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        "content_text": "170\n\nDONALD C. BOWIE\n\nletter, for this showed that I did not owe my position to Japanese choice. They had been known not to be guided by seniority in the British army when selecting individuals with whom they chose to co-operate in running prisoner camps. The A.D.M.S. and Shackleton left with me letters expressing their admiration of the way the staff in the hospital were carrying on the work, and this was much appreciated.\n\nI had asked in writing for six nursing sisters to be left in the hospital to take charge of nursing but this, like many other requests in the future, was met by complete silence, and all were removed. The staff and the patients who could make the trip gathered in the forecourt to take leave, first of the male staff and patients and second of the women staff 48 hours later as they left in their lorries.\n\nAnd so by 10 August 1942 I found myself in charge of 211 patients including 25 officers, with a staff of 6 medical officers (including myself), one dental officer, a quartermaster, a Church of England chaplain, 55 other ranks R.A.M.C. and R.A.D.C. and 6 Royal Engineers plus one civilian engineer,\n\nThe staff remaining included two very well known Hong Kong doctors, Majors James Anderson R.A.M.C. who thereafter carried out all necessary surgery, my contribution coming when he was unwell or when acting as his assistant, and John Durran, a Hong Kong Volunteer who was both physician and eye specialist. Gerald Harrison was the specialist physician, James Swyer the specialist radiologist, Jack Fraser the specialist ophthalmologist, Norman Fraser the dentist, F.J. Campbell the quartermaster and James Squires the padre. Mr. J.L. Muxlow was the senior warrant officer, he had been in charge of the A.D.M.S's office at China Command. Mr. W.L. Bartley had been promoted warrant officer on the spot by Shackleton during hostilities to act as executive warrant officer in order to cope with the varying and awkward, not to say dangerous situations which suddenly developed and he had played his part well. He held his post until our release, but I imagine that his local promotion did not advance his army career for the same reason as held good in my case. We had a splendid, well qualified man, G.P. Shorthouse to take charge of nursing duties, G.W. Forknall was the chief cook and J.H. Platt lived in the food stores and was responsible for all receipts and issues from them. We had an excellent dispenser, D. Harper, and most of the skills needed in a hospital were to be found among our medical and dental staff.",
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "page_number": 255,
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        "content_text": "CAPTIVE SURGEON IN HONG KONG\n\n247\n\nrun by as entirely separate institution. After the Canadians moved from North Point we drew our patients only from Kowloon and I suppose that the prestige of adhering to the Geneva Convention outweighed in Japanese minds the administrative drawbacks of our site in Bowen Road.\n\nAs time went on the need to supply and guard a unit widely separated from the main body of prisoners must have become more onerous. Increasing shortages and difficulty in supplying electricity and water to Bowen Road were probably instrumental in finally bringing about our transfer to Kowloon.\n\n24 MARCH -- 9 SEPTEMBER 1945\n\nWe now moved into the last few months of our captivity. At first, staff and patients were accommodated in Sham Shui Po camp and from there working parties of our staff went out daily to prepare the hospital. It was on that day that I got my only view of the Heep Yunn School and I did not like what I saw, but the same day I learned that we were to have the Central British School for use. This looked and proved to be a suitable building and we began to move our gear there. A little later Saito told me that the staff would be reduced to 40 all ranks though previously he had said that there would be 40 other ranks. On 9 April 6 officers and 34 other ranks moved in to the Central British School. Besides myself there were Major G.F. Harrison, Major J.W. Anderson, Captain A. Coombs, Lieutenant (Q.M.) F.J. Campbell and the Rev. James Squires our padre. There were five Royal Engineers, M.S.M. Sims, Q.M.S. Tyas, and sappers Samways, Carvell and Climo, and there were 29 other ranks R.A.M.C. and R.A.D.C. headed by Sergeant-majors Muxlow and Bartley. On 10 April 62 patients of whom 58 had been in Bowen Road and four were newly arrived in the hospital. There were at first no non-medical workers though these had been promised. On 12 April a further 62 patients arrived, 31 of these being crippled but in fair general condition and a further 31 being what we then called old men (i.e., unfit for service by reason of age). Two army officers and some American and British merchant navy officers were included, but we had no special accommodation for officers. The Japanese ordered that all patients were to have white beds, another example of window dressing. The hospital provided for 34 beds for patients on the ground floor and 81 on the first floor which also housed the operating theatre, X-ray room and laboratory.\n\nPage 255\n\nPage 256",
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        "id": 207511,
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        "page_number": 279,
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        "content_text": "CAPTIVE SURGEON IN HONG KONG\n\n271\n\nI can recall only three occasions on which the Japanese interfered with internal discipline in the hospital and I have given a short account of two of these earlier. On the third occasion our executive sergeant-major Mr. Bartley had crossed the Japanese in some way and for the only time in my three years' experience Sergeant Seino came to me, indicated displeasure with Bartley and asked if I wanted him removed from the hospital staff and sent to P.O.W. camp. Bartley's executive ability was of great value in the hospital and I had no hesitation in saying that I did not want him removed. He stayed with us until our release.\n\nPatients and staff were fairly often slapped by guards for some real or imagined disobedience or slight. These punishments were never serious, but I was always apprehensive that the person slapped might retaliate and so cause real trouble. I took up the cudgels on behalf of our people on every occasion, but I never obtained any real satisfaction and I wondered how much authority our hospital Japanese administrators had over sentries.\n\nWithin the hospital the routine discipline affecting patients and staff was in my hands. Control in wards was in the hands of medical officers in charge, assisted most effectively by the system whereby selected patients were placed in charge of internal ward affairs. These patients were of several nationalities and were not always senior in rank. Their characters and standing with patients seemed to give them more effective authority. I have referred earlier to petty thieving.\n\nOccasionally offenders had to be dealt with formally by me in my office. Usually a reprimand sufficed though occasionally a man would be confined in a small room in an outhouse with a wire stretcher as bed. This method was used rarely and a man's food was never cut in any circumstances, while he was closely observed during the term of his punishment in order to avoid adverse effects. At the end of the war no records of misconduct were handed over to any authority by me and no man was reported to any service authority for misbehaviour of any kind.\n\nMany of the problems I had to cope with arose from the antagonisms which spring up between individuals, particularly if they are called upon to work in conditions of close proximity. There was no relief from the physical presence, the personal habits, the method of working of others in the particular team so that it was",
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        "content_text": "CAPTIVE SURGEON IN HONG KONG\n\nAppendix “C”\n\nRoll of Staff Table 1\n\n  \n    Rank\n    Name\n    Unit\n  \n  \n    Major\n    Anderson*\n    J.W.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Sergeant\n    Anderson\n    J.H.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Lt. Colonel\n    Bowie*\n    D.C.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    W.O.I.\n    Bartley*\n    W.L.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Bulter*\n    G.E.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Lieut. (QM)\n    Campbell*\n    F.J.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Sergeant\n    Cunningham\n    T.C.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Corporal\n    Chandler*\n    F.R.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Cawley\n    T\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Captain\n    Clyne\n    T.F.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Q.M.S.\n    Coombs**\n    A.H.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Cummings*\n    R.R.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Corporal\n    Climo*\n    R.\n    R. Engineers\n  \n  \n    Sergeant\n    Carvell*\n    J.\n    R. Engineers\n  \n  \n    Major\n    Durran\n    J.\n    H.K.V.D.C. (Medical)\n  \n  \n    Corporal\n    Davies\n    A.F.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Corporal\n    Dodds*\n    J.W.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Sergeant\n    Edge\n    H.B.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Entwistle*\n    H.R.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Major\n    Fraser\n    J.D.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Captain\n    Fraser\n    N.L.\n    A.D. Corps\n  \n  \n    $Sergeant\n    Forknall\n    G.W.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Galt\n    C.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Major\n    Harrison*\n    G.F.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Corporal\n    Hindley*\n    F.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Corporal\n    Harper*\n    D.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Corporal\n    Hugill*\n    W.J.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Harrison\n    R.C.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Harrison*\n    C.E.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Hedley*\n    J.H.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Howe*\n    S.J.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Jenkins*\n    J.G.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Johns\n    P.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Private\n    Jotcham*\n    A.E.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    S/Sergeant\n    Keogh\n    G.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Corporal\n    Lethbridge*\n    F.W.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n  \n    Corporal\n    Lyall\n    R.\n    R.A.M.C.\n  \n\n287",
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