1944 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1944 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 17 February – in the Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election, the Scottish National Party candidate Douglas Young comes close to winning the seat (which is held for Labour by Thomas Hubbard).[1]
- 26–30 June – World War II: the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division spearhead Operation Epsom, also known as the First Battle of the Odon, during the Battle of Normandy.
- September – Churchill Barriers on Orkney completed, together with Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm.
- 9 November – the House of the Binns (near Linlithgow) becomes the first estate house given to the National Trust for Scotland (by Eleanor Dalyell).
- 12 November – World War II: sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz at Tromsø by Lancaster bombers of No. 9 and 617 Squadrons flying from RAF Lossiemouth.[2]
- 30 November – HMS Vanguard (23) is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank by HRH The Princess Elizabeth. The Royal Navy's largest, fastest and last battleship, she was laid down in October 1941 and will be in commission from 1946 to 1960.[3]
- December – 97 Italians tunnel out of a prisoner-of-war camp at Doonfoot but are quickly recaptured.[4]
Births
- 23 January – John McCluskey, boxer (died 2015)
- 11 March – Graham Lyle, singer-songwriter
- 13 May – Vivien Heilbron, actress
- 17 May – Jimmy Boyle, sculptor, writer and murderer
- 5 June – Jim Brogan, footballer (died 2018)
- 3 July – Paul Young, actor
- 7 July – George Logan, stage entertainer
- 17 August – Bobby Murdoch, international footballer (died 2001)
- 23 September – Eric Bogle, folk singer-songwriter in Australia
- 30 September – Jimmy Johnstone, international footballer (died 2006)[5]
- 17 November – Malcolm Bruce, Liberal politician
- 12 December – Kenneth Cranham, actor
- Tom Leonard, poet
- Shena Mackay, novelist
Deaths
- 8 February – John Watson, advocate and sheriff, Solicitor General for Scotland 1929–31 (born 1883; dies on train to Scotland)
- 16 March – David Prain, botanist (born 1857)
- 5 July – Robert William Hamilton, Liberal politician and MP (born 1867)
- 11 July – Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson, shipbroker, Liberal politician and philanthropist (born 1851)
- 11 August – William Fife, yacht designer (born 1857)
- 16 August – Walter Robberds, Bishop of Brechin and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (born 1863 in the British Raj)
See also
References
- ↑ "House of Commons". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. 2008-03-28. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
- ↑ "History". RAF Lossiemouth. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
- ↑ McCart, Neil (2001). HMS Vanguard 1944–1960: Britain's Last Battleship. Liskeard, Cornwall: Maritime Books. ISBN 0-907771-83-1.
- ↑ "PoW Camp Summary WW II". Secret Scotland. 2013-07-31. Retrieved 2014-09-03.
- ↑ Glanville, Brian (14 March 2006). "Obituary: Jimmy Johnstone". the Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
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