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On 14 February 1942, the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces advanced through Kent Ridge down Pasir Panjang Road to the Alexandra Military Hospital. The area was a key Japanese objective, containing the British army's biggest ammunition dump [8] and Alexandra Barracks.
[129] [117] At about 13:00, the Japanese broke through and advanced towards the Alexandra Barracks Hospital. A British lieutenant—acting as an envoy with a white flag—approached Japanese forces but was killed with a bayonet. [130] After Japanese troops entered the hospital, they killed up to 50 soldiers, including some undergoing surgery.
The museum is based on the "Mytchett Collection", a collection of documents accumulated at the Historical Museum at Keogh Barracks from 1952. [1] The museum moved into its present building in 1981. [2] The collection of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Museum, previously based at the Royal Pavilion, Aldershot, moved to the site in ...
Attached to the 5th Light Infantry at Alexandra Barracks were a detachment of 97 Indian officers and men of the Malay States Guides (MSG) Mule Battery. Raised in 1896 for the internal garrisoning of the Federated Malay States, the regiment was recruited from Sikhs, Pathans and Punjabis in both India and Malaya.
X-ray department at Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, 1941 (by Frances Macdonald). Basement ward in the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich (by Edward Ardizzone) Alexandra Royal Military Hospital, Portsdown Hill, Cosham (opened 1908, closed 1926) Fort Pitt Military Hospital, Chatham (opened 1819, closed 1922) BMH Cowglen Glasgow
On 27 March 1902, [6] Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) was established by Royal Warrant, and was named after Queen Alexandra, who became its president. [7] In 1949, the QAIMNS became a corps in the British Army and was renamed as the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. Since 1950 the organisation has trained ...
In July 1902, the regiment was redesignated as Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment). [ 22 ] [ 30 ] In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the Territorial Force and the latter the Special Reserve ; [ 31 ] the regiment now had one Reserve and two Territorial battalions.
North West of England and Isle of Man Reserve Forces and Cadets Association; ... at Denison Barracks [82] Defence Medical Services ... Queen Alexandra Hospital ...