1915 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1915 to Wales and its people.

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26 February - The Welsh Guards regiment is created.
25 April - At Gallipoli, Able Seaman William Charles Williams helps secure lighters on the 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.
7 May - When RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German torpedo, notable survivors include David Alfred Thomas, Viscount Rhondda and tenor Gwynn Parry Jones.
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.
Welshmen continue to enlist for military service in World War I, including architect Percy Thomas, who joins the Artists' Rifles.
Three German prisoners-of-war escape from an internment camp at Llansannan in Gwynedd, but are quickly recaptured.
The Glamorganshire Canal closes between Abercynon and Pontypridd.
The first branch of the Women's Institute in Britain opens at Llanfair PG, Anglesey.
In the by-election caused by the death of Keir Hardie, Charles Butt Stanton becomes MP for Merthyr.
Sir James Herbert Cory, 1st Baronet, becomes MP for Cardiff.
Sir William Rice Edwards becomes surgeon-general of Bengal.

Caradoc Evans – My People
John Gwenogvryn Evans (ed.) - Poems from the Book of Taliesin, amended and translated
Arthur Machen – The Great Return
Eluned Morgan - Plant yr Haul
John Cowper Powys - Wood and Stone

16 January - David Davies, 2nd Baron Davies of Llandinam (died 1944)
11 February - Mervyn Levy, artist (died 1996)
20 February - Mary Jones, actor (died 1990)
25 March - Dorothy Squires, singer (died 1998)
4 June - Ernest David Bell, artist and poet (died 1959)
1 July - Alun Lewis (poet) (died 1944)
10 September - Geraint Bowen, poet and Archdruid
22 September - Thomas Williams, politician (died 1986)
23 September - John Samuel Rowlands, GC (died 2006)
11 October - T. Llew Jones, writer
date unknown
- Roland Mathias, poet and critic
- Keidrych Rhys, poet and journalist (died 1987)
- John Griffith Williams, writer (died 1987)

19 January - Anna Leonowens, governess who claimed Welsh birth (but was actually born in India)
25 April - William Charles Williams, VC recipient
26 September - Keir Hardie, MP for Merthyr Tydfil
30 September - Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient
10 December - David Jenkins, composer
17 December - John Rhys, philologist
date unknown
- Rachel Davies, Baptist preacher
- David Gwynne-Vaughan, botanist