by Trevor Royle
44. Kesson, Another Time, Another Place, p. 8.
45. Isobel Murray, Jessie Kesson: Writing her Life, Edinburgh: Canongate, 2000, pp. 160–61.
46. John Wheatley, One Man’s Judgement: An Autobiography, London: Butterworths, 1987, p. 45.
10 Striking Back
1. NA ADM1/13410 Naval Training: Specially constructed craft for training submarine personnel in Loch Corrie (Port HHX) and Loch Cairnbawn (Port HHZ).
2. NA ADM1/12880 Complements of Ships and Establishments (7): Small submersible craft (X-craft, Chariots and Welman craft) combination as 12th S/M Flotilla: complementing, administration and training, 1943.
3. Admiralty, His Majesty’s Submarines, London: HMSO, 1947, p. 61.
4. The full account of the attack is told in C. E. T. Warren and James Benson, Above us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes, London: Harrap, 1953.
5. Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, Fight for the Sky, London: Patrick Stephens, 1986, p. 41.
6. NA AIR 26/597 Banff Mosquito Strike Wing: photographic record of operations, September 1944–May 1945.
7. Obituary of Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2003.
8. NLS Acc. 6119, Wimberley Papers, Box 2, Part 4.
9. McGregor, Spirit of Angus, p. 9.
10. P. K. Kemp, The Middlesex Regiment, 1919–1952, Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1956, p. 129.
11. McGregor, Spirit of Angus, p. 26.
12. Hamilton, Monty: The Making of the Field Marshal, p. 198.
13. Delaforce, Monty’s Highlanders, p. 33.
14. Ibid., p. 51.
15. Barker, Gordon Highlanders in North Africa and Sicily, p. 6.
16. Borthwick, Sans Peur, p. 34.
17. NA WO 175 War Office: Allied Forces, North Africa (British Element): War Diaries, Second World War, 1st Gordon Highlanders.
18. Alanbrooke, War Diaries, pp. 378–9.
19. McCallum, Journey with a Pistol, p. 98.
20. Sinclair, War like a Wasp, pp. 130–31.
21. Selwyn, Victor, ed., Return to Oasis: War Poems and Recollections from the Middle East 1940–1946, London: Shepheard Walwyn, 1980, p. xix.
22. Ibid.
23. Angus Calder, ‘Hamish Henderson’, Independent, 12 March 2002.
24. Henderson, Elegies, p. 37.
25. MacLean, Selected Poems, p. 122.
26. Sorley MacLean, ed. Christopher Whyte, Poems to Eimhir, Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2002.
27. Garioch, Two Men and a Blanket, p. 8.
28. Obituary, Robin Lorimer, The Times, 24 August 1996.
29. Hay, Collected Poems and Songs, p. 77.
30. Jocelyn Brooke, ‘Landscape near Tobruk’, John Lehmann, ed., Penguin New Writing 21, Harmondsorth: Penguin Books, 1944.
31. NA WO 175 War Office: Allied Forces, North Africa (British Element): War Diaries, Second World War, 1st Gordon Highlanders.
32. Barker, Gordon Highlanders in North Africa and Sicily, p. 25.
33. Barclay, History of The Cameronians, p. 113.
34. NLS Acc. 6119, Wimberley Papers, Box 2, Part 4.
35. NA CAB 101/182, Correspondence on Operation ‘Thursday’ (second Chindit expedition), Symes to Major-General S. Woodburn Kirby, February 1958.
36. John Masters, The Road Past Mandalay, London: Michael Joseph, 1961, p. 136.
37. Ibid., p. 146.
11 Victory in Europe and the Far East
1. McGregor, Spirit of Angus, p. 123.
2. Delaforce, Monty’s Highlanders, p. 138.
3. Salmond, 51st Highland Division, p. 145.
4. Hamilton, Monty: Master of the Battlefield, pp. 701–2.
5. Delaforce, Monty’s Highlanders, p. 143.
6. Ibid.
7. Lindsay, So Few Got Through, p. 38.
8. Keegan, Six Armies in Normandy, p. 175.
9. Ibid., p. 176.
10. Ibid., p. 181.
11. Michael Blackcock, The Royal Scots Greys, London: Leo Cooper, 1971, p. 102.
12. Muir, First of Foot, pp. 333–4.
13. Ibid., pp. 342–55.
14. Miles, Life of a Regiment, vol. V, pp. 320–24.
15. Lindsay, So Few Got Through, p. 183.
16. Scott, ‘Coronach (For the dead of the 5/7th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders)’, Selected Poems, p. 12.
17. Miles, Life of a Regiment, vol. V, p. 346.
18. Ibid., pp. 351–2.
19. Barclay, History of the Cameronians, p. 221.
20. Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, London: Heinemann, 1991, p. 767.
21. Hamilton, Monty: Master of the Battlefield, p. 227.
22. Neat, Henderson, pp. 153–5.
23. Linklater, Campaign in Italy, p. 100.
24. NA WO 170/1471 War Office: Central Mediterranean Forces, (British Element): War Diaries, Second World War, 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers.
25. Kemp, History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, p. 197.
26. Madden, 6th Black Watch, pp. 37–47.
27. Wallace Kinloch and Ralph Couser, 350 Glorious Years, 1642–1990, London: RHQ Scots Guards, 1993, p. 152.
28. McBain, Regiment, at War, p. 178.
29. Ibid., p. 180.
30. Muir, First of Foot, pp. 154–5.
31. F. C. Currie, ‘Kohima 1944’, Thistle, January 1946.
32. Hawkins’ Diary, Historical Records of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, vol. V, p. 156.
33. Ibid., p. 159.
34. Sym, Seaforth Highlanders, p. 285.
35. Historical Records of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, vol. V, p. 179.
36. Allen, Longest War, pp, 514–23.
37. Muir, First of Foot, p. 180.
12 Brave New World
1. NAS HH 50/136 Report of the Interdepartmental Conference of Arrangements for Celebrating the Cessation of Hostilities with Germany 3 October 1944.
2. Ibid.
3. NAS HH 50/137 Scottish Home Department memorandum, 20 April 1945.
4. Edinburgh Evening News, 9 May 1945.
5. NAS HH 50/138 Celebration of the Termination of Organised Hostilities (VJ Day).
6. John Ellis, World War II: A Statistical Survey, London: Facts on File, 1993.
7. NAS HH 50/160–165 Heavy explosive and incendiary missiles dropped in Scotland 1939–45.
8. Allport, Demobbed, pp. 1–3.
9. Lindsay, Forgotten General, p. 174.
10. A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941–49, Article VII Poland, Prepared at the Request of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by the Staff of the Committee and the Department of State. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1950, pp. 23–8.
11. Interview with Wladyslaw Fila, Royle, ‘General Sikorski’s Tourists’.
12. Carswell, For Your Freedom and Ours, pp. 27–9.
13. ‘Polish immigrants swell Scotland’s new baby boom’, Scotsman, 15 June 2007.
14. Clarke, Hope and Glory, p. 214.
15. Glens Folk, Kirriemuir: Community of the Glens, 2000, p. 57.
16. NAS HH 50/144 Post-War Planning Response to Memorandum by the Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, 19 October 1943.
17. Slaven, Development of the West of Scotland, p. 249.
18. NAS HH 50/201 Joint Memorandum on Reconstruction by Mr J. Westwood and Mr J. S. Wedderburn, to Secretary of State, 13 March 1941.
19. Kohan, Works and Buildings, p. 431.
20. Johnston, Memories, p. 169.
21. The files are contained in NAS HH 50/144–155 Post-War Planning and NAS HH 50/166–192 Scottish Council on Post-War Problems.
22. Scottish Daily Express, 28 June 1945.
23. UK Election Statistics 1945–2000, House of Commons Research Paper 01/37, 29 March 2001, p. 12.
24. Your Health Service: How It Will Work in Scotland, Edinburgh: HMSO, 1948, pp. 22–3.
25. Dunfermline Press, 7 January 1947.
26. Modernisation and Re-equipme
nt of British Railways, London: British Transport Commission, 1955, p. 14.
27. Marr, Battle for Scotland, p. 95; Devine, Scottish Nation, p. 565.
28. Editorial, Glasgow Herald, 28 November 1946.
29. Douglas Young, Plastic Scots and the Scottish Literary Tradition: An Authoritative Introduction to a Controversy, Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1946, pp. 19–20.
30. Alan Bold, ed., The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984, p. 788.
31. John MacCormick, Scottish Convention: An Experiment in Democracy, Glasgow: William MacLellan for the Scottish Convention, 1943, p. 43.
32. Marr, Battle for Scotland, p. 116.
33. Eileen Miller, ‘Henry Harvey Wood’, New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: OUP, 2004.
34. Lindsay, Thank You for Having Me, p. 126.
35. Finlay, Modern Scotland, p. 184.
36. NA INF 1/292, Home Intelligence Weekly Reports, 30 September–9 October 1940.
37. Lindsay, Thank You for Having Me, p. 116.
38. The Scottish Economy 1965 to 1970, a Plan for Expansion, Cmnd. 2864.
39. Johnston, Memories, p. 170.
Epilogue
1. Herdman, Some Renaissance Cultural Wars, pp. 11–12.
2. Editorial, Catalyst, December 1967.
3. Isobel White and Jessica Yonwin, ‘Devolution in Scotland’, Standard Note: SN/PC/3000, Edinburgh: Parliament and Constitution Centre, 2004.
4. Devine, Scottish Nation, p. 565.
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