Romanian Legion in Siberia, Legiunea de tragatori

Very doubtful, the returned volunteers from the 1919-1921 period in my opinion
had very limited information with regards the small area they operated along
in the period of the Russian Civil War by the time that WW2 was underway
and the Germans were going into the Soviet Union proper the information would have been very old and dated.

Yes the railway lines and towns they passed through would have remained the same, but military positions from
a conflict 20 years before would have been worthless.

Most of the Legion members unless officers probably never even saw a map of where they were, while they were there, and might know locations from the names of any towns they passed through.

Kevin in Deva.

Maybe just the ones who were at Darnita, near Kiev. The ones who fought in Siberia knows a lot about Transsiberian railroad, but those were for little value for Axis, because Axis troups never reach to this railroad. Better use could be the ones who fought with Denikin army, in Southern Ukraine. In 1918-1919, Romanian troops occupied Tiraspol and other parts of Transnistrian region to assure French flanks who were at Odessa.

http://cristiannegrea.blogspot.com/2011/08...in-siberia.html

Hello all!
I am a freelance journalist and researcher and I'd like to do a documentary movie about the Anti-bolshevik front and the Romanian Legion. If you can help me with documents, please drop me a note. If you are organizing reenactment sessions, I would be happy to travel and film/photograph during these, to get footage for the documentary. If you could suggest relevant experts that could feature in the film, please drop me a line, too.
All in one, any help is highly appreciated.
Yours,
Gheorghe

Gheorghe, it will be a ww1 reenactment show at Râşnov at 28 august 2011. It will be romanian army against Central Powers. We reenact transylvanian volunteers from ww1, from 1st Volunteer Corp and 2nd Volunteer Corp. You can come to Râşnov and tape everything you want, it will be also a reenactment of a ww1 battle, transylvanian volunteers also in the fight, also Czech Legion in the fight, allied with us. You can find more pics with transylvanian volunteers at photogallery of www.datinastrabuna.ro, it is our military history club site.

If you need info, just ask on PM what you need and I'll try to help with what I have (info, ww1 photos - some of them can be find on this forum, I posted them some time ago).

On 27 august it will be on the same town a reenactment from napoleonic era, including romanians from Orlat Grenzinfanterie Regiment reenacted (but not only).

Regards!

Sounds good, I'll try to make it to Râșnov, then.
Could you possibly PM me your phone number, to get in touch with you while there? If I won't be able to attend, I'll ask a friend to go for some footage.
Thanks
Gheorghe

You (or your friend) just come uphill in the fortress of Râşnov on 28 august and look for romanian reenactors in ww1 uniforms. Were they are, the romanian transylvanian volunteers are See you there!

http://www.basarabia91.net/2010/03/romanii...iul-raului.html

http://istorie.uab.ro/publicatii/colectia_...20%20serban.pdf

http://istorie.uab.ro/publicatii/colectia_...ales_4_5/18.pdf

http://mihailandrei.wordpress.com/2011/03/...sis-romaneasca/

http://www.simleusilvaniei.ro/prezentare_p...nalitati_11.php

http://www.mnuai.ro/docs/apulum/articole/ioan%20serban.pdf

http://membres.multimania.fr/dgrecu/Volunt.html

http://bogdanjournal.wordpress.com/2011/03...din-siberia-ii/

A brief history of transylvanian volunteers in ww1 http://www.enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Co...arilor_Ardeleni, in romanian language.

Yes indeed, I can say the same thing, but I still look for...

http://www.frontpress.ro/?p=16989

http://www.universulromanesc.com/ginta/showthread.php?t=1503

Very good read, thanks for the links.

Source is the same, the original is here:

http://cristiannegrea.blogspot.com/2011/08...in-siberia.html

Tombstone of captain Traian Morcan from Romanian Legion from Siberia, buried at Câmpeni ortodox church yard, Alba county.

what? I will ask someone if it's just a a coincidence of names!