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Revision as of 17:00, 18 August 2026

Ritchie Boys Wiki is a public roster of soldiers associated with Camp Ritchie military intelligence training in World War II. The starting data comes from a merged class roster and demographics file. Anyone can add biographies, photographs, and corrections — no account required. Every change is kept in page history and can be rolled back.

Contents · Search · Contribute · About the data · Disclaimer · Recent changes

Directory

Contents lists Camp Ritchie classes, shared assignments such as Assignment VI-863, an A–Z index of soldier articles, and other site pages. New topic pages show up there automatically when they are tagged for the directory.

How to help

  1. Open a soldier page (titles look like Aach, Jack (37401962))
  2. Click Edit and add a biography or a sourced correction
  3. Watch Special:RecentChanges if you are helping patrol edits

See Contribute for photo upload rules and what not to publish.

Disclaimer

Class roster data (Classes 1–31 only). The class, section, and related roster fields for Classes 1–31 come from U.S. government training-roster records held by the National Archives. Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (also known as The Ritchie History Museum) digitized that material and made it available for this project. The underlying records are public-domain government information; the museum does not own the data. Please credit the museum as the digitization source when citing this roster. That dataset is separate from Dan Gross's research files and from material created by this wiki's maintainers. We have tried to catch errors, but mistakes and omissions remain possible; not every person who trained at Camp Ritchie appears in this data. On the original theritchieboys.com site, this material was a separate searchable class roster database. On this wiki it is integrated into soldier profiles, class pages, and related navigation. Attribution to the museum applies to that Classes 1–31 roster data (class/section assignments and related roster fields), not to biographies, photographs, research notes, timelines, or other content on the site. Broader limits on biographies, photographs, and other site content are explained on About the data.

Research notes on soldier pages are a compiled working file and may be unverified. See About the data.