CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Filters Aerial Bomb, Fragments, Afoot or Unspecified × Clear all
Admission cards7,304
Recorded as died0
With a place recorded77%

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: 7 cards (0.1%) Non-battle injury: 25 cards (0.3%) Battle casualty or injury: 7,259 cards (99.4%) Not recorded: 13 cards (0.2%) 7,304 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

1,059 0 January 1942: 0 cards 1942 February 1942: 0 cards March 1942: 1 cards April 1942: 0 cards May 1942: 0 cards June 1942: 2 cards July 1942: 1 cards August 1942: 7 cards September 1942: 0 cards October 1942: 7 cards November 1942: 12 cards December 1942: 21 cards January 1943: 47 cards 1943 February 1943: 45 cards March 1943: 101 cards April 1943: 95 cards May 1943: 40 cards June 1943: 31 cards July 1943: 209 cards August 1943: 104 cards September 1943: 68 cards October 1943: 120 cards November 1943: 134 cards December 1943: 184 cards January 1944: 151 cards 1944 February 1944: 282 cards March 1944: 90 cards April 1944: 104 cards May 1944: 244 cards June 1944: 376 cards July 1944: 806 cards August 1944: 597 cards September 1944: 152 cards October 1944: 478 cards November 1944: 562 cards December 1944: 1,059 cards January 1945: 226 cards 1945 February 1945: 136 cards March 1945: 299 cards April 1945: 401 cards May 1945: 36 cards June 1945: 49 cards July 1945: 9 cards August 1945: 4 cards September 1945: 2 cards October 1945: 0 cards November 1945: 0 cards December 1945: 0 cards

3 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 9 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
March 19421
June 19422
July 19421
August 19427
October 19427
November 194212
December 194221
January 194347
February 194345
March 1943101
April 194395
May 194340
June 194331
July 1943209
August 1943104
September 194368
October 1943120
November 1943134
December 1943184
January 1944151
February 1944282
March 194490
April 1944104
May 1944244
June 1944376
July 1944806
August 1944597
September 1944152
October 1944478
November 1944562
December 19441,059
January 1945226
February 1945136
March 1945299
April 1945401
May 194536
June 194549
July 19459
August 19454
September 19452

Where admitted

Recorded on 77% of these cards · 63 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 98 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 99% of these cards · 94 distinct values