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List of events
Events from the year 1915 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
26 January –
Royal Navy
King Edward VII -class battleship
HMS Britannia runs aground on
Inchkeith in the
Firth of Forth and suffers considerable damage.
[1]
19 February – Royal Navy
Acorn -class destroyer
HMS Goldfinch (1910) is wrecked on Start Point,
Sanday, Orkney .
10 March –
World War I :
German submarine U-12 is hunted down by Royal Navy destroyers
HMS Ariel ,
HMS Acheron and
HMS Attack off the Firth of Forth and sunk with the loss of 19 of her crew, 10 being saved.
[2]
11 March – World War I:
Armed merchantman
HMS Bayano (1913) is sunk off
Galloway by German U-boat
SM U-27 with the loss of around 200 of her crew, 26 being saved.
[3]
18 March – World War I: Royal Navy battleship
HMS Dreadnought (1906) sinks
German submarine U-29 with all hands in the
Pentland Firth by ramming her, the only time this tactic is known to have been successfully used by a battleship.
April – Glasgow becomes the first U.K. city to employ women
conductors on public transport for the duration of the War.
25 April – World War I:
Gallipoli Campaign –
Carnoustie -born seaman
George Samson wins the
Victoria Cross for his actions under fire during the
landing at Cape Helles .
[2]
22 May –
Quintinshill rail disaster near
Gretna Green : collision and fire kill 226, mostly
Royal Scots soldiers, the UK's largest number of fatalities in a
railway accident .
[4]
12 June – World War I: Oil tanker
SS Desabla is torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine U-17 off
Montrose .
23 June – World War I: Two German submarines sink 17 vessels from the
Lerwick fishing fleet.
[2]
3 July – World War I:
15th (Scottish) Infantry Division receives embarkation orders for France.
[5]
25 September – World War I:
Battle of Loos opens: Piper
Daniel Laidlaw leads 7th Battalion, The
King's Own Scottish Borderers in the advance on the enemy trenches, an action for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross.
[6]
27 September &
13 October – World War I:
Tillicoultry -born second cousins
James Dalgleish Pollock and
James Lennox Dawson each win the Victoria Cross for their actions at the
Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt (part of the Battle of Loos).
27 October – World War I: Glasgow revolutionary socialist anti-war protester
John Maclean is arrested for the first time under the
Defence of the Realm Act and dismissed from his job as a teacher.
[7]
8 November –
Copinsay lighthouse in
Orkney (engineer:
D. Alan Stevenson ) first illuminated.
27 November
10 December – World War I:
Douglas Haig is appointed to command the
British Expeditionary Force .
[2]
30 December –
Armoured cruiser
HMS Natal (1905) capsizes at anchor in the
Cromarty Firth as the result of an internal explosion in her ammunition stores; 390 sailors and some civilians are killed.
[8]
World War I – Khaki
Balmoral bonnet , known as the
tam o' shanter , introduced for wear by Scottish troops in the trenches of the
Western Front .
Births
21 February –
John Brown , international footballer (died
2005 )
29 March –
George Chisholm , jazz trombonist (died 1997 in London)
8 May –
John George Macleod , doctor of medicine and a writer of medical textbooks (died
2006 )
6 September –
Calum Maclean , folklorist (died
1960 )
27 October –
Robert Alexander Rankin , mathematician (died
2001 )
6 November –
David I. Masson , science-fiction writer and librarian (died 1979 in
Leeds )
8 November –
George Sutherland Fraser , poet and critic (died 1980 in Leicester)
15 November –
David Stirling , mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the
Special Air Service (died
1990 )
17 December –
Stuart Hood novelist, translator, television producer and Controller of
BBC Television (died
2011 )
28 December –
Jack Milroy , comedian (died
2001 )
31 December –
Neil Paterson , writer and footballer (died
1995 )
George Campbell Hay , poet (died
1984 )
Ernest Marwick , writer noted for his writings on
Orkney folklore and history (died
1977 )
Deaths
13 January –
Mary Slessor , missionary (born
1848 ; died in Nigeria)
6 March –
Louisa Jordan , nurse (born
1848 ; died of typhus in Serbia)
9 March –
Sir James Donaldson classical scholar, and educational and theological writer (born
1831 )
[9]
19 April – Sir
Thomas Clouston ,
psychiatrist (born
1840 )
23 April – Robert W. Sterling, poet (born
1893 ; killed in action)
8 May –
Walter Lyon , lawyer and war poet (born
1886 ; missing in action)
7 July –
Samuel Cockburn , physician, practising
homeopathy (born
1823 )
26 September –
Keir Hardie , socialist, first chairman of the
Parliamentary Labour Party and pacifist (born
1856 )
2 October –
Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart , British Army officer and Unionist politician (born
1883 ; killed in action)
13 October –
Charles Sorley , poet (born
1895 ; killed in action)
22 October –
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet , physicist (born
1831 )
The arts
See also
References
^ Burt, R. A. (1988). British Battleships 1889-1904 . Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press,
ISBN
0-87021-061-0 . p. 251; Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M. (ed.) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 , New York: Mayflower Books.
ISBN
0-8317-0302-4 . p. 9.
^
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"Notable Dates in History" . The Flag in the Wind .
The Scots Independent . Archived from
the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014 .
^ Johnston, Willie (12 March 2015).
"Centenary of HMS Bayano disaster off the Galloway coast" .
BBC News . Retrieved 24 March 2015 .
^ Guinness Book of Records .
^
"The 15th (Scottish) Division in 1914-1918" . The Long, Long Trail . Retrieved 30 May 2014 .
^
"Piper Daniel Laidlaw" . Supplement to the London Gazette (29371): 11449–50. 18 November 1915. Retrieved 30 May 2014 .
^ Byers, Michael (2002).
"John Maclean (1879–1923)" . Red Clydeside . Glasgow Digital Library (
University of Strathclyde ). Retrieved 7 July 2014 .
^ Hampshire, A. Cecil (1961). They Called It Accident . London: William Kimber.
OCLC
7973925 .
^ University of St. Andrews (1914).
Library Bulletin of the University of Saint Andrews . University Press.
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