A hundred thousand Chinese volunteers worked alongside the Allied forces in the European theatre of World War 1, doing some of the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs on the battlefield. It was understood that an allied victory would mean China being given back its territories that had been taken by Germany.
I’m afraid I’ve missed the 7th April launch date for the Chinese Labour Corps Memorial Campaign exhibition but it runs until 24th September 2017. Nearly 100,000 Chinese men served on the European battlefields of World War I doing the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs, clearing mines and dead bodies, and transporting explosives for the allied
The Chinese Labour Corps memorial campaign. Anna Chen’s South China Morning Post column on the forgotten men who served in the Europe theatre of was in World War 1 doing most of the dirtiest work. Thousands died.
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The Chinese in Britain Forum 1st August 2014 Steve Lau writes: Ensuring We Remember the men of the Chinese Labour Corps Britain recruited 96,000 Chinese workers during the First World War who worked on everything from road building to recovering the dead. After the war the contribution of these men was simply forgotten, and none
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