1941 in Wales - Events

Events

• 2 January – 165 people are killed in Luftwaffe air raids on Cardiff and Llandaff Cathedral is seriously damaged.
• 13 February – Opening of RAF Valley in Anglesey.
• 14 February – Six people are killed in an air raid on Port Talbot.
• 17 January – 58 people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
• 20 January – Welsh press magnate William Ewart Berry is created Viscount Camrose.
• 17 February – Noted Baptist minister Samuel James Leeke finds his Swansea home destroyed by an air raid.
• 19-21 February – 240 people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
• 26 February – Four people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff. Buildings damaged include Cardiff University.
• 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.
• 27 March – The Michael Faraday, a cable-laying ship, is sunk by German planes off St. Ann's Head in Pembrokeshire, killing 16 crew.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 June – The ferry St Patrick is sunk by German planes off Strumble Head, killing thirty.
• 1 July – 37 people are killed in an air raid on Newport.
• 5 July – Alun Lewis marries Gwenno Ellis.
• 11 July – In a mining accident at Rhigos Colliery in Glamorgan, 16 miners are killed.
• 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.
• 12 October – A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near Holyhead, killing four crew.
• 22 October – A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near Nefyn, killing four crew.
• 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.
• Closure of the tinplate works at Kidwelly.
• Artist Frank Brangwyn and administrator Elias Wynne Cemlyn-Jones are knighted.
• Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans becomes Head of the Production Executive Secretariat at the War Cabinet Offices.