EVENING LECTURE
THE FORGOTTEN HIGHLANDERS
Scots as Prisoners of the Japanese in WW2
Graham Ogilvy
Monday, 29th September
Talk begins at 19:00
TIME & LOCATION
Date and time: September 29 2025 19:00 PM to 20:30 PM
Location: The Royal Scots Club, 29-31 Abercromby Place, EH3 6QE
ABOUT THE LECTURE
The story of the Scots as prisoners of the Japanese in WW2 is recounted. 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’.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Graham Ogilvy is a Scottish journalist and publisher. He also worked with two other veterans Tom Renouf and Tony Banks to publish their memoirs: ‘Black Watch’ and ‘Storming the Falklands’ respectively.
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