During the six years of the war, from the opening of the hospital in September, 1939, until the end of September, 1945 (to choose a convenient end-point), 13,556 soldiers, sailors and airmen of non-commissioned rank were admitted to the wards of Sutton Emergency Hospital. From this number have been excluded all women, all foreign troops and prisoners of war, Dominions troops, foreign nationals in the British Army, and also a half dozen or so men of whose religious affiliation no record was kept. Apart from these few accidental exceptions, all men on admission to the hospital gave to a nurse particulars which included their religious affiliation, and which were subsequently entered on the Hospital's Admission Register. From this Register the data which will be discussed below have been obtained. It is to be noted that the religious classification is based solely on the men's own statements; and these may at times have been lacking in precision, or have implied a distinction which does not exist. It is doubtful, for instance, whether there is any real difference between “Wesleyans” and “Methodists”; but as this distinction was made by the men themselves it has been retained.