The Forgotten Highlander (32 page)

return and early death

scavenging skills

Brind, James

Brind, Nora

Bukit Timah

Burma

bushido code

Butler, Lady

Calcutta

California

Cameronians

Canada

Canberra

cannibalism

Chamberlain, Neville

Changi

church services

concert parties

discipline

and escape attempts

food and diet

and mental health

and spies

work parties

Changi jail

Cherbourg

Chiang Kai-shek

Chicago

China

chocolates

Christianity

Chungkai hospital camp

and clandestine cigarettes

theatrical shows

Churchill, Winston

and fall of Singapore

cigarettes, clandestine

Clydeside blitz

coalmines

Cold War

Compton, Denis

Cornwall

cricket

Death Railway

bridge construction

burial parties

and cholera epidemic

doctors

escapees

food and diet

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

timekeeping

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