CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Filters Fracture, compound, other (Not Elsewhere Classified and unqualified as to type) × Clear all
Admission cards7,802
Recorded as died3,046
With a place recorded47%

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: 14 cards (0.2%) Non-battle injury: 2,436 cards (31.2%) Battle casualty or injury: 3,890 cards (49.9%) Not recorded: 1,462 cards (18.7%) 7,802 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

1,173 0 January 1942: 2 cards 1942 February 1942: 3 cards March 1942: 2 cards April 1942: 0 cards May 1942: 0 cards June 1942: 3 cards July 1942: 0 cards August 1942: 1 cards September 1942: 6 cards October 1942: 1 cards November 1942: 6 cards December 1942: 8 cards January 1943: 18 cards 1943 February 1943: 18 cards March 1943: 27 cards April 1943: 60 cards May 1943: 50 cards June 1943: 50 cards July 1943: 116 cards August 1943: 112 cards September 1943: 135 cards October 1943: 136 cards November 1943: 196 cards December 1943: 382 cards January 1944: 707 cards 1944 February 1944: 459 cards March 1944: 438 cards April 1944: 530 cards May 1944: 423 cards June 1944: 1,111 cards July 1944: 1,173 cards August 1944: 854 cards September 1944: 662 cards October 1944: 86 cards November 1944: 20 cards December 1944: 0 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: 0 cards December 1945: 0 cards

3 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it). 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
January 19422
February 19423
March 19422
June 19423
August 19421
September 19426
October 19421
November 19426
December 19428
January 194318
February 194318
March 194327
April 194360
May 194350
June 194350
July 1943116
August 1943112
September 1943135
October 1943136
November 1943196
December 1943382
January 1944707
February 1944459
March 1944438
April 1944530
May 1944423
June 19441,111
July 19441,173
August 1944854
September 1944662
October 194486
November 194420

Where admitted

Recorded on 47% of these cards · 332 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 99% of these cards · 134 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 81% of these cards · 65 distinct values