The Tartan Pimpernel, Donald Caskie, dies at Greenock
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27th December
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Socialist campaigner John Maclean is released from prison
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3rd December
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First warnings received in Operation Dark Harvest
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9th October
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Colonel Robert A Smith goes into battle
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14th September
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War crimes accused Anton Gecas dies in Edinburgh
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12th September
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Submarine U-23 is sunk
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20th July
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Hundreds killed as battleship sinks in Scapa Flow
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9th July
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Naval hero Admiral Adam Duncan is born in Dundee
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1st July
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The German fleet is scuttled in Scapa Flow
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21st June
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Rudolf Hess flees to Scotland
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10th May
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Biological weapons tests begin in the Outer Hebrides
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8th May
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Clydebank suffers aerial attack
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14th March
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Scottish spy Jessie Jordan is arrested
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2nd March
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American servicemen drown on liner torpedoed off Islay
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5th February
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More than 100 sailors killed in the Battle of May Island
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31st January
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Stornoway harbour shipwreck kills 200 soldiers
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1st January
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