ww1 and ww2 romanian war cemeteries

Belive it or not, but this is actually a ww1 war cemetery near Gheboaia village in Dambovita county. I could not even get close to that cross, the bushes of wild rose and other spiked plants made it impossible.
I don't know if this is on ONCE list, but I doubt it....

--a close up of the cross--

ANDI

It seems that MOD have a comprehensive list.

As a a brief information, they posted this:
http://www.mapn.ro/traditii/sitmocr1.html

That is a good list indeed, but the example I have posted above shows "the interest" of the authorities. After all there are buried around 300 roumanian soldiers and around 60 german soldiers....
As I said in one of my posts here, 3 years ago (when you could "penetrate" the undergrowth) were only a few wooden crosses lying on the ground.....You can see how it looks today.....

In the Suceava cemetery there are 2 Romanian officers (one deceeased in 1942 and the other one in 1945) and 34 'unknown heroes'. Nearby there are also some 50 something Soviet soldiers and 5 Germans.

I found a monument in the Lainici Pass (Jiu Valley), where General Dragalina (the commander of the 1st Army) was mortally wounded in WW1.

Images from the military cemetery in Leţcani:

Entrance:


There seems to have been some sort of a bust at the entrance. The postament in now converted into a flag-stand.


The cemetery is rather large.

A field of crosses:


Inscription at the entrance:


Another inscription identifying the losses as belonging to the 3rd Division present in the area in 1944:

The really sad thing is that there is no inscription on any of the crosses, not even "unknown soldier/hero":


Furthermore, some crosses had fallen ...


... or even broken:

The Romanian section:

Half of the Soviet section:

The grave of the 5 Germans:


There is some suggestion that the grave existed at the beginning of WWII and that it had an old style wheel thought to be from a WWI plane. The grave was covered in snow and it was not possible to see whether it had any other inscription than the one at the base of the cross: Aici odihnesc 5 ostasi germani ("Here rest 5 German servicemen").

Here is a train filled with dead Vinatori de Munte being "repatriated" during WWII. Note the ceremony taking place, along with some older war veterans who are saluting in a manner reminiscent of the Nazi salute (??) (last image, right side).

Source: Avramescu Family Collection









This post has been edited by mabadesc on February 01, 2006 05:30 am

This is a nice example of a monument, commemorating the fallen soldiers from the village of Tesila, Prahova county (both wars).

Strangely they chose to display Soviet ZIS-2 AT guns, used only by the People's Army.

Do you really think they thought much about it?
Don't want to be mean, but....
In the village of Stefanesti (near Bucharest) there is a similar monument, displaying one AA gun.