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Photocopy of typescript paper, "Captive surgeon in Hong Kong: the story of the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong, 1942-1945", by Donald C. Bowie

With copy reprinted from <u>The Journal of the Hong Kong Branch, Royal Asiatic Society</u>, Vol. 15, 1975.

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Records kept secretly by Major Donald Bowie, Medical Officer in Charge, at the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong, under Japanese occupation

Daily diaries

Monthly summaries of the diaries

Report on military surgery in Hong Kong, compiled 1943-1945 from hospital records which were later burned by the Japanese

Graphs showing fluctuation in body weight of patients and staff

Letters, notices and reports re administrations of the hospital, including requests for better diets for the patients and confession by Lieutenant Saito that the hospital records had been burned

Statistics of admissions and discharges each year

Photocopy of an issue of the hospital magazine "The snake and staff"

Photocopy of typescript paper, "Captive surgeon in Hong Kong: the story of the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong, 1942-1945", by Donald C. Bowie

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