ww1 and ww2 romanian war cemeteries

By any chance, do you know in which circumstances did he die?

Gen. Dénes

As I know, he was killed when the border check-point was atacated.

A deserted monument between Daia and Rosia, near Sibiu. Around this monument, are still visible some -what it was - trenches.




Funny story: The bronze eagle from the top the monument was stolen. It was replaced with another, made of terracotta. It was stolen again...

This post has been edited by chisi on May 17, 2011 06:00 am

http://www.sibianulonline.ro/sibiu-tv/vide...mondial-3222456

"Un cimitir cu 204 soldaţi români, austrieci şi germani..."
Typically, no Hungarian soldiers are listed, despite most probably Hungarians were also lying in some of those 204 graves.
Commendable job with the recovery effort, though.

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on February 03, 2009 06:22 pm

Yes, the media made a mistake. These things happens.
Nevertheless, the more important thing is that ALL the soldiers buried there received proper religious service, military honours and a proper burial ground.

I agree 100%!

Gen. Dénes

Maybe Hungarian, Romanian transylvanian, slovacs, czechs and other nationalisties who served in AH army are mentioned under the generic name of "austrian soldiers".

Since when is Austrian a 'generic' name?

Gen. Dénes

The media in Romania doesn't usually excel in history, geography, physics, biology etc. Actually most of it doesn't excel in anything but gossip, scadnals and "stars".

Agree 100% with what Victor posted above.

Romanian journalists aren't documented well enough, sometimes one can find in written, spoken or visual media a lot of unacceptable erors about romanian history, not to mention in this case the foreign history. One can imagine that if romanian journalists dont know well enough romanian history, how well can they be documented related to a foreign subject of history...

In my opinion there must be estabilshed a procedure which must contain some elements in case of the military heroes cemeteries.
The military heroes burial places must have a list at the entarnce with the numbers, names (when the name is unknown will be writen unknown), nationality, place and date of birth( when is avaible), the date of death, etc. Archives must be researched.
It is necesary just to care to someone who can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCDLKrE9mWM&feature=related

the ceremony from the above presented cemetery.

Apparently, it wasn't a simple lack of historical knowledge of a single journalist after all.
The official marble plaque also mentions only Rumanian, Austrian and German soldiers.

Gen. Dénes

Maybe in the sector fought only romanian, german and austrian units, the hungarians not being involved in that area.

If I remember well, in ww1 were regiments which belonged to the austrians and regiments who belonged to hungarian army. Transylvania was the reservoir for the hungarian regiments, build up mainly from romanian transylvanians, in diferent percents from 50% above. In this regiments were also drafted hungarian, szekler and other ethnics from Transylvania and all these regiments belonged to honvedseg, not to austrian army.