The Forgotten Highlanders Scots as prisoners of the Japanese in WW2, 29 September | Event in Edinburgh | AllEvents

The Forgotten Highlanders Scots as prisoners of the Japanese in WW2

Royal Scots Club

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Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

1.5 hours

The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh

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Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm (GMT+01:00)

The Royal Scots Club Edinburgh

29-31 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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The Forgotten Highlanders Scots as prisoners of the Japanese in WW2
The story of the Scots as prisoners of the Japanese in WW2 is recounted by Scottish journalist and publisher, Graham Ogilvy.

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Around 20,000 Scots were captured by the Japanese in the Far East - around a third died in appalling circumstances of disease, starvation and ill-treatment.

Graham Ogilvy worked with two veterans on their memoirs of suffering and courage - Alistair Urquhart's story 'The Forgotten Highlander', a memoir of slavery on the Death Railway became a Sunday Times No 1 bestseller. Andy Coogan's story of suffering and slavery in a copper mine in Taiwan presents a very different experience in 'Tomorrow You Die'.

Graham presents an overview of the disastrous Far East campaign and uses the experiences of the Urquhart, Coogan and others to highlight the ordeal of the prisoners who were later met with official indifference upon their return home.

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General Admission 6 GBP
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The Forgotten Highlanders Scots as prisoners of the Japanese in WW2, 29 September | Event in Edinburgh | AllEvents
The Forgotten Highlanders Scots as prisoners of the Japanese in WW2
Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm
GBP 6