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The Forgotten Highlander

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by Alistair Urquhart

and friendships

  Kanyu camps

  kow-towing

  latrines

  and mental health

  mortality rates

  and prisoners’ ranks

  punishments

  roll-calls

  sabotage attempts

  scale of undertaking

  survivors’ evidence

  time-keeping

  Declaration of Arbroath

  Dee, River

  disabled sports

  diseases

  beriberi

  cholera

  dengue fever

  diphtheria

  dysentery

  malaria

  pellagra

  pneumonia

  Dossie, Aunt

  Dover

  Duke, Captain W. H.

  Dundee

  Dunkirk evacuation

  Dunlop, Sir Edward ‘Weary’

  Dunottar Castle

  East, Denis

  Egypt

  Elder, Henry

  elephants

  Emslie, Lieutenant

  Far East Prisoner of War Association (FEPOW)

  Faulder, Captain

  Fergusson, Sergeant

  First World War

  Foreign Office

  Forfar

  Fort Canning

  surrender at

  Fowler, Garrison Adjutant

  France

  Franco, General Francisco

  French Revolution

  French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

  Fukuoka Camp

  food and diet

  punishments

  Fukuye, Major General Shimpei

  Geneva Convention

  Germany

  Glasgow

  Glover, Thomas

  Gordon Highlanders

  battle honours

  and Dunkirk

  and First World War

  and food rations

  reunion

  Gourdon

  Grace, W. G.

  Graham, Lieutenant Colonel W. J.

  Grassie, John

  Great Depression

  Greece

  Griffiths, Billy

  Gulf of Thailand

  Gurkhas

  Hainan Island

  Hall, Henry

  Hammond, Wally

  hara-kiri

  Hawaii

  Hellfire Pass

  hellships

  see also Kachidoki Maru

  Henie, Sonja

  Hirado

  Hiroshma

  Hitler, Adolf

  HMS Prince of Wales

  HMS Repulse

  Hong Kong

  surrender of

  Honolulu

  Hugh

  Hutton, Len

  India

  Indian Ocean

  Indians

  see also Sikhs

  Inverurie

  Ireland

  Japan

  and atomic bombs

  bombing raids

  cessation of hostilities

  manpower shortages

  prison camps

  prisoners’ deaths

  starvation in

  Japanese

  atrocities

  mentality

  post-war relations

  war crimes

  war criminals

  Jap-happies

  Java

  Johore

  Kachidoki Maru

  casualties

  survivors

  Kam Pong

  kamikaze pilots

  Kelly, Gene

  Kempeitai

  Keppel naval base

  Kokura

  Korea

  Korean ‘comfort’ women

  Korean guards

  Kuala Lumpur

  Kwai, River

  bridge construction

  and cholera epidemic

  Kynoch, Cathie

  Larwood, Harold

  Lawson Turnbull & Co.

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

  Lochgelly tawse

  London

  Los Angeles

  Loss, Joe

  McKenzie, J. L.

  Mackie, Lance Corporal

  ‘Mad Mongrel’

  Mae Klong, River

  maggots

  Malay Volunteer Force

  Manchuria

  Manila

  Mao Tse-tung

  Mariana Islands

  Marko, Captain

  Marseilles

  Mathieson, Dr

  Meelong, River

  Melbourne

  Midway, Battle of

  Miller, Glenn

  Milne, Mary

  Mongolia

  monsoons

  Montrose

  Moore, Sir John

  Mosley, Sir Oswald

  Nagasaki

  Nanking, Rape of

  Nazism

  New York

  Newtonhill

  Nishimura, General Takuma

  North Africa

  Northampton

  Oakley, Commander Ben

  officers, ‘pukka sahib’

  Okada, Sergeant Seiichi (‘Dr Death’)

  Okinawa

  Omuta

  Operation Matador

  Oryoku Maru

  Oxfordshire

  Paisley

  Parit Sulong

  Pearl Harbor

  Penang

  Percival, General Arthur

  Philippines

  plants, jungle

  Port Dickson

  Port Said

  Puccini, Giacomo

  Queen Mary

  Rabin, Oscar

  radiation

  Raffles, Sir Stamford

  Raffles Hotel chef

  Rakuyo Maru

  Rangoon

  rats

  Red Cross parcels

  Red Sea

  Reich, Lieutenant Commander Eli

  Rice, Dr

  River Valley Road camp

  discipline and morale

  food and diet

  Robert Gordon College

  Roehampton hospital

  Roosevelt, President Franklin, D.

  Royal Army Medical Corps

  Royal Army Pay Corps

  Royal Army Service Corps

  Royal Artillery

  Royal Corps of Signals

  Royal Engineers

  Russia

  St Austell

  St Valéry

  San Francisco

  Sandakan

  sappers

  Scott, John

  Seaforth Highlanders

  Selarang

  Selarang Incident

  sharks

  Shikinami

  Siam

  Sikhs

  Silvester, Victor

  Singapore

  Alexandra hospital massacre

  and army training

  and ballroom dancing

  beatings and punishments

  colonial population

  docks

  fall of

  Highlanders’ return

  Sook Ching massacre

  Singapore Times

  slave labour

  snakes

  South Africa

  South China Sea

  Southampton

  Southgate, Denis

  Spain

  Spong, Bobby

  SS Andes

  Stalin, Josef

  Stirling Castle

  Stonehaven

  Stracathro hospital

  submarines, American

  Sudan

  Suez Canal

  suicide

  Sumatra

  Summers, Lieutenant Paul

  Swanton, E. W.

  Sweeney, Captain Charles

  Taiwan

  Tamarkan

  taxi dancers

  Tay, River

  Taylor, Tommy

  tenko

  termites

  Thailand

  see also Siam

  Thomas, Sir Shenton

  Three
Pagodas Pass

  Tojo, Prime Minister

  Toosey, Colonel Philip

  Trafalgar, Battle of

  Trail, Billy

  Truman, President Harry S.

  Urquhart, Alistair

  army discharge

  and ballroom dancing

  childhood

  cholera and rehabilitation

  conscription and training

  and cousin’s fiancé

  determination to help others

  diet

  employment

  and footwear

  illnesses

  and Korean guard incident

  mental health

  nightmares

  passage to Singapore

  and religion

  responsibility for boys

  return home

  sleeping habits

  and sports

  survival strategies

  and teaching

  transfer and promotion

  Urquhart, Bill

  Urquhart, Cicely

  Urquhart, Douglas

  war service

  Urquhart, George

  and Alistair’s return

  Urquhart, Gertrude

  and Alistair’s return

  Urquhart, Rhoda

  and Alistair’s return

  US marines

  USS Cape Gloucester

  USS Growler

  USS Pampanito

  USS Sealion

  USS Tryon

  Usuki, Lieutenant (the ‘Black Prince’)

  and Alistair’s nightmares

  and Alistair’s punishment

  death sentence

  ‘V’ organisation

  vampirism

  venereal disease

  Victoria, Queen

  Wallace, William

  Waller, Fats

  water torture

  Waterloo, Battle of

  Watson, Hazel

  Wavell, General Archibald

  Wilkie, Captain R. D.

  Wishart, Mr

  women, ‘comfort’

  Women’s Voluntary Service

  Yamamoto, Admiral

  Yamashita, General

  Zhukov, Marshal

 

 

 


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