sentences:  During the Second World War he served as a captain with the 51st Highland Division in France in 1940, and was taken prisoner in June at Saint-Valery-en-Caux when the Division surrendered.He spent the rest of the war as a Prisoner of war.When repatriated at the end of the war, MacLeod avidly read "The Times" for three weeks to get up to speed on British affairs before entering into politics as a candidate for Ross and Cromarty in the 1945 general election.