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List of events
Events from the year 1940 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
1 January – the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939 outlawed "irregular" marriages ("marriage by declaration" or "handfasting") from this date, ending the practice of "anvil marriage" at
Gretna Green .
[1]
17 January –
World War II :
German submarine U-25 sank SS Polzella and the neutral Norwegian ship Enid 10 miles north of
Shetland .
9 February – World War II: A German aircraft was forced down on
North Berwick Law .
3 –
9 March –
RMS Queen Elizabeth made her maiden voyage on delivery from
Clydebank to
New York .
11 March – World War II: Scotland north and west of the
Great Glen and Inverness became a restricted area.
16 March – World War II: First civilian casualty of bombing in the UK, on
Orkney .
[2]
10 April – World War II: the
German cruiser Königsberg was sunk at
Bergen by British
Fleet Air Arm
Blackburn Skua
dive bombers flying from
RNAS Hatston in
Orkney .
30 April –
French destroyer Maillé Brézé was sunk by accidental explosion off
Greenock .
May – construction of
Churchill Barriers on
Orkney began.
9 May –
Guy Lloyd won the
East Renfrewshire by-election for the
Unionist Party .
29 May – World War II: Requisitioned
Clyde steamers
Queen-Empress ,
Duchess of Fife ,
Oriole (called Eagle on the Clyde), Marmion and
Waverley took part in the
Dunkirk evacuation ; Waverley was lost.
[3]
12 June – World War II: More than 10,000 soldiers of the
51st (Highland) Division under General
Victor Fortune surrendered to General
Erwin Rommel at
Saint-Valery-en-Caux .
[4]
16 June – World War II: The
troopships
Andes ,
Aquitania ,
Empress of Britain ,
Empress of Canada ,
Mauretania and
Queen Mary steamed in convoy into the
River Clyde and anchored off
Gourock with the first large contingent of Australian and New Zealand troops.
[5]
24 June –
1 July – World War II:
Operation Fish – Royal Navy cruiser
HMS Emerald sails from
Greenock in convoy to
Halifax, Nova Scotia , carrying a large part of the
gold reserves of the United Kingdom and
securities for safe keeping in
Canada . Another convoy sets sail on 5 July from the Clyde, including
HMS Batory ,
[6] carrying cargo worth $1.7 billion, the largest movement of wealth in history.
[7]
1 July – World War II: First
Luftwaffe daylight bombing raid on mainland Britain at Bank Row,
Wick : 15 civilians, 8 of them children, killed.
[8]
19 July – World War II: First Luftwaffe daylight raid on Glasgow; little damage was caused.
[9]
20 July – World War II: A Luftwaffe bomb largely destroyed the stand at
King's Park F.C. 's
Forthbank Park in
Stirling , leading to the demise of the club.
16 September – World War II: British liner SS Aska was bombed by a German aircraft south of
Gigha whilst carrying French troops from
Gambia ; 12 crew died but 75 survivors were picked up by trawlers.
November – World War II: Building of No. 1 Military Port at
Faslane on the
Gare Loch
[10] and No. 2 Military Port at
Cairnryan began.
[11]
Garelochhead Training Camp is also established this year.
Kilquhanity School near
Castle Douglas was founded by
John Aitkenhead .
Births
6 January –
John Byrne , playwright and artist
11 January –
Sydney Devine , singer (died
2021 )
18 January –
Lindsay L. Cooper , jazz string player (died
2001 )
24 February –
Denis Law , international footballer
28 February –
Jim Baikie , comics artist (died
2017 )
[12]
2 March –
Billy McNeill , Celtic footballer and manager (died
2019 )
3 March –
Patricia Gage , actress (died
2010 in Canada )
15 March –
Jack Whyte , historical novelist (died
2021 in Canada )
19 April –
Dougal Haston , mountaineer (killed 1977 in the Swiss Alps)
14 May
23 May –
Giles Gordon , author and agent (died
2003 )
8 June -
Stanley Robertson , folk singer, ballad singer and piper (died
2009 )
23 June
28 June –
Roderick Wright ,
Bishop of Argyll and the Isles (Catholic) (died
2005 in New Zealand )
29 June –
Bill Napier , astronomer and science fiction author
1 July –
Craig Brown , footballer and
Scotland national football team manager (died
2023 )
10 July –
Tom Farmer , entrepreneur
28 July –
Brigit Forsyth , actress, born in Yorkshire (died
2023 )
4 August –
Robin Harper , Green politician
20 August –
Gus Macdonald , television journalist and Labour politician
3 November –
Charlie Gallagher , footballer (died
2021 )
4 November –
Sally Baldwin , social sciences professor (died
2003 in Italy )
[13]
24 November –
Donald Macleod , theologian
1 December –
Mike Denness , international cricketer (died
2013 )
[14]
William Barr , Arctic historian
Peter Kerr , travel writer
Deaths
11 February –
John Buchan , 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, novelist, historian and
Unionist politician (born
1875 ; died in Canada)
15 June –
George Washington Browne , architect (born
1853 )
18 June – Sir
George Andreas Berry ,
ophthalmologist and Unionist politician (born
1853 )
19 November –
James Cromar Watt , artist, architect and jeweller (born
1862 )
16 December –
William Wallace , classical composer and ophthalmologist (born
1860 ; died in England)
Dugald Campbell , doctor from the
Isle of Arran , set up the national health service in
Hawaii during the 1890s
The arts
See also
References
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the original on 16 September 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2014 .
^ Doyle, Peter (2010). ARP and Civil Defence in the Second World War . Oxford: Shire Publications. p. 9.
ISBN
978-0-7478-0765-0 .
^ Mullay, A. J. (May–June 2010). "Clyde Steamers to the Rescue at Dunkirk". History Scotland . 10 (3): 50–54.
^
"Surrender at St. Valéry" . 51st Highland Division. Retrieved 17 July 2014 .
^ Plowman, Peter (2003).
Across the Sea to War: Australian and New Zealand Troop Convoys . Vol. 1.
ISBN
9781877058066 .
^ Draper, Alfred (1979). Operation Fish: The Fight to Save the Gold of Britain, France and Norway from the Nazis . Don Mills: General Publishing.
ISBN
9780773600683 .
^
Breuer, William B. (2008). Top Secret Tales of World War II . Book Sales. p. 62.
ISBN
9780785819516 .
^
"The Bank Row Bombing" . Cathness.Org . 1989. Retrieved 27 June 2020 .
^
"Notable Dates in History" . The Flag in the Wind .
The Scots Independent . Archived from
the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014 .
^
"Gare Loch, Faslane" .
Canmore .
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland . Retrieved 14 November 2014 .
^ Holme, Richard (1997). Cairnryan Military Port, 1940–1996 . Wigtown: GC.
ISBN
978-1872350226 .
^
"Obituary: Jim Baikie, Orkney-born artist who conquered world of comics" . www.scotsman.com . Retrieved 20 October 2021 .
^ Bradshaw, Jonathan (31 October 2003).
"Obituary: Sally Baldwin" . The Guardian . Retrieved 5 November 2020 .
^
"Obituary: Mike Denness OBE, cricketer" . www.scotsman.com . Retrieved 27 October 2021 .
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