1942 in Wales

1942 in Wales
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1942 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1942

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1942 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

27 March – Lt-Commander Stephen Halden Beattie steers HMS Campbeltown through an enemy attack, winning the Victoria Cross for his courage under fire.
25 April – A Nazi German Luftwaffe Junkers 88 crashes into a hill near Builth Wells. Two crew members are killed, the other two taken prisoner.
20 July – An RAF Lockheed Hudson crashes near Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, killing thirteen crew.
30 July – A Heinkel 111 crashes on Pwllheli beach, killing three crew. The survivor is captured.
11 August
- An American Flying Fortress crashes in the Berwyn range, killing its six crew.
- An RAF Wellington bomber crashes into St Brides Bay, killing six Polish crew.
18 August – The body of a German pilot is washed ashore at Newton on the South Wales coast. He is buried in the village of Nottage.
31 October – An RAF Wellington collides in mid-air with an RAF Bristol Beaufort near Bangor, killing seven crew.
16 November – An RAF Lancaster bomber crashes into Dolwen Hill, Llanerfyl, near Welshpool killing seven crew.
The Glamorganshire Canal closes.
The South Wales Coal Dust Research Committee is set up.
The Welsh Courts Act is passed, allowing the Welsh language to be used in courts of law.
During the building of a military airfield, a hoard of La Tène metalwork is found in Llyn Cerrig Bach.

Football
- 9 May – Wales defeat England 1-0
- 24 October – Wales defeat England 2-1

1 January – John Baldwin Hoystead Meredith, Welsh-Australian soldier and doctor
7 January – Edward Arthur Lewis, historian
27 January – Tom Barlow, Welsh rugby player and cricketer
15 February – Frank Treharne Jones, lawyer
22 March – Ebenezer Griffith-Jones, academic
22 April
- John John Evans, journalist
- James Morgan Pryse, Welsh-descended American author, publisher, theosophist and founder of the Gnostic Society, 96
14 May - Walter Watkins, footballer
10 July - Sydney Curnow Vosper, artist, 75
22 July – Gilbert Cunningham Joyce, Bishop of Monmouth
6 August – Francis Green, antiquary
24 September – David Walters (Eurof), minister and author
14 October – Jem Evans, Wales international rugby union player
26 October - Richard Mathias, politician, 79
7 December - Lionel Beaumont Thomas, businessman, British Army officer and politician, 49
22 December – Elias Henry Jones, educationist and author