There was an old piper in my militia regiment, Sergeant Davey Laws. Davey had been in the Winnipeg Grenadiers at Hong Kong, was captured and kept prisoner until the end of the war. He never talked about it but he hated the Japanese for what they had done to him and his friends. He was perhaps a bit lucky for all that, because many of the British taken prisoner in the Singapore-Malaya debacle were kept in camps staffed by turncoat Indian Army troops who were if anything worse captors than the Japanese Army, since they had a grudge.

Davey was a small man and a great piper, the only I've ever heard who could play "Rock Around The Clock" on the pipes. He died in the late 80s.