1916 in Scotland

Events from the year 1916 in Scotland.

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6 January â HMS King Edward VII sinks off Cape Wrath, having struck a mine laid by SMS MÃ¶we; all but one of the crew survive.
15 February â 27-year-old Edinburgh-born Black Watch private John Docherty is shot at dawn at Mazingarbe abattoir on the Western Front (World War I) for desertion, the first Kitchener's Army volunteer executed.^[1]
2â3 April â World War I: Imperial German Navy Zeppelins bomb Leith and Edinburgh, killing 13.
30 May â World War I: Ships of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet put out from Scapa Flow to engage with the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet; the Battle of Jutland is joined next day.
5 June â HMS Hampshire sinks off Orkney, probably having struck a German mine, with the loss of 650 lives â including Lord Kitchener and his staff â and only 13 survivors.
25 July â North of Scotland Special Military Area declared, restricting access by non-residents to everywhere north of the Great Glen.^[2]
c.23 Augustâ25 October â Dyce Work Camp for conscientious objectors working in the granite quarries operates.
31 December â Douglas Haig is promoted to Field marshal.
The white-tailed sea eagle last breeds in the UK, on Skye (prior to reintroduction).^[3]

11 May â Edward Boyd, screenwriter (died 1989)
20 May â John McIntyre, theologian and Church of Scotland minister (died 2005)
16 June â John Young, actor (died 1996)
10 July â Harry Gourlay, Labour MP from 1959 (died 1987)
11 August â Benny Lee, comedy actor and singer (died 1995)
18 October â Anthony Dawson, actor (died 1992)
22 October â Peter Brodie, Church of Scotland minister, Moderator of the General Assembly (died 1996)
28 October â Jessie Kesson, born Jessie Grant McDonald, writer and radio producer (died 1994)
21 November â David Syme Russell, theologian and author (died 2010 in Bristol)
7 November â Ian Niall, born John McNeillie, author (died 2002 in England)
18 December â Douglas Fraser, union leader (died 2008 in the United States)
Angus McPhee, outsider artist (died 1997)

21 January â David Finlay, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross; killed in action in Mesopotamia (born 1893)
6 March â Sir James Key Caird, jute manufacturer and benefactor (born 1837)
6 April â Andrew Ross, Scotland rugby union international and merchant seaman; killed in action in France (born c. 1880)
3 May â William Hardie, classical scholar, Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University from 1895 (born 1862)
27 May â William Leiper, architect (born 1839)
1 July â James Youll Turnbull, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross; killed in action in France (born 1883)
23 July â William Ramsay, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 (born 1852)
3 October â James Burgess, archaeologist active in India (born 1832)
26 November â Alexander Robertson MacEwen, writer, minister, professor and Moderator of the United Free Church of Scotland (born 1851)