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 cards12,617
Recorded as died1,074
With a place recorded84%

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: 51 cards (0.4%) Non-battle injury: 65 cards (0.5%) Battle casualty or injury: 12,488 cards (99.0%) Not recorded: 13 cards (0.1%) 12,617 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

1,622 0 January 1942: 0 cards 1942 February 1942: 0 cards March 1942: 1 cards April 1942: 0 cards May 1942: 0 cards June 1942: 5 cards July 1942: 7 cards August 1942: 10 cards September 1942: 2 cards October 1942: 36 cards November 1942: 45 cards December 1942: 41 cards January 1943: 124 cards 1943 February 1943: 67 cards March 1943: 189 cards April 1943: 123 cards May 1943: 61 cards June 1943: 68 cards July 1943: 261 cards August 1943: 148 cards September 1943: 102 cards October 1943: 181 cards November 1943: 192 cards December 1943: 284 cards January 1944: 281 cards 1944 February 1944: 502 cards March 1944: 155 cards April 1944: 163 cards May 1944: 443 cards June 1944: 680 cards July 1944: 1,563 cards August 1944: 968 cards September 1944: 290 cards October 1944: 680 cards November 1944: 898 cards December 1944: 1,622 cards January 1945: 326 cards 1945 February 1945: 252 cards March 1945: 495 cards April 1945: 613 cards May 1945: 79 cards June 1945: 84 cards July 1945: 11 cards August 1945: 7 cards September 1945: 2 cards October 1945: 0 cards November 1945: 0 cards December 1945: 0 cards

539 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 17 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 19425
July 19427
August 194210
September 19422
October 194236
November 194245
December 194241
January 1943124
February 194367
March 1943189
April 1943123
May 194361
June 194368
July 1943261
August 1943148
September 1943102
October 1943181
November 1943192
December 1943284
January 1944281
February 1944502
March 1944155
April 1944163
May 1944443
June 1944680
July 19441,563
August 1944968
September 1944290
October 1944680
November 1944898
December 19441,622
January 1945326
February 1945252
March 1945495
April 1945613
May 194579
June 194584
July 194511
August 19457
September 19452

Where admitted

Recorded on 84% of these cards · 100 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 138 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 99% of these cards · 99 distinct values