Alexandra Hospital is a public hospital located in Alexandra Road. Prior to 1971, the hospital belong to the British Army and was called the British Military Hospital. It was built in the 1938 and serves as the British Army in the Far East.
In February 14 1942, the Japanese soldiers launched an attack on the patients and staffs of the hospital in retaliation of the retreating Allied Soldiers who they claimed fired on them. On that fateful day, a British Army officer who acted as an envoy approached the Japanese forces with a white flag and was bayonetted to death. When the Japanese soldiers approached the hospital, they massacred staffs, nurses and patients mercilessly. By the next morning, there were about 200 who died in the hospital. Even when the patients surrendered, the Japanese did not feel that the sick were worthy of life and bayonetted them to death. All in all, there were some 320 men and 1 woman who died during this period. There were 5 known survivors of the massacre, they were made to walk the long road to Changi where they were kept as Prisoners-of-war. Those who were unable to walk were wheel carted to their destination.
Alexandra Hospital is now a much better place. It is still a place of healing. There is a garden at the park in Alexandra Hospital which is spectacular. There are butterflies around but none of them want to stay stationary for me to take a picture of them. I guess they are too happy in the sun. The garden was created for the patients to get some sun, enjoy the natural therapy in their road to recovery. It is also opened to visitors to enjoy to take the stigma out of hospitals.
A playground for the young to enjoy
The Koi Pond in the middle of the Garden
The pictures of the different types of birds which were spotted in the garden
There is a butterfly trail in the garden where happy butterflies roam
The Stairs connecting the Bus Stop to the Alexandra Hospital
The Hospital amongst the greenery viewed from Alexandra Road
This used to be the KTM Railroad Crossing between the slip road next to Alexandra Hospital and the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE)
The currently constructed condominium project called “Interlace” from afar it does looks like different slabs of the building placed diagonally on top of each other. This was the former site of the Gillman Heights Condominium
Walking to my next location, Hort Park, I saw this two rather interesting road names, Bury Road and Royal Road. There are old black and white houses located in there which I believe was from the British Colonial Era
