By The Numbers

By The Numbers is a short visual summary of Camp Ritchie training statistics — class sizes, curriculum shape, specialties, and high decorations. Open any figure for the full table. Detailed pages carry source notes and copyright from Beverley Driver Eddy’s Ritchie Boy Secrets.

These are historical appendix / spreadsheet figures, not live counts from every soldier page on this wiki. Roster browse: Classes · By birth country.

31	11,637	19,679	59
Eight-week MITC classes	Eight-week graduates	Graduates, all course types	Medal of Honor · DSC · Silver Star
27 July 1942 – 22 September 1945	of 15,253 enrolled in Classes 1–31	MITC, AGF, CIC, and occasional instruction*	1 · 1 · 57 named in the awards table

*Grand total on the student-numbers page; it differs slightly from some official MITC histories because of an addition error in occasional-instruction figures.

Classes 1–31

The core Ritchie Boy path was the eight-week Military Intelligence Training Center course. Class 1 graduated 32 soldiers; later classes grew into the hundreds. Class 18 graduated the most (622); Class 25 had the largest enrollment (779).

Full schedule and per-class counts → Eight Week Classes — Dates & Graduation Numbers
Browse a class roster → Classes

Curriculum and specialties

Each eight-week class spent about five weeks on general instruction (272 hours: terrain, signals, staff duties, enemy armies, photo interpretation, and related subjects) and three weeks on specialized tracks (82 hours), then a multi-day terrain exercise.

Specialty columns in Appendix 6 include IPW (German, Italian, and other), photo interpretation, counterintelligence, terrain and signal intelligence, and language tracks.

Hour breakdown → Eight Week Class Content
Specialty counts by class → Eight Week Courses by Specialties

Awards

The awards sheet lists Ritchie Boys recorded with the Medal of Honor (1), Distinguished Service Cross (1), and Silver Star (57). Names link to soldier profiles when a clear roster match exists; ribbon displays on matched profiles come from the same source work.

Full awards tables → Awards

All detail pages

Student Numbers — All Classes Graduates by MITC, AGF, CIC, and occasional courses	Eight Week Classes — Dates & Grads Classes 1–31 schedule and graduation counts	Eight Week Class Content General and specialized instruction hours
Courses by Specialties Appendix 6 specialty-track matrix	Awards Medal of Honor, DSC, and Silver Star lists