Romanian casualties

[johnny_bi]

Regarding Romania, there are few mistakes:

- the number of the mobilized personell was higher than 1 million;
- there is no chance that the number of dead soldiers could be so much higher than the number of wounded; probably the deaths includes also the dead civilians during the German occupation; Around 100.000 of soldiers died...

BI

[MihaiC]

I got my numbers from here :
http://www.worldwar1.com/tlcrates.htm

If you have other numbers, please tell from where.
It is possible that romanian army had little medical care and many of serious wounded died after a short time and therefore be counted as dead and not wounded?

[Victor]

Mihai,
look here: http://www.thirdreichforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7637

[MihaiC]

I read it. Unfortunatelly I know too little about that.
About high rate of casualities of romanian solders : in 1916 they were poor trained, poor lead and poor equiped. Also many officers belived strongly in infantry attack at bayonette; I read somewhere that in the Balkans wars bulgarian troops took high casualities because of this kind of obsolite 'heroic' bayonette charges.

[Victor]

I read it. Unfortunatelly I know too little about that.

In the link I gave you are mentioned all the sources we could find on Romanian casualties. It also should give you an idea on why the numbers on that site are dubious.

Also, the count of Saint-Aulaire mentions that about 80,000 men died because of the plague.