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Tag Archives: Chinese Labour Corps

Discovering the Great War of China

While studying in the School of Oriental and African Studies library a few years ago, I stumbled across Xu Guoqi’s China and the Great War and was taken aback by the book’s title.

Posted byRoy PeacheyDecember 16, 2019December 16, 2019Posted inLiterature, World War ITags:China, Chinese Labour Corps, FictionLeave a comment on Discovering the Great War of China

Putting the World Back Into World War I

History is never as straightforward as we might like it to be. Take something as straightforward as the dates of the First World War: 1914-1918. We all know that. Except that the peace treaties that officially ended the war were signed in 1919. And labourers continued to die while doing battlefield clearance until 1920.

Posted byRoy PeacheyNovember 30, 2018December 15, 2019Posted inWorld War ITags:Chinese Labour Corps

All at sea

160 of the 168 headstones at the St Etienne-au-Mont mark the graves of members of the Chinese Labour Corps. So what about the other eight?

Posted byRoy PeacheyNovember 20, 2018December 15, 2019Posted inWorld War ITags:Chinese Labour Corps

St Etienne-au-Mont

On just about the only dreary day we had last summer, I visited a small war cemetery in the village of St Etienne-au-Mont, just outside Boulogne-sur-Mer. Of the 168 graves there, 160 mark the last resting places of members of the Chinese Labour Corps. 

Posted byRoy PeacheyNovember 19, 2018December 15, 2019Posted inWorld War ITags:Chinese Labour Corps

A multi-national search

Researching the Chinese Labour Corps during World War I is bound to force you outside narrow national boundaries.

Posted byRoy PeacheyNovember 10, 2018December 15, 2019Posted inWorld War ITags:Chinese Labour Corps

Battleground Clearance

Why did so many of the Chinese Labourers buried at Noyelles die after November 11th 1918? One simple reason was that many of them were given the job of battleground clearance. Such an innocuous sounding task: such a deadly reality.

Posted byRoy PeacheyNovember 7, 2018December 15, 2019Posted inWorld War ITags:Chinese Labour Corps

The Chinese Labour Corps

The gravestones in my previous post can all found at the remarkable Chinese cemetery at Noyelles-sur-Mer at the mouth of the River Somme. Why here? Because Noyelles was the base of the Chinese Labour Corps during World War I. Here are some more photos of the cemetery and its fine Chinese arch.

Posted byRoy PeacheyNovember 6, 2018December 15, 2019Posted inWorld War ITags:Chinese Labour Corps

Armistice Day reconsidered

Spare a thought for this member of the Chinese Labour Corps who died on Armistice Day, November 11th 2018. How unlucky can you get?

Posted byRoy PeacheyOctober 31, 2018December 15, 2019Posted inWorld War ITags:Chinese Labour Corps

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