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* [[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]] | ||
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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).
Nativity Albania (4 P)
Nativity Argentina (11 P)
Nativity Austria (612 P)
Nativity Belgium (49 P)
Nativity Brazil (11 P)
Nativity Bulgaria (12 P)
Nativity Canada (139 P)
Nativity Chile (6 P)
Nativity China (66 P)
Nativity Colombia (4 P)
Nativity Cuba (31 P)
Nativity Cyprus (8 P)
Nativity Czechoslovakia (121 P)
Nativity Denmark (56 P)
Nativity Egypt (15 P)
Nativity England (1 P)
Nativity Finland (11 P)
Nativity France (173 P)
Nativity Germany (2,383 P)
Nativity Great Britain (71 P)
Nativity Greece (45 P)
Nativity Haiti (3 P)
Nativity Hungary (87 P)
Nativity India (6 P)
Nativity Iran (1 P)
Nativity Iraq (7 P)
Nativity Ireland (1 P)
Nativity Italy (338 P)
Nativity Latvia (12 P)
Nativity Libya (1 P)
Nativity Lithuania (13 P)
Nativity Luxembourg (6 P)
Nativity Malta (1 P)
Nativity Mexico (59 P)
Nativity Netherlands (67 P)
Nativity Norway (46 P)
Nativity Palestine (17 P)
Nativity Persia (2 P)
Nativity Peru (7 P)
Nativity Poland (188 P)
Nativity Portugal (8 P)
Nativity Puerto Rico (88 P)
Nativity Romania (35 P)
Nativity Russia (305 P)
Nativity Siam (1 P)
Nativity Soviet Union (4 P)
Nativity Spain (20 P)
Nativity Sweden (62 P)
Nativity Switzerland (79 P)
Nativity Syria (35 P)
Nativity Turkey (68 P)
Nativity United States (8,519 P)
Nativity Yugoslavia (34 P)
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