List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1918 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed [ 1]
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk [ 2]
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves [ 3]
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans [ 4]
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Hinds
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon (from 24 January)
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Henry Gladstone, later Baron Gladstone [ 5]
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet [ 6]
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank [ 7] (until 30 January); Arthur Walsh, 3rd Baron Ormathwaite (from 5 April)[ 8]
Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams [ 9]
Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes [ 10]
Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)[ 11]
Bishop of St Davids – John Owen [ 12]
Events
January – Coalowner, Liberal politician and Minister of Food Control David Alfred Thomas is created Viscount Rhondda ; following his death on 3 July the title passes by special remainder to his daughter, the suffragette Margaret Mackworth .
26 January – An Irish steamship, the Cork , is torpedoed by a U-boat off Point Lynas in Anglesey . Twelve crew are killed.[ 13] [ 14]
29 January – The steamship Ethelinda is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries . Twenty-six crew are killed.[ 15]
4 February – The steamship Treveal is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries . Thirty-three people are killed.[ 16]
5 February – The steamship Mexico City is torpedoed by a U-boat off South Stack , Holyhead . Twenty-nine crew are killed.[ 17]
March
2 March – The British submarine HMS H5 is rammed and sunk, having been mistaken for a U-boat, off Porthdinllaen . All twenty-six crew are killed.[ 19]
7 March – The steamship Kenmare is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries . Twenty-six crew are killed.[ 20]
7 April – The steamship Boscastle is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head . Eighteen crew are killed.[ 21]
21 April – The steamship Landonia is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Twenty-one crew are killed.[ 22]
9 May – The steamships Baron Ailsa and Wileysike are torpedoed by a U-boat off Pembrokeshire . Fourteen crew are killed.[ 23] [ 24]
19 May – The German U-boat SM UB-119 is sunk, perhaps off Bardsey Island .[ 25]
15 June – The steamship Strathnairn is torpedoed by a U-boat off Bishops and Clerks , Pembrokeshire. Twenty-one crew are killed.
22 August – The steamship Palmella is torpedoed by a U-boat off South Stack , Holyhead . Twenty-eight people are killed.[ 26]
16 September – The steamship Serula is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Seventeen crew are killed.[ 27]
18 September – The 38th (Welsh) Division is involved in the Battle of Epéhy .
Autumn – Edward Thomas John (Liberal MP for East Denbighshire ) defects to the Labour Party.
10 October – Three seamen are killed while returning to their ship by boat at Milford Haven .
14 October – The steamship Dundalk is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries . Twenty-one crew are killed.[ 28]
11 November – Armistice Day. Able Seaman Richard Morgan, serving aboard HMS Garland , is the last Welshman – and perhaps the last Briton – to be killed on active service in the First World War , in the course of which over 40,000 Welsh people have lost their lives.
15 November – The British submarine HMS H51 is launched at Pembroke Dock .
14 December – United Kingdom general election :
December – The beginning of the 1918 flu pandemic which lasts into the following year and kills about 10,000 people in Wales.
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
Music
Film
Sport
Baseball – First records of the Grange Gasworks Ladies team playing in Cardiff .
Births
15 January – Billy Lucas , international footballer (died 1998)
6 March – Billy Hughes , footballer (died 1981 )[ 33]
7 May – Robert Davies , politician (died 1967)
9 May – Sir Kyffin Williams , artist (died 2006)[ 34]
20 May – David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech (died 1985)[ 35]
24 May – Jack Edwards , soldier and activist (died 2006 )[ 36]
28 May
6 June – Susan Williams-Ellis , founder of Portmeirion Pottery (died 2007 )[ 39]
19 June – Ivor Griffiths , footballer (died 1993 )
4 July – Tony Garrett , chairman of Imperial Tobacco (died 2017)
25 July – Dennis David , RAF ace (died 2000 )[ 40]
19 August – Dilys Elwyn Edwards , composer (died 2012)[ 41]
19 September – Penelope Mortimer , writer (died 1999)[ 42]
26 September – John Rankine , author (died 2013 )
14 October – J. A. G. Griffith , lawyer and academic (died 2010 )[ 43]
19 October – Charles Evans , doctor and mountaineer (died 1995 )[ 44]
3 November – Glyn Williams , international footballer (died 2011 )
Deaths
2 January – Rupert Morris , clergyman and teacher, 74[ 45]
30 January – Powlett Milbank , Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 65[ 46]
15 February – William Evans , judge, c.71
13 April
24 May – Evan Williams , US-born tenor of Welsh parentage, 50 (blood poisoning)[ 49]
3 July – David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda , industrialist and politician, 62[ 50]
13 September – Samuel Thomas Evans , MP, 59[ 51]
21 September – Emily Charlotte Talbot , heiress, 78[ 52]
27 September – Morfydd Llwyn Owen , composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano, 26 (medical complications)[ 53]
15 October – William David Phillips , Wales international rugby player, 63
16 October – Robert Williams , architect and social campaigner, 70[ 54]
4 November – Wilfred Owen , poet from the Welsh borders, 25 (killed in action)[ 55]
25 November – William Griffith , mining engineer who worked with Cecil Rhodes , 65[ 56]
30 November – Lewis Richards , footballer and barrister, 57[ 57]
1 December
See also
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