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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1915 to
Wales and
its people .
January - 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.
[14]
26 February - The
Welsh Guards regiment is created.
4 April - Three German prisoners-of-war escape from an internment camp at
Llansannan in Denbighshire, but are quickly recaptured.
[15]
23 April - The body of
Will Gladstone , recently killed at the Western Front, is re-buried in the churchyard of
St Deiniol's ,
Hawarden ,
Flintshire , Wales.
[16] With special permission from King
George V of the United Kingdom , he becomes the last casualty to be officially repatriated to the United Kingdom during the
First World War .
[17]
25 April - At
Gallipoli , Able Seaman
William Charles Williams of
Chepstow helps secure lighters on
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 in World War I.
[18]
7 May - When
RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German torpedo, notable survivors include
David Alfred Thomas , Viscount Rhondda and tenor
Gwynn Parry Jones .
[19]
26 July - The
Glamorganshire Canal closes between
Abercynon and
Pontypridd .
[20]
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.
15 November -
Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet , becomes MP for Cardiff, following the death in action of the previous incumbent,
Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart .
25 November - In the
Merthyr Tydfil by-election , caused by the death of Keir Hardie,
Charles Stanton becomes
Independent Labour Party MP for
Merthyr .
4 December - First submarine to be launched at
Pembroke Dock ,
HMS J3 .
Welshmen continue to enlist for military service in
World War I , including architect
Percy Thomas , who joins the
Artists' Rifles .
Sir
William Rice Edwards becomes surgeon-general of
Bengal .
16 January -
David Michael Davies, 2nd Baron Davies (died
1944 )
[26]
11 February -
Mervyn Levy , artist (died
1996 )
[27]
20 February -
Mary Jones , actor (died 1990)
25 March -
Dorothy Squires , singer (died
1998 )
[28]
2 April -
Patrick Gibbs , RAF Wing Commander, author and film critic (died
2008 )
[29]
9 April -
Bill Clement , Welsh international rugby player and Secretary of the WRU (died 2007)
13 May -
Hrothgar John Habakkuk , economic historian (died
2002 )
[30]
4 June -
David Bell , writer and curator (died
1959 )
1 July -
Alun Lewis , poet (died on active service
1944 )
[31]
3 July -
Ifor Owen , illustrator (died 2007)
30 August - Lillian May Davies, later
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland , fashion model and
Swedish princess (died 2013)
[32]
4 September -
Roland Mathias , poet and critic (died
2007 )
[33]
10 September -
Geraint Bowen , poet and Archdruid (died
2011 )
[34]
22 September -
Thomas Williams , politician (died 1986)
23 September -
John Samuel Rowlands , GC (died
2006 )
[35]
11 October -
T. Llew Jones , writer (died
2009 )
[36]
10 November -
Leslie Manfield , Wales international rugby union player (died 2006)
26 December -
Keidrych Rhys , poet and journalist (died
1987 )
[37]
6 January -
Owen Roberts , educator, 79
[38]
24 January -
Charles Taylor , naval officer and Wales rugby international, 51 (killed in action)
[39]
30 January -
Thomas Benbow Phillips , pioneer settler, 85
5 March -
George "Honey Boy" Evans , musician and entertainer, 44 (cancer)
[40]
21 March -
Edward Pegge , Wales international rugby player, 50
13 April -
William Glynne Charles Gladstone , Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire, 29
[41]
25 April -
William Charles Williams , posthumous
Victoria Cross recipient, 34 (killed in action)
6 June -
John Lloyd , political reformer, 81
[42]
31 July -
Billy Geen , soldier and Wales international rugby union player, 24 (killed in action)
[43]
4 September -
David Gwynne-Vaughan , botanist, 44
[44]
7 September -
Robert Lewis-Lloyd , rower and barrister, High Sheriff of Radnorshire, 79
26 September -
Keir Hardie , Scottish-born serving MP for
Merthyr Tydfil (Labour) and pacifist, 59 (died in Scotland)
[45]
27 September -
Richard Garnons Williams , soldier and Wales international rugby union player, 59 (killed in action)
[46]
30 September -
Rupert Price Hallowes , posthumous Victoria Cross recipient, 34 (killed in action)
[47]
2 October -
Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart , Scottish-born British Army officer and serving MP for
Cardiff (Unionist), 32 (killed in action)
[48]
22 November -
Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb , Principal of St David's College, Lampeter, 53
[49]
29 November -
Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn) , Baptist preacher, 69
[50]
10 December -
David Jenkins , composer, 66
17 December - Sir
John Rhys , philologist, 75
[51]
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^
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Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News . George S. Maddick. June 1915. p. 673.
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