Alistair Urquhart

Japanese prisoner of WW2

Alistair Urquhart (/'æl?st?r '??rk?rt/; 8 September 1919 – 7 October 2016) 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 the Second World War.