This article is about the particular significance of the year 1943 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents edit
Events edit
- 19 January - Three-year-old twins Neil and Jacqueline Coleby die of exposure on the slopes of Caerneddau; despite an extensive search their bodies are not found until 24 January.[3]
- 29 January - In the by-election for the University of Wales parliamentary seat vacated by Ernest Evans, there are three notable candidates. W. J. Gruffydd, a former vice-president of Plaid Cymru who has subsequently joined the Liberal Party, triumphs over Plaid's Saunders Lewis. One of the other candidates is Alun Talfan Davies.
- March - Rocky Marciano is among US servicemen posted to South Wales.[4]
- August - Tenovus Cancer Care is founded in Cardiff as Tenovus, initially funding a wide range of projects in the local area; it becomes the leading cancer charity in Wales.[5]
- 23 October - David Lloyd George marries his long-term mistress and secretary, Frances Stevenson, at Guildford register office.[6]
- Sir Percy Thomas is elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects for the second time - the second person ever to achieve this.[7]
Arts and literature edit
- August - Soprano Ceinwen Rowlands gives the first performance of a Welsh translation of Felix Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Bangor.
- The Welsh National Opera company is founded in Cardiff as an amateur company.[8]
- Dame Laura Knight paints Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Newport.[9]
Awards edit
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys James
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Dafydd Owen
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
New books edit
English language edit
- Idris Davies - The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926
- Margiad Evans - Autobiography
- William Evans (Wil Ifan) - A Quire of Rhymes[10]
- R. T. Jenkins - Orinda
- Eiluned Lewis - The Captain's Wife
Welsh language edit
- Rhys Davies - Pobl a Phethau
- Sir Emrys Evans - Ewthaffron: Criton (translation from Plato)
- Alwyn D. Rees - Adfeilion[11]
Music edit
- Harry Parr-Davies - The Lisbon Story (musical, opened in the West End 17 June 1943)[12]
- Arwel Hughes - Anatiomaros[13]
- W. S. Gwynn Williams - Tosturi Duw (God's Mercy)
Film edit
- Ray Milland stars in Forever and a Day and The Crystal Ball.
- Drama documentary The Silent Village, filmed in 1942 at Cwmgiedd near Ystradgynlais by Humphrey Jennings, is released.[14]
Broadcasting edit
- 4 September – Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from a bomber over Berlin for BBC Radio.[15]
Births edit
- 13 January – Lorna Sage, academic, literary critic and writer (died 2001)[16]
- 1 February – Rosemarie Frankland, beauty queen (died 2000)[17]
- 9 February – Ryland Davies, operatic tenor (died 2023)
- 11 February – Win Griffiths MP, politician[18]
- 28 February – John Davies, bishop of St Asaph
- 3 March (in London) – Aeronwy Thomas, literary figure (died 2009)[19]
- 1 April (in Derby) – Dafydd Wigley MP, politician
- 9 April – Clive Sullivan, rugby league footballer (died 1985)
- 16 April (in Norwich) – Ruth Madoc (née Llewellyn), actress and singer (died 2022)[20]
- 17 April – Elinor Bennett, harpist[21]
- 26 April – Leon Pownall, actor and director (died 2006)
- 27 April
- David Hughes, footballer
- Gwyn Prosser MP, politician
- 6 June – Sir Terry Matthews, entrepreneur[22]
- 5 July – Roy Evans, footballer (died 1969)
- 7 July – Robert East, actor
- 19 July – Beth Morris, actress (died 2018)
- 2 August – Alun Michael MP, politician
- 17 August – John Humphrys, radio and TV journalist
- 24 August – Dafydd Iwan, musician and politician[23]
- 10 September – Shân Legge-Bourke, born Elizabeth Shân Bailey, landowner
- 27 September – Max Boyce, entertainer
- 18 October (in London) – Dai Jones, Welsh-language broadcaster (died 2022)
- 15 November – Derec Llwyd Morgan, academic
- 16 November – Val Lloyd AM, politician[24]
- 22 December – Gareth Morgan, organizational theorist
- 28 December – Joan Ruddock MP, politician and campaigner[25]
- 30 December – Geraint Talfan Davies, journalist and executive
- date unknown
- John Beard, painter[26]
- Christine Evans, poet[27]
- Gareth Griffiths, academic
Deaths edit
- 9 January – William Llewellyn Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 70
- 12 January – Selwyn Biggs, Wales international rugby player and Glamorgan cricketer, 70
- 24 January – Glyndwr Michael, homeless man whose body was used in Operation Mincemeat, 34 (pneumonia)[28]
- 31 January – Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, physician, 85[29]
- 7 February (in London) – Clara Novello Davies, singer, 71[30]
- 6 March (in Trevelin) – John Daniel Evans, pioneer in Patagonia, 81[31]
- 23 March – Commander John Wallace Linton, VC, 37 (killed in action)[32]
- 28 March – Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85[33]
- 12 April – Arthur Lloyd James, phonetician, 58 (suicide)[34]
- 17 April – Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), author, 90[35]
- 8 September – Dai Lewis, Wales international rugby player, 76
- 15 September – David Samuel, Wales international rugby player
- 24 September – Billy Douglas, Wales international rugby player, 80
- 15 October – Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, judge and Welsh language campaigner, 72[36]
- 29 October – Frank Hancock, Wales international rugby union international, 84
- 17 November – Bertrand Turnbull, Olympic hockey player, 56[37]
- 10 December – Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 59
- 27 December – Arthur O'Bree, Glamorgan cricketer, 57 (killed in action)[38]
See also edit
References edit
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- ^ Robin Turner (1 May 2008). "Boxer proves Welsh archive's biggest hit". WalesOnline. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ "About us". Cardiff: Tenovus. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
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- ^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1946). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 4.
- ^ Michael Kennedy; Joyce Bourne (2004). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford University Press. p. 789. ISBN 9780198608844.
- ^ "A Gun Girl – Ruby Loftus – Dame Laura Knight's Newport commission". Wartime Newport: The Home Front. Archived from the original on 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- ^ Stephens, Meic (1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford Oxfordshire New York: Oxford University Press. p. 195. ISBN 9780192115867.
- ^ John Cowper Powys; Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate (1974). Letters 1937-54. University of Wales Press. p. 57.
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1943. p. 1513.
- ^ "Arwel Hughes - Anatiomaros". ArkivMusic. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ Berry, Dave. "The Silent Village (1943)". BFI Screen Online. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
- ^ ""Raid on Berlin": Actuality recording of a Royal Air Force (RAF) bombing raid over Berlin, Germany on 4 September 1943". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ Jon Cook (13 January 2001). "Lorna Sage". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ Harris M. Lentz (2000). Obituaries in the Performing Arts. McFarland & Company. p. 83.
- ^ "Win Griffiths". 21 October 2002.
- ^ Andrew Lycett (9 August 2009). "Aeronwy Thomas Ellis". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Ruth Madoc, actress who found fame as the lovelorn Yellowcoat Gladys in the hit sitcom Hi-de-Hi! – obituary". The Telegraph. 10 December 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
- ^ Elster, Robert J., ed. (2008). International Who's Who in Classical Music 2008 (24th ed.). London: Routledge. pp. 67-68. ISBN 978-1-85743-455-2.
- ^ David Gow (28 October 2000). "Terry Matthews: A well-connected Celt". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ Who's who in European Politics. Bowker-Saur. 1990. p. 313.
- ^ "Lloyd, Valerie, (Born 16 Nov. 1943), Member (Lab) Swansea East, National Assembly for Wales, Sept. 2001–2011". Who's Who. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U44405.
- ^ Dod's Parliamentary Companion. Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited. 2007. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-905702-66-7.
- ^ "John Beard born 1943". Tate. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ Lloyd, David (1994). The urgency of identity : contemporary English-language poetry from Wales. Evanston, Ill: TriQuarterly Books. p. 239. ISBN 9780810150324.
- ^ "CWGC Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
- ^ The Eugenics Review. Eugenics Education Society. 1941. p. 129.
- ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work. Americana Corporation of Canada. 1962. p. 546.
- ^ Richard Bryn Williams. "Evans, John Daniel (1862-1943), a pioneer in Patagonia". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Commander John Wallace Linton". CWGC. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Davies, Benjamin ('Ben'; 1858-1943), singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Professor A. Lloyd James: An Authority on Phonetics". Obituaries. The Times. No. 49510. London. 2 April 1943. col E, p. 7.
- ^ Davies, Margaret Beatrice. "Ceridwen Peris". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ Frank Price Jones. "Jones, Sir Thomas Artemus (1871-1943), journalist, judge and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Olympics at Sports-Reference.com > Athletes > Bertrand Turnbull". Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- ^ "Flying Officer Arthur O'Bree". CWGC. Retrieved 2 March 2024.