1916 in Wales - Deaths

Deaths

  • 12 March - Llywarch Reynolds, solicitor and Celtic scholar, 72
  • 14 March - Lou Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 38 (killed in action)
  • 18 March - David Cuthbert Thomas ("Dick Tiltwood"), soldier, 21 (killed in action)
  • 14 April - Charlie Pritchard, Wales international rugby player, 32 (killed in action)
  • May - John Griffiths, mathematician, 78?
  • 5 June - James Williams, footballer, 32 (killed in action)
  • 26 June - Henry Allan Rolls, heir presumptive to 2nd Baron Llangattock, 44
  • 27 June - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer and temperance activist, 78
  • 7 July (killed in action at Mametz)
    • Dick Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 32
    • Johnnie Williams, Wales international rugby player, 34
  • 14 July - David Watts Wales international rugby player, 30 (killed in action)
  • 3 September - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 26 (killed in action)
  • 11 September - Thomas Lemuel James, Welsh-American banker and U.S. Postmaster-General (born 1831)
  • 28 September (in Bath, Somerset) - Richard Thomas, industrialist, 78
  • 7 October - Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer, 38 (killed in action)
  • 11 October - David Richard Thomas, historian, 83
  • 31 October - John Maclean Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock, 46 (killed in action)
  • 14 November - William Davies, footballer, 61

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