A Bleeding Slaughterhouse: The Outrageous True Story of the Alexandra Hospital Massacres, Singapore February 1942

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One Hell of a Story about Humanity and Inhumanity. 'There are some books, which once read, you cannot get completely out of your mind. This is one of them. Whether you are just curious, a scholar, military historian or, like me, have a personal connection to this story, you will at once be absorbed.’ Col (ret’d) Marty Slade, RAMC In the hours before the Fall of Singapore in February 1942, the British Military Hospital Alexandra found itself isolated in a no-man’s-land between the Japanese and Allied frontlines. This is the definitive account of what happened next, resulting in up to 300 soldier-patients, nurses, orderlies and doctors being killed. Many by bayonet in their beds where they lay prone. Others by bayonet and machine gun after they were removed and held captive overnight in the Sisters’ Quarters outhouse. One even on the operating theatre table awaiting surgery. A Bleeding Slaughterhouse examines the characters, causes and culpability of this two-day tsunami of terror. The story-driven narrative is based on first-hand interviews with survivors, and never-seen unpublished memoir notes. And it names the guilty. ‘I didn’t really think I could escape my awful plight, but I didn’t want to be slaughtered like a sheep. Worse than any nightmare I ever had, worse than the most fearful ordeal I had ever imagined.’ - Sgt Norman Bryer, RAF, survivor. Over 40 pages of original maps, illustrations and unpublished photographs. Some of the Key Events and Characters featured in this WW2 Singapore 1942 book: British Military Hospital Singapore Alexander Hospital Singapore Japanese War Crimes in Singapore Royal Army Dental Corp (RADC) Royal Army Medical Corp 32 Company 36th Company Royal Engineers Mutaguchi Renya Mutaguchi 18th Division IJA Fort Canning Tanglin Barracks hospital Captain Iwasaki Yoshiaki British Indian Army Ethel Mulvany 44th Indian infantry Brigade Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners Madras Sappers and Miners Colonel Tsuji Masonobu Loyal North Lancashire regiment (2nd Loyals) Queen Alexandra Nurses (QAIMNS) Major Cyril Wild Fergus Anckorn Edith Stevenson Vivian Bullwinkel Federated Malay State Volunteer force (fmsvf) Changi prison/ Changi Gaol RAMC Crookham / Boyce Barracks 198th field ambulance RAMC Macclesfield 53rd Division British Army Captain Tom Smiley RAMC 114th Regiment IJA QA nurses HMS Repulse HMS Prince of Wales Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) 25th Army Malaya Singapore Battle of Bukit Chandu / Opium Hill Indian National Army INA 6th Royal Norfolk Regiment 2nd East Surrey Regiment 5th Cambridgeshire Regiment 55th Infantry brigade St Stephen’s College Hong Kong massacre 5th Bedfordshire Regiment Vyner Brooke SS Kuala Bangka beach massacre Tanjong Pinang Joseph Craven, Colonel RAMC Captain Hugh Pilkington Ito Kojiro Keppel Barracks Dr Bill Frankland Joseph Stillwell / Vinegar Joe Stillwell Thai Burma Death Railway Hellfire Pass Prisoners of War / Pow/ FEPOW Operation Ha-go Operation U-go Battle of the Admin Box George Macdonald Fraser British 14th Army Japan 15th Army Burma 1944 campaign Singapore 1943 Singapore 1944 Singapore 1945 Sime Road camp 38th Division IJA Brig George Ballantine Dr Hugh de Wardener Capt Constantine Petrovsky Robert Loveday, Royal Engineers Dr Julian Taylor (colonel ramc) British war crimes trials Singapore Tokyo war crimes trials 229th Regiment IJA Colonel Tanaka Ryozaburo Captain Masaru Orita Sugamo Prison