BBC News 2018-05-25 2018-05-27 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-44253555 29 January - In the by-election for the University of Wales parliamentary seat vacated by Ernest Evans, there are three notable candidates. W. J. Gruffydd, a former vice-president of Plaid Cymru who has subsequently joined the Liberal Party, triumphs over Plaid's Saunders Lewis. One of the other candidates is Alun Talfan Davies. March - Rocky Marciano is among US servicemen posted to South Wales.https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/boxer-proves-welsh-archives-biggest-2173814 Boxer proves Welsh archive's biggest hit 1 May 2008 Robin Turner WalesOnline 16 July 2019 August - Tenovus Cancer Care is founded in Cardiff as Tenovus, initially funding a wide range of projects in the local area; it becomes the leading cancer charity in Wales.https://www.tenovuscancercare.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/ About us Tenovus Cardiff 2017-12-08 23 October - David Lloyd George marries his long-term mistress and secretary, Frances Stevenson, at Guildford register office.Dermot J. T. Englefield Janet Seaton Isobel White Facts about the British prime ministers: a compilation of biographical and historical information https://archive.org/details/factsaboutbritis0000engl registration 1995 H.W. Wilson Co. 978-0-8242-0863-9 238 Sir Percy Thomas is elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects for the second time - the second person ever to achieve this.Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=7l4dAAAAMAAJ 1946 The Society 4 Arts and literature August - Soprano Ceinwen Rowlands gives the first performance of a Welsh translation of Felix Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Bangor. The Welsh National Opera company is founded in Cardiff as an amateur company.Michael Kennedy Joyce Bourne The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Oxford University Press 2004 9780198608844 789 Dame Laura Knight paints Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Newport.http://www.wartimenewport.virtuallyhere.co.uk/pages.php?page_id=54 A Gun Girl – Ruby Loftus – Dame Laura Knight's Newport commission Wartime Newport: The Home Front 2015-01-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20160318192932/http://www.wartimenewport.virtuallyhere.co.uk/pages.php?page_id=54 2016-03-18 dead Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys James National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Dafydd Owen National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld New books English language Idris Davies - The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926 Margiad Evans - Autobiography William Evans (Wil Ifan) - A Quire of Rhymes Stephens Meic The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales Oxford University Press Oxford Oxfordshire New York 1986 9780192115867 195 R. T. Jenkins - Orinda Eiluned Lewis - The Captain's Wife Welsh language Rhys Davies - Pobl a Phethau Sir Emrys Evans - Ewthaffron: Criton (translation from Plato) Alwyn D. Rees - Adfeilion John Cowper Powys Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate Letters 1937-54 University of Wales Press 1974 57 Music Harry Parr-Davies - The Lisbon Story (musical, opened in the West End 17 June 1943)Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1943 1513 Arwel Hughes - Anatiomaroshttp://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=596035 Arwel Hughes - Anatiomaros ArkivMusic 23 January 2019 12 January 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200112072321/http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=596035 dead W. S. Gwynn Williams - Tosturi Duw (God's Mercy) Film Ray Milland stars in Forever and a Day and The Crystal Ball. Drama documentary The Silent Village, filmed in 1942 at Cwmgiedd near Ystradgynlais by Humphrey Jennings, is released.http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/998098/index.html The Silent Village (1943) Berry, Dave BFI Screen Online 6 August 2010 Broadcasting 4 September – Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from a bomber over Berlin for BBC Radio.https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C276375 "Raid on Berlin": Actuality recording of a Royal Air Force (RAF) bombing raid over Berlin, Germany on 4 September 1943. Australian War Memorial 23 January 2019 Births 120px|thumb|April:Dafydd Wigley 120px|thumb|December:Joan Ruddock 13 January – Lorna Sage, academic, literary critic and writer (died 2001)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/13/guardianobituaries.books Lorna Sage 13 January 2001 Jon Cook The Guardian 23 January 2019 1 February – Rosemarie Frankland, beauty queen (died 2000)Harris M. Lentz Obituaries in the Performing Arts McFarland & Company 2000 83 9 February – Ryland Davies, operatic tenor (died 2023)https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/07/ryland-davies-obituary Ryland Davies obituary 7 November 2023 Barry Millington Guardian 18 July 2025 11 February – Win Griffiths MP, politicianhttps://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2055710.stm Win Griffiths 21 October 2002 28 February – John Davies, bishop of St Asaph 3 March (in London) – Aeronwy Thomas, literary figure (died 2009)https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/aug/09/aeronwy-thomas-ellis-obituary Aeronwy Thomas Ellis 9 August 2009 Andrew Lycett The Guardian 4 May 2022 1 April (in Derby) – Dafydd Wigley MP, politician 9 April – Clive Sullivan, rugby league footballer (died 1985) 16 April (in Norwich) – Ruth Madoc (née Llewellyn), actress and singer (died 2022)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/12/10/ruth-madoc-actress-who-found-fame-lovelorn-yellowcoat-gladys/ Ruth Madoc, actress who found fame as the lovelorn Yellowcoat Gladys in the hit sitcom Hi-de-Hi! – obituary 10 December 2022 The Telegraph 10 December 2022 17 April – Elinor Bennett, harpistElster Robert J. International Who's Who in Classical Music 2008 2008 Routledge London 978-1-85743-455-2 67-68 24th https://archive.org/details/internwhowhoclass00lond registration 26 April – Leon Pownall, actor and director (died 2006) 27 April David Hughes, footballer Gwyn Prosser MP, politician 6 June – Sir Terry Matthews, entrepreneurhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/28/4 Terry Matthews: A well-connected Celt 28 October 2000 David Gow The Guardian 23 January 2019 5 July – Roy Evans, footballer (died 1969) 7 July – Robert East, actor 19 July – Beth Morris, actress (died 2018) 2 August – Alun Michael MP, politician 17 August – John Humphrys, radio and TV journalist 24 August – Dafydd Iwan, musician and politicianWho's who in European Politics Bowker-Saur 1990 313 10 September – Shân Legge-Bourke, born Elizabeth Shân Bailey, landowner 27 September – Max Boyce, entertainer 18 October (in London) – Dai Jones, Welsh-language broadcaster (died 2022) 15 November – Derec Llwyd Morgan, academic 16 November – Val Lloyd AM, politician10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U44405 Lloyd, Valerie, (Born 16 Nov. 1943), Member (Lab) Swansea East, National Assembly for Wales, Sept. 2001–2011 Who's Who 2007 22 December – Gareth Morgan, organizational theorist 28 December – Joan Ruddock MP, politician and campaignerDod's Parliamentary Companion https://books.google.com/books?id=b30NAQAAMAAJ 2007 Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited 978-0-905702-66-7 290 30 December – Geraint Talfan Davies, journalist and executive date unknown John Beard, painterhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-beard-2705 John Beard born 1943 Tate 2 March 2024 Christine Evans, poet Lloyd David The urgency of identity : contemporary English-language poetry from Wales TriQuarterly Books Evanston, Ill 1994 9780810150324 239 Gareth Griffiths, academic Deaths 9 January – William Llewellyn Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 70 12 January – Selwyn Biggs, Wales international rugby player and Glamorgan cricketer, 70 24 January – Glyndwr Michael, homeless man whose body was used in Operation Mincemeat, 34 (pneumonia) https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4041661 CWGC Casualty Details Commonwealth War Graves Commission 2011 23 February 2011 31 January – Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, physician, 85The Eugenics Review https://books.google.com/books?id=biLVAAAAMAAJ 1941 Eugenics Education Society 129 7 February (in London) – Clara Novello Davies, singer, 71The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work https://books.google.com/books?id=qe4aAQAAMAAJ 1962 Americana Corporation of Canada 546 6 March (in Trevelin) – John Daniel Evans, pioneer in Patagonia, 81https://biography.wales/article/s2-EVAN-DAN-1862 Evans, John Daniel (1862-1943), a pioneer in Patagonia Richard Bryn Williams Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 March 2019 23 March – Commander John Wallace Linton, VC, 37 (killed in action)https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2370600/john-wallace-linton/ Commander John Wallace Linton CWGC 10 December 2022 28 March – Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85https://biography.wales/article/s2-DAVI-BEN-1858 Davies, Benjamin ('Ben'; 1858-1943), singer Robert David Griffith Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 March 2019 12 April – Arthur Lloyd James, phonetician, 58 (suicide)Professor A. Lloyd James: An Authority on Phonetics Obituaries 2 April 1943 7 49510 E 17 April – Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), author, 90https://biography.wales/article/s2-JONE-GRA-1852 Ceridwen Peris Davies Margaret Beatrice Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 March 2019 8 September – Dai Lewis, Wales international rugby player, 76 15 September – David Samuel, Wales international rugby player 24 September – Billy Douglas, Wales international rugby player, 80 15 October – Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, judge and Welsh language campaigner, 72https://biography.wales/article/s2-JONE-ART-1871 Jones, Sir Thomas Artemus (1871-1943), journalist, judge and historian Frank Price Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 March 2019 29 October – Frank Hancock, Wales international rugby union international, 84 17 November – Bertrand Turnbull, Olympic hockey player, 56https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tu/bertrand-turnbull-1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042039/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tu/bertrand-turnbull-1.html dead 2020-04-18 Olympics at Sports-Reference.com > Athletes > Bertrand Turnbull 10 December – Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 59 27 December – Arthur O'Bree, Glamorgan cricketer, 57 (killed in action)https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/992005/arthur-o-bree/ Flying Officer Arthur O'Bree CWGC 2 March 2024 See also 1943 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1943 in Europe Category:1940s in Wales