Norfolk Regiment First World War Casualty and Sickness Book

A Casualty and Sickness Ledger maintained at The Regimental Depot, from 1914 to early 1919, for the 1st, 2nd, 7th, 8th, and 9th Battalions of the Norfolk Regiment. Entries in the ledger are all made by hand, using pen and ink, and record casualty and sickness details for more than fifteen thousand soldiers of Each entry records the individual soldier’s number, rank, name, and battalion or battalions. It then records against their name details of casualty, sickness or prisoner of war status, including details of hospitalisation. Information on officers is not included. The years covered run from August 1914 through to the early months of 1919, and the return home of prisoners of war. From the differing handwriting it is plain that a number of clerks in the Regimental Depot Orderly Room were involved in the keeping of the record.