CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Filters Artillery Shell, Fragments, Afoot or unspecified × Clear all
Admission cards188,738
Recorded as died0
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: 122 cards (0.1%) Non-battle injury: 442 cards (0.2%) Injury (battle status not recorded): 1 cards (0.0%) Battle casualty or injury: 188,173 cards (99.7%) 188,738 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

27,818 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: 2 cards September 1942: 2 cards October 1942: 1 cards November 1942: 14 cards December 1942: 38 cards January 1943: 42 cards 1943 February 1943: 58 cards March 1943: 128 cards April 1943: 157 cards May 1943: 67 cards June 1943: 7 cards July 1943: 403 cards August 1943: 285 cards September 1943: 322 cards October 1943: 368 cards November 1943: 673 cards December 1943: 602 cards January 1944: 1,103 cards 1944 February 1944: 1,943 cards March 1944: 1,226 cards April 1944: 738 cards May 1944: 3,834 cards June 1944: 10,475 cards July 1944: 19,262 cards August 1944: 13,514 cards September 1944: 17,199 cards October 1944: 18,094 cards November 1944: 27,818 cards December 1944: 24,398 cards January 1945: 11,214 cards 1945 February 1945: 9,529 cards March 1945: 11,284 cards April 1945: 10,450 cards May 1945: 2,356 cards June 1945: 775 cards July 1945: 140 cards August 1945: 106 cards September 1945: 53 cards October 1945: 31 cards November 1945: 11 cards December 1945: 4 cards

9 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 3 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
August 19422
September 19422
October 19421
November 194214
December 194238
January 194342
February 194358
March 1943128
April 1943157
May 194367
June 19437
July 1943403
August 1943285
September 1943322
October 1943368
November 1943673
December 1943602
January 19441,103
February 19441,943
March 19441,226
April 1944738
May 19443,834
June 194410,475
July 194419,262
August 194413,514
September 194417,199
October 194418,094
November 194427,818
December 194424,398
January 194511,214
February 19459,529
March 194511,284
April 194510,450
May 19452,356
June 1945775
July 1945140
August 1945106
September 194553
October 194531
November 194511
December 19454

Where admitted

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 138 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 145 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 90 distinct values