Wynford Vaughan-Thomas [SEP] date of death
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Lewis John Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (né Thomas) (15 August 1908 – 4 February 1987) was a Welsh newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster. In later life he took the name Vaughan-Thomas after his father.
Biography.
Thomas was born in Swansea, in South Wales, the second son of Dr. David Vaughan Thomas, a Professor of Music, and Morfydd Lewis, the daughter of Daniel Lewis who was one of the leaders of the Rebecca Riots in Pontarddulais.
October – Rudolf Hess is flown to Nuremberg to stand trial, ending his three-year internment at Maindiff Court Military Hospital, Abergavenny.
- October – Stocks of captured Nazi German bombs filled with Tabun (nerve agent) begin to be transferred to the RAF ammunition store near Llanberis.
- 13 November – Explorer Edward Evans is created Baron Mountevans.
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- Closure of the Benallt manganese mine, near Aberdaron.
- Broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas is awarded the Croix de Guerre for