The Chinese Labour Corps (CLC; French: Corps de Travailleurs Chinois; simplified Chinese: 中国劳工旅; traditional Chinese: 中國勞工旅; pinyin: Zhōngguó láogōng lǚ)...
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1917 to 1918 84,000 Chinese labourers were recruited for the Chinese Labour Corps from China (via Shandong Province) that were shipped to Canada and then...
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China never sent troops overseas, 140,000 Chinese labourers (as a part of the British Army, the Chinese Labour Corps) served for both British and French forces...
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during the First World War, a forerunner of the Royal Pioneer Corps Chinese Labour Corps or Corps de Travailleurs Chinois, civilian auxiliaries of the British...
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in 1854. The Labour Corps was formed in 1917 during the First World War, during which it employed 325,000 British troops, 98,000 Chinese, 10,000 Africans...
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The Fijian Labour Corps (sometimes referred to as the Fiji Labour Corps) was a labour corps unit raised in Fiji that served alongside British Empire forces...
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Labour Corps of 1917–1918". Retrieved 26 April 2015. "The Chinese Labour Corps at the Western Front (In all, nearly 2,000 men from the Chinese Labour...
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Zhu Guisheng (category Chinese Labour Corps soldiers)
Chinese Labour Corps (CLC). Guisheng was from the Shandong province of China when in 1916 he signed a five-year contract to join the Chinese Labour Corps...
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Camel Transport Corps Indian Labour Corps Macedonian Mule Corps Chinese Labour Corps Maltese Labour Corps Imperial Camel Corps Labour Corps Lists of World...
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Members of the Egyptian Labour Corps (ELC) mutinied at their camps in France in 1917. The unit had been formed in the British protectorate of Egypt to...
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period ended. Chinese Labour Corps Egyptian Labour Corps Labour Corps (British Army) Maltese Labour Corps South African Native Labour Corps Singha 2015...
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and from 1917 to about 1918 as a training (drill) depot for the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) during World War I. It is also final resting place for 21 members...
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The Maltese Labour Corps (MLC) was a labour unit raised in Malta during the First World War to support the British Army. It comprised two battalions of...
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The Garrison is also home to a marked grave of a member of the Chinese Labour Corps, Chou Ming Shan, whom died in transit in France in 1917 and buried...
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CLC (section Organized labour bodies)
legal conference based in the UK Chinese Labour Corps Combat logistics company, type of unit within the US Marine Corps Combined Logistics Command, a division...
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The South African Native Labour Corps (SANLC) was a force of workers formed in 1916 in response to a British request for workers at French ports. About...
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World War I, including more than 300 Canadians, and 6 members of the Chinese Labour Corps. There are 81 buried from World War II, including one unidentified...
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Coolie (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
of Chinese workers were being used along the Western Front by the allied forces (see Chinese Labour Corps). A major difference between the Chinese and...
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000 Chinese (Chinese Labour Corps) and their French allies some 40,000, and shipped them to the French western front as desperately needed labour to relieve...
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Honey Watson (category Chinese–English translators)
Tragic Tales from Modern China. Lessons in Birdwatching - (Angry Robot, 2023). Souls Left Behind: A WW1 Chinese Labour Corps Novel, by Fan Wu (Sinoist...
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1918-1919, while serving as a Captain with the Chinese Labour Corps during World War 1. Louis Magrath King, China As It Really Is: By A Resident In Peking (London:...
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Order of Wen-Hu (category Chinese military stubs)
of Chinese served with both the Chinese Labour Corps and the Royal Army Medical Corps, and many British officers, particularly in those two corps, received...
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workers of the Chinese Labour Corps who died in the area of Ypres and Poperinge during and just after the First World War. The Chinese Labour Corps was recruited...
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Wang Jungzhi (category Chinese people executed abroad)
months after the Armistice. Wang Jungzhi was a member of the 107th Chinese Labour Corps, which maintained trenches and cleared battlefields and their surrounding...
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valuable service. Seven clasps were awarded. Five members of the Chinese Labour Corps received the medal for their service during the war, including First...
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Huimin Company (category China–France military relations)
the First World War in France, as part of the Chinese Labour Corps. The initial proposal to send Chinese labourers came from government minister Liang...
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Two-Gun Cohen (category Canadian expatriates in China)
during World War I where part of his job involved supervising the Chinese Labour Corps. He also saw some fierce fighting at the Western Front, especially...
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George Douglas Gray (category Royal Army Medical Corps officers)
Headquarters CLC and Chinese General Hospital. Lives of the First World War, Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 9 October 2022. "The Chinese Labour Corps in France...
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and France “via the personnel of the Chinese Labour Corps, then mutated to a more virulent form when the Chinese workers returned home in 1918”. However...
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Chinese Labour Corps men and British soldiers removing parts from a Mark IV tank at the Central Stores of the Tank Corps, Teneur, spring 1918....
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