1916_in_wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1916 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

Events

• 1 January - The Port Eynon lifeboat capsizes and three crew members die.
• 31 May-1 June - Hugh Evan-Thomas distinguishes himself in the Battle of Jutland; he is later knighted.
• 4 July - Royal Welch Fusiliers Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon attacks a German trench single-handed, and records the outcome in his memoirs.
• 7–12 July - The 38th (Welsh) Division loses so many men in the Mametz Wood action during the Battle of the Somme that it is unable to re-group for a year.
• 12 July - Railway worker James Dally is awarded the Edward Medal by King George V, for his actions in saving a colleague from falling from the Crumlin Viaduct.
• September - Charles Evans Hughes loses narrowly to Woodrow Wilson in the United States presidential election, 1916.
• October - T. E. Lawrence is sent into the desert to report on the Arab nationalist movements.
• November - Christopher Williams visits the scene of the Welsh losses at Mametz Wood and later paints his famous The Welsh at Mametz Wood at the request of David Lloyd George.
• December
  • David Lloyd George becomes the first Welshman to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the only one to date.
  • David Alfred Thomas leaves Parliament and is created Baron Rhondda. He is appointed Chairman of the Local Government Board.
  • Herbert Lewis becomes Minister of Education.
• The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cardiff is established.
• Royal laryngologist John Milsom Rees is knighted.

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Aberystwyth)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - J. Ellis Williams
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - withheld

New books

• Llewelyn Powys & John Cowper Powys -Confessions of Two Brothers
• Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan) - Tair Stori Fer

Music

Film

• Edmund Gwenn makes his screen debut in The Real Thing At Last.

Sport

• Boxing: On 14 February, Jimmy Wilde wins the British flyweight title at Liverpool.

Births

• 1 May - Glenn Ford, Welsh-Canadian actor (died 2006)
• 7 May - Huw Wheldon, broadcaster (died 1986)
• 22 May - Rupert Davies, actor (died 1976)
• 13 September - Roald Dahl, novelist (died 1990)
• 14 September - Cledwyn Hughes, politician (died 2001)

Deaths

• 11 September - Thomas Lemuel James, Welsh-American banker and U.S.Postmaster-General (born 1831)
• 7 October - Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer (born 1877)
• 31 October - John Maclean Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock (born 1870)
• date unknown
  • Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), poet, etc.
  • Richard Thomas, industrialist

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