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.
*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 edit
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 edit
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 edit
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 · Awards faces
All detail pages edit
See also edit
- Camp Ritchie
- Symposium Presentation — 2012 slide figures (historical presentation, not current site stats)
- Themes · By birth country · Contents