Private C. Byrne-Roumanian Army

[Katie]

The above soldier is recorded in Liverpool Town Hall Remembrance Hall.

http://liverpoolcityhalls.co.uk/town-ha ... rne&page=1

Romania did not enter WW1 till 1916.

I am helping Daggers find more information on this soldier. I have not come across anything as of yet in the Liverpool Echo.

Anyone have any ideas of any database similar to CWGC

[MaryA]

I wonder if it would be worth contacting the National Archives of Romania
http://www.arhivelenationale.ro/?lan=1

[daggers]

Thanks for the link, Mary. I'll have a go tomorrow. A reply elsewhere suggests that some British troops were helping the Roumanians [as they were spelled then] after they joined the Allies in 1916 and our man may not have been strictly IN their army, but he does not yet show up on the CWGC roll.

D

[Bertieone]

A reply elsewhere suggests that some British troops were helping the Roumanians [as they were spelled then] after they joined the Allies in 1916 and our man may not have been strictly IN their army, but he does not yet show up on the CWGC roll.

D

http://www.roconsulboston.com/Pages/Inf ... /WW-I.html

"In November of 1916, British military were sent ahead of invading troops on a secret mission to destroy oil stocks and sabotage oil wells in Ploesti. This was successfully accomplished - much to the dismay of the Germans who had made control of Romanian oil a strategic focus of their invasion. Romania was then Europe's leading producer of oil. [NOTE - The sabotage effort included my father, Dimitrie Dimancescu, who was later awarded the Military Cross by British Royal Decree.]"

[daggers]

Interesting link - thanks very much. [I first read it as if it had been YOUR father, but guess not].
D