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.
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.
Private Gilmour was in and out of hospital during his captivity and only weighed six stone when he was finally set free on August 15 1945. Despite his ordeal he was not bitter towards the Japanese and told his family he wanted to return to the country one day to experience it during peacetime. He said: "It was very moving and I feel that I honoured my father's memory - it felt good and right and it meant a lot to me. It was important for me to take his army field book so that there was something owned by him going back to Japan. It was an upsetting experience as I reflected on what happened to him, his fellow prisoners of war and the tens of thousands of civilians who died after the bomb was dropped.
Top news stories today Private Gilmour was 27 when he returned to Glasgow and went on to work for a building materials supply merchant, and later the publishing house Collins. Rev Gilmour said: "He and my mother had three sons, Jim, Stewart and myself. He spoke about his wartime experiences publicly only once after he was asked to give a talk at his home church, Chalmers Church in Glasgow.
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