1943 in Scotland

Polish 1st Armoured Division tanks Mk VI Crusader in Haddington, Scotland, Great Britain 1943.

← 1942 1941 1940 1939 1938 1943 in Scotland → 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
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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

Events from the year 1943 in Scotland .

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Tom Johnston

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Reid
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir David King Murray

Judiciary

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1943 in Northern Ireland

References

1. MacKinnon, Angus (2010). "The Loss of HM Submarine Vandal (P64) off the Isle of Arran in 1943". ClydeMaritime. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
2. "HMS/M Vandal: Inchmarnock Water, Sound Of Bute, Firth Of Clyde". Canmore . Edinburgh: Historic Environment Scotland. 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
3. "The Aberdeen Mittwoch Blitz - Wednesday 21st April 1943". The Doric Columns. 1 September 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
4. "Jackie Paterson: World Champion 1943". A Sporting Nation. BBC. November 2005. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
5. "Power From the Glens" (PDF). Perth: Scottish and Southern Energy. 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
6. "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
7. "Dickin medal pigeons". PDSA. Archived from the original on 13 February 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
8. "Margo MacDonald obituary". The Guardian. London. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
9. "Obituary: Ian Dunn" . The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.