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1. #WAR HOSPITAL A TRUE STORY OF SURGERY AND SURVIVAL FULL#
2. #WAR HOSPITAL A TRUE STORY OF SURGERY AND SURVIVAL PROFESSIONAL#

SL: Firstly, although it was a British Military Hospital, there were a lot of Aussies caught up in the Alexandra Hospital Massacres because the 22 nd Brigade was active on the west coast nearby, and all the worst cases ended up here. Please share some of the things you discovered … Writing the book took the best part of two to three years. Then I tracked down two living survivors, British Dick Lee and Australian Fergus Anckorn, who bared their souls to me. My first port-of-call was the Singapore Archives and the Australian War Memorial to see what they had, and there was an excellent collection of oral history interviews with staff and survivors at the former. SL: I fell into this rabbit-hole from that moment on. When did you start researching and how did you go about it? When I realised no book had been specifically written on this event, the story had to be told. But the idea for the book came in 2009 when I wrote my first war book, The Missing Years (which has just been updated and republished for the 80 th anniversary of the Fall of Singapore), because my subject was caught up in the massacre as a part of his whole journey. SL: I first heard of the Alexandra Hospital Massacres reading Noel Barber’s novel Tanah Merah. How did you get the idea for your latest book, A Bleeding Slaughterhou se ? Read on for more insights and for an extract of the book, out now. We speak to Stuart about how it took almost three years of research and writing the story-driven narrative which is based on first-hand interviews with survivors, and never-seen unpublished memoir notes.

#WAR HOSPITAL A TRUE STORY OF SURGERY AND SURVIVAL FULL#

It tells the full story of this two-day tsunami of terror, examining the characters and causes behind it.

#WAR HOSPITAL A TRUE STORY OF SURGERY AND SURVIVAL PROFESSIONAL#

In the hours beforehand, the British Military Hospital Alexandra on Alexandra Road found itself isolated in a no-man’s-land between the Japanese and Allied frontlines and became the site where up to 300 Allied soldier-patients (many of whom were from Australia and the United Kingdom), nurses, orderlies and doctors were killed.Ī Bleeding Slaughterhouse – The Outrageous True Story of the Alexandra Hospital Massacres, Singapore, February 1942 is a new book by Stuart Lloyd, a professional storyteller for over 30 years and ex Singapore expat. Pic credit: ġ5 February marks the 80th anniversary of the Fall of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942. Alexandra Hospital on Alexandra Road was the site of the massacres in 1942.