The Captain Was a Doctor : The Long War and Uneasy Peace of POW John Reid
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1459747216
ISBN-13
9781459747210
Publisher
Dundurn Group Ltd
Imprint
Dundurn Group Ltd
Country of Manufacture
CA
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 31st, 2020
Print length
480 Pages
Weight
653 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.90 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: historical, political & militarySecond World WarPrisoners of war
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After five weeks of officer training, Dr. John Reid was sent to Hong Kong in 1941. After the Japanese victory, he spent a year in Hong Kong prison camps before being sent to Japan as a slave labourer. His efforts to save his men were heroic, but he would never be the same.
A Canadian medical officer and prisoner of war returns from the Second World War a hero and a very different man.
In August 1941, John Reid, a young Canadian doctor, volunteered to join the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps with four friends from medical school. After five weeks of officer training in Ottawa, Reid took an optional two-week course in tropical medicine, a choice which sealed his fate. Assigned to C Force, the two Canadian battalions sent to reinforce semi-tropical Hong Kong, he was among those captured when the calamitous Battle of Hong Kong ended on Christmas Day.
After a year in Hong Kong prison camps, Reid was chosen as the only officer to accompany 663 Canadian POWs sent to Japan to work as slave labourers. His efforts over the next two and a half years to lead, treat, and protect his men were heroic. He survived the war, but finding a peace of his own took ten tumultuous years, with casualties of a different sort. He would never be the same.
In August 1941, John Reid, a young Canadian doctor, volunteered to join the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps with four friends from medical school. After five weeks of officer training in Ottawa, Reid took an optional two-week course in tropical medicine, a choice which sealed his fate. Assigned to C Force, the two Canadian battalions sent to reinforce semi-tropical Hong Kong, he was among those captured when the calamitous Battle of Hong Kong ended on Christmas Day.
After a year in Hong Kong prison camps, Reid was chosen as the only officer to accompany 663 Canadian POWs sent to Japan to work as slave labourers. His efforts over the next two and a half years to lead, treat, and protect his men were heroic. He survived the war, but finding a peace of his own took ten tumultuous years, with casualties of a different sort. He would never be the same.
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