NEW BOOK
"NOTIFY ALEC RATTRAY. . ."
One War, Two Captivities  ....a story of survival during WWII

 

Click Here to read  review  by Rev E. J. C. Loseby

Written by Meg Parkes:-

"Notify Alec Rattray..." tells of two captivities - one, a young Scottish soldier held by the Japanese in Java and Japan and the other, his relatives back home in Britain.

Capt. Atholl Duncan, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, from St. Andrews in Fife, was taken prisoner in Java in March 1942 aged 23.  His fiancée, Elizabeth Glassey was a medical student at St. Andrews University.

For three and a half years he was held first in Tandjong Priok in Java then Motoyama, Zentsuji and Miyata prison camps in Japan.

Covering the three years 1941 - 1943, it tells of his arrival in peacetime Singapore and events as they unfolded.

Using Atholl's secret diaries and their correspondence, the story is told in their own words.  The book contains dozens of illustrations - photographs, maps, drawings, cards, letters, documents and even lists and addresses of fellow prisoners.

"Notify Alec Rattray..." will be invaluable to those who are searching for information about their relatives who were prisoners of war in the Far East.

Fully indexed with a Foreword written by Major (Ret'd) Alastair Campbell, A&SH.

• ISBN no: 0-9541428-0-2

• Soft back, approx 200 pages with over 130 illustrations

• Published 15 February 2002

• Order form on website - www.kranji.co.uk 

• Also available at good bookshops and www.amazon.co.uk

RRP - £11.50, FEPOW discount rate £10 + £2 P&P (£5 overseas)
 

This volume deals with the years 1941-43 and book II covering 1944-46 will hopefully be published within the next two years.

Kranji Publications
34, Queens Road
Hoylake
Wirral
CH47 2AJ

e-mail: mm.parkes@btinternet