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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Reid, Jonathon, 1948-     Subjects     Reid, John, 1913-1979.     Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps -- Officers -- Biography.     Canada. Canadian Army -- Medical personnel -- Canada -- Biography.     Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Biography.     Physicians -- Canada -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Reid, Jonathon, 1948-       by title:      The captain was a do...       by call number:      940.547252 R356c     Search the Web     Reid, Jonathon, 1948-     Reid, John, 1913-1979.     Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps -- Officers -- Biography.     Canada. Canadian Army -- Medical personnel -- Canada -- Biography.     Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Biography.     Physicians -- Canada -- Biography.       MARC Display

The captain was a doctor : the long war and uneasy peace of POW John Reid / Jonathon Reid. by Reid, Jonathon, 1948- Dundurn, 2020. Call #: 940.547252 R356c Subjects Reid, John, 1913-1979.   Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps -- Officers -- Biography.   Canada. Canadian Army -- Medical personnel -- Canada -- Biography.   Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Biography.   Physicians -- Canada -- Biography. ISBN:  9781459747210 (trade pbk) Description:  xviii, 455 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "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."--Publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Biography 940.547252 R356c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 940.547252 R356c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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