1918 in Wales - Events

Events

  • The beginning of an influenza epidemic which lasts into the following year and kills about 10,000 people in Wales.
  • 26 January - An Irish steamship, the Cork, is torpedoed by a U-boat off Point Lynas in Anglesey. Twelve crew are killed.
  • 29 January - The steamship Ethelinda is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Twenty-six crew are killed.
  • 4 February - The steamship Treveal is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Thirty-three people are killed.
  • 5 February - The steamship Mexico City is torpedoed by a U-boat off South Stack, Holyhead. Twenty-nine crew are killed.
  • 7 March - The steamship Kenmare is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Twenty-six crew are killed.
  • 7 April - The steamship Boscastle is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Eighteen crew are killed.
  • 21 April - The steamship Landonia is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Twenty-one crew are killed.
  • 9 May - The steamships Baron Ailsa and Wileysike are torpedoed by a U-boat off Pembrokeshire. Fourteen crew are killed.
  • 19 May - The German U-boat U-B 119 is sunk off Bardsey Island.
  • 15 June - The steamship Strathnairn is torpedoed by a U-boat off Bishops and Clerks, Pembrokeshire. Twenty-one crew are killed.
  • August - August is fixed as the annual month of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
  • 22 August - The steamship Palmelia is torpedoed by a U-boat off South Stack, Holyhead. Twenty-eight people are killed.
  • 16 September - The steamship Serula is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Seventeen crew are killed.
  • 18 September - The 38th (Welsh) Division is involved in the Battle of Epéhy.
  • 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.
  • 11 November - Armistice Day. Able Seaman Richard Morgan, serving aboard HMS Garland, is the last Welshman – and the last Briton – to be killed in action in the First World War, in the course of which over 40,000 Welsh people have lost their lives.
  • 14 December - United Kingdom general election:
    • For the first time, a woman stands as a parliamentary candidate stands in Wales: Millicent Mackenzie stands unsuccessfully for the University of Wales, itself a new parliamentary seat.
    • 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 Glamorgan having been abolished.
    • Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet, becomes Liberal MP for Wrexham.
  • Edward T. John (Liberal MP for East Denbighshire) defects to the Labour Party.
  • David Alfred Thomas is created Viscount Rhondda.

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