The monument of the 48th Buzău Infantry Regiment

THE MONUMENT OF THE 48TH BUZĂU INFANTRY REGIMENT The 48th Buzău Infantry Regiment was established in 1914, on the structure of the 8th Buzău Infantry Regiment, as part of the 26th Infantry Brigade of the 13th Infantry Division of Ploiești. The majority of the regiment were reservists of Buzău county. The regiment received its baptism of fire in the night attack on the Rotenberg hill (Roșia), near Sibiu, on 09th/22nd September 1916, when 22 officers and 1150 NCOs and troops died, the regimental commander himself being seriously wounded. The regiment then fought in the Olt Gorge and continued its epic at Mărășești in the summer of 1917, culminating in the counterattack of Pădurea Răzoare. He then took part in the battles on Muncelul Hill, after which he was withdrawn and sent to restore and complete, in the Deleni-Maxut area, Iași county, where he was decimated by exanthematous typhus. He was subsequently deployed to the 13th Infantry Division in southern Bessarabia to secure this territory. He returned to Buzău garrison on 23rd December 1919. The monument was built, according to some sources, around 1926, on the initiative of the survivors of the 48th Infantry Regiment, officers and troops, with the support of the National Society for the Cult of Heroes, in memory of fallen comrades during the War of National Reunification (1916-1919).