[5] At its the height, the hospital adopted cutting-edge medical technology and in 1975 was the first in South East Asia to successfully reattach a patient's limb.

[7] On 14 February 1942, the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces advanced through Kent Ridge down Pasir Panjang Road to the Alexandra Military Hospital.

A lieutenant wearing a Red Cross brassard and carrying a white flag walked over to the Japanese troops to announce the surrender of non-combatants in the hospital, but was killed immediately.

[14] Walter Salmon of the Royal Signals, wounded by mortar fire, had been taken to the top floor of Alexandra Hospital, then had gone to the canteen, where he witnessed part of the massacre.

They were left in the hospital for three days without food or water before being moved to the Changi POW camp on wheelbarrows, carts, or anything with wheels, as no motorised vehicles were available.

[15] Other surviving staff and patients of the hospital were eventually transferred to the Roberts Barracks, where their command was taken over by Colonel Glyn White of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps.

Survivors included George Britton, Walter Salmon, Fred Shenstone, Arthur Haines, Fergus Anckorn, and perhaps those who managed to escape their cell under mortar fire, S.W.J.

Reg Twigg, in his book Survivor on the River Kwai mentions a short video recording made by another survivor of the massacre, Fred Shenstone of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, which forms part of a permanent exhibit of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment Museum housed in the Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester, United Kingdom.