1915 in Wales - Events

Events

  • 26 February - The Welsh Guards regiment is created.
  • 25 April - At Gallipoli, Able Seaman William Charles Williams helps secure lighters on the HMS River Clyde under continuous fire. He is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross - the first such award made to a member of the Royal Navy.
  • 7 May - When RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German torpedo, notable survivors include David Alfred Thomas, Viscount Rhondda and tenor Gwynn Parry Jones.
  • 11 September - The first branch of the Women's Institute in Britain opens at Llanfair PG, Anglesey.
  • 1 October - For his conduct at the Battle of Hooge, Lt. Rupert Price Hallowes of Port Talbot is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
  • November - The 38th (Welsh) Division is posted to France.
  • Welshmen continue to enlist for military service in World War I, including architect Percy Thomas, who joins the Artists' Rifles.
  • Three German prisoners-of-war escape from an internment camp at Llansannan in Gwynedd, but are quickly recaptured.
  • The Glamorganshire Canal closes between Abercynon and Pontypridd.
  • In the by-election caused by the death of Keir Hardie, Charles Butt Stanton becomes MP for Merthyr.
  • Sir James Herbert Cory, 1st Baronet, becomes MP for Cardiff.
  • Sir William Rice Edwards becomes surgeon-general of Bengal.
  • A memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, in the form of a model lighthouse, is erected on an island in Roath Park Lake, commemorating the support given to Scott's expedition by the people of Cardiff.

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