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1943 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1943 in
Scotland
.
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See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1943 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1942–43
•
1943–44
Incumbents
edit
Secretary of State for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
Tom Johnston
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
James Reid
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Sir David King Murray
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Normand
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Cooper
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court
–
Lord Gibson
Events
edit
11 February
– At the
Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election
, the radical socialist
Common Wealth Party
candidate
Tom Wintringham
comes close to winning the seat (which is held for the
Unionist Party
by Sir
David King Murray
).
24 February
– Royal Navy submarine
HMS
Vandal
is lost with all 37 crew on sea trials in the
Sound of Bute
; she would not be located until 1994.
[1]
[2]
27 March
–
Royal Navy
escort carrier
HMS
Dasher
(D37)
is destroyed by an accidental explosion in the
Firth of Clyde
, killing 379 of the crew of 528.
21 April
– "Big Blitz" bombing of
Aberdeen
.
[3]
30 May
– Royal Navy submarine
HMS
Untamed
(P58)
is lost with all hands on a training exercise in the Firth of Clyde.
19 June
–
Jackie Paterson
wins the world
flyweight
boxing title by a knockout in the first minute at
Hampden Park
in
Glasgow
.
[4]
5 August
–
North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board
established by
Act of Parliament
[5]
(with headquarters in Edinburgh).
11 November
– Total evacuation of an area near
Portmahomack
in
Easter Ross
begins, to make way for rehearsal of the
Normandy Landings
.
[6]
2 December
–
Broughty Ferry
pigeon
Winkie
, serving with the
Royal Air Force
, is among the first recipients of the
Dickin Medal
, instituted to honour the work of animals in war.
[7]
The last crofting family leaves the island of
South Rona
.
Ferranti
open a plant at
Crewe Toll
in
Edinburgh
, originally to manufacture
gyro gunsights
for aircraft.
Births
edit
23 January
–
Ernie Hannigan
, footballer (died
2015 in Australia
)
31 January
–
Peter McRobbie
, screen actor in the United States
18 February
–
Graeme Garden
, author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, one of
The Goodies
1 March
–
Witold Rybczynski
, Canadian American architect, born in Edinburgh
3 April
–
John Hughes
, footballer (died
2022
))
16 April
–
Morris Stevenson
, footballer (died
2014
)
19 April
–
Margo MacDonald
, politician (died
2014
)
[8]
1 May
–
Ian Dunn
, gay and paedophile rights activist, founder of the
Scottish Minorities Group
(died
1998
)
[9]
5 May
–
Kay Ullrich
, politician (died
2021
)
10 May
–
Jack Bruce
, rock musician (died 2014)
22 June
–
J. Michael Kosterlitz
, Scottish-born condensed matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
16 July
–
Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins
, comedy writer
18 July
–
Robin MacDonald
, pop guitarist (died 2015)
20 August
–
Sylvester McCoy
, born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith, actor
16 October
–
Tommy Gemmell
, footballer (died
2017
)
24 November
–
Robin Williamson
, acoustic musician
28 November
–
George T. Miller
, film director (died
2023 in Australia
)
Alan Bold
, poet and biographer (died
1998
)
G. C. Peden
, historian
D. R. Thorpe
, biographer
Deaths
edit
17 June
–
Annie S. Swan
, novelist (born
1859
)
8 September
-
Anderson Gray McKendrick
, military physician and
epidemiologist
, (born
1876
)
15 October
–
William Soutar
, poet (born
1898
)
23 December
–
George Henry
, painter (born
1858
)
Ann Scott-Moncrieff
, author (born
1914
)
The arts
edit
November –
Sorley MacLean
's first collection of
Gaelic
poems,
Dàin do Eimhir
agus Dàin Eile
, is published.
Glasgow
Citizens Theatre
founded.
Poetry Scotland
magazine founded in Glasgow by
Maurice Lindsay
.
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1943 in Northern Ireland
References
edit
^
MacKinnon, Angus (2010). "The Loss of HM Submarine
Vandal
(P64) off the Isle of Arran in 1943".
ClydeMaritime
. Retrieved
24 February
2018
.
^
"HMS/M
Vandal
: Inchmarnock Water, Sound Of Bute, Firth Of Clyde".
Canmore
. Edinburgh:
Historic Environment Scotland
. 2011
. Retrieved
24 February
2018
.
^
"The Aberdeen Mittwoch Blitz - Wednesday 21st April 1943".
The Doric Columns
. 1 September 2013
. Retrieved
24 February
2018
.
^
"Jackie Paterson: World Champion 1943".
A Sporting Nation
.
BBC
. November 2005
. Retrieved
18 July
2014
.
^
"Power From the Glens"
(PDF)
. Perth:
Scottish and Southern Energy
. 2005. Archived from the original
(PDF)
on 18 October 2007
. Retrieved
18 June
2010
.
^
"Notable Dates in History".
The Flag in the Wind
.
The Scots Independent
. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014
. Retrieved
17 July
2014
.
^
"Dickin medal pigeons".
PDSA
. Archived from the original on 13 February 2010
. Retrieved
1 March
2010
.
^
"Margo MacDonald obituary".
The Guardian
. London. 4 April 2014
. Retrieved
23 November
2020
.
^
"Obituary: Ian Dunn"
.
The Independent
. London. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.