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1941 in Wales

1940 \| 1942 \| Other years in Wales
1941 in the United Kingdom
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Other events of 1941

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

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Film
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Births
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Incumbents

Prince of Wales ? vacant
Princess of Wales ? vacant
Archbishop of Wales ? Charles Alfred Howell Green
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales ? Crwys

Events

2 January ? 165 people are killed in air raids on Cardiff.
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 ? Samuel James Leeke finds his Swansea home destroyed by an air raid.
19 February-21 ? 240 people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
26 February ? Four people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff.
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 10cm 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 at 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 30 people.
1 July ? 37 people are killed in an air raid on Newport, Monmouthshire.
5 July ? Alun Lewis marries Gwenno Ellis.
11 July ? In an 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 people.
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 an 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.