British Military Hospital, Singapore

The British Military Hospital, Singapore was established in 1938 as the primary military hospital four miles west of Singapore at 378 Alexandra Road, and was also known as the Alexandra hospital for the area of Alexandra Park where it was built.

The Alexandra military hospital served as the principal hospital for the British Far East Command and was known as the British Military Hospital.

At the height of its existence, the hospital was an institution that adopted cutting-edge medical technology and was the first hospital in South East Asia to successfully perform limb re-attachment to a patient. The hospital was planned for years and on building included some of the best medical facilities in Asia, including the then new x-ray equipment.

On 14 February 1942, Japanese Imperial Forces advanced through Kent Ridge down Pasir Panjang Road to the Alexandra Road Military Hospital. The British 1st Malaya Infantry Brigade retreated west through the Hospital. They set up machine guns on the first and second floors to cover their retreat. A lieutenant carried a Red Cross brassard and a white flag to meet the Japanese troops, and announce surrender of non-combatants in the hospital, but was killed immediately.

Among the patients in the Hospital were crew members who were survivors of Force Z, comprising the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse (nicknamed the Plymouth Argylls) which were sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers off the coast of Kuantan, Pahang, on 10 December 1941.

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