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- After the capture of Singapore, he escaped to Java, and attempted to sail several thousand miles from Padang to Sri Lanka with a group of other British officers in a native fishing boat. His boat was captured by some Japanese warships, and he was returned to Singapore as a prisoner of war.
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He became known to Ernest Gordon during a period early on in their three-and-a-half-year incarceration under the Japanese. Gordon was seriously ill, and was attended to by Miller and "Dinty" Moore, a Roman Catholic POW. In their care, Gordon unexpectedly recovered.
Captain Ernest Gordon was a company commander with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He fought in several battles in the Malayan Campaign and the Battle of Singapore. He was one of the last Allied soldiers to cross the causeway from Johore before it was blown up.
Aug 13, 2015 · Ernest Gordon died on 16 th January 2002, survived by his son Alastair and daughter Gillian Crozier. Search Prisoner of War Records on Forces War Records.
When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious Railroad of Death, where nearly 16,000 Prisoners of War gave their life.
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Aug 18, 2001 · ''Everyone was his own keeper,'' says Gordon, and what exuberance once rose from his compact and unmistakably elegant Scottish burr now seems lost. In its place is a voice almost choked by memory.
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Oct 27, 2017 · In the summer of 1939, Ernest Gordon, a young Scotsman, knew that war was imminent. He had been a Royal Air Force pilot injured in an aircraft accident, had studied philosophy and law at the University of St. Andrews, and had been recently enjoying the life of an avid sailor.
Captain Ernest Gordon was a company commander with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who fought in several battles in the Malayan Campaign and the Battle of Singapore before being captured and made a prisoner of war by the Japanese.
