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CAUSE OF INJURY
No.
Shrapnel wound
43
Gunshot wound
33
Road accident
7
Battle accident
4
Vehicle ran over mine
3
Crush #
2
Booby trap
1
Blow to face
1
Hit in mouth by parachute cord when bailing out
1
Hit on chin by PIAT loading spring
1
Infected dental cyst
1
Road accident (Jumped from truck and struck in mouth
by wire)
1
Road accident (struck in mouth by low hanging telephone cable whilst riding in back of jeep)
1
Unrecorded
6
TOTAL
105
UNIT AS RECORDED IN NOTES
Cas
24 CCS
1
8 (Br) General Hospital
10
75 (Br) General Hospital
8
77 (Br) General Hospital
8
75 or 77 (Br) General Hospital (not clear)
2
Head Centre1
2
Max-Fac Centre2
3
MFSU3
6
MFSU Brussels3
21
MFU3
1
MFSU4
40
MFU5
1
US Hospital
1
Not Recorded
1
TOTAL
105
Table 3: Summary of Medical Units that max-fac casualties, seen by Capt Hughes, were evacuated to from 23 CCS.
Table 4: Cause of injury as recorded in notes.
Figure 4
Notes:
1. Not clear which hospital this was attached to
2. Not clear if this was one of the Maxillo-facial Surgical
Units (MFSU) attached to a hospital or a separate unit 3. Dates suggest that these were 8 (Br) General
Hospital’s MFSU
4. Unclear as to which hospitals these MFSUs were
75 General Hospital both in Brussels
5. Date suggests that this was 75 (Br) General
located with but, from dates, possibly a mix of 8 and
Hospital’s MFSU
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