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 Eisteddfod 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.
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↑ 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.
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