Jimmy Marshall (88), from Bellshill, Jimmy Hart (92), from Wishaw, and Benny Gough (93), from Hamilton, laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in George Square.

All three were prisoners of war of the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942.

John and Benny had been with the Lanarkshire Yeomanry and were transported to Taiwan to slave in the notorious Kinkaseki copper mine while Jimmy Hart had been with the Royal Army Service Corps and was subsequently a slave labourer on the 'Death Railway' built between Thailand and Burma at a terrible cost in lives.

The Service of Remembrance, organised by the Far Eastern Prisoners Of War Community Group, was first held in 2007 and people travelled to Glasgow from all over Central Scotland to remember the fall of Japan and the end of the Second World War.

Local organiser Avril Anderson said: "After last year's service we pledged that we would continue to remember in this way and we hoped to encourage others to join us.

"We were therefore very pleased when we had over 100 with us this year and it is an indication of the interest still held for the hardship and horror endured by these amazing men.

"It is important that the sacrifice made by them is never forgotten."