1944 in Wales

1944 in Wales
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1944 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1944

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1944 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

23 January - An RAF Halifax bomber crashes in the Elan Valley, killing nine crew.
28 March - Cardiff Blitz: Nine people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff.
11 April - An RAF Lancaster bomber crashes near Llanwrtyd Wells, killing eight crew.
16 August - Lt. Tasker Watkins leads a bayonet charge at Barfour in Normandy, winning the Victoria Cross for his courage.
2 October - Dylan Thomas is best man at the wedding of his friend Vernon Watkins in London - but fails to turn up.
17 October - The first "Welsh Day" debate takes place in the House of Commons (UK).
10 December - American Liberty ship Dan Beard is torpedoed off Strumble Head, resulting in the deaths of 29 crew.
20 December - An American B-24 Liberator plane crashes into the sea off Anglesey, killing eight crew.
Plaid Cymru transfers its head office from Caernarfon to Cardiff.
Morgan Phillips becomes Secretary of the Labour Party (UK), a position he will hold until 1961.
Sir Thomas Williams Phillips becomes permanent secretary of the new government ministry created to implement the national insurance system.
Sir David Brunt is awarded the royal medal of the Royal Society for his work in meteorology.
Goronwy Owen and Llewellyn Thomas Gordon Soulsby are knighted.

BBC commentator Alun Williams marries Perrie Hopkin Morris, daughter of Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris.

August - Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports on the liberation of Paris for BBC radio.
Launch of the Noson Lawen series on BBC radio.

Boxing - Syd Worgan beats Tommy Davies for the vacant Welsh featherweight title.
Football - The first post-war match between Wales and England ends in a 1 - 0 victory for Wales.

11 January - Richard Powell, Wales international rugby player, 79
5 March - Alun Lewis, poet, 28 (accidentally shot)
7 May - Charles Green, Bishop of Monmouth, Bishop of Bangor and Archbishop of Wales, 79
24 May - Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet, politician, 83
27 May - Griffith Hartwell Jones, academic, 85
16 June - David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, philanthropist and MP, 64
25 June - James Atkin, Baron Atkin, judge, 76
5 August - Maurice Turnbull, cricketer, 38 (killed in action)
5 August - Ethel Lina White, crime novelist, 68
September - David Davies, 2nd Baron Davies, 29 (killed in battle)
30 September- David Harris Davies, Wales international rugby union player, 66
5 October - Laura Evans-Williams, singer, 61
27 October - Clem Lewis, rugby player, 54
19 November - Watkin Williams, Bishop of Bangor, 99
8 December - Sir William Jenkins, MP for Neath, 73