The Forgotten Highlander
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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