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An advertising card of the Rumanian Army from the series Armées des États Balcaniques, published in 1910.
The card shows, from left to right: a non-commissioned officer and artillery gunners, a staff officer, a rosiori (a red hussar), a mounted policeman (dismounted), a kalarachi (territorial reserve cavalry), a chasseur (venatori or rifleman), and an infantryman.
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Roumanie
Le service militaire general est obligatoire pour les Roumains. Il commence avec la 21me année et dure 25 ans. Le service actif est théoriquement de 7 ans, mais se décompose en réalité en une période de service effectif de 3 à 5 ans et en une seconde période de 2 à 4 ans de congé.  L’armée roumaine se divise en quatre corps comprenant 3000 officiers, 48,000 hommes et 360 pièces d’artillerie. Sur pied de guerre, l’effectif pourrait être porté à 3500 officiers et 150,000 hommes auxquels il convient d’ajouter 50,000 miliciens et territoriaux. 
– Au recto de cette carte figurent, en commençant par la gauche : un sous-officier d’artillerie et des artilleurs, un officier d’état major, un hussard rouge (rosiori), un homme de la gendarmerie montée, un hussard kalarachi, un chasseur (venatori), et un fantassin.
Romania
General military service is compulsory for Romanians. It starts at age 21, and lasts 25 years. Active duty is theoretically seven years, but in reality is divided into a period of active service of 3 to 5 years and a second period of 2 to 4 years of leave. The Romanian army is divided into four army corps consisting of 3,000 officers, 48,000 men and 360 artillery pieces. On a war footing, the number could be increased to 3,500 officers and 150,000 men to which should be added 50.000 militia and territorials [home guard]. - The front of this card shows, starting from the left: a noncommissioned officer and artillery gunners, a staff officer, a rosiori [the Romanian equivalent of a hussar], a mounted police

An advertising card of the Romanian Army from the series Armées des États Balcaniques, published in 1910.
Shown, from left to right, a non-commissioned officer and artillery gunners, a staff officer, a rosiori (a red hussar), a mounted policeman (dismounted), a kalarachi (territorial reserve cavalry), a chasseur (venatori or rifleman), and an infantryman.

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Véritable Extrait de Viande Liebig.

Voir L’Explication au verso.



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Roumanie

Le service militaire general est obligatoire pour les Roumains. Il commence avec la 21me année et dure 25 ans. Le service actif est théoriquement de 7 ans, mais se décompose en réalité en une période de service effectif de 3 à 5 ans et en une seconde période de 2 à 4 ans de congé. L’armée roumaine se divise en quatre corps comprenant 3000 officiers, 48,000 hommes et 360 pièces d’artillerie. Sur pied de guerre, l’effectif pourrait être porté à 3500 officiers et 150,000 hommes auxquels il convient d’ajouter 50,000 miliciens et territoriaux. – Au recto de cette carte figurent, en commençant par la gauche : un sous-officier d’artillerie et des artilleurs, un officier d’état major, un hussard rouge (rosiori), un homme de la gendarmerie montée, un hussard kalarachi, un chasseur (venatori), et un fantassin.



Romania

General military service is compulsory for Romanians. It starts at age 21, and lasts 25 years. Active duty is theoretically seven years, but in reality is divided into a period of active service of 3 to 5 years and a second period of 2 to 4 years of leave. The Romanian army is divided into four army corps consisting of 3,000 officers, 48,000 men and 360 artillery pieces. On a war footing, the number could be increased to 3,500 officers and 150,000 men to which should be added 50.000 militia and territorials [home guard]. - The front of this card shows, starting from the left: a non-commissioned officer and artillery gunners, a staff officer, a rosiori [red hussar], a mounted policeman [dismounted], a kalarachi [territorial reserve cavalry], a chasseur (venatori) [rifleman], and an infantryman.



Armées des États Balcaniques. Roumanie.

Armies of the Balkan states. Romania.



Véritable Extrait de Viande Liebig.

Ne concourt plus dan les Expositions depuis 1885.

L’Extrait de Viande Liebig sert à preparer ou à améliorer toutes

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Tuesday, May 29, 1917

"By May, according to reports of French officers, products of all the training programs were beginning to fill the needs of [Romanian] field units. Major Legros with the 2nd Army described recruits arriving at the front as having 'very good instruction with an attitude of youth and enthusiasm.' 'The cadet officers arriving here,' he continued, have made an excellent impression.' Colonel Letellier (1st Army) agreed. On 29 May [1917], Berthelot proudly reported to Paris: 'The cadres have been filled out by ardent young officers instructed in our schools by our officers.'"

Quotation Context

Romania entered the war on August 27, 1916, and was overrun by Central Power forces by the end of the year, driven out of Wallachia and Dobruja and back to Moldavia where the Russians held the Allied line. Typhus, typhoid, dysentery, jaundice, and influenza sickened and killed a large part of the Romanian army, peaking in February and March, 1917. General Henri Berthelot led a French military mission to support and then rebuild the Romanian army. In spring of 1917, the Romanians had 112 machine guns per division, more than the Germans they faced, as well as automatic rifles and heavy artillery, neither of which they had in 1916.

Source

The Romanian Battlefront in World War I by Glenn E. Torrey, pp. 181–182, copyright © 2011 by the University Press of Kansas, publisher: University Press of Kansas, publication date: 2011

Tags

1917-05-29, 1917, May, Romania, Moldavia, Berthelot, Romanian Army