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== Place context == | == Place context == | ||
* [[Camp Ritchie]] — where they trained | * [[Camp Ritchie]] — where they trained | ||
* [[Category:Classes|Classes]] — browse by training class | * [[:Category:Classes|Classes]] — browse by training class | ||
* [[Category:Teams|Teams]] — IPW / MII team rosters | * [[:Category:Teams|Teams]] — IPW / MII team rosters | ||
* [[Themes]] — curated face galleries (including refugees) | * [[Themes]] — curated face galleries (including refugees) | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Contents]] — full directory | * [[Contents]] — full directory | ||
* [[ | * [[Start here#Looking for a relative|Start here]] — find a name, then understand roster fields | ||
* [[About the data]] | * [[About the data]] | ||
[[Category:Ritchie Boys Wiki]] | [[Category:Ritchie Boys Wiki]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:16, 13 September 2026
By birth country lets you browse soldier pages by roster nativity — the country of birth recorded on the Classes 1–31 roster / enlistment merge. Open a country to see everyone tagged with that value.
These figures are leads from imported fields, not a finished demographic study. Codes can be wrong, incomplete, or still abbreviated; some men have no nativity set. For the refugee story in prose form, see Refugees who enlisted. Full caveats: About the data.
Major birth countries[edit | edit source]
Counts are live page totals in each category (a soldier can appear in only one nativity category).
- United States — 8,519
- Germany — 2,383
- Austria — 612
- Italy — 338
- Russia — 305
- Poland — 188
- France — 173
- Canada — 139
- Czechoslovakia — 121
- Hungary — 87
- Puerto Rico — 88
- Switzerland — 79
- Great Britain — 71
- Turkey — 68
- Netherlands — 67
- China — 66
All countries[edit | edit source]
Full set of country categories under Category:Nativity (with counts).
Place context[edit | edit source]
- Camp Ritchie — where they trained
- Classes — browse by training class
- Teams — IPW / MII team rosters
- Themes — curated face galleries (including refugees)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Contents — full directory
- Start here — find a name, then understand roster fields
- About the data