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==Chinese Labour Corps==
==Chinese Labour Corps==
The Chinese Labour Corps was recruited from 1916 to assist with Britain’s desire for an ever-growing requirement for manpower to carry out labouring tasks on the [[Western Front]]. By the end of the conflict nearly 100,000 Chinamen had enlisted and served in France and Flanders, and continued to serve well into 1920 helping to clear up the old battlefields and recover the dead.<ref>[https://ww1centenary.net/2013/12/05/ww1-books-the-chinese-labour-corps-1916-20/ ''The Chinese Labour Corps 1916-1920'' by Gregory James] ww1centenary.net</ref>
The Chinese Labour Corps was recruited from 1916 to assist with Britain’s desire for an ever-growing requirement for manpower to carry out labouring tasks on the [[Western Front]]. By the end of the conflict nearly 100,000 Chinamen had enlisted and served in France and Flanders, and continued to serve well into 1920 helping to clear up the old battlefields and recover the dead.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141101222306/http://ww1centenary.net/2013/12/05/ww1-books-the-chinese-labour-corps-1916-20/ ''The Chinese Labour Corps 1916-1920'' by Gregory James] ww1centenary.net, now archived.</ref>
==Shanghai Contingent==
In Shanghai, the War Office accepted an offer of 110 men who had previous military training, for service at the front. The British community paid for the passages of the men. (Details<ref>ianjonesncl .[https://www.greatwarforum.org/blogs/entry/2807-shanghai-contingent-gunners/ Shanghai Contingent Gunners] ''Great War Forum'' blog 30 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.</ref>)


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/506843.html "The 36th Sikhs at the fall of Tsingtao: China- October to November 1914"] from Harry’s Sideshows kaiserscross.com (retrieved 21 June 2014)
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/506843.html "The 36th Sikhs at the fall of Tsingtao: China- October to November 1914"] from Harry’s Sideshows kaiserscross.com (retrieved 21 June 2014)
*[http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=hist_fac_pubs  "Anglo-Japanese Naval Cooperation, 1914-1918"] by Timothy D. Saxon ''Naval War College Review'' Winter 2000, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p62 . Website of Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
*[http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=hist_fac_pubs  "Anglo-Japanese Naval Cooperation, 1914-1918"] by Timothy D. Saxon ''Naval War College Review'' Winter 2000, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p62 . Website of Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
*[http://www.academia.edu/10010177/The_Chinese_Labour_Corps_1916-1920_  ''The Chinese Labour Corps 1916-1920'', Introduction Chapter] by Gregory James, academia.edu.  Introduction chapter of a book  nearly 1300 pages long.
*[http://multimedia.scmp.com/ww1-china/ "The forgotten army of the first world war" [Chinese Labour Corps<nowiki>]</nowiki>] South China Morning Post. scmp.com
*[http://multimedia.scmp.com/ww1-china/ The forgotten army of the first world war [Chinese Labour Corps<nowiki>]</nowiki>] South China Morning Post. scmp.com
*[http://www.academia.edu/19808215/Forgotten_voices_from_the_Great_War_the_Chinese_Labour_Corps "Forgotten voices from the Great War: the Chinese Labour Corps"] by Alew Calvo and Bao Qiaoni. ''The Asia-Pacific Journal'', Vol. 13, Issue 49, No 1, December 21, 2015. academia.edu


===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1918-v-40/page/421/mode/2up "How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France"] by Davis C Rodgers pages 421-426 ''The Wide World Magazine. Adventure - Travel - Sport.  Volume 40 1917-1918 November-April?'' Archive.org. The voyage from China to Vancouver for three thousand men of the Chinese Labour Corps No 1.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022973196 ''With the Chinks''] by Daryl Klein, 2nd Lieutenant in the Chinese Labour Corps, 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022973196 ''With the Chinks''] by Daryl Klein, 2nd Lieutenant in the Chinese Labour Corps, 1919 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023172640#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918'']  Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023172640#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918'']  Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/stream/worldswork29gard#page/634/mode/2up  "With the Germans in Tsingtau.  An Eye-Witness Account of the Capture of Germany’s Colony in China"] by Alfred M Brace, [War Correspondent], page 634 ''The World's Work. A History of Our Time. Vol. 29, Nov 1914 to April 1915''  Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/worldswork29gard#page/634/mode/2up  "With the Germans in Tsingtau.  An Eye-Witness Account of the Capture of Germany’s Colony in China"] by Alfred M Brace, [War Correspondent], page 634 ''The World's Work. A History of Our Time. Vol. 29, Nov 1914 to April 1915''  Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/myescapefromdoni00plusuoft ''My Escape from Donington Hall : preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915''] by Kapitanleutnant Gunther Plüschow of the German Air Service. Translated by Pauline de Chary. 1922 Archive.org.  Qingdao, then called Kiao-Chow (Tsingtao), or  its German colonial name Tsingtau.
*[https://archive.org/details/myescapefromdoni00plusuoft ''My Escape from Donington Hall : preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915''] by Kapitanleutnant Gunther Plüschow of the German Air Service. Translated by Pauline de Chary. 1922 Archive.org.  Qingdao, then called Kiao-Chow (Tsingtao), or  its German colonial name Tsingtau.
====Fiction====
*[https://repository.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1700  ''Within the Four Seas : a Shantung Idyll''] by Paul Richard Abbott published Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1930.  A series of chapter downloads from STOU Digital Repository, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. A description elsewhere says "A fictional tale of a young Chinese scholar who has run away from the tyranny of his family to work with the Chinese Labor Corps in France during the Great War". The author is stated to be an American missionary and the book is discussed from page 84 in [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/45625/Yi-Ling_Lin.pdf?sequence=1 ''Cultural Engagement In Missionary China: American Missionary Novels 1880-1930'']  by Yi-Ling Lin  PhD Thesis in Comparative Literature, Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013.


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 14:16, 4 May 2024

Chinese Labour Corps

The Chinese Labour Corps was recruited from 1916 to assist with Britain’s desire for an ever-growing requirement for manpower to carry out labouring tasks on the Western Front. By the end of the conflict nearly 100,000 Chinamen had enlisted and served in France and Flanders, and continued to serve well into 1920 helping to clear up the old battlefields and recover the dead.[1]

Shanghai Contingent

In Shanghai, the War Office accepted an offer of 110 men who had previous military training, for service at the front. The British community paid for the passages of the men. (Details[2])

External links

Historical books online

Extract with photographs. greatwardifferent.com, now an archived website.

Fiction

  • Within the Four Seas : a Shantung Idyll by Paul Richard Abbott published Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1930. A series of chapter downloads from STOU Digital Repository, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. A description elsewhere says "A fictional tale of a young Chinese scholar who has run away from the tyranny of his family to work with the Chinese Labor Corps in France during the Great War". The author is stated to be an American missionary and the book is discussed from page 84 in Cultural Engagement In Missionary China: American Missionary Novels 1880-1930 by Yi-Ling Lin PhD Thesis in Comparative Literature, Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013.

References

  1. The Chinese Labour Corps 1916-1920 by Gregory James ww1centenary.net, now archived.
  2. ianjonesncl .Shanghai Contingent Gunners Great War Forum blog 30 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  3. Digital page 231? The Siege of Tsingtau: The German-Japanese War 1914 by Charles Stephenson Google Books