1915 in Wales

1915 in Wales
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1915 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1915 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

26 February - The Welsh Guards regiment is created.
25 April - At Gallipoli, Able Seaman William Charles Williams helps secure lighters on the HMS River Clyde under continuous fire. He is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross - the first such award made to a member of the Royal Navy.
7 May - When RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German torpedo, notable survivors include David Alfred Thomas, Viscount Rhondda and tenor Gwynn Parry Jones.
11 September - The first branch of the Women's Institute in Britain opens at Llanfair PG, Anglesey.
1 October - For his conduct at the Battle of Hooge, Lt. Rupert Price Hallowes of Port Talbot is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
November - The 38th (Welsh) Division is posted to France.
Welshmen continue to enlist for military service in World War I, including architect Percy Thomas, who joins the Artists' Rifles.
Three German prisoners-of-war escape from an internment camp at Llansannan in Gwynedd, but are quickly recaptured.
The Glamorganshire Canal closes between Abercynon and Pontypridd.
In the by-election caused by the death of Keir Hardie, Charles Butt Stanton becomes MP for Merthyr.
Sir James Herbert Cory, 1st Baronet, becomes MP for Cardiff.
Sir William Rice Edwards becomes surgeon-general of Bengal.
A memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, in the form of a model lighthouse, is erected on an island in Roath Park Lake, commemorating the support given to Scott's expedition by the people of Cardiff.

Caradoc Evans – My People
John Gwenogvryn Evans (ed.) - Poems from the Book of Taliesin, amended and translated
William Evans (Wil Ifan) - Dros y Nyth
Arthur Machen – The Great Return
Eluned Morgan - Plant yr Haul
John Cowper Powys - Wood and Stone

16 January - David Davies, 2nd Baron Davies of Llandinam (died 1944)
11 February - Mervyn Levy, artist (died 1996)
20 February - Mary Jones, actor (died 1990)
25 March - Dorothy Squires, singer (died 1998)
2 April - Patrick Gibbs, RAF Wing Commander, author and film critic (died 2008)
9 April - Bill Clement, Welsh international rugby player and Secretary of the WRU (died 2007)
13 May - Hrothgar John Habakkuk, economic historian (died 2002)
4 June - David Bell, writer and curator (d.1959)
1 July - Alun Lewis (poet) (died 1944)
3 July - Ifor Owen, illustrator (died 2007)
4 September - Roland Mathias, poet and critic
10 September - Geraint Bowen, poet and Archdruid
22 September - Thomas Williams, politician (died 1986)
23 September - John Samuel Rowlands, GC (died 2006)
11 October - T. Llew Jones, writer
10 November - Leslie Manfield, Wales international rugby union player (died 2006)
date unknown
- Keidrych Rhys, poet and journalist (died 1987)
- John Griffith Williams, writer (died 1987)

19 January - Anna Leonowens, governess who claimed Welsh birth (but was actually born in India)
24 January - Charles Taylor, naval officer and Wales rugby international, 51 (killed in action)
21 March - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player, 50
25 April - William Charles Williams, VC recipient, 34 (killed in action)
31 July - Billy Geen, soldier and Wales international rugby union player, 24 (killed in action)
26 September - Keir Hardie, MP for Merthyr Tydfil
27 September - Richard Garnons Williams, soldier and Wales international rugby union player, 59 (killed in action)
30 September - Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient, 34 (killed in action)
22 November - Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, Principal of St David's College, Lampeter, 53
10 December - David Jenkins, composer, 66
17 December - John Rhys, philologist
date unknown
- Rachel Davies, Baptist preacher
- David Gwynne-Vaughan, botanist