CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Filters Artillery Shell, Fragments, Afoot or unspecified × Infantry, General or Unspecified × Clear all
Admission cards56,414
Recorded as died1,473
With a place recorded100%

Counts are admission cards, not individual soldiers or totals. The Army kept battle casualties at 100% and sampled other admissions at 20–80%, and sampling differs by year — compare shares within a year, not raw counts across years.

Type of case

Disease: 12 cards (0.0%) Non-battle injury: 33 cards (0.1%) Battle casualty or injury: 56,369 cards (99.9%) 56,414 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

15,279 0 January 1942: 0 cards 1942 February 1942: 0 cards March 1942: 0 cards April 1942: 0 cards May 1942: 0 cards June 1942: 0 cards July 1942: 0 cards August 1942: 0 cards September 1942: 0 cards October 1942: 0 cards November 1942: 0 cards December 1942: 0 cards January 1943: 0 cards 1943 February 1943: 0 cards March 1943: 0 cards April 1943: 0 cards May 1943: 0 cards June 1943: 0 cards July 1943: 0 cards August 1943: 0 cards September 1943: 0 cards October 1943: 0 cards November 1943: 0 cards December 1943: 0 cards January 1944: 10 cards 1944 February 1944: 5 cards March 1944: 5 cards April 1944: 2 cards May 1944: 11 cards June 1944: 2,147 cards July 1944: 5,263 cards August 1944: 4,935 cards September 1944: 7,036 cards October 1944: 7,199 cards November 1944: 15,279 cards December 1944: 14,518 cards January 1945: 0 cards 1945 February 1945: 0 cards March 1945: 0 cards April 1945: 0 cards May 1945: 0 cards June 1945: 0 cards July 1945: 0 cards August 1945: 0 cards September 1945: 0 cards October 1945: 0 cards November 1945: 1 cards December 1945: 0 cards

2 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 1 cards record an admission before 1942 (men already in hospital) or a year outside the files, and are not charted.

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MonthCards
January 194410
February 19445
March 19445
April 19442
May 194411
June 19442,147
July 19445,263
August 19444,935
September 19447,036
October 19447,199
November 194415,279
December 194414,518
November 19451

Where admitted

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 83 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values