A minister has fulfilled a 60-year dream to make a pilgrimage to Japan in honour of his late father who was kept prisoner there during the Second World War.
Rev Ian Gilmour, a retired Church of Scotland minister from Edinburgh, travelled to Hiroshima where Private David Gilmour was held in a work camp for more than three years.
The camp was liberated after the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over the city on August 6, 1945. Private Gilmour, of the Royal Army Service Corps, was captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Singapore in February 1942.
He was badly mistreated when he imprisoned, forced to work on a minuscule diet of poor-quality rice and suffered from Beriberi disease and dysentery due to malnutrition.
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