Ernest Gordon
Military Person
1916 – 2002
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Who was Ernest Gordon?
Ernest Gordon was the former Presbyterian dean of the chapel at Princeton University. A native of Scotland, as an officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Gordon spent three years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War. He chronicled his experiences on the Death Railway in his book Through the Valley of the Kwai. The book served as an inspiration to the film To End All Wars which opened in 2001.
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- Born
- May 31, 1916
Greenock - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Died
- Jan 16, 2002
Princeton
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on July 23, 2013
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