1943 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1943 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

19 January - Three-year-old twins Neil and Jacqueline Coleby die of exposure on the slopes of Caerneddau; despite an extensive search their bodies are not found until 24 January.
29 January - In the by-election for the University of Wales parliamentary seat vacated by Ernest Evans, there are three notable candidates. W. J. Gruffydd, a former vice-president of Plaid Cymru who has subsequently joined the Liberal Party, triumphs over Plaid's Saunders Lewis. One of the other candidates is Alun Talfan Davies.
March - Rocky Marciano is among US servicemen posted to South Wales.
August - Tenovus Cancer Care is founded in Cardiff as Tenovus, initially funding a wide range of projects in the local area; it becomes the leading cancer charity in Wales.
23 October - David Lloyd George marries his long-term mistress and secretary, Frances Stevenson, at Guildford register office.
Sir Percy Thomas is elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects for the second time - the second person ever to achieve this.

August - Soprano Ceinwen Rowlands gives the first performance of a Welsh translation of Felix Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Bangor.
The Welsh National Opera company is founded in Cardiff as an amateur company.
Dame Laura Knight paints Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Newport.

Ray Milland stars in Forever and a Day and The Crystal Ball.
Drama documentary The Silent Village, filmed in 1942 at Cwmgiedd near Ystradgynlais by Humphrey Jennings, is released.

9 January – William Llewellyn Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 70
12 January – Selwyn Biggs, Wales international rugby player and Glamorgan cricketer, 70
24 January – Glyndwr Michael, homeless man whose body was used in Operation Mincemeat, 34
31 January – Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, physician, 85
7 February – Clara Novello Davies, singer, 71
6 March – John Daniel Evans, pioneer in Patagonia, 81
23 March – Commander John Wallace Linton, VC, 37
28 March – Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85
12 April – Arthur Lloyd James, phonetician, 58
17 April – Alice Gray Jones, author, 90
8 September – Dai Lewis, Wales international rugby player, 76
15 September – David Samuel, Wales international rugby player
24 September – Billy Douglas, Wales international rugby player, 80
15 October – Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, judge and Welsh language campaigner, 72
29 October – Frank Hancock, Wales international rugby union international, 84
17 November – Bertrand Turnbull, Olympic hockey player, 56
10 December – Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 59
27 December – Arthur O'Bree, Glamorgan cricketer, 57