Alistair Urquhart

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Date of birth

1919

Date of death

10/2016

Place of birth

Aberdeen, Scotland

Alistair Urquhart

Biography

Urquhart was a Scottish businessman and the author of "The Forgotten Highlander," an account of the three and a half years he spent as a Japanese prisoner of war during his service in the Gordon Highlanders infantry regiment during World War II. He was sent to work in coal mines in Japan and later a labor camp ten miles from the city of Nagasaki. He was there when the city was hit with an atomic bomb dropped by the United States.

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