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Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay
1881–1962
A Scottish soldier-scholar who turned firsthand wartime experience and deep historical research into books on religion, Jewish history, and the Catholic past. His work ranges from memoir to careful studies of faith, identity, and European history.
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Wounded and a Prisoner of War, by an Exchanged Officer
by Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay
About the author
Born in 1881, he was known as Major Malcolm Vivian Hay of Seaton. He served as an officer in the Gordon Highlanders and worked as a cryptographer during the First World War, experiences that fed into his memoir Wounded and a Prisoner of War.
After the war, he built a reputation as a historian and author, writing especially about Catholic history, Jewish history, and the relationship between Europe and its Jewish communities. He is also remembered as the last Laird of Seaton House in Aberdeen, linking his literary life with a long Scottish family history.
Hay died in 1962. Today, he is best remembered for combining a soldier's firsthand perspective with the interests of a serious independent historian.