Guest Posted 10 November , 2017 Share Posted 10 November , 2017 VI Corps, laundry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mancpal Posted 11 November , 2017 Share Posted 11 November , 2017 And? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 11 November , 2017 Share Posted 11 November , 2017 Perhaps an attempt to post a photograph? Still, welcome to the forum, Mark, and please have another go at posting. (I have a friend who has a friend who collects info about laundries of all types.) Moonraker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddyO Posted 11 November , 2017 Share Posted 11 November , 2017 'Britain's Forgotten Army', Channel 4, Sunday 12th November at 7pm highlights the important and largely overlooked role played by 140,000 Chinese labourers in the Great War. Should be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGM Posted 12 November , 2017 Share Posted 12 November , 2017 (edited) Looking forward to Britain’s Forgotten Army too. See also Britain’s Forgotten Army: Cheltenham woman's moving account of her grandfather's role in the Chinese Labour Corps on Channel 4 this weekend Edited 12 November , 2017 by TGM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harper Posted 24 November , 2017 Share Posted 24 November , 2017 There is also a recent podcast on the Chinese Labour Corp on the BBC History Magazine website: http://www.historyextra.com/podcast/international-history/britains-chinese-army-first-world-war-forgotten-allied-forces I also attach a photo of a grave of a member of the CLC There seem to be at least 3 threads about the Chinese Labour Corps, so I'll copy this message on those other threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnaud Gabet Posted 19 November , 2018 Share Posted 19 November , 2018 I search informations about Liu SSU from Chinese Labour Corps died in april 1919, buried in the cemetery of Les Rues des Vignes (north of France, near Cambrai) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnaud Gabet Posted 28 December , 2018 Share Posted 28 December , 2018 On 19/11/2018 at 22:05, Arnaud Gabet said: I search informations about Liu SSU from Chinese Labour Corps died in april 1919, buried in the cemetery of Les Rues des Vignes (north of France, near Cambrai) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnaud Gabet Posted 28 December , 2018 Share Posted 28 December , 2018 33 minutes ago, Arnaud Gabet said: the name of his bataillion (the name of his camp in 1919) and the date of his arrival in France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dever Mayfly Posted 28 December , 2018 Share Posted 28 December , 2018 A contingent of 450 Chinese Labour Corps workers returned home on the SS Stentor in 1919. They were picked up at Le Havre, but on the first night there was a knife fight between the Manchurian and Cantonese men. The OC Troops issued arms and ammunition to the British soldiers, but they were not needed because the Missionary Officers managed to break up the fight. The Cantonese disembarked at Hong Kong and the Northern Chinese were dropped off at Tsingtao, where a Japanese officer with shining armour and a clanking sword supervised their pay and demobilisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 29 December , 2018 Share Posted 29 December , 2018 4 hours ago, Arnaud Gabet said: the name of his bataillion (the name of his camp in 1919) and the date of his arrival in France As far as I am aware, records do not exist for this type of information There has been a book published on the Chinese Labour Corps The Chinese Labour Corps 1916-1920 by Gregory James, (a Forum member user name Gregory), which is described in https://ww1centenary.net/2013/12/05/ww1-books-the-chinese-labour-corps-1916-20/ and is nearly 1300 pages long. Cheers Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkalotloudly Posted 26 January , 2020 Share Posted 26 January , 2020 On 29/12/2018 at 01:06, Maureene said: As far as I am aware, records do not exist for this type of information There has been a book published on the Chinese Labour Corps The Chinese Labour Corps 1916-1920 by Gregory James, (a Forum member user name Gregory), which is described in https://ww1centenary.net/2013/12/05/ww1-books-the-chinese-labour-corps-1916-20/ and is nearly 1300 pages long. Cheers Maureen a very good book containing an absolute wealth of information printed in 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 8 March , 2023 Share Posted 8 March , 2023 An online article "How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France" by David C Rodgers about the recruitment and first part of the voyage to Canada. https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1918-v-40/page/421/mode/2up page 421 The Wide World Magazine. Adventure - Travel - Sport. Volume 40 1917-1918 Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minefield Mc Posted 11 March , 2023 Share Posted 11 March , 2023 I paid a visit to the last resting place of Coolie Ch’un Ch’ ih Wang of the Chinese Labour Corps at Poperinge Old Military Cemetery late last year. Sentenced to death for murder of a colleague and executed at Poperinghe on 8th May 1919. The last execution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Pegum Posted 10 July , 2023 Share Posted 10 July , 2023 “Today in WW2 History” (ww2db.com/event/today/), covers events during WW I which were relevant to WW II, though the relvance to WW II of the incident described below is not apparent. It says that, on 10th July, 1917, members of the 42nd [Company] Chinese Labour Corps rioted against harsh treatment by their British officers, and that the C.O., a Captain Allin, ordered a squad to fire on them, killing five and wounding 14. Captain Allin was said subsequently to have been removed from command. However, the C.W.G.C. records for the day show only one Chinese Labour Corps member to have died, and he was in the 26th Company. There were three recorded as having died the day before, on 9th July, one of whom is identified as being from the 42nd Company; no company number is included in the records of the other two. Is there any truth in the report of this incident? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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