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'''Ritchie Boys Wiki''' is an open roster of soldiers linked to Camp Ritchie military intelligence training in World War II. Start with a name or Army serial number (ASN), then add biography, photographs, and sourced corrections. Anyone can edit text without an account. | '''Ritchie Boys Wiki''' is an open roster of soldiers linked to Camp Ritchie military intelligence training in World War II. Start with a name or Army serial number (ASN), then add biography, photographs, and sourced corrections. Anyone can edit text without an account. | ||
''Secret Heroes: Camp Ritchie and the Making of The Ritchie Boys'' — their unique history and demographics. | ''[[Introduction|Secret Heroes: Camp Ritchie and the Making of The Ritchie Boys]]'' — their unique history and demographics. | ||
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[[Contribute|How to contribute]] · [[Introduction]] · [[Contents|Directory]] · [[Notable Ritchie Boys|Notables]] · [[About the data]] · [[Site changelog|Changelog]] · [[Patrol|Patrol guide]] · [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] | [[Contribute|How to contribute]] · [[Introduction]] · [[Contents|Directory]] · [[Notable Ritchie Boys|Notables]] · [[About the data]] · [[Site changelog|Changelog]] · [[Patrol|Patrol guide]] · [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] | ||
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The [[Congressional Gold Medal|Ritchie Boys Congressional Gold Medal Act]] recognizes their wartime service. | |||
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Revision as of 02:46, 26 August 2026
Ritchie Boys Wiki is an open roster of soldiers linked to Camp Ritchie military intelligence training in World War II. Start with a name or Army serial number (ASN), then add biography, photographs, and sourced corrections. Anyone can edit text without an account.
Secret Heroes: Camp Ritchie and the Making of The Ritchie Boys — their unique history and demographics.
Find a soldier
Open search and type a surname or ASN (for example Guy Stern or 37413105). Article titles look like Surname, First (ASN).
Browse by class or letter on Contents. For camp background, see Camp Ritchie.
How to contribute · Introduction · Directory · Notables · About the data · Changelog · Patrol guide · Recent changes
The Ritchie Boys Congressional Gold Medal Act recognizes their wartime service.
How to help
- Search for a soldier, or open one from Contents
- Use Edit soldier facts for roster fields, or Edit for biography and sources
- Log in only if you need to upload a photograph
- Watch Special:RecentChanges if you help patrol edits
Featured stories
From The Stories:
Author J. B. Cartwright compiled The Quiet Contingent: An Addendum on WWII: The Boys of Camp Ritchie, with more than 400 biographies drawn from first-hand sources, interviews, and obituaries (paperback and Kindle). It includes well-known Ritchie Boys such as Guy Stern, Paul Fairbrook, Hans Tuch, and Werner Angress, as well as many less-known men whose postwar lives ranged across law, politics, the arts, and intelligence work.
Reading
Start here (full list also in the sidebar):
Related links
- Ritchie Boys of WWII (Facebook)
- Ritchie History Museum
- Camp Ritchie Museum (Facebook)
- Historic Fort Ritchie (Instagram)
- Ritchie Museum (YouTube)
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. Yellow Record status: unconfirmed banners mean the class-roster match is not high confidence. See About the data.