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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1941 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

  • 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 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.
  • 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.[11]
  • 8 May – Three German Heinkel 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".[12]
  • 30 May – Major air raid on Newport.
  • 1 June – A German Junkers 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.[13]
  • 13 June – The ferry St Patrick is sunk by German planes off Strumble Head, killing thirty.[14][15]
  • 1 July – 37 people are killed in an air raid on Newport.
  • 5 July – Alun Lewis marries Gwenno Ellis in Gloucester.[16]
  • 11 July – In a mining accident at Rhigos Colliery in Glamorgan, 16 miners are killed.[17]
  • 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.[18][19]
  • 12 October – A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near Holyhead, killing four crew.[20]
  • 22 October – A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near Nefyn, killing four crew.[20]
  • 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.[21]
  • unknown dates

Arts and literature[]

  • August – Evacuated paintings from the National Gallery in London are moved to underground storage at a slate quarry beneath Manod Mawr in north Wales.[25]
  • 18 August – 19-year-old Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., a poet of American paternity serving in Britain with the Royal Canadian Air Force, flies a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire V from RAF Llandow and afterwards writes the sonnet "High Flight" about the experience (completed by September 3). [26]
  • Lyn Harding makes his last stage appearance, in the West End, in Chu Chin Chow, at the age of 74.[27]

Awards[]

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Old Colwyn)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Rowland Jones, "Hydref"[28]
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown –
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – withheld

New books[]

English language[]

Welsh language[]

Music[]

Film[]

Broadcasting[]

  • Stars of BBC radio's ITMA programme are moved to Bangor to record the show, because of the Blitz in London.[30]

Sport[]

  • Football
    • 7 June – Wales lose 2–3 to England.
    • 25 October – Wales lose 1–2 to England.

Births[]

Deaths[]

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Michael J. F. Bowyer (1990). Action Stations: Military airfields of Wales and the North-West. Stephens. p. 116.
  3. ^ Nick Lambert (2010). Llandaff Cathedral. Seren. ISBN 978-1-85411-499-0.
  4. ^ Griffiths, Ralph (1991). The City of Swansea : challenges and change. Wolfeboro Falls, NH: A. Sutton. p. 131. ISBN 9780862996765.
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  19. ^ Air Pictorial. Air League of the British Empire. January 2001.
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