CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Filters Fracture, Simple, Incomplete × Clear all
Admission cards5,617
Recorded as died21
With a place recorded72%

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: 10 cards (0.2%) Non-battle injury: 1,124 cards (20.0%) Battle casualty or injury: 317 cards (5.6%) Not recorded: 4,166 cards (74.2%) 5,617 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

933 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: 1 cards November 1942: 2 cards December 1942: 0 cards January 1943: 3 cards 1943 February 1943: 0 cards March 1943: 2 cards April 1943: 5 cards May 1943: 11 cards June 1943: 10 cards July 1943: 34 cards August 1943: 45 cards September 1943: 73 cards October 1943: 119 cards November 1943: 243 cards December 1943: 604 cards January 1944: 933 cards 1944 February 1944: 729 cards March 1944: 682 cards April 1944: 624 cards May 1944: 604 cards June 1944: 489 cards July 1944: 223 cards August 1944: 100 cards September 1944: 55 cards October 1944: 17 cards November 1944: 3 cards December 1944: 0 cards January 1945: 0 cards 1945 February 1945: 0 cards March 1945: 0 cards April 1945: 2 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: 0 cards December 1945: 0 cards

4 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
October 19421
November 19422
January 19433
March 19432
April 19435
May 194311
June 194310
July 194334
August 194345
September 194373
October 1943119
November 1943243
December 1943604
January 1944933
February 1944729
March 1944682
April 1944624
May 1944604
June 1944489
July 1944223
August 1944100
September 194455
October 194417
November 19443
April 19452

Where admitted

Recorded on 72% of these cards · 406 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 97% of these cards · 113 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 26% of these cards · 54 distinct values