British cruiser Curaçao collides with troopship RMS Queen Mary off the coast of Donegal and sinks: 338 drown. World War II: British forces capture the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo. The British Council of Churches, an ecumenical organisation, is established, as is the Council of Christians and Jews. 17 September – Noël Coward's film In Which We Serve premieres. The RAF carries out its 100th bombing raid on the German city of Bremen. The RAF and the Soviet Air Force bomb oil wells and refining facilities at Ploeşti in Romania causing extensive damage. 
12 September – World War II: British transport ship RMS Laconia torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in the Atlantic, west of Africa, with the loss of around 2,000 lives, mainly Italian prisoners of war.September – The Brains Trust first broadcast under this title on BBC Home Service radio.30 August–2 September – World War II: At the Battle of Alam el Halfa in Egypt, General Montgomery leads the Eighth Army to victory over Field Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps.25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness, Scotland.19 August – World War II: British and Canadian troops conduct the Dieppe Raid.11 August – traffic admitted onto the new Waterloo Bridge across the River Thames in London.Miniver, starring Greer Garson, is released in London.
10 July – the patriotic Academy Award-winning drama film Mrs.Total evacuation of Stanford Training Area on Breckland in Norfolk.
Military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on the Scottish island of Gruinard. Arthur Rank's Odeon Cinemas purchase UK sites of Paramount Cinemas. 15 June – propaganda film The Next of Kin is commercially released by Ealing Studios. 30 May – World War II: First RAF "thousand bomber raid" sets off to carry out the bombing of Cologne in Germany. 6 May – The Radio Doctor ( Charles Hill) makes his first BBC radio broadcast giving avuncular health care advice. 5 May–6 November – World War II: Battle of Madagascar British commander Robert Sturges leads the invasion of Vichy French-held Madagascar. 1 May – destroyer HMS Punjabi sinks after collision with battleship HMS King George V in Arctic waters with 49 fatalities. 25–27 April – World War II: "Baedeker Blitz" – Bath Blitz: three bombing raids on Bath kill 417 among the buildings destroyed or badly damaged the Assembly Rooms are gutted. 24 April – Barnburgh Main Colliery collapse: 4 killed. Exeter-born William Temple is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury (being translated from York) in succession to Cosmo Gordon Lang. World War II: Exeter becomes the first city bombed as part of the " Baedeker Blitz" in retaliation for the British bombing of Lübeck. 9 April – World War II: Japanese Navy launches air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the country's East Coast. Royal Navy Cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island. 5 April – World War II: Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka). 25 February – Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) registers for war service. 19 February – Clement Attlee is appointed first Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 15 February – World War II: General Arthur Percival's forces surrender to the Japanese at the Battle of Singapore. 7 February – soap rationing introduced. February–April – Liverpool Chinese seamen strike for improved pay. January – Mildenhall Treasure discovered by ploughman Gordon Butcher in Suffolk. The programme will still be running 75 years later. 29 January – radio programme Desert Island Discs first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme, presented by Roy Plomley. 26 January – World War II: First United States troops for the European theatre arrive in the UK, at Belfast. Four more people die as a result of their injuries the following day. Among the houses destroyed in the bombing is the former home of Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois. 10 January – World War II: Liverpool Blitz ends with German bombs dropped in the Stanhope Street area of the city, with nine people dying and many more suffering injuries. 9–29 January – 1942 Betteshanger miners' strike in the Kent Coalfield. Book Production War Economy Agreement comes into force. Sneyd Colliery Disaster: An underground explosion in the North Staffordshire Coalfield kills 55. Prime Minister – Winston Churchill ( Coalition).
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