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Scottish writer

Oswald Morris Wynd (1913–1998) was a Scottish writer.

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He is best known for his novel The Ginger Tree, which was adapted into a BBC televised mini-series in 1989.

Wynd was born 4 July 1913 in Tokyo of parents who had left their native Perth, Scotland to run a mission in Japan.

He attended schools in Japan where he grew up speaking both English and Japanese. In 1932, he returned with his parents to Scotland and studied at the University of Edinburgh. With the advent of World War II he joined the Scots Guards but due to his language ability was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps and sent to Malaya.

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At the time of the Japanese invasion in Malaya, he was attached to the Indian Army on the east coast, and his brigade covered the final withdrawal to Singapore. Cut off by the Japanese advance, he was lost alone for a week in the Johor jungle.

Eventually he was captured and spent more than three years as a prisoner of war in Hokkaidō, Japan,