1942 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1942 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

Incumbents

30 January – Scarweather lightvessel in Swansea Bay sinks.^[1]
28 March – St Nazaire Raid: 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.
25 May – The Glamorganshire Canal closes.
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.
22 October – The Welsh Courts Act is passed, allowing the Welsh language to be used in courts of law.
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 South Wales Coal Dust Research Committee is set up.
Houses for munitions workers at Whitchurch, Cardiff, are designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe.^[2]
During the building of RAF Valley, a hoard of La Tène metalwork is found in Llyn Cerrig Bach.

D. Gwenallt Jones - Cnoi Cil
John Gwilym Jones - Y Dewis
Thomas Jones (T. J.) - Cerrig Milltir
Roland Mathias - Days Enduring
Leslie Norris - Tongue of Beauty
John Cowper Powys - Owen Glendower (U.K. publication)
Hilda Vaughan - The Fair Woman (retelling of "The Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach", later republished as Iron and Gold)

The radio series Caniadaeth y Cysegr is launched by the BBC, and soon proves unexpectedly popular with listeners in other parts of the UK. The hymn-based series celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2017.^[3]

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

2 January – Billy Hullin, Wales international rugby union player (died 2012)
1 February – Terry Jones, writer, comedian and actor
15 February – Leslie Griffiths, Methodist minister and politician
9 March – John Cale, experimental rock musician
13 March
- John Mantle, dual-code rugby player
- Meic Stevens, singer-songwriter
28 March – Neil Kinnock, politician
1 April – Karl Francis, film-maker
5 April – Peter Greenaway, film-maker
20 May – Lynn Davies, athlete
21 May – David Hunt, Secretary of State for Wales 1990-93
25 May – Ron Davies, footballer
8 June – Doug Mountjoy, snooker player
13 July – Hywel Gwynfryn, television presenter
17 July – Spencer Davis, musician
18 July – Roger Cecil, painter (d.2015)
20 July – Sylvia Heal, politician
16 September – Barrie Hole, footballer
16 September – Jeff Young, rugby player
24 November – Craig Thomas, thriller writer (d.2011)
5 September – Chris Corbett, rugby player
12 September – Delme Thomas, rugby player
2 December – Brian Evans, footballer (d.2003)

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, 77
10 February – Felix Powell, musician, 63
15 February – Frank Treharne Jones, lawyer
22 March – Ebenezer Griffith-Jones, academic
24 March – Will Osborne, Wales international rugby union player, 66
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 Joyce, Bishop of Monmouth, 76
6 August – Francis Green, antiquary
12 September – Valentine Baker, pilot, 54 (killed in flying accident)
24 September – David Walters (Eurof), minister and author
10 October – Geraint Goodwin, novelist and short story writer, 39
14 October – Jem Evans, Wales international rugby union player, 75
26 October – Richard Mathias, politician, 79
7 December – Lionel Beaumont Thomas, businessman, British Army officer and politician, 49
22 December – Elias Henry Jones, British Army officer, educationist and author, 59

↑ "Scarweather Ltv [+1942]". Wrecksite. 2011-05-13. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
↑ The Twentieth Century Society (2017). "1942". 100 Houses 100 Years. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-1-84994-437-3.
↑ "75 years of Welsh language radio show that became UK hit". BBC News. 12 February 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.

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