[ { "id": 207487, "series_id": 26, "series_slug": "histsyn-rashkb-journal-engine", "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "RAS-1975", "page_number": 255, "title": "RAS-1975", "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", "txt_file_path": "txt/dfo323lmgvd/RAS-1975.txt", "external_url": "https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/j0995146d", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 207488, "series_id": 26, "series_slug": "histsyn-rashkb-journal-engine", "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "RAS-1975", "page_number": 256, "title": "RAS-1975", "content_text": "248\n\nDONALD C. BOWIE\n\nThere was no lift. By now we were caring for 15 patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis. The medical officer staff was slightly different from what it had been in Bowen Road (See Appendix C) and contained one new member, Captain Coombs. The changes had been made by the Japanese and I was not consulted, though Coombs was a valued and welcome member of the staff.\n\nThe building was arranged in two wings, and looked at from the front the left hand wing was given over to Japanese quarters. In the centre was a large Assembly Hall while our hospital occupied the right hand wing. The Assembly Hall was out of bounds to us except on special occasions. I had hoped to get a member of the Hong Kong Volunteers to come with us from Sham Shui Po as a rice cook, but he did not turn up, and Corporal J. O'Grady took charge. Our practice was now to cook all our food in bulk and not by wards and messes in their own containers as in the past. The kitchens had shallow rice boilers and our rice from now on improved considerably. The electricity generator had been damaged during the move but repairs were started by our engineers. The church was sited in the Central Clock Tower room. Saito gave us a Hongkong News from which on the 14 April we learned of the death of President Roosevelt and we held a memorial service for him on the following day.\n\nA refrigerator was converted to act as a steamer, steam being delivered through the top, and the cooks baked some very good so-called cake and made some experimental bread without flour which turned out to be excellent when judged by our standards. We even began to fry the bread sometimes when we had enough oil. On 19 April four blinded men and two old men arrived, the former with attendants to look after their needs. On 20 April Colonel Tokunaga made an afternoon inspection and we were ordered to remove all beds from verandahs and all staff except the steward and one cook were required to sleep in the barrack room. Visitors arrived to deliver parcels the same day but they had to leave them for collection by us some distance away from our front door. With 134 patients and no beds on verandahs our space was pretty crowded. By now our non-medical staff was building up and we had one shoemaker, two tailors, one barber, two cooks, three rice grinders, four vegetable men and three wood men. We also used two men for pots and pans and two appear in my diary as having duties connected with beds though I cannot now remember", "txt_file_path": "txt/dfo323lmgvd/RAS-1975.txt", "external_url": "https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/j0995146d", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 207527, "series_id": 26, "series_slug": "histsyn-rashkb-journal-engine", "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "RAS-1975", "page_number": 295, "title": "RAS-1975", "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", "txt_file_path": "txt/dfo323lmgvd/RAS-1975.txt", "external_url": "https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/j0995146d", "rank": 0 } ]