Sleeping in bomb shelters and churches, they would only return to see their families at weekends, adding further stress and trauma to their family lives. The efforts of the workers ensured that, within a few weeks of the bombing of 13 March, industrial output on Clydebank had returned to the levels reached before the bombs had struck.
Now all workers could reconcile their political beliefs with their loyalty to the country and its war effort and focus on making their contribution towards defeating Nazi Germany by increasing arms and munitions production on the Clyde. After the war, many of the tenement buildings were restored and today little tells of the horrors experienced in them in March But every year, the community remembers more than Bankies who were killed in those two night raids.
You can also look at some records and find more information in the National Records of Scotland here. Subscribe for Newsletter. Find your personal contacts including your tutor and student support team:. Help with accessing the online library, referencing and using libraries near you:. Skip to content. You are here Home When the Blitz came to Clydebank. Her research interests are in the First World War and its diplomatic and military origins.
Annika Mombauer. Son of William and Bridget Boyle. Wife of James John Bradley. Husband of Helen Brimer. Air Raid Wardent.
Daughter of John Cahill and of Wilhelmina Cahill. Daughter of John Cahill, and of Wilhelmina Cahill. Wife of John Cahill. Wife of Thomas Cairns. Husband of Mary Campbell.
Auxiliary Nurse; of 14 Broom Drive. Wife of Archibald Campbell. Daughter of John Clason and of Nellie Clason. Wife of John Clason. Castle Street, Dalmuir. Son o' Hugh Cochrane H. Widow of Angus A. Son of Alexander Cullen; husband of Nora Cullen. Husband Elizabeth Hopkinson Curran. Husband of Agnes Daniels. Wife of Gilbert Dempster.
Husband of Euphemia Dempster. Widow of Alexander Dempster. Daughter of Mary, and the late Alexander Dempster. Wife of Samuel Dennis. Husband of Jean Dennis. Son of Edward and Mary Diver. Son of Edward Diver Junr. Husband of the late Catherine McAulay Diver. Wife of Edward Diver Senr. Wife of John Francis Diver. Son of James and Margaret Anderson Divers. James Divers; husband of Margaret Anderson Divers.
Daughter of Nancy Doherty, and of Francis Doherty. Husband of Nancy Doherty. Son of Nancy Doherty, and of Francis Doherty. Napier Street. Daughter of Nancy and of Francis Doherty. Daughter of Mary and of Thomas Dolan. Air Raid Warden; Livingstone Street. Husband of Catherine Donaldson. Son of Mary Catherine, and of the late Francis Donnelly. Daughter of Mary Catherine, and of the late Francis Donnelly.
Daughter of Charles and Mary Doran. Wife of Ralph Andrew Drummond. Son of Ralph Andrew and Gladys Drummond. Husband of Gladys Drummond. Son of Julia Duncan. Benbow Hotel, Dalmuir. Wife of John Dunn. Son of Findlay, and of John Duthie Findlay.
Son of Mrs. Findlay, of 13 Singer Street; husband of C. James Finnen. Son of James and Annie Flemming. Wife of Alexander Fraser. Son of George and Margaret Low Furmage. Son of Thomas and Mary Gallagher. His sister Jessie Chalmers Wade was also killed in same incident. Daughter of Annie Gillies. Daughter of Mr and Mrs. Rescue Service; of Second Avenue. Son of the late Charles and Mary Ann Graham.
Daughter of Jack Guiney of Dromore, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, and of Sarah Guiney. Daughter of Sam McKee. Dromore, Co. Down, Northern Ireland; wife of Jack Guiney. Husband of Jessie Hamilton.
Husband of the late Sarah Arton Harris. Son of James and Catherine Harvey. Daughter of William Heggie, and of Elizabeth Heggie. Abbott; wife of William Heggie. Wife of John Henderson. Husband of Elizabeth Henry. Wife of Charles Henry. Wife of David Henry Hughes.
Daughter of A. Hunter, and of Sarah Aston Hunter. Wife of A. Son of Mary Jobling. Police Sgt. Daughter of Hugh and Sarah Kelly. Husband of Sarah Kelly. According to an official count in the Clydebank raids killed people and seriously injured , compared to totals of 1, people, and 1, in the whole of Clydeside. A report by the Civil Defence Regional Commissioner on 3 April included an assessment of the impact on industrial production on Clydeside.
Official assessment of damage to industrial production in Clydebank by Civil Defence Regional Commissioner, 3 April Industrial production was affected by the severe casualties and the evacuation of the town after the raids, causing difficulties in getting the workforce to the workplace. Immediately after the raids people left in droves. Some found shelter with family or friends in Glasgow and elsewhere, and the authorities evacuated many people in buses and provided them with accommodation in rest centres elsewhere.
On 17 March the figure of homeless people who had been given accommodation stood at 11, Distribution of people made homeless by the raids who were evacuated from Clydebank, 17 March The maps plotting the fall of bombs confirm that industrial premises escaped relatively lightly, while bombs struck housing across the town.
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