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

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The story-driven narrative is based on first-hand interviews with survivors, and never-seen unpublished memoir notes.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Over 40 pages of original maps, illustrations and unpublished photographs.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