Romanian Army in World War I

[verdun]

Am part of a multi-university project attempting to find the papers of the leaders, both military and civil, of World War I. One of the countries is, of course, Romania. To find the papers, we must first find the names of the people for which we are looking. Am tasked with finding the names of those men who led the Romanian infantry and cavalry divisions during the ugust 1916-May 1918 period.
Does anyone know where I might find such a list or does anyone here have such a list they can share?
Thank you,
Dr. Richard H. L. Verdun
U. of T.-S.A.

[gabi_dinisov]

Hello and welcome to our forum!

My colleagues took notice of your request and will supply you with the available information on the topic as soon as possible.

Best wishes,
GD

[verdun]

On behalf of myself and our project. Thanks.
RHL Verdun

[tm_adm]

Cavalry:[\/b]

Div. 1:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Herescu Ioan
Chief of Staff: Maior Botez Diculescu Ion

Div. 2:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Basarabescu Gr.
Chief of Staff: Maior Iovanovici Anton

Infantry: [\/b]

Army Corp I:[\/b]
Commander: Gen. de Divizie Popovici Ioan

Div. 1:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Dragalina A. Ioan
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Dumitrescu Constantin

Div. 2:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Manolescu Constantin
Chief of Staff: Maior Lazarescu Constantin

Div. 11:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Muica Ioan
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Marculescu R.

Army Corp II:[\/b]
Commander: Gen. de Divizie Cotescu Dumitru
Chief of Staff: Col. Ghinescu Ioan

Div. 3:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Niculescu Marin
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Constantinescu S.

Div. 4:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Burghele Gheorghe
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Iacobini Gheorghe

Div. 12:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Gaiseanu Traian
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Manolescu Ioan

Army Corp III[\/b]
Commander: Gen. de Divizie Tanasescu Constantin
Chief of Staff: Col. Margineanu Alex

Div. 5:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Frunza Petre
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Florescu Mihail

Div. 6:
Commander: Gen. de Divizie Costescu Constantin
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Alexin Alexandru

Div. 13:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Socec Alexandru
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Panaitescu Stefan

Army Corp IV[\/b]
Commander: Gen. de Divizie Presan Constantin
Chief of Staff: Col. Zadic Iacob

Div. 7:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Istrate Ioan
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Samsonovici N

Div. 8:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Patrascu Ioan
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Popescu Nicolae

Div. 14:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Vasilescu P.
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Radulescu Teodor

Army Corp V[\/b]
Commander: Gen. de Divizie Adj. Georgescu Gh.
Chief of Staff: Col. Scarisoreanu Constantin

Div. 10:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Vaitoneanu A.
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Tuhasi I. Nicolae

Div. 15:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Grigorescu Eremia
Chief of Staff: Maior Todicescu Mihail

Army Corp VI[\/b]
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Valeanu Gheorghe
Chief of Staff: Col. Cihoschi Enric

Div. 16:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Anastasiade Constantin
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Dragu Constantin

Div. 17 (Bridge Head Turtucaia):
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Teodorescu Constantin
Chief of Staff: Maior Savulescu Constantin

Div. 18:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Refendaru Alex.
Chief of Staff: Maior Marinescu Aurel

Army Corp VII[\/b]
Commander: Gen. de Divizie Rascu Ioan
Chief of Staff: Col. Liscu Toma

Div. 9:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Basarabescu Ioan
Chief of Staff: Lt.-Col. Oprescu Mincu

Div. 19:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Arghirescu Nicolae
Chief of Staff: Maior Vera Teodor

Div. 20:
Commander: Gen. de Brigada Praporegescu David
Chief of Staff: Maior Iacob Constantin

[verdun]

This appears to be the list from August 1916. We have that, except for the staff officers. Thanks for the staff men. Of course the units changed commanders a number of times Also new divisons were created. Is there a further list available?
RHLV

[tm_adm]

We are still working on it.The problem is that during the communist regime, 80% of the documents containg this information had been destroyed, but all it's not lost yet.We are on the right track and hopefully we will be able to give you this info before the end of the week.

[verdun]

Thank you. If nothing else, the staff officer info is new and greatly appreciated.
Would it help to give you what we already have?
Best wishes,
Rich

[stoica]

By all means! Any info will be greatly appreciated.

[verdun]

Probably should have done this to begin, but wasn't sure about taking up space. Below is the division list as we have it. I've taken out all the academic stuff (notes, etc) so you can see the list without all the clutter. (They pay me to put the clutter in  ;) ). The format is as follows:
division, the commanders we have, and the dates that we can verify he was in command. Because certain divisions were combined in late 1916 (due to losses) one man may occasionally appear to command 2 divisions at the same time. The dates are only for the dates we know, they do not imply those were the only dates a man was in command. You'l note that what we have is primarily the opening period and the big battles of mid-1917.
1
Ioan Dragalina (August-October 1916)
Ioan Anastasiu (October-December 1916)
Dumitru Stratilescu (June 1917)
2
Constantin Manolescu (August 1916)
Alexandru Socec (August-December 1916) division combined with 5 in October
Ioan Vladescu (June 1917)
3
Marin Nolescu (August 1916)
Mlexandru Margineaun (June-July 1917)
4
Constantin Burghele (August-September 1916)
Grigore Simionescu (September 1916)
Ioan Ghinescu (June 1917)
5
Petre Frunza (August-October 1916) then combined with 2 division
Aristide Razu (June 1917) obviously independent again
6
Constantin Costescu (August 1916)
Nicolae Arghirescu (September 1916-June 1917)
7
Ioan Istrati (August 1916)
Nicolae Rujinski (Jne 1917)

Gotta go teach a class. Rest to follow shortly.
Rich

[verdun]

Back from boring students to tears. Next part of list:
8
Nicolae Petrascu (August-November 1916)
9
Ioan Basarabescu (August-September 1916)
Nicolae Petala (September 1916)
Stefan Holban (October-December 1916)
Constantin Scarisoreanu (December 1916-Jun 1917)
10
Artur Vaitoianu (August-October 1916)
Henric Cihoski (June-August 1917)
11
Ioan Muica (August-September 1916)
Dumitru Cocorascu (September 1916)
Ernest Brosteanu (January-June 1917)
12
Traian Gaiseanu (August 1916)
Traian Mosoiu (January 1917-March 1918)
13
Alexandru Socec (August 1916)
Ioan Manolescu (August 1916)
Gheorghe Sanatescu (December 1916)
Ioan Popescu (June-July 1917)
14
Paraschiv Vasilescu (August 1916)
Grigore Bunescu (June 1917)
15
Eremia Grogorescu (August 1916-January 1917)
Paul Angelescu (June-August 1917)
16
Constantin Anastasiade (August-October 1916)
20
David Praporgescu (August-October 1916)
1 Cavalry
Ioan Herescu (August-December 1916)
2 Cavalry
Gregori Basarabescu (August 1916)

We have complete information on 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 Divisions and the 2 Vanatori Divisions.
The people putting these lists together inform me (I'm the collator) that they have seen references to a Naval and a Danube Division, but no information exists on either (at least not that they can find).
Thanks again for all the time you've taken reading these lists and helping.
Best wishes,
Rich
BTW hope there are not too many typos.  :)