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==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>
==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://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
*[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
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