Small Military Cemetary near Vulcan

[New Connaught Ranger]

Hallo Gentlemen,

Having passed along the road to Uricani once before, my eyes had been drawn to a large beton monument in a small graveyard on a windswept hill side, so I bailed out of the car and with camera headed off to investigate while my buddy Ovi went about his business.









There are:

20 unknown Romanian graves.

12 known German graves.

5 known Romanian graves.

7 unknown Hungarian graves

1 known Hungarian graves.

The graves are intermixed to the left of the monument 3 rows of 13 graves,

and to the front right of the monument 2 rows of 3 graves.

In the back right corner is located a post war Romanian grave:



In the foreground next to the road are local families graves with no connection to the military, about 40 meters to the left of this small graveyard is another section for the locals and under a large Pine tree this grave to a former member of the Romanian Communist military:



http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?sh...t=0&#entry62685

Kevin in Deva.

This post has been edited by New Connaught Ranger on December 09, 2007 11:05 am

[New Connaught Ranger]

A short time later that day I was traveling on to Targu-Jiu when passing through the Jiu valley we stopped at this monument:











Dedicated to: General Ioan Dragalina

Kevin in Deva.

This post has been edited by New Connaught Ranger on December 09, 2007 05:03 pm

[Victor]

Actually it is dedicated to gen. Ioan Dragalina. See:

http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?sh...indpost&p=45528
http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=1061

[New Connaught Ranger]

Opps!!! my mistake looked in the wrong spot for the name!!!

I will correct it ASAP, thanks for the info.

Kevin in Deva.