Accounts of the massacre by Japanese invaders of patients and staff at the British Military Hospital (Alexandra Hospital), Singapore 13-14 February 1942
1942
Contains the following files: File 1 : Account by Col. W.J. Irwin, Officer Commanding. Details of the hospital, the advance of the Japanese and the massacre compiled from the reminiscences of some of the men who survived. List of RAMC N.C.Os and soldiers serving in B.M.H. Singapore, December 1941. Taken from the Singapore Laundry's books names of those of the Army Medical Services who fell in Singapore and in nearby waters during the World War, 1939-1945 File 2 : Letters from survivors, telling their stories from Mr Saye, ex-sergeant R.A.M.C., 8 September 1968 handwritten. Major J Torbit , T.B. Shirley, surgeon typed. Cutting from the Straits Times, 10 September 1968. Account of the Affair at the Alexandra Hospital Redman's account. Major J.E. Torbit to Col Irwin, Medical Directorate Far East Land Forces, Singapore August 1968. Questions the account of the massacre as portrayed in 'Sinister Twilight'. Major T.R. Bond to Col Irwin, 2 August 1968. Comments on the accounts of the massacre. Account of the massacre by Private A. Roy. Account of the massacre by Major G.M.G. Atkins. S.G. Upperton to Col Irwin, Selangor 10 September 1968. Comments on the massacre having read the article in the Straits Times. Letter from T.B. Shirley, a surgeon (see account above) Northern Ireland, handwritten, no date. Account of the massacre Irshad Ali Khan to Irwin, Malacca, c 10 September 1968, handwritten account of the massacre. He and his friends were civilians working in the grounds of the hospital at the time of the massacre. Account of Brenda Macduff. Worked as a nurse in the hospital, Account of her escape on 12 February on the 'Kuala' and her imprisonment in Sumatra File 3: Laundry Book of the Alexandra Hospital. Maintained by Mr Tan of Sing Sing Laundry and hidden by him during the Japanese occupation
RAMC 840 (Box 188)
NAB 375
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