6 July –
Aqaba falls to a joint force of Arab irregulars and the supporters of Auda Abu Tayi, largely thanks to the efforts of
T. E. Lawrence.
15 July – Poet
Hedd Wyn posts his
awdl "Yr Arwr" ("The Hero") as his entry for the poetry competition at the
National Eisteddfod of Wales on the same day as he marches off with the 15th Battalion
Royal Welch Fusiliers towards the
Battle of Passchendaele in which he will be killed a fortnight later. On September 6 at the ceremony of
Chairing of the Bard at the Eisteddfod, held at
Birkenhead, the empty druidical chair which Hedd Wyn, as winner, should have occupied is draped in a black sheet, "The festival in tears and the poet in his grave." Contralto
Laura Evans-Williams sings I Blas Gogerddan instead of the traditional chairing song. This becomes known as "The Eisteddfodd of the Black Chair."
^Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. p. 356.
^National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. p. 3.
^The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p. 443.
^
ab"Death of Mr J. W. Gwynne-Hughes". The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser. National Library of Wales. 5 January 1917. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
^Potter, Matthew (2016). The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 149.
ISBN9781351545471.
^Ivor Bulmer-Thomas (1936). Gladstone of Hawarden: A Memoir of Henry Neville, Lord Gladstone of Hawarden. Murray. p. 197.
6 July –
Aqaba falls to a joint force of Arab irregulars and the supporters of Auda Abu Tayi, largely thanks to the efforts of
T. E. Lawrence.
15 July – Poet
Hedd Wyn posts his
awdl "Yr Arwr" ("The Hero") as his entry for the poetry competition at the
National Eisteddfod of Wales on the same day as he marches off with the 15th Battalion
Royal Welch Fusiliers towards the
Battle of Passchendaele in which he will be killed a fortnight later. On September 6 at the ceremony of
Chairing of the Bard at the Eisteddfod, held at
Birkenhead, the empty druidical chair which Hedd Wyn, as winner, should have occupied is draped in a black sheet, "The festival in tears and the poet in his grave." Contralto
Laura Evans-Williams sings I Blas Gogerddan instead of the traditional chairing song. This becomes known as "The Eisteddfodd of the Black Chair."
^Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. p. 356.
^National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. p. 3.
^The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p. 443.
^
ab"Death of Mr J. W. Gwynne-Hughes". The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser. National Library of Wales. 5 January 1917. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
^Potter, Matthew (2016). The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 149.
ISBN9781351545471.
^Ivor Bulmer-Thomas (1936). Gladstone of Hawarden: A Memoir of Henry Neville, Lord Gladstone of Hawarden. Murray. p. 197.