Keith_history_buff Posted 2 May , 2019 Share Posted 2 May , 2019 I was surprised to come across thishttps://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/results?war=1&servedWith=Romanian Was there a Romanian training mission, with an initial battalion of troops being instructed in 1917? Was this a "train the trainers" setup? Thanks, Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOK4 Posted 2 May , 2019 Share Posted 2 May , 2019 Hello, These Romanians were POWs of the Germans, working in POW Companies. Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith_history_buff Posted 2 May , 2019 Author Share Posted 2 May , 2019 Thanks for the explanation, Jan. A while ago I was doing some research on some Old Contemptibles who became POWs. I was surprised to read an account in the War Office files of British POWs being used as working parties on the Eastern Front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOK4 Posted 2 May , 2019 Share Posted 2 May , 2019 48 minutes ago, Keith_history_buff said: Thanks for the explanation, Jan. A while ago I was doing some research on some Old Contemptibles who became POWs. I was surprised to read an account in the War Office files of British POWs being used as working parties on the Eastern Front. Yes, the Germans sent some allied POWs to work on the Eastern Front as a countermeasure for the Allies sending German POWs to work f.i. in Northern Africa in bad conditions (so: the Allies (French) were the first to do this, history is not black & white, it's all more different shades of grey on both sides) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith_history_buff Posted 2 May , 2019 Author Share Posted 2 May , 2019 2 minutes ago, AOK4 said: Yes, the Germans sent some allied POWs to work on the Eastern Front as a countermeasure for the Allies sending German POWs to work f.i. in Northern Africa in bad conditions I was amazed to read of a German WW1 POW cemetery in North Africa earlier today (on the French language "forum Pages 14-18"), and had to double-check that it wasn't from 1943, as it isn't something you read about in english language sources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 2 May , 2019 Share Posted 2 May , 2019 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Keith_history_buff said: I was amazed to read of a German WW1 POW cemetery in North Africa earlier today (on the French language "forum Pages 14-18"), and had to double-check that it wasn't from 1943, as it isn't something you read about in english language sources. Could you give the link? The Russian soldiers buried at Arcis-sur-Aube, my ex-wife's home town were a surprise to me. Edited 2 May , 2019 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith_history_buff Posted 2 May , 2019 Author Share Posted 2 May , 2019 Hi, Here's the photo. It's Morocco rather than Tunisia, yet it has German graves from both WW1 and WW2. https://forum.pages14-18.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3126&start=10#p497510 PM coming your way, too. Regards Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil andrade Posted 2 May , 2019 Share Posted 2 May , 2019 (edited) One of the tragic ironies of the Great War : there was such cosmopolitanism in death, among men who had been so parochial in life. Editing here : perhaps there had been a significant Romanian diaspora : am I right in suggesting that there were a lot of Romanian mercantile mariners ? Phil Edited 2 May , 2019 by phil andrade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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