by Trevor Royle
Poland Ref1
Nazi invasion of Ref1, Ref2
Red Army invasion of Ref1
Polish barrage balloon unit Ref1
Polish forces Ref1
disatvantages against German might Ref1
Free Polish Army Ref1
postwar difficulties for Ref1
in Scotland Ref1
Polish Military Staff College, Eddleston Ref1
Polish Relief Fund Ref1
Polish School of Medicine, Edinburgh University Ref1
Polish-Soviet Treaty (1941) Ref1
Polish 1st Armoured Division Ref1
Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade Ref1
politics
and home rule ambitions in Scotland Ref1, Ref2
nationalism, renewal of Ref1, Ref2
political history (1950-99) of Scotland Ref1
postwar changes in Ref1
postwar difficulties in Scotland Ref1
Port Glasgow Ref1
Porter, Lieutenant J.M. Ref1
Portobello Ref1
Pound, Admiral Sir Dudley Ref1
Pound, Ezra Ref1, Ref2
Power, William Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Pownall, General Sir Henry Ref1
Prestwick Airport Ref1
Prien, Kapitänleutnant Günther Ref1, Ref2
Prince of Wales, HM battleship Ref1, Ref2
Princess Louise’s Kensington Regiment Ref1
Prinz Eugen, German heavy cruiser Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
prisoners-of-war Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Private Angelo (Linklater, E.) Ref1
pro-fascist organisations Ref1
Public Record Office (National Archives) Ref1
Punjab Regiment Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Purcell, Henry Ref1
Purves, Captain J.S. Ref1, Ref2
Pynn, Lance-Sergeant Harry Ref1
Quarriers Home Ref1
Queen Elizabeth (Cunard liner) Ref1, Ref2
Queen Mary (Cunard liner) Ref1, Ref2
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Quisling, Vidkun Ref1
Raeburn, Professor John Ref1
Raeder, Grand Admiral Erich Ref1
railway mergers Ref1
Rajput Regiment Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Ralston, George Ref1
Ramillies, HM battleship Ref1
Ramsay, Captain Archibald Ref1
Rangoon Ref1
Reconnaissance Corps Ref1
recruitment Ref1
‘Red Clydesiders’ Ref1, Ref2
‘Reel of the 51st Division’ Ref1
regimental soldiering Ref1
deployments of Scottish regiments Ref1
Regional Commissioners Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Reichenau, General Walther von Ref1
Reith, John Ref1
Rennie, Major-General T.G. Ref1, Ref2
Renown, HM battleship Ref1
Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act (1939) Ref1
Repulse, HM battleship Ref1
Reserve and Auxiliary Forces Act (1939) Ref1
Resolution, HM battleship Ref1
Reykjavik, Iceland Ref1, Ref2
Right Club Ref1
Ring of Bright Water (Maxwell, G.) Ref1
Ritchie, Lieutenant Donald Ref1
Ritchie, Major-General Neil Ref1
Ritchie, Rear-Admiral J.S.M. Ref1
Robertson, Padre Crichton Ref1
Rockall Ref1
Rodney, HM battleship Ref1
Rolls-Royce, Hillington Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Romania Ref1
Romanian Bridgehead Ref1
Rommel, General Erwin Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Rose, Captain A.J.C. Ref1
Rose, Captain (later Lieutenant-Colonel) David Ref1
Rose, Major David Ref1, Ref2
Rosebery, Lord Ref1
Ross, Constance Ref1
Ross, Corporal William Ref1
Ross, Lancelot Ref1
Rosyth Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Rotterdam Ref1
Royal Air Force Ref1
9 Squadron Ref1
19 Squadron Ref1
44 Squadron Ref1
65 Squadron Ref1
141 Squadron Ref1
144 Squadron Ref1
145 Squadron Ref1
201 Squadron Ref1
224 Squadron Ref1, Ref2
248 Squadron Ref1
303 Squadron Ref1
404 Squadron Ref1
617 Squadron Ref1
803 Squadron Ref1
804 Squadron Ref1
945 Squadron Ref1
602 Squadron Auxiliary Air Force Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
603 Squadron Auxiliary Air Force Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
950 Squadron Auxiliary Air Force Ref1
333 Squadron (Norwegian) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
339 Squadron (Norwegian) Ref1
309 Squadron (Polish Army Cooperation) Ref1
304 Squadron (Polish Coastal Command) Ref1
Coastal Command Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Dyce Station Ref1
Fighter Command Ref1
friendly fire incident over Drem Ref1
13 Group in Scotland Ref1
Turnhouse RAF Station Ref1
Waddington Station Ref1
Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Royal Artillery Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Royal Bank of Scotland Ref1
Royal Commission on Housing in Scotland (1917) Ref1
Royal Corps of Signals Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Royal Engineers Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Royal Horse Artillery Ref1
Royal Marines Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Royal Naval Armaments Depot Ref1
Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Greenock Ref1
Royal Navy Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Altmark incident Ref1
campaign against Tirpitz and Scharnhorst Ref1
commando units Ref1
Fleet Air Arm Ref1
Home Fleet Ref1
North Sea action (September, 1939) Ref1
North Sea blockade Ref1
re-armament of Ref1
River Plate battle Ref1
Scottish Commands Ref1, Ref2
Royal Norfolk Regiment Ref1
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Ref1
Royal Oak, HM battleship Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Royal Observer Corps Ref1
Royal Ordnance factories, Bishopton and Irvine Ref1, Ref2
Royal Pioneer Corps Ref1
Royal Scots Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Hong Kong, defence of Ref1
Japanese prisoners-of-war, experiences as Ref1
Lo Wu Camp, Hong Kong Ref1
rearguard action in Belgium Ref1
Shing Mun Redoubt, Hong Kong Ref1
Wong Nei Chong Gap, Hong Kong Ref1
Royal Scots Fusiliers Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
endgame in France Ref1
rearguard action in France Ref1
Royal Scots Greys Ref1, Ref2
Royal Scottish Museum Ref1
Royal Sovereign, HM battleship Ref1
Royal Ulster Rifles Ref1
Russell, Colonel J.D. Ref1
Salmond, First Minister Alex Ref1
Salute the Soldier campaign Ref1
Salvation Army Ref1
San Francisco Ref1
Sato, Lieutenant General Kotuko Ref1
Ane Plesant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (Lyndsay, D.) Ref1
Savage, HM destroyer Ref1
Scandinavia, deception operations for Ref1
Scapa Flow Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Scharnhorst, German battle-cruis
er Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Schellenberg, Walter Ref1, Ref2
Schleswig-Holstein (German battleship) Ref1
Das Schwarze Korps Ref1
Scotland
aircraft production in Ref1
aluminium production Ref1
anti-war sentiments in Ref1
army in, Command structure Ref1, Ref2
arsenal of war Ref1
artistic front in Ref1
battle schools in Ref1, Ref2
benefits of wartime experiences for Ref1
black foresters from British Honduras (Belize) in Ref1
black service personnel from US in Ref1
cinema in wartime Ref1
civilian involvement on Home Front Ref1
coal production in Ref1, Ref2
Combined Training Centre, Inveraray Ref1
conscription of women Ref1
Conservative power in Ref1
coronation of Elizabeth II Ref1
dancing in wartime Ref1
evacuation, planning and operation of Ref1, Ref2
flying training in Ref1
food shortages Ref1
football in wartime Ref1
frontline Scotland Ref1, Ref2
heavy industry in, wartime response of Ref1
illegitimacy rates Ref1
industrial conscription in Ref1
iron production Ref1
Johnston as Secretary of State for Ref1
Labour in Scotland, decisive victory for Ref1
language problems for US personnel in Ref1
literary front in Ref1
morale at home, boosting of Ref1
national cultural identity Ref1
Norwegian forces in Ref1
Norwegians go home Ref1
oil, discovery and exploitation of Ref1
physical barriers Ref1
pig clubs, setting up of Ref1
Polish forces in Ref1
Polish forces remaining in, difficulties for Ref1
political history (1950-99) Ref1
political nationalism, renewal of Ref1, Ref2
politics and home rule ambitions in Ref1, Ref2
politics in, postwar difficulties Ref1
postwar social welfare Ref1, Ref2
prisoners-of-war in Ref1
Roosevelt’s envoy Harry Hopkins in Ref1
Royal Air Force 13 Group in Ref1
social mix in, alteration of Ref1
Stone of Destiny Ref1
submarine bases Ref1
United States forces in Ref1
wartime entertainment, difficulties for Ref1
wartime production, unemployment and Ref1
white foresters from Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland in Ref1
Scotland’s Parliament (White Paper, 1997) Ref1
Scots Guards Ref1, Ref2
Scots Quair (Grassic Gibbon, L.) Ref1
Scots Style Sheet Ref1
Scotsman Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Scotstoun, Glasgow Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Scott, Alexander Ref1
Scott, Anna Ref1
Scott, Brigadier John Ref1
Scott, Sir Walter Ref1, Ref2
Scott and Scotland: The Predicament of the Scottish Writer (Muir, E.) Ref1
Scottish Agriculture College Ref1
Scottish Boy Scouts Association Ref1
Scottish Command Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10
Scottish Convention Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Scottish Council on Industry Ref1
Scottish Country Dance Society Ref1
Scottish Farm Servants Union Ref1
Scottish Grand Committee Ref1
Scottish Home and Health Department Ref1
Scottish Home Rule Association Ref1, Ref2
Scottish International Ref1
Scottish Journey (Muir, E.) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Scottish League Football Ref1, Ref2
Scottish Museum of Antiquities Ref1
Scottish National Assembly Ref1
Scottish National Development Council (SNDC) Ref1
Scottish National Party (SNP) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
anti-war sentiments and conscientious objections Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
marginalisation Ref1
nationalist consciousness Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
revitalisation Ref1
schism within Ref1
self-destruction within Ref1
Scottish Neutrality League Ref1
Scottish Office Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12, Ref13, Ref14, Ref15, Ref16
Scottish Parliament, opening of (1999) Ref1
Scottish Renaissance Ref1
Scottish Rugby Union Ref1
Scottish Special Housing Association (SSHA) Ref1, Ref2
Scottish Temperance Alliance Ref1
Scottish Trade Union Congress Ref1
Scottish Trades Development Association Ref1
Scottish Unionist Association Ref1
Scott’s shipbuilders Ref1
Scourge, HM destroyer Ref1
Scrymgeour, Edwin ‘Neddy’ Ref1
Sea Hurricane naval fighter Ref1
Sea Skua naval fighter Ref1
SEAC (South East Asia Command) Ref1
Seaforth Highlanders Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12, Ref13, Ref14
surrender in France Ref1
Seaton, Ina Ref1
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) Ref1
Selassie, Emperor Haile Ref1
Selected Poems (MacDairmid, H.) Ref1
Selkirk Ref1
Seton-Watson, Professor Robert William Ref1, Ref2
Seventeen Poems for 6d (Garioch, R.) Ref1
7th Panzer Division Ref1
SHAEF (Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force) Ref1
Shakespeare, Geoffrey Ref1
Sharp, Captain Rudolf Ref1
sheep farming Ref1
Sherbrooke, Robert St Vincent Ref1
Shetland Islands Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Shinwell, Mannie Ref1
Shipbuilding on the Clyde (Stanley Spencer) Ref1
Should Auld Acquaintance (Power, W.) Ref1
Sicily, campaign for Ref1
Sidi Barrani Ref1
Sikorski, General Władysław Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Simms, Lieutenant-Commander H.C. Ref1
Sinclair, Archibald (Viscount Thurso) Ref1
Sinclair, Sir Archibald Ref1
Singapore Ref1
arrogance, part in downfall of Ref1
catastrophe, byword for Ref1
Japanese attack on Ref1
surrender of Ref1
Singer’s, Clydebank Ref1
Six, Dr Franz Ref1, Ref2
Slade School of Fine Art Ref1
Sleipner, KNM destroyer Ref1
Slim, General Sir William Ref1, Ref2
Smith, Professor Sydney Ref1
Smith McLean, Gartcosh Ref1
Smuts, General Jan Ref1
Smyth, Brigadier Sir John Ref1
social mix in Scotland, alteration of Ref1
social welfare, postwar in Scotland Ref1, Ref2
Socialist Party Ref1
Solemn League and Covenant (1643) Ref1
Somaliland Ref1
Somme
Battle of the (First World War) Ref1
defence of (1940) Ref1
Sosabowski, General Stanislaw Ref1
Soutar, William Ref1
South Africa Ref1, Ref2
South African Motorised Brigade Ref1
Southampton, HM cruiser Ref1, Ref2
Southern Cross (Swedish yacht) Ref1
Soviet Union Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12
Red Army invasion of Poland Ref1, Ref2
Spanish Civil War Ref1, Ref2
Special Areas (Development and Improve
ment) Act (1934) Ref1
Special Operations Executive (SOE) Ref1. Ref2, Ref3
Special Training Centre, Lochailort Ref1, Ref2
Spence, Basil Ref1
Spencer, Stanley Ref1, Ref2
Spitfire fighter Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11
SS Totenkopf Division Ref1
St Andrews Ref1
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh Ref1
St Boswells Ref1
St Valéry-en-Caux Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Stalin, Josef Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Stalingrad, Battle of Ref1
Steel, Lieutenant Commander H.P. de Ref1
Steel, Sir David Ref1
Steel Company of Scotland, Cambuslang Ref1
Steele, Lord Provost Sir Henry Ref1
Stephen, Campbell Ref1
Stephen’s shipbuilders Ref1
Stevenson, Robert Louis Ref1
Stewart, Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Ref1, Ref2
Stewart, Sir James Henderson Ref1
Stewarts Lloyds, Mossend Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Stirling, Captain William of Keir Ref1
Stirling heavy bomber Ref1
Stockman, Jim Ref1
Stone, Christopher Ref1
Stone of Destiny Ref1
Strathaven Ref1
Strathpeffer Ref1
Stuart, Alan Ref1
Stuart, Piper Charles Ref1
Stuart, Prince Charles Edward Ref1
Sturges, Major- General Robert Ref1, Ref2
submarine bases in Scotland Ref1
submarine warfare Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Suda Bay Ref1
Sudan Ref1
Sudetenland Ref1
Sullom Voe Ref1
summer of sunshine (1939) Ref1
Sunderland flying boat Ref1
Supplementary Medical Service (‘Clyde Basin Experiment’) Ref1
Sussex, HM cruiser Ref1
Swanson, Major I.J. Ref1
Swordfish torpedo bomber Ref1, Ref2
Syfret, Rear-Admiral Neville Ref1
Symes, Major-General George Ref1, Ref2
Syria Ref1
T. J. Harrison Line Ref1
Tadayoshi, Lieutenant-General Sano Ref1
Tail of the Bank Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Tait, Robert Ref1
Tait, Thomas Ref1, Ref2
Tait’s Tower, Bellahouston Exhibition (1938) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Tales from Tyrol (Watkins, O.) Ref1
Tananarive Ref1
Tartar, HM destroyer Ref1
Tate, Colonel William Ref1
Tatmin Chaung Ref1
Taung Bazaar, Burma Ref1
Tay estuary, battleground of approaches to Ref1
Tehran Conference (1943) Ref1
Territorial Army (TA) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11
51st (Highland) Division, pride of Ref1
under-equipped and under-trained Ref1
Thailand Ref1
Thorne, Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Thorodd, KNM destroyer Ref1
Tiger Moth trainer Ref1
The Times Ref1
Tirpitz, German battleship Ref1, Ref2