As a Chinese from the mainland I’m totally ignorant of this historical event back then but now that I know I feel so sorry for these men who made such a great contribution was totally forgotten by either their employers and their motherland people. It’s so sad. Dee,Coventry
Daily Archives: December 14, 2015
A contemporaneous report of a Chinese Labour Corps camp under bombardment.
[Date of incident referred to is Saturday 29th September, 1917.] We had been in our tents a couple of hours, when Fritz returned once more, and drop bombs in a camp of Chinese Labour Corps, killing a few and wounding many. Some of the Chinese had the fighting spirit, and shook their fists at the …