What’s It Like to be 10 Seconds from Death?

On 14 February 1942, Valentine’s Day, the British Military Hospital Singapore found itself in no-man’s-land as the British troops retreated in the face of the rampaging Japanese army. 900 soldier-patients lay in bed, awaiting their cruel fate, in those few hours just before the Fall of Singapore in what became known as The Alexandra Hospital Massacres. Wounded Gunners Fergus Anckorn and Dick Lee, both of the Royal Artillery, and Pte Alex Drummond, AIF, lived to tell their tale.