1942 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1942 in Scotland.

Incumbents

19 January – a Catalina flying boat crashes on the hill above Burravoe on Yell, Shetland, killing seven of her ten passengers.^[1]
April – Allied commandos training with live ammunition accidentally cause a major pine forest fire at Loch Arkaig.^[2]
28 April – Strathpeffer spa hospital (a hotel until 1940) is destroyed by fire.^[3]
15 May – arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard.^[4]
July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island.^[5]
25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness.
South Ford Bridge completed, connecting Benbecula to South Uist.^[6]
Monach Islands deserted. Lighthouse on Shillay unlit.^[7]

5 January – Henry John Burnett, murderer, last man hanged in Scotland (died 1963)
24 January – Sheila Mullen, painter
2 February – Roger Hynd, footballer (died 2017)
21 February – Magnus Linklater, journalist
22 February – John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat
24 February – Stuart Henry, disc jockey (died 1995 in Luxembourg)
27 February – Aimi MacDonald, actress and dancer
12 April – Bill Bryden, theatre director
28 April – Geoffrey Hosking, historian
8 May – Norman Lamont, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
14 May – Prentis Hancock, actor
24 May – Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
7 June – Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet (died 2022)
18 June – John Bellany, painter (died 2013)^[8]
12 July – Tam White, actor and musician (died 2010)
8 August – Dennis Canavan, politician
12 August – Iain Blair, actor and author (using the pen name Emma Blair) (died 2011 England)
23 October – Douglas Dunn, poet and academic
16 November – Willie Carson, jockey
24 November – Billy Connolly, comedian
9 December – Billy Bremner, international footballer (died 1997)
10 December – Ann Gloag, born Ann Souter, entrepreneur
12 December – Morag Hood, actress (died 2002 London)
13 December – Hamish Wilson, actor
22 December – Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw, businessman
27 December – Mike Heron, psychedelic rock musician (The Incredible String Band)
Albert Watson, photographer

2 March - Charles Usher, ophthalmologist from whom Usher Syndrome is named (born 1865)
3 March - George Adam Smith, theologian (born 1856 in Calcutta)
10 August – Bob Kelso, footballer (born 1865)
4 December – Hugh Malcolm, Royal Air Force officer, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1917; killed in action over Tunisia)
Andrew Allan, lithographic artist (born 1863)

Ena Lamont Stewart's first play, the one-act Distinguished Company, is presented by the MSU Repertory Theatre in Rutherglen.

Book: Penrith, James . Penrith, Deborah . 2007. Orkney & Shetland. The Scottish Islands. 3rd. Richmond, London. Crimson Publishing. 9781854583710.
Web site: Bid to buy and restore war-time damaged Loch Arkaig forest. BBC News. 2016-04-07. 2020-03-27.
News: Spa Hospital Fire: £20,000 Strathpeffer outbreak. The Glasgow Herald. 1942-04-29. 6. 2019-01-20.
Web site: Notable Dates in History. The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. 2014-07-17. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm. 2014-05-23.
News: Britain's 'Anthrax Island'. BBC. 2001-07-25. 2013-05-06.
Web site: South Ford Causeway. Stornoway. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. 2013-09-29. 2014-05-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20140227131836/http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/techservices/bridgescausewaysferries/southford.asp. 27 February 2014. dead. dmy-all.
Web site: Monach. Lighthouse Library. Northern Lighthouse Board. Edinburgh. 2009. 2016-03-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305011630/http://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Monach/. 5 March 2016. dead.
Web site: John Bellany obituary . the Guardian . 21 June 2022 . en . 2 September 2013.